50 films

I haven't been to the movies much recently: being depressed and having no money equals no movies. So I prolly won't finish my 50 in time for my birthday. I've decided to keep going anyway, cause I find that seeing movies regularly keeps me sane and I like writing about them.

#15 No Country For Old Men
Awesomely awesome. Yay Coen brothers. There can't be more than five pages of speech in the whole thing.

#16 I Am Legend
I really liked this movie, although it wasn't the best I've seen this year. Almost every review I read of it found it awful, so I went into it thinking it would be bad. And it turned out to be pretty good. I think the things that I liked most were little details. I liked the the main characters subtle hidden OCD. I liked the carefully constructed defense system. I liked how he built lives for mannequins around the city. I really didn't like the sappy bits near the end, but can't win 'em all.

#17 Sweeney Todd
This is a movie you will either love or hate. I always enjoy Tim Burton's visions: I love his sets and his costumes and his style -- the whole package. But I found myself cringing through the whole movie because it just didn't seem to mesh well with the original musical. I didn't really like the music to the musical to begin with and the actors-who-can-almost-but-not-quite carry a tune didn't help. But it is worth seeing for the ocean scenes in the middle of the movie: best costume on Johnny Dep ever.

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Pat and I are watching a movie about H.G. Wells, Jack the Ripper, and 1979. Jack uses the time machine to jump into the future and then Wells follows him, so that he can bring him back to justice.

Even better: Malcolm McDowell is H.G.Wells (being very upright, British, and almost completely non-crazy). Corey Feldman has an itty bitty uncredited part as a young boy in a museum. And the whole thing is very, very 70s -- in San Francisco.