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tv series (on dvd)/movies watched in 2006

1/5/08: This list was moved here from the What I’m Watching page.

TV series (on DVD)/Movies watched in 2006:

I Wake Up Screaming
You, Me and Dupree
In Cold Blood
Fahrenheit 9/11
Undertow
Miami Vice
Shark Tale
Wedding Wars
Alias, Season 4
The Office, Seasons 1 and 2 (British version)
Paper Moon
Hard Candy
Deja Vu
Confusions of a Married Couple
Lying Eyes
Miss Congeniality 2:Armed and Fabulous
m:i:111
A Love Song for Bobby Long
short films at the Halloween Horror Picture Show
Nightmare Man
Basic Instinct 2
May
The House of 1,000 Corpses
Crawlspace
Stargate
Born Into Brothels
The Covenant
Fly Boys
Two Weeks Notice
Drumline
Deep Impact
White Squall
Dangerous
Cabin in the Cotton
North and South
Little Miss Sunshine
Relative Chaos
Lord of War
Underworld:Evolution
Resident Evil
Snakes on a Plane
Final Destination 3
Bad Education
Brief Encounter
Twelve Angry Men
The Monster of Phantom Lake
Wil
A Scanner Darkly
The Devil Wears Prada
Final Cut
The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
The Lake House
The Omen (2006)
Wah Wah
All of Me
Prime
North Country
In Good Company
Red Wind
Nightmares
An Inconvenient Truth
Hostel
The Family Stone
Wicker Park
The Chronicles of Narnia:The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
X Men:The Last Stand
Under the Tuscan Sun
Hitch
The Break-Up
The Notorious Bettie Page
The DaVinci Code
Race You To the Bottom
What the Bleep Do We Know?
Vera Drake
United 93
Poseidon
The Sentinel
Coach Carter
The Lonely Guy
The Man With Two Brains
The Woodsman
Elektra
Friends With Money
The House On Haunted Hill
Secret Window
Scary Movie 4
Ice Age:The Meltdown
G.O.R.A.
I Like Killing Flies
The Far Side of the Moon
Beowulf and Grundel
Suspect Zero
Slither
Domino
V for Vendetta
The Transporter 2
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Must Love Dogs
Serendipity
Phone Booth
Mrs. Henderson Presents
The 40-Year Old Virgin
The Day After Tomorrow
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Land of the Dead
Hildalgo
Transamerica
Chased by Dreams
Match Point
Along Came Polly
As You Like It
Rushmore
Election
Cry Wolf
Fun With Dick and Jane
Memoirs of a Geisha
Dias de Santiago
Cleopatra (Argentenian)
Four Brothers

panjiba presents:the best films you’ve never seen

A dear friend sent me this link.  What a list!  I’m updating my Netflix list NOW.

40 birthday movies for lady wordsmith

Lady Wordsmith turns 40 today. In keeping with her creative and artistic personality, she has requested a most unusual birthday present. I hope I’ve risen to the challenge.

