J.C. & Mike at The Movies

[JCVaughn]

MIKE IS HERE!

Hurray and all that, Mike has moved into his new house in lovely and scenic Reisterstown, Maryland, just a few miles away from the posh life in Owings Mills.

We've already seen our first film, and we're ready to rock.

[JCVaughn]

Like Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous, Elizabethtown is about a young man who is surrounded by interesting women and must make some momentus decisions in his life.

The critics haven't loved this one, but who trusts critics. This is a great movie. It's a little subtle for some movie-goers (the folks who needed Charlie's Angels explained to them shouldn't bother), but it's a wonderfu exploration of the lead character and his discovery of the world he's a part of.

Some of the criticisms are fair. It's too long. I know what parts I would have cut or trimmed, but as a writer I also know how hard it is to make those cuts.  The approach to storytelling was strong, which is required when you're going to try to be subtle.

While this film seemed less personal than Almost Famous and the lead (Orlando Bloom as Drew Baylor) seemed to be substantially less of Cameron Crowe than was the character of William Miller in AF, this film still seemed like a very personal observation on life.

Great photography. Good music (a tad too much, but great selections). Wonderfully acted.

How can you not love Kirsten Dunst?

Mike?

[Nightwing]

Mike here...and FYI I just moved to Baltimore and met my wonderful neighbors for the first time tonight. The are a terrific russian family who not only fed me (even though I said no to them about 10 times because I had just come back from dinner with JCV) but they also     ply-ed (as in plywood) me with 8 glasses of wine and 3 shoots of vodka!!!   So I am now properly lubed for this review...


by the way You are all my best frinds and I LOVE YOU ALL VERY VERY MUCH!!!!   ok now that that is out of the way...

Elizabethtown.... My review.   What's her name was HOT!  I could watch her reading the freakin' phone book and it would be HOT....but maybe that is just me...are you with me here???   Now the guy in it was ok. And long....not the guy...the movie... it seemed long by about 30 mins.  But let's remember the source. This is another Camron mCquire movie.  It's amazing that movies like this were even get made...but in a good way.  JCV afterward asked me if this movie was too intelligent for me?

So when your holding up Almost famous and looking at it. it better and it more and contrite and too the point,and the acting in that one...well

So it's hard to compare them, like apples and vanilla. And I'm not talkin' about sky. But don't get me started on that one.  I left that one like the movie Misquito Coast...huh?? What??

So, like I was saying this was a grate movie. The diologe was wonderful and the special effects were movie quality., It was great to see the whole cast together again like in the series.  That was great also. Do you remember the part were they are singing the song about Jayne and how great he was. That was great.

So remember go see this movie and remember afterwards that you saw it and it was great.

AND KIDS MOST OF ALL REMBER:


DON'T DRINK AND REVIEW



mICHAEL

[jsniderfamily]

The male star Orlando Bloom was very complimentary about Louisville in local interviews.  Since Elizabethtown is 1 hour drive from my house, it is a good sign that your 2 reviews were positive.

[Nightwing]

it is a good sign that your 2 reviews were positive.

As was the wine and vodka!   :-X














My brain hurts.

[Nightwing]

Luckily the following did not happen to me but since the vodka incident of last night...well... please be leary (just not timothy).

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Police are warning all men who frequent clubs, parties and local pubs
to be alert and stay cautious when offered a drink from any woman.

Many females use a date rape drug on the market called "Beer". The
drug is found in liquid form and available anywhere. It comes in
bottles, cans, from taps and in large "kegs". 'Beer' is used by female
sexual predators at parties and bars to persuade their male victims to
go home and have sex with them.

A woman needs only to get a guy to consume a few units of 'Beer' and
then simply ask him home for no strings attached sex. Men are rendered
helpless against this approach.

After several Beers, men will often succumb to the desires to perform
sexual acts on horrific looking women whom they would never normally
be attracted. After drinking 'Beer', men often awaken with only hazy
memories of exactly what happened to them the night before, often with
just a vague feeling that "something bad" occured.

