Friday, April 15, 2011

Minority Report (2002)

Creepy bald naked people in amniotic fluid predict the future so Tom Cruise can arrest criminals before they've had the chance to commit a crime, but then the creepy bald naked people say he's going to commit a crime, so he has to jump on vertical elevator-trains and maybe pull out his own molars—although, no, that seems like I'm remembering Twelve Monkeys. Does he maybe do a home eye transplant? I think I saw this movie drunk with a friend of mine in her parents' house in Massachusetts and she got scared.

Oh, Samantha Morton! She was great in Sweet & Lowdown.*

* Woody Allen's last good movie. WHO WANTS TO FIGHT ME?

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

The Wild Bunch (1969)

The only thing I remember about this movie is somebody getting shot and falling off a roof or out a window. Probably both of those things happen. (I feel guilty because I think this movie's supposed to be really good.)

Wow. Really?

Monday, April 11, 2011

Gosford Park (2001)

Oh my God, they're in some mansion in the English countryside, like with maids and butlers and shit, and I think someone gets murdered, and the hot schoolgirl from Trainspotting might be in it, and people talk confidentially in the kitchen. I think this movie was maybe actually pretty good, although I can't see how.

Oh, that actress. (Not even actually 100% sure this is from Gosford Park.
Found out while Googling it that it's Robert Altman! Would not have said that.)

Friday, April 8, 2011

The Last Boy Scout (1991)

Is this the movie in which Bruce Willis drives a car into a swimming pool? Then I think he says something cool and/or funny to a bad guy on a cell phone. Something sarcastic, letting the bad guy know that he (Bruce Willis) isn't dead yet? Or maybe he's just like, "I'm calling from the bottom of a pool?"* I'm spending a lot of time trying to remember this line because I don't remember anything else. What else is there? A football might be involved.

Football! Boo-ya!

* Yes! Sort of! "Hey, Milo. Where ya callin' from, the bottom of the pool?" (IMDb)

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Movies I've Seen Only Parts Of: Grease (1978)

Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta had a summer fling but now it's over because they're from different worlds. The boys and the girls discuss this separately but simultaneously. Then there's a car race, and she sluts up and wins his heart at an amusement park. Oh, and for the sake of completeness I should note that I know that it's of course a musical.

I think I like her nice-girl incarnation better. This one looks like Traci Lords in Cry-Baby.

Monday, April 4, 2011

Biloxi Blues (1988)

In this Brighton Beach Memoirs sequel, Matthew Broderick joins the army and is made fun of for writing in a diary, which eventually people read, and then they hate him for what he said about them. He loses his virginity to a nice prostitute. I think at one point somebody farts on a train.

Whoa, and the drill sergeant is Christopher Walken??

Friday, April 1, 2011

Ghostbusters (1984)*

Some scientists start a company where they catch ghosts, and for some reason they live in a firehouse. I know the ghosts slime people, and at some point there's a ghost in a refrigerator. Maybe a zombie drives a cab? Oh, and of course there's the Stay Puft Marshmallow man. Is he big like Godzilla and steps on a church?

Bill Murray's in this?!

* Check the date.