40 Birthday Movies for Lady Wordsmith

1. Birthday Girl Nicole Kidman is the Russian mail-order bride celebrating her first American birthday.
2. Parenthood When the clown for his son’s birthday party shows up drunk, Steve Martin improvises, dressing up as a cowboy and entertaining the kids.
3. Happy Birthday Gemini A gay comedy starring Madeline Kahn and Rita Moreno.
4. Ring 0:Birthday A Japanese horror flick that’s the prequel to The Ring and The Ring 2.
5. The Omen Damien’s nanny makes his 5th birthday party extra special by hanging herself from the highest window of their mansion while everyone is watching.
6. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Charlie always gets a Willy Wonka chocolate bar for his birthday. This year it comes with a golden ticket.
7. The Birthday Aaaah, Corey Feldman in a horror flick. Good stuff.
8. Liar, Liar Jim Carrey’s son uses his birthday wish to wish that his dad (Carrey) can’t lie for a day. Who knew telling the truth was so troublesome?
9. Birthday Boy A Korean animated short film from 2004.
10. City Slickers Getting a “rodeo camp” visit for his birthday is what started Billy Crystal down the path to wackiness and Jack Palance.
11. My Best Friend’s Birthday A comedy short written and directed by Quentin Tarantino in 1987.
12. Stephen Tobolowsky’s Birthday With a tagline like “If you only celebrate one birthday this year, make it Stephen Tobolowsky’s!” it has to be good.
13. 13 Going On Thirty A 13-year old girl uses her birthday wish to wish to be 30 and wakes up as the goofy but beautiful Jennifer Garner.
14. Birthday Party Robert Shaw stars in this William Friedkin-directed film.
15. Misty Cam’s Birthday Party An adult film that I have NOT seen, but I’m getting desperate for forty movie titles for this list.
16. Sixteen Candles Perhaps the best birthday movie of them all. Because Molly Ringwald’s sister is getting married, her family forgets about her birthday. Oh yeah, there’s Long Duck Dong, teen angst and Anthony Michael Hall asking for Ringwald’s panties.
17. Happy Birthday To Me Melissa Sue Anderson makes a complete 180 from her role as Mary on Little House on the Prairie to star as one pissed-off birthday girl getting revenge in this horror flick.
18. 18 Again! An 81-year-old wishes to be 18 again while blowing out his birthday candles, which instigates a Freaky Friday switcheroo with his 18-year-old grandson.
19. Lord of the Rings:The Fellowship of the Ring Bilbo Baggins’ birthday bash was da bomb.
20. Toy Story If Buzz Lightyear hadn’t arrived as a birthday present, there wouldn’t have been a movie.
21. Secrets and Lies A 21st birthday party is where the secrets and lies are unveiled.
22. Alice in Wonderland And a very merry un-birthday to you.
23. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof When gathering to celebrate Big Daddy’s birthday, this Tennessee Williams family puts the “fun” in “dysfunctional.”
24. The 6th Day How does Arnold Schwartzenegger know he’s got a doppelganger taking over his life? When he peeks through the windows of his home and sees himself – his other self – blowing out the candles on his son’s birthday cake.
25. Mommie Dearest Well at least little Christina didn’t receive any wire hangers as birthday gifts.
26. Bloody Birthday An 80’s slasher flick. Apparently, birthdays in the 80s inspired murder and mayhem.
27. Birthday Suit A short film that screened at the Tidal Wave Film Festival in 2003.
28. The Birthday Cake A short Dutch film from 2000.
29. The Game Michael Douglas’ brother gives him a most bizarre birthday present, which puts him on the run for his life.
30. Logan’s Run Turning 30 here really sucks. You don’t have time to be depressed, though, because you’re dead.
31.Betty Boop’s Birthday Party An animated short from 1933.
32. The Surprise Party In this comedy/romance, Oscar is turning 30 and wants to celebrate by asking his girlfriend to marry him.
33. The Hand That Rocks The Cradle Maybe the best surprise birthday party scene ever. Upon entering her home, Annabelle Sciorra, screaming furiously, accuses her husband of having an affair based on evidence planted by the evil nanny Rebecca De Mornay, only to turn around to see her family and friends gathered in her living room and the evil nanny holding a birthday cake. Surprise!
34. All About Eve Fasten your seatbelts for Margo Channing’s bumpy birthday night.
35. Signs One sure way to confirm that aliens have landed is to see them on the TV news attending a Brazilian birthday party.
36. On Golden Pond It’s Henry Fonda’s birthday, so gather round.
37. To Gillian On Her 37th Birthday Yes, it’s a depressing movie about a man missing his deceased wife on what would have been her 37th birthday. But, hey, it’s got “birthday” in the title, so I couldn’t leave it off the list.
38. The Birthday A short drama from 2002.
39. In Good Company The second-best surprise birthday party scene ever (see #33 for Number One).
40. Middle Age Crazy Bruce Dern turns 40 and lives to tell about it.

Happy birthday Lady Wordsmith!

gruesome movie titles

From my VideoHound’s Must-See Movies Desk Calendar:

gruesome titles:

Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things (1972)

Headless Body in Topless Bar (1996)

Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (1974)

Nice Girls Don’t Explode (1987)

8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (1997)

I enjoy coming to work every day just to see what’s on my desk calendar.

top 5 reasons why i’m going to watch afi’s greatest movie quotes special tonight

Yesterday I heard a very intriguing commentary on NPR. The commentator (I didn’t catch his name) expressed his annoyance at all the lists the media promotes — the 25 Greatest Americans on the Discovery Channel, the 100 Greatest Kid Stars on VH-1, and so on. He felt that we’re in the midst of a pop culture overkill. He was especially annoyed at the American Film Institute (AFI)’s top 100 lists of the past few years (100 Greatest Movies, 100 Heroes and Villains, 100 Songs, etc.). To him, these lists contained very few surprises and weren’t much fun. He felt that there is enough focus on current and upcoming films and that AFI should attempt to expose the average viewer to movies of which she might not be aware. The commentator felt that AFI was missing great opportunities to truly promote film — and film awareness — and had given in to the current pop culture obsession with lists that rehash what we already know.

