What? What? WHAT????

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is being moved to July 2009!

http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/ap/20080814/121875456000.html



If they're holding it back this long, it had damn well better be good.

Funniest movie of the year!

I saw Pineapple Express last night. I have never laughed so hard at a movie. I laughed until I cried- my make up was a disaster by the end.

imdb.com summary: "A stoner and his dealer are forced to go on the run from the police after the pothead witnesses a cop commit a murder." That's the whole plot right there. It needs no other description! This movie is definitely not for people easily offended by drug humor and bad language. Drug movies aren't my thing, but I got the jokes and just laughed all the way from the first joint smoked (the Pineapple Express of the title being tested by the military) to the last case of munchies (the potheads scarfing down breakfast in the last scene). Seth Rogen and James Franco are a scream as pothead and dealer, respectively. Danny R. McBride steals the show as the dealer's supplier...who is so out of it he manages to survive being shot multiple times! There were some terrific and hilarious fight scenes, and a car chase that left me unable to breathe because I couldn't stop laughing.

I think Cheech and Chong and Harold and Kumar have some competition! The stoner action comedy...I never thought such a film could be so damned funny.

Top 20 favorite movies? Only 20?

That has to be the hardest question anyone could ever ask me. On a message board I frequent, there was a discussion of favorite movies of all time. One poster joked that choosing only 20 was like trying to choose a favorite child, and I agreed!

Here's my top 20...in no order.

Citizen Kane
Rebecca
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
LOTR trilogy (I count it as one)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Amadeus
American Beauty
A Christmas Story
Apollo 13
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Star Wars
Terms of Endearment
Beauty and the Beast
Chicago
Back to the Future
When Harry Met Sally
Manchurian Candidate (original)
Rear Window
Vertigo
West Side Story

Honorable mentions- Wizard of Oz, Time Bandits, Ghostbusters, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Spaceballs, Blazing Saddles.

Recent favorites like Atonement, Little Miss Sunshine, Sweeney Todd, WALL-E, and Hairspray will probably sneak into my all time favorites list eventually!

No surprise here!

The Dark Knight topped $400 million in record time- just 18 days! It took 43 days for the previous record holder, Shrek 2, to make that much. In another few days, TDK will become the highest-grossing comic book film ever, beating the first Spider-Man! Wow. I wonder what the final total gross will be- maybe around $500 million...but I doubt it will beat Titanic's record.

In other Dark Knight news, Morgan Freeman was in a bad car wreck on Sunday, and is still in serious condition. Here's to his speedy recovery!

The Dark Knight

May be spoilers ahead...

Oh, my goodness. That was the best Batman movie ever. MUCH better than Batman Begins. And yes, Heath Ledger's performance makes the movie great...totally chilling, utterly unforgettable. His Joker is amazing, full of malice, bitterness, cruelty, and dark humor. But the other performances were damn fine too- Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/Batman; Gary Oldman as Commissioner Gordon; Michael Caine as Wayne's loyal butler Alfred; Morgan Freeman as Wayne's gadget guru Fox; and Aaron Eckhart as D.A. Harvey Dent. And Maggie Gyllenhaal is far superior to Katie Holmes as Wayne's childhood friend, Rachel.

There were lots of scary, tense bits (such as the hospital evacuation and the the ferries playing chicken with bombs), and Dent's transformation into Two-Face is gruesome and sad. There's plenty of action and noise, but it's not gratuitous. For a comic book-turned into film, this one has a lot of emotion, too. The death of Rachel tears at Bruce, and drives Dent into madness.

What a shame we'll never see Ledger on screen again.

Quotes:

Harvey Dent: You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

Joker: Here's my card. *tosses the joker playing card on the table*

Naughty but funny...

I saw Step Brothers on Saturday. It was so disgusting in parts (I cringed at the "balls on the drum set" scene)...but I laughed at every damn joke in it! Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly are the step brothers of the title, and they hate each other at first. It's hilarious to watch two overgrown boys battle each other. I was afraid that the only funny scenes had been in the trailer, but there was a lot more! It was sort of a guy flick, but that's okay. A movie called "Step Sisters" would not have worked- really, has anyone ever seen two women fighting over a drum set, wrecking a house, or trying to bury each other?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0838283/

Bring on The Dark Knight!

I finally watched Batman Begins- so I'm ready for the sequel. I liked it, though there was too much of character intros and not enough story. Once the action really starts, though, it was pretty awesome! I think I like Christian Bale better than all of the other movie Batmans. He really looks the part of the brooding billionaire/crime fighter.

Downside- Katie Holmes added nothing to the story. She can't act. I'm glad she was replaced for the sequel.