Movies
This page will have info about some of my favorite movies.
Ratings:
Means it was terrible. A waste of my time. Very few movies get this rating
Means it was kinda sucky, not worth watching again. This is my basic bad movie rating but it has some basic redeeming quality.
Means it was good, entertaining and I might watch it again. This is my basic good movie rating. Most movies will either be a two or a three star.
Means it was nearly perfect. I would suggest it to other people. Very few movies get this rating.
Means it was a masterpiece - flawless and perfect and I watched it again immediately. Only masterpieces get this rating.
Abre Los Ojos
Alfie
Akira This is a movie about Japanese motorcycle thugs and the nature or identity and reality.
Alien vs Predator Not a good movie, but it does have some redeeming qualities, such as the cool pyramid settings.
Aliens vs Predator Requiem You may have thought that the last AVP movie was bad, but at least it had some cool things to look at.
All the Pretty Horses
American Beauty This movie represents the problem of any type of rating system. It is nearly a perfect movie yet I can’t give it a 5. Only PERFECT movies recieve a 5. Yet American Beauty is obviously better than American Psycho, but they are both nearly perfect.
American Psycho
American Splendor
Amelie
Anatomy
Anatomy 2
The Animatrix Some of the stories are better than others. The majority of the 4 star rating comes from the haunted house story that is amazing and beautiufl.
Bad Santa
The Bank Job A pretty good movie. The second best movie with Jason Statham I have seen, the best of course being the Italian Job.
Barbarella
Batman
Batman Returns (October 31,2008) I just rewatched this movie on Halloween night. I guess it had been so long since I had seen this that I forgot just how hyper-sexualized this movie was. Not for the kiddies, but it did have the best soundtrack from any Batman movie ever.
Batman Forever The Joel Schumacher movies were almost completly unwatchable. The only Batman movie worse than this one was Batman and Robin.
Batman and Robin This has to be one of the worst big budget superhero movies. It has all the camp of the old 60’s show with modern special effects. Don’t waste your time.
Be Kind Rewind Has some good laughs. Not exactly the type of movie it was advertised to be. Keeping in mind that I am not a Jack Black fan, it was still ok.
The Bicycle Thief
Big Fish
The Big Lebowski
The Black Dahlia
Blade
Blade Trinity
Blade Runner
Bloodrayne Another example of a video game movie gone horribly, horribly wrong.
Blow
Bubba Ho-Tep
Casshern This movie gets it entire four star rating from its awesome visuals. Turn the subtitles off, they don’t really help you understand the story anyway, and enjoy a visual chunk of total awesome.
The Cell
Chasing Amy
The Chronicles of Narnia Prince Caspian Not as good as LW&W, but has some fun stuff to look at.
The Chronicles of Riddic
Citizen Kane
City by the Sea
Clerks
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Closer 
This movie gets a question makr because even after multiple viewings I still don’t know how I feel about it. Great acting, great directing, beautiful movie about terrible horrible people that unfortanatly are probably much more like most the people of the world.
Code 46
Crazy/Beautiful
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
The Crow
The Crow: City of Angels
The Crow: Salvation
The Crow: Wicked Prayer
Cube
Cube 2: Hypercube
Cube Zero This is one of the few movies that breaks the rules that sequals are worse than the originals. This movie might even be better.
Dark City
The Dark Knight A worthy successor of Batman Begins. Heath Ledger’s performance was a Tour De Force and completly Oscar Worthy. The downside to the film was that is was long and if you with the exception of it being a superhero movie, could very well have also been an episode of law and order.
The Dangerous Lives of Alter Boys
Dirty Pretty Things
Doom
Donnie Brasco
Donnie Darko
Down with Love
The Dreamers This is my all time favorite movie. You would never think that a story about incestuous french twins corrupting a nice American young man would get a perfect score.
Edward Scissor Hands
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Far From Heaven
Fargo
The Fifth Element
Fight Club
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children This movie is one of many, most of which are Japanese, that gets a near perfect rating or better rating based soly on how unbelievably beautiful it is.
Finding Neverland
The Forbidden Kingdom Lots of fun Kung Fu, and some really beautiful Chinese landscape imagery.
From Hell
Gattaca
Ghost in the Shell
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence This is another movie that gets its astonishingly high rating based on how unbelieavably gorgeiously well it is animated.
Ghost World
Ginger Snaps
Ginger Snaps 2
Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning
Girl Interrupted
Good Night and Good Luck
Grind House: Death Proof
Grind House: Planet Terror
Halloween (2007)
The Happening (September 17, 2008) Much better than it was given credit for. The first part of the film contains some incredibly disturbing imagery.
The Hardword
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay Not at all family friendly, but incredibly funny. I think I laughed almost the whole time.
Hellboy
Hellboy 2: The Golden Army I think it should be a crime for Guillermo del Toro to make movies such as Hellboy and Blade when he could be using his talents to make such perfect films as Pan’s Labyrinth.
Hero
Hidalgo
Hitman I imagine it is technically possible for a video game to be turned into a decent film, this one though is not that movie.
Horton Hears a Who Fun and silly. Probably pretty good for the kids.
House of Flying Daggers
Hulk
The Illusionist
The Incredible Hulk Much better than the last Hulk movie. It should have done better at the box office.
Intermission
Into the Wild This is an amazing movie. Even though it was very good it made me depresed for the next 2.4 days.
Inventing the Abbots
Iron Man This movie was almost perfect. With the exeption of the Nolan batman movies, this is the best comic book movie I think I have ever seen. I went and saw it twice. The day I saw it for the first time was an amazing day. A woman I cared for very much broke up with me, I received my copy of a book that I had my photos published in and then I went to see Iron Man.