At other times these unfortunate men are swindled out of their life's
savings, in a familiar scam known as "a relationship." In extreme
cases, the female may even be shrewd enough to entrap the unsuspecting
male into a longer term form of servitude and punishment referred to
as "marriage." Men are much more susceptible to this scam after 'Beer'
is administered and sex is offered by the predatory females.




Please, we all need to work together and look out for one another.

Be safe brothers

[cristos]

Is this a new Horror Movie coming out? If so,who are the
potential stars ;D Oh, I forgot to congratulate you on
your 54,000th post a while back.

[JCVaughn]

The male star Orlando Bloom was very complimentary about Louisville in local interviews.  Since Elizabethtown is 1 hour drive from my house, it is a good sign that your 2 reviews were positive.

If Kirsten Dunst turned out to be a jerk I'd be disappointed.

Hey, Billy, she was in Steve's movie. What did he say about her?

[JCVaughn]

Mike here...and FYI I just moved to Baltimore and met my wonderful neighbors for the first time tonight. The are a terrific russian family who not only fed me (even though I said no to them about 10 times because I had just come back from dinner with JCV) but they also     ply-ed (as in plywood) me with 8 glasses of wine and 3 shoots of vodka!!!   So I am now properly lubed for this review...


by the way You are all my best frinds and I LOVE YOU ALL VERY VERY MUCH!!!!   ok now that that is out of the way...

Elizabethtown.... My review.   What's her name was HOT!  I could watch her reading the freakin' phone book and it would be HOT....but maybe that is just me...are you with me here???   Now the guy in it was ok. And long....not the guy...the movie... it seemed long by about 30 mins.  But let's remember the source. This is another Camron mCquire movie.  It's amazing that movies like this were even get made...but in a good way.  JCV afterward asked me if this movie was too intelligent for me?

So when your holding up Almost famous and looking at it. it better and it more and contrite and too the point,and the acting in that one...well

So it's hard to compare them, like apples and vanilla. And I'm not talkin' about sky. But don't get me started on that one.  I left that one like the movie Misquito Coast...huh?? What??

So, like I was saying this was a grate movie. The diologe was wonderful and the special effects were movie quality., It was great to see the whole cast together again like in the series.  That was great also. Do you remember the part were they are singing the song about Jayne and how great he was. That was great.

So remember go see this movie and remember afterwards that you saw it and it was great.

AND KIDS MOST OF ALL REMBER:


DON'T DRINK AND REVIEW



mICHAEL

I would just like to say that he wasn't like this when we saw the movie.

I would have noticed.

[jsniderfamily]

Are there penalties for date rape of a man due to 'beer'?

[JCVaughn]

Are there penalties for date rape of a man due to 'beer'?

It depends.

Normally, yes.

But if it's Mike, no.

[jsniderfamily]

Sounds like something for the new Supreme Court to deliberate.

[JCVaughn]

Sounds like something for the new Supreme Court to deliberate.

Actually, no. In a surprise move, it will be Diana Ross and the Supremes.

[Nightwing]

Is this a new Horror Movie coming out? If so,who are the
potential stars ;D Oh, I forgot to congratulate you on
your 54,000th post a while back.

THANKS!!

54,000 and the hits keep comin'   YEAH BABY!

[Nightwing]

It depends.

Normally, yes.

But if it's Mike, no.

I TAKE OFFENSE TO THIS...OR IS IT DEFENSE?  I never should have started to get into football again.

D CAF... D  CAF

[JCVaughn]

Okay, so Harry Potter's growing up. Now we know they're keeping him as one of those bonzai kids, you know, pruning him and trimming him and keeping him small.

The familiar cast returns and numerous new characters join the fray as the Harry Potter films take a "more adult" turn for the darker.

I neither hold the Harry Potter stories up as the greatest things ever or the worst things ever. I'm always happy to see kids read, so I think it's cool that the books have been a big hit. The movies, likewise, have been well made, even if I haven't exactly followed all the details of them.

This is what Rosina wanted to see, what I agreed to see and what Mike was basically forced into. I'll leave it to him to suggest his alternate ending.

