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Watched Public Enemies last night.  Realized how awesome Johnny Depp is for about the millionth time. <3 *sigh*

Oh and we started watching Bruno the other night, but it wasn't really that good and neither of us were interested enough to put it back on to finish it.  Meh.

Today was my classic movie day.  Watched Bell, Book, and Candle with Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak.  I like it, even though it's extremely inaccurate.  Does have a young Jack Lemmon though.

Then I watched Breakfast at Tiffany's.  Still love it.  I want to read the Capote book though.  That one guy who hosts TCM stuff that is sometimes on The Young Turks was saying that Capote wanted Marilyn Monroe to play Holly Golightly and thought Audrey Hepburn was awful in it and that the movie was nauseating.  So I'd like to read it, since I've seen the movie about a billion times and still like it.... except for the highly offensive landlord scenes.  Ugh.

Watching My Big Fat Greek Wedding now.  Not because I really like it, but because I'm getting married.  It's humorous enough to not turn off, but it's not something I'd recommend to people.  I've been watching a ton of wedding shit lately because I guess I'm supposed to.

Well, I watch whatever movie he watches, but he doesn't always watch what I watch since he's not as home as much.

I remember Swimfan coming out when I worked at a movie theater. Just thought I'd let you know!

Man I had to do that so much. Free movie tickets, free popcorn, free everything. Those projectors were old and horrible.

It's called a brainwrap, and it's the most nightmarish thing you can imagine. The film gets jammed in the projectors gears and it just starts going everywhere. One piece of film stays in front of the bulb for too long, causing it to burn. Which is just called a "burn."

In your case though it sounds like the projector did you a favor!

HappyNoodleBoy wrote:

Man I had to do that so much. Free movie tickets, free popcorn, free everything. Those projectors were old and horrible.

So, did it smell like pee because it was an old theater in Houston (mold, humidity, etc.) or because disgruntled employees peed on stuff?

Finally got to see A Serious Man today. Loved it. There's a lot of jokes I probably would have missed if I wasn't decently read when it comes to the Bible, and I'm sure there were plenty of things that still went over my head.

Awesome movie, I'll probably watch it again before I send it back to netflix.

Yeah Doubt's pretty good.  Has a heavy theater-for-cinema vibe to it.

I've been sick lately so I've been watching a ton of movies.  Here are those that I can remember. 

Cool Hand Luke was on one of those non-HBO stations that doesn't edit or cut to commercials, which was great.  I feel a lot of kinship with Luke.  At the end of the day he's a guy who can really roll with everything but little unwarranted injustices, and his inability to take that small amount of unwarranted shit in his life is his downfall.  It's almost like two movies, and I never noticed the first time I saw it how relatively petty the events were that turned everything sour.  With any other character without that central flaw, there really wouldn't ever be a turn in the movie.

Saw some shitty Netflix movie called Undead a bit ago.  It's Australian and shitty, but it knows it.  But even so, it's still pretty bad.  To be fair it did keep my interest since it's kind of a mystery, but it gives me a bad feeling to even think about it so I don't feel like describing it any more.

Terminator 2 was on AMC or some shitty network with commercials and editing, but I got to watch it with Lily so it was fun.  The best part of watching movies with her is how impressionable she is about everything.  Like when T-1000 is walking from the helicopter, and the semi-truck driver comes over to help him and he just stabs him nonchalantly on his way to steal the truck, she gasps "That was mean."  I watch movies pretty jadedly a lot of the time now, but her fascination with the guys being robots and how they can do what they do, and how she develops her idea of the different characters really boosts my enjoyment of the movie.  I like her need to announce her predictions of the outcomes of different fights (she was right about T-1000 vs. T-800 near the end), and seeing it with new eyes makes it more clear just how damn cool it is.  I was amazingly disappointed that Jasper would rather watch his shitty cartoons than this movie, but you can't always get what you want.

I guess nothing else is memorable enough to put in here.

I watched Harry Brown.  It's about Michael Caine being an old man.  It's not bad.