Running on Empty Starting to wonder if River Phinox ever made a shitty film.

YES!

Hearts In Atlantis

diary of the dead

how was it? I hated Land.

it was ok, but didn't really hold my attention like the early ones.

Friday Night:

7/10

Yesterday:

Seven Samurai
10/10
Criteriion's dvd reissue was fantastic.

Stand by me - 9/10

Personally, I think Diary of the Dead is one of the worst films I've seen in my life, but what do I know.

^if it's anything like Land, then I wouldn't be surprised.

No, it's way worse.

It's a cheap, pointless, nearly plotless handheld digital video experiment made by a well-established director who has proven he is more than capable of filming coherent and interesting cinema even at his most banal... shockingly incompetent and boring time, everyone looks like they're sleepwalking through their roles, and the film basically plays out like a cliff's notes version of the other "Dead" films, with George Romero beating the same exact themes into our brains that the other films did... but this is much worse than anything that preceded it. Guranteed that most people probably won't even be able to make it through this whole thing in one setting without fast forwarding. I'm never bored, and I hated describing a movie as such, but it was boring bullshit, and it had some of the worst characters in any film ever. Also, it looks like shit.

Yeah, much better title than movie.

Zombie Strippers

I knew nothing of the man before this, and was inspired by his determination and sad life story. I can't believe how quickly things have changed in the gay community and society in general.

man on wire which was truly amazing! go see it!

Ug. I waited SO LONG to see this that I was slightly dissapointed. I built it up in my head way too much. Penn's performance was amazing, but so many of the supporting characters never really came to life for me.

Funny, while watching it, I was thinking how LITTLE things have changed.

Really?! Im sorry. I had no hype going into it, so I enjoyed it; but agree that none of the other characters did much for me... Where are you from? How do you think things have not changed?! There are more homos on the tv now then heteros. Gays can marry legally. They can adopt kids. They can hold any job they want. ETC. All things they couldn't 'do' in the 70's as depicted in that film...