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  • 2009 Movies

    BV 2009 movies
    #=my first time, &=her first time
    *=spn, @=psp
    t=with terra, m=with mom, w=with wesley

    *t…Raising Arizona
    t&…A Scanner Darkly
    mt…The Family Stone
    t*…Better Off Dead
    &*t…Mixed Nuts
    t&#…Millions
    t&#*…Christmas Vacation
    : : : : : : : : : : : : : DECEMBER : : : : : : : : : : : :
    t&…Planes, Trains and Automobiles
    twm…Pieces of April
    #t…The Family Stone
    #tw…Bring It On
    twm…Up
    t&…The Godfather, Part II
    t&w…The Godfather
    &*t…This Is Spinal Tap
    #t&…Away We Go
    &*t…Tron
    t&w…What’s Up, Doc?
    : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : NOVEMBER : : : : : : : : : : : : :
    t*#…Jeepers Creepers (psn)
    t&…Poltergeist (bluray)
    tw…The Nightmare Before Christmas (bluray)
    t…Alien (2003 Dir Cut)
    t&w…The ‘Burbs
    t…Event Horizon (bluray)
    t&*…The Boogens
    tw…The Addams Family
    #&t(w)(*)…most of TftDarkside s01
    : : : : : : : : : : : : : : OCTOBER : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :
    t&…Strictly Ballroom
    #&tw…Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (bluray)
    #t…My Fair Lady
    t…Requiem for a Dream (bluray)
    #@…Annie Hall
    t…Barefoot in the Park
    #t…Someone Like You
    t@&*…Waxwork 2: Lost In Time
    t@&*…Waxwork
    t&…Leap of Faith
    #@…The Player
    #*t…The Grudge
    #t…Return To Me
    : : : : : : : : : : : : : : JULY : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :
    #&t…The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
    &*t…TAo Buckaroo Banzai At8D (with chris dunn)
    ?#&t…LÃ¥t Den Rätte Komma In (bluray)
    &t…Testament
    tmw…August Rush
    &*t…The Ice Pirates
    #&t…Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (bluray)
    &@t…Get Shorty
    #&*t…Psycho
    #&tw…Up (cinema)
    #*t…Gothika
    : : : : : : : : : : : : : : JUNE : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :
    t#&*…The Invasion
    t&*…Caddyshack (started new spn here)
    t#&…Battlestar Galactica Season One
    : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : MAY : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :
    #@…BSG 1×01-04
    t…Vanilla Sky
    t&…Almost Famous (theatrical)
    t&…JFK (dir cut)
    t#&…Iron Man (bluray)
    t&…L.A. Story
    t&…Fletch
    t…The Matrix (bluray)
    : : : : : : : : : : : : : APRIL : : : : : : : : : : : : :
    t…Magnolia
    #&t…Breakfast At Tiffany’s
    &*t…Ed Wood
    #@…The Terminal
    *t#…Ringu
    t&…Tristan + Isolde
    *t&…The Night of the Comet
    *t&…The Night of the Living Dead
    @…Matrix Revolutions
    &#t…Delicatessen
    @…Matrix Reloaded
    : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : MARCH : : : : : : : : : : : : :
    #t&…LOST WEEKEND (finished s1, started 2)
    #t*…What Lies Beneath
    #tm…Wit
    #@…Primer
    #t*…Mirrors
    #t&…August Rush
    t&…Barefoot In The Park
    t…The Dark Knight (bluray)
    t&#…Dollhouse 1×01
    t&…Rushmore
    @…Rushmore
    t&#…Being There
    t&…Mr. Hobbs Takes A Vacation
    t#…The Virgin Suicides
    t&*…Rear Window
    t&…Searching For Bobby Fischer
    #t&…Capote
    #@…The Warriors
    *t…Garden State
    : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : FEBRUARY : : : : : : : : : : : : :
    &/#/t/*…Lexx 2×03-10
    #*t…The Haunting
    &t#…Lexx 2×02 – Terminal
    &t#…Lexx 2×01 – Mantrid
    t…Punch-Drunk Love
    &t#…Lexx 1×04 – Giga-Shadow
    &t#…Lexx 1×03 – Eating Pattern
    *t&…Lost In Translation
    *t&#…Lexx 1×02 – Supernova
    t&…Lexx 1×01 – I Worship His Shadow
    t&…The Stand
    t&…The Incredibles
    #t&…Burn After Reading
    t&…Oscar
    *t&…shanghai noon
    #t*&…the happening
    #@…the darjeeling limited
    *t&…fear and loathing in las vegas
    t…fargo
    t&…unforgiven
    t*…the big lebowski
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  • 2010 Movies

    BV 2010 movies
    *=SPN %=PSP $=cinema +=bedroom
    B=Blu-ray N=NetflixIW V_=Vudu(x/h/s)
    t/T = with terra / her first time
    m/M = mom, w/W = wesley
    C = my first time

