April Review
Posted by Primogeniture on May 8th, 2008
I saw six movies for the first time in April, up one from last month but down one from a year ago. My ratings this month averaged out to 3.41, an increase over March and the second highest of the year thus far behind January. I remain ahead of last year in total movie viewings, with 29 as of the end of April, compared to the 24 I had seen at this point last year. I saw a single 2008 release, the direct-to-DVD animated film Justice League: The New Frontier. I saw one picture from last year, the creepy The Mist. Included in my viewings was a rare documentary, Hoop Dreams, and what is probably the oldest film I have ever seen: the silent German Expressionist horror film, Nosferatu. Following, I saw the fictional making of Nosferatu picture, Shadow of the Vampire. Slipping in at the end was my first viewing of Gladiator, a movie I found good but not great. My repeat viewings included Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (the best of the Potter films), and two Batman adaptations: Batman (a nostalgic favorite) and Batman Begins (my 2005 favorite film of the year).
’20s: 1
’90s: 1
’00s: 4
I am continuing with the first season of The X-Files and Twilight Princess.
Performance of the Month (only new viewings): Max Schreck in Nosferatu; runner-up: Willem Dafoe in Shadow of the Vampire as Max Schreck.
Rewatches: Batman, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Batman Begins
May 19th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
i’d actually written a response to this a couple weeks ago and cause i forgot to put my name in the required box it erased my message. so i’m writing a new one with the intent only to convince you to watch [b]The Wire[/b].
i left a post for you in the Roost but figured i’d come from multiple fronts. i would recommend it to anyone because i’ve only caught the first season thus far but would be willing to declare it the most important TV show ever made and i believe everyone [i]should[/i] see this show, but you’re the only one i’m really recruiting this heavily, cause i know you’ll love it. try not to let this seem like hyperbole. it’s INSANELY brilliant. it was hyped to hell and gone and still high expectations of its greatness did not diminish it – it’s lived up. i got the first disc from Netflix on Tuesday. 5 days and 3 trips to Blockbuster later, i’d burned through all 13 episodes. i would never go so far as to tell you to drop everything (wouldn’t be a terrible idea tho), cause i like to discover things on my own, organically, but the longer you wait you’ll only wonder why you waited so long.