Lucky Number Slevin

Year: 2006

Why'd I Watch It?: Ken demanded it.

What's It About?: A guy caught in the middle of a fight between Ben Kingsley and Morgan Freeman and that's a bad place to be.

What'd I Think?: Josh Hartnett is a good actor. This is a good movie with an amazing cast and a wacky-ass storyline. Much like Tarantino things, but stylistically different and refreshing. Violence levels are very good, as one can expect from any movie whose poster sports Bruce Willis with guns.

Rating: 5 waffles

Love Actually

Year: 2003

Why'd I Watch It?: Group decision.

What's It About?: A bunch of people who are all somehow connected to each other either falling in love or screwing up over the Christmas holiday.

What'd I Think?: Enjoyed it more than I thought I would. The way all the stories overlap is interesting. Great cast. Nice stories. Alan Rickman. Yes.

Rating: 4 waffles

Loser

Year: 2000

Why'd I Watch It?: Boredom.

What's It About?: Dork boy likes a girl who likes their professor.

What'd I Think?: It was interesting. A nice...well, there were some not too nice aspects, but a nice story with interesting characters and locations.

Rating: 3 waffles

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the KingYear: 2003

Why'd I Watch It?: It's LotR.

What's It About?: Hobbits and men and elves fighting orcs and other ugly things.

What'd I Think?: Words cannot explain how I feel about this movie. There were different things I didn't like, but all in all it was boootiful.

Rating: 5 waffles

Live Free or Die Hard

Year: 2007

Why'd I Watch It?: Elizabeth and I were bored.

What's It About?: John McClane McClaneing around D.C. on the 4th of July.

What'd I Think?: The use of Fortunate Son in this movie is wonderful. Also, it's just a lot of fun. Bad guy's no Alan Rickman, but he's okay. Just your basic summer action flick, but good stuff.

Rating: 4 waffles

Little Miss Sunshine

Year: 2006

Why'd I Watch It?: It looked really good.

What's It About?: A family, each of whom has their own issues, travels with a young girl to a child beauty pageant.

What'd I Think?: So so so happy! Another amazing character driven movie (like Wes Anderson movies). The cast is amazing. Besides The Departed, this is the best movie I've seen this year. Oh, I just love it!

Rating: 5 waffles

The Libertine

Year: 2004

Why'd I Watch It?: Johnny Depp. Also Jack Davenport.

What's It About?: The Earl of Rochester and all his debauchery.

What'd I Think?: Now did you really need to cast a whole bunch of people from Pirates of the Caribbean 2? Was in necessary to give John Malcovich that prosthetic nose and make Johnny Depp seem like a gi-normous douche? There was kind of a plot, but it was kinda lacking if it was supposed to be a love story of sorts between Depp and Samantha Morton (who was really great as was Rosamund Pike). If it was just about Johnny Depp poncing around and being a vulgar asshole, they did a good job. I did really like the sets, costuming, and cinematography.

Rating: 3 waffles

Les Diaboliques

Year: 1955

Why'd I Watch It?: Assigned for film class.

What's It About?: This horrible guy's wife and mistress kill him and then things go awry.

What'd I Think?: By the end of this one, it's worth sitting through all the weird build up. Just watch it.

Rating: 4 1/2 waffles

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

Year: 2004

Why'd I Watch It?: Ann or Sarah wanted to see it.

What's It About?: Some unfortunate children getting shunted between adult guardians.

What'd I Think?: I've only read the first book and a bit of the second, so I'm no expert, but the film was pretty good. I thought Jim Carrey was okay (I'm really not a very big fan of his). The kids were good, I thought. I loved the subtitles they did for Sunny. And there was Jude. More like the dark profile of Jude. Jude Law IS the Shadow! No.

Rating: 3 1/2 waffles