So, here's my review: a good, well-made film, which I suspect will appeal more to the readers and viewers of the series. Enjoyable, but not groundbreaking. Entertaining, but not educating. Fun, but not mindblowingly so. In other words, a pretty good film.

[Nightwing]

Mike's review...(kinda like Joe Bobb Briggs)

Sex 0
nudity 0
semi nudity 0
Main character beheaded and SPOINKED onto a pike just in time for the final credits to roll....   0

And this was my main problem with the film...yeah it's a kids movie blah blah blah but I mean really.

Would I consider this a very good film? Not really. Would I consider this a very popular film?  Yeah.

 And I'm not basing this on the fact that it did like over 100 million box for its first weekend.  I am basing this on the fact that we were at the theatre 20 minutes before the show and I still had to sit in the neck wrenching, eardrum shattering, headache inducing, every nosehole looked like a huge freakin spiral galaxy ready to suck me up into it if the actors breathed in hard enough, front freakin row.   At least I was in the center... If I had been off to one side...well let's just say I woulda made the national news and let's leave it at that.  

The special effects were good.


I just wish the stuck up, full of it, main character woulda died at the end.  I mean is that really asking to much of those fancy schmancy highly overpaid Hollywood creative types???



That would have saved this movie for me...






but then again I felt the same way about The Sound Of Music.








(and transporter 2 now that I come to think of it)

Hope this review helped...AND SEE YA AT THE MOVIES!!

                  (IF YOU'RE TREAT'N THAT IS)   -M

[JCVaughn]

The best part of Harry Potter was that Mike paid for Rosina and me.

:o

[Nightwing]

Hello...does anyone care that we are writing this stuff out there???

Hello???


Hello???








why do I bother!













oh yeah ....The Big Bucks!

[JCVaughn]

oh yeah ....The Big Bucks!

I can't believe you forget those huge checks!

[jsniderfamily]

You guys are good judges of movies.  Keep it up.

[JCVaughn]

Mike gave me an early Christmas gift - the first season of Remington Steele. I actually had been looking for it earlier in the year, but I got sidetracked.

The discs are not lavish, but the reproduction quality is just fine and there are plenty of audio commentaries... (unlike good or great shows like Magnum or other stuff from Universal, which really get horrid DVD treatment from the idiots at that studio).

The series stands up well. I had forgotten that jazz soundtrack, the moodiness, the wonderful sexual tension that isn't over the top but never quite goes away.

Great dialogue and solid performances.

Looking forward to finishing the set and going for Season 2.

[JCVaughn]

So, hey, we saw another movie.

Charlize Theron in AEON FLUX..

Good movie. Solidly entertaining. Actual science fiction actually occurring in actual cinema.

Beautiful movie. Great sets, wonderful photography, super blend of current aesthetics, and future technology and speculative fiction. Good performances, great plot, awesome action.

See it.

I ate too much pizza, so I’m really tired… maybe Mike will something more to say?

Charlize is hot, too.

[JCVaughn]

<<this is the part where Mike would reply if he was paying attention>>

MIKE: Thanks, J.C. I liked the movie, too. And you're right, Charlize was hot.

JCV: Yeah, sorry I stole the main part of your review, Mike.

MIKE: Well, she was.

JCV: Yeah, I know.

MIKE: And as far as the rest of it went, it was an interesting mix of modern aesthetic sensiblities and future technologies.

JCV: I think I said something like that while we were eating pizzza.

MIKE: And Charlize was hot. Did you see those costumes?

JCV: Yeah, I think so.

MIKE: And don't ask me if it was too intelligent for me.

JCV: Why not?

MIKE: I hate it when you do that?

JCV: Well...

MIKE: Well... what?

JCV: Was it?

MIKE: Man, I hate it when you do that.

[JCVaughn]

Much to my surprise, particularly since I didn't even see it in the theaters, I really liked FANTASTIC FOUR.

While I'm not surprised that Michael Chicklis stole the show, I ended up liking just about everyone. Didn't mind the changes a whole lot. Loved the sets and the photography. Loved how the New Yorkers reacted to the FF.

Looking forward to the sequel.