I agreed with most of what he said, but, being the pop culture slut I am, I’m still going to watch AFI’S 100 Years… 100 Movie Quotes: America’s Greatest Quips, Comeback and Catchphrases on CBS tonight. Here’s the top five reasons why:

5. Lists appeal to the obsessive-compulsive, super-organized side of me.

4. I’m a pop culture slut, as previously mentioned.

3. Part of the fun is guessing what will make the list (and for OCD overkill, count how many you guessed correctly).

2. I’m always looking for blog posting topics.

1. Umm…well…dammit…coming up with lists is hard work, so anyone who has gone to enough trouble to put together a TV special about their list deserves at least a few viewers.

even more elevator antics

Fellow film fans have reminded me about the following movies with elevator scenes that I omitted from an earlier post:

The Secret To My Success: Brantley Foster (Michael J. Fox) is changing clothes and disabling the elevator over and over again — and one time while he is still changing the elevator starts moving again.

Pulp Fiction: Maybe not pivotal, but memorable…Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) and Vincent (John Travolta) are discussing Marcelus Wallace’s new bride. It was a transition conversation that would lead to their entire foot-massage debate…

The Truman Show: Truman, having a bit of an anxiety attack, starts being spontaneous all over downtown Seahaven. He goes into the building next door to the one he works in and tries to enter an elevator — which is not put together at the moment. He’s able to see extras and crew members sitting around. It’s another clue that his world is fake.

Thanks for the suggestions!

more elevator antics

My computer has been down for several days. The blog withdrawal symptoms have been brutal. Forcing The Husband to listen to what I would be blogging about if my computer worked is a poor substitute for actually blogging.

I’ve had two additional movie elevator scenes mentioned to me to add to the list from a previous post: Liar, Liar and Resident Evil.

elevator ups and downs

Yesterday, I got stuck in the elevator at my office for 45 minutes. The building only has two stories, but I had to move some heavy boxes downstairs, so I used the elevator. After two successful trips hauling boxes, I was on the way back to the 2nd floor when a fuse blew and the elevator stopped between the floors. The light inside was on and I’m not claustrophobic, so I was ok and relatively freakout-free while waiting for someone from the elevator company to come and rescue me. A coworker sat by the elevator door the whole time and kept me company.

In between odd questions from other coworkers who were passing by (Do you have enough air? Um, I have no way of knowing, but I certainly hope so. Do you have a book with you? I’m moving boxes at work…who the heck carries a book around with them all the time?), my friend and I talked about movies. Specifically, the scene in Speed where those people are trapped in the elevator. They manage to get the doors open and the Keanu Reeves character starts helping them out as the elevator cable slips and their chances of getting out of the elevator alive diminish with each passing second.

Since I was only trapped in between the first and second floors, remembering that scene in Speed wasn’t too upsetting. Today, I’ve entertained myself throughout the day with thinking of movies that had important, memorable or pivotal scenes in an elevator. My list so far:

Fatal Attraction–Glenn Close and Michael Douglas have a hot-and-heavy sex scene in an elevator.

Lady In A Cage–Olivia DeHavilland is an invalid trapped in her private home elevator during a power outage who is terrorized by thieves and thugs.

Serendipity–John Cusack and Kate Beckinsdale get in separate elevators in the Plaza Hotel to see if they’ll both choose the same floor (if they do, it’s serendipity, get it?)

The Shining– Does anyone not remember the elevator filled with blood? Redrum, redrum…

The Apartment–Shirley MacLaine is the elevator attendant in the office building where Jack Lemmon works. In between elevator trips, they fall in love, he loses his job, she almost dies, and there’s the famous spaghetti-on-a-tennis racket scene.

Silence of the Lambs – The cops waiting on the elevator to descend get a big surprise. Fava beans and chianti, anyone?

Here’s what the Otis Elevator Company has to say on the subject.