It's been a couple weeks since I did one of these

[cwfilmbuff]

Movie 33: WALL-E
Upon a second viewing, this one has cemented its place as best film of 08 so far, edging out...

M34: The Dark Knight
Might not have seen this again if the heat wave hadn't driven me to seek air conditioning. Still holds up, but not quite as well as Pixar's offering.

M35: Pineapple Express
There are enough laughs and Tarantino references to keep me entertained, but the story and characters don't seem like they'd endure enough to justify a DVD purchase. It's refreshing to see James Franco not brooding for two hours, but he and Rogen needed a better script.


DVD 44: Les Diaboliques
What starts as a fairly straightforward story of a man's wife and mistress plotting his murder takes the first of many sharp turns about halfway through and becomes one of the most suspenseful films I've ever seen.

D45: Interstella 5555
Basically a series of music videos strung together to form a (somewhat) coherent story. Unfortunately this means the quality of the sequences varies with the quality of the songs, and like many albums the standouts were the ones I'd already seen outside of the movie.

D46: The Golden Compass
Watching this I could see a few things: One, it seemed like it would be a better book than a movie - a lot of the dialog and plotting felt like something that would work better on paper than on screen. And two, because of the translation issues the other two parts of the trilogy probably won't get adapted. Which is just as well, because one of them is titled "The Subtle Knife", and there was absolutely nothing subtle about this movie.

Comments

[cinemagirl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I spent an afternoon a few weeks ago going for seconds on both Wall-E and The Dark Knight, and I pretty much agree with your assessment. I was still blown away by the former, but the latter had me checking my watch a few times. Of course, that could have been because by that point, I'd spent all day at the damn movie theatre and my popcorn had long since run out. Sigh.

I enjoyed Pineapple Express a lot more than you, though. But then, I'm an easy laugh these days.