    *T…It’s A Wonderful Life
    tB…Fargo
    tB…Boogie Nights
    …Primer (my new dvd)
    *t…Christmas Vacation
    VxWt…Edward Scissorhands (first Vudu)
    t…The Royal Tenenbaums
    t…The Family Stone
    Nt*…Funny Farm
    NCT*…Black Christmas (1974)
    Bt…Crash
    W…Scrooged
    TB…Eyes Wide Shut
    t*…Mixed Nuts
    : : : : : : : : : : : : : : DECEMBER : : : : : : : : : : : : :
    tW…Pieces of April (for thanksgiving)
    TW…Martian Child
    The Darjeeling Limited
    tB…Apollo 13
    tB…Gattaca
    Garden State
    %…Primer
    C%…Martian Child
    NC…The Pianist
    tW…Withnail & I
    : : : : : : : : : : : : : : NOVEMBER : : : : : : : : : : : : :
    tW…The Addams Family
    t…The Others
    NCT…Lexx 3.06-07
    tB…Moulin Rouge
    (((Got new Netflix PS3 app here – Oct18)))
    CT…Lexx 3.03-05 (in her room)
    CT*…Lexx 3.01-02 (in her room)
    NCTW…Seventh Moon
    NWt…Labyrinth
    : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : OCTOBER : : : : : : : : : : : : :
    tw…Little Shop of Horrors
    *B…Time Bandits
    T…Jaws
    N*TC…Space Mutiny (in her room)
    : : : : : : : : : : : : : : SEPTEMBER : : : : : : : : : : : :
    Tc…Murder by Death
    (TCW…John Cleese’s Wine for the Confused)
    *TC…Saturn 5 (in her room)
    tWB…The Dark Knight
    TWB…The Cowboys
    T*…Ladyhawke (her room)
    tB…Fight Club
    *Ct…Friday the 13th (her room)
    Wt…Star Wars
    tB…The Notebook
    t…Lost In Translation
    TC…The Invention of Lying
    : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : AUGUST : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :
    N?TcW…Father Goose
    BTcW…Sphere
    BCTW…Cirque du Soleil – Corteo
    ct…The Three Amigos
    cT…The Dreamers (in her room)
    CtW…Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    CtW…Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    CtW…Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
    CT…A Serious Man
    BTC…The Fourth Kind
    BWCT…Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland
    : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : JULY : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :
    TC*…Robin Hood: Men in Tights (her room)
    BTWC…Avatar
    BTw…Toy Story 2
    BwTC…9
    Bt…Magnolia
    N?TC*…Josie and the Pussycats (her room)
    N?T…Fail-Safe
    tW…A.I. Artificial Intelligence
    N?TC*…Drag Me To Hell (in her room)
    : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : JUNE : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :
    TC*…Repo! The Genetic Opera
    N?WT*…Beavis And Butt-Head Do America
    tw*…Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
    C…Au Revoir Les Enfants
    NC…The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing (docu)
    tC…The Cutting Edge
    %…In Bruges
    %…One Hour Photo
    Bt…Event Horizon
    C%…12 Angry Men
    %…Slacker
    Bt…The Fountain
    NC…The Seventh Seal
    T…Jesus Christ Superstar
    NCT…Fall from Grace (docu)
    TW…Throw Momma From The Train
    TC*…The Lovely Bones (in her room)
    BtW…Batman Begins
    N?tC*…The Devil’s Rejects (1st spn in her new room)
    : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : MAY : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :
    N?T…Arthur
    tC*…House of 1,000 Corpses (Netflix IW HD)
    BtC…Full Metal Jacket
    TWC…Whip It
    Btw…Toy Story
    T*…UHF
    NC…Tarnation (docu)
    %…Glengarry Glen Ross
    : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : APRIL : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :
    t…Withnail & I
    N?WT*…HhGttG eps 1-3
    NT…Who’s Afraid of Virgina Woolf?
    NT*…Dreamscape
    T*…Logan’s Run
    TCW…The City of Ember
    : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : MARCH : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :
    N*TC…Ink
    NTC…Neverwas
    NTC…Super High Me (docu)
    tC…Deeply
    NT*…Spice World
    NT*…The Serpent and the Rainbow
    NC…Skid Row (docu) (first PS3 Netflix)
    : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : FEBRUARY : : : : : : : : : : : : : :
    T…Adaptation
    TC…District 9
    *t…A Fish Called Wanda
    t%…Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amelie Poulain
    TC…Paranormal Activity
    : : : : : : : : : : : : : JANUARY : : : : : : : : : : : :

  • A quick rant on why I am so against a Blade Runner franchise

    This is a comment I posted on Facebook that I’ll lazily paste here, rather than write an expansion.
    I began by posting this to Twitter: “Building a franchise around Blade Runner is like building an amusement park around The Smithsonian.”

    And then, here is what I followed up with on Facebook…

    It’s what I’ve seen happen to Alien.
    The franchise lessened the cultural significance and artistic legacy of the original and ended up *obscuring* it from the mainstream, in a sense. The “It gets more people to see it that otherwise wouldn’t have.” argument becomes meaningless at some point when the work is caused to be compared to what are essentially just derivative works that in no way reflect – let alone deepen – the artist’s original intent and therefore the original ends up a “see also” and gets buried under stale popcorn.
    My ex-wife and I went to the theatrical re-release of Alien in ’03 and were stunned when we were two of only four people in the theater. Yet, the vapid comedy/action/horror/whatever no one remembers now was packed. I had an urge to go into the lobby, shouting “What the hell is WRONG with you people??!!!”. But, I already knew, even then, what the most common answer would be. Something like “Alien? Yeah, it’s ok. The fourth one was really cool! The first was tame compared to the rest, though.” The amusement park drew them in and they may have had fun, but amusement park crowds care little for much beyond “Yeah, that one part that had that naked chick that got impaled by that alien’s tail? Huh huh, yeah, that was cool.” And an artist who made the mistake of signing a contract many years ago ends up screaming “But you are missing my point!!” and a masterpiece of atmosphere, suspense and design only exists in popular mainstream consciousness because it’s part of a canon that you’ll find under “Action, horror, sci-fi”.
    In this – as in so many other cases – it would be better off a forgotten classic that the uninitiated could then be introduced to with no pre-conceived (and ill-fitting) expectations.
    …
    Whoa. I think I’ve had a liiiittle too much coffee ;P

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