The Italian Job (2003)
Japanese Story
Jersey Girl This movie got some bad press over the Ben/Jen fallout, however it was actually a pretty good movie and George Carlon was amazing it - he should have got an Oscar nod for the performance he put in.
Jumper Basically the guy who was terrible in the terrible new star wars movies was terrible in this, but with some fun telaporation special effects.
Kill Bill Volume 1
Kill Bill Volume 2
Knocked Up
L.A. Confidential
The Last Samuri
Lola Rent
Lost Boys 2: The Tribe I did not actually pay to watch this movie, but I still want my money back.
The Matrix I think the genius of the Matrix was completly in its visual style. I mean more than just cinematography, I mean art direction. The Matrix is the best example of SciFi Noir I can think of sense Bladerunner - of course not as good though. The writing and human direction left a good deal to be desired.
The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix Revolutions
Memento Backwards tell a story it does. Yoda would like maybe. This movie would be nothing without the unique-ish story telling style. I think Nolan’s Batman work is many times superior.
The Midnight Meat Train (October 16 2008) Based on the Clive Barker story of the same name. This one was one of my favs from the First Book of Blood. I think this movie was better than a movie of Pig Blood Blues could possibly hope to be. They did an alright job of fleshing (Did you see what I did there?) out a more robust story. I recommend it to horror and gore fans.
Millennium Actress
Minority Report The worst part of this movie was Cruise in the lead. Give me someone like Ewan McGreggor for that role and it would have gotten more stars. Samantha Morton was brilliant and the best reason to watch the film, the visual effects are number two.
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day Kinda funny in a period british movie kinda way.
Mullholand Drive Mullholand Drive is one of those masterpieces that you just can’t explain. I can think of very few movies I enjoyed consuming as much as this one.
The Mummy
The Mummy Tomb of the Dragon Emperor The most memorable thing about this movie for me was the way one of my coworkers said the movies name, it tooke me three days to figure out he wasn’t talking about the new Mommy movie, but rather the new Mummy movie.
Mutant Chronicles I think the idea behind this movie was to make a SF version of 300 and instead of nearly nude greeks, it had mutated monsters made of dead humans.
National Treasure The idea behind Tomb Raider was to make a movie kinda like Indian Jones, except a lot worse but with a very attractive woman in it. The idea behind National Treasure was to take Tomb Raider and remove the attractive woman.
National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets Basically the same as the first movie except not as good. At the end I was wondering who the nutter was that thinks Nicholas Cage should be cast to play someone of above average intelligence.
New Best Friend
Next Avengers Heroes of Tomorrow Basically the children of the avengers have to stop Ultron. If you like the Teen Titans or the Justice League I imagine you will like this one.
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Nosferatu The original Vampire movie. I watched this for the first time on a lonely Halloween night. I imagine this year I will get to make it a tradition.
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
On the Waterfront
Perfect Blue
Perfect Score
Peter Pan
Pi
Pitch Black
Princess Mononke
Pulp Fiction
Requiem for a Dream
Resident Evil Apocalypse
Resident Evil Extinction With any luck Extinction will be an appropriate name and be the end of the Resident Evil movies. Nothing to really see here, go about your business.
The Road to Perdition
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Romper Stomper
A Scanner Darkly
The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior This could have easily been named Rise of a terrible movie. Don’t waste your time.
Secretary
The Secret Lives of Dentists
Sideways
Sin City
Sleepy Hollow
Smart People Funny and kinda sweet. Imagine Stranger than Fiction without the fantasy element.
Snatch
Snow Angels (October 30, 2008) I don’t really know how to describe this movie. It has a happy sub-story about teenagers falling in love. It has a sad story about a woman loosing her husband and a terrible story about her husband killing her.
Spaceballs
The Spanish Apartment
Speed Racer This wasn’t a great movie, but it was fun to look at. Lots of pretty colors.
The Spiderwick Chronicles Fun fantasy movie, kids might like it.
Spirits (Oan Hon)
Starship Troopers
Starship Troopers 2
Starship Troopers 3 The third movie introduces the idea of armored exo-suites, you know the basic idea that was used in the actual book. The eye candy from the least successful Star Trek tv show can not compensate for the bad religous undertunes in this movie.
Star Wars: Episode One - The Phantom Menace
Star Wars: Episode Two - Attack of the Clones
Star Wars: Episode Three - Revenge of the Sith
Star Wars: Episode Four - A New Hope
Star Wars: Episode Five - The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars: Episode Six - Return of the Jedi
Steamboy
Superman Returns
The Thirteenth Warrior
Titan AE
Traffic
True Romance
The Truth About Charlie
Touch of Evil A touch of a nearly perfect movie. I wouldn’t cast Charleton Heston as a Mexican, but man is this a great movie.
Underworld
The Usual Suspects
Vampirella
Vanilla Sky
Venus Beauty Institute
V for Vendetta
Vulgar
Wall-E A very sweet movie, with some great Mac references. For a kids movie it was one of the most moving movies I have seen in a while, actually its a toss up between this and Into the Wild.
Wanted
War Games The Dead Code Sequals, the general rule of thumb is that they are a bad idea and this movie isn’t the exception to the rule.
Watership Down
Wildthings
Wildthings II
The X-Files I Want to Believe Much better than it was given credit for. It contains some incredibly disturbing imagry that is unfortanantly as far as I know real.
X-Men
X2: X-Men United
Y Tu Mama Tambian
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