Tuesday, April 17, 2007
One Year Later - 100 Movies
The past two semesters I watched 100 movies either in class, on DVD on my own through Netflix, on TV, or in the theater. Here they are. Rated and ordered from The Protector, from the summer of 2006, to Fast Times at Ridgemont High, which I watched on Comedy Central this past weekend. This list used to be in my AIM profile (SirTMagus), a convenient place to catalogue the flicks I've been watching. No more movies can fit because of AIM's lame-o text restrictions so, plop, they go here. The 101st movie is Miami Vice, which I saw (again) in my film remakes class.
1. The Protector (4 out of 4)
2. GoldenEye (3 out of 4)
3. The Day the Earth Stood Still (3 out of 4)
4. Patlabor (2.5 out of 4)
5. Star Wars Special Edition (2.5 out of 4)
6. Princess Mononoke (4 out of 4)
7. Forbidden Planet (3 out of 4)
8. Hollywoodland (1.5 out of 4)
9. E.T. (2 out of 4)
10. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (3 out of 4)
11. Poltergeist (1.5 out of 4)
12. Crash (1 out of 4)
13. Infernal Affairs (3 out of 4)
14. Tron (2 out of 4)
15. Red Dawn (1 out of 4)
16. Demon Seed (2 out of 4)
17. Arsenic & Old Lace (3 out of 4)
18. Westworld (2.5 out of 4)
19. Wasabi (2 out of 4)
20. Barbarella (3 out of 4)
21. Fearless (2.5 out of 4)
22. The Shining (4 out of 4)
23. Rambo First Blood Part II (3 out of 4)
24. Zardoz (1 out of 4)
25. Family Game (2.5 out of 4)
26. The Prestige (4 out of 4)
27. Fatal Attraction (2 out of 4)
28. Dead Man (2.5 out of 4)
29. Johnny Mnemonic (1.5 out of 4)
30. Coma (2 out of 4)
31. Born in Flames (1 out of 4)
32. Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind (3.5 out of 4)
33. Vampire Hunter D (0 out of 4)
34. She's Gotta Have It (3 out of 4)
35. The Departed (3.5 out of 4)
36. Koyaanisqatsi (3 out of 4)
37. Black Rain (1.5 out of 4)
38. Dawn of the Dead remake (3 out of 4)
39. Day of the Dead (3 out of 4)
40. Tenacius D in Pick of Destiny (2.5 out of 4)
41. Minority Report (3 out of 4)
42. Casino Royale (3.5 out of 4)
43. Borat (3 out of 4)
44. From Russia With Love (2.5 out of 4)
45. Drunken Master 2 (2.5 out of 4)
46. The Getaway (3 out of 4)
47. Salvador (2.5 out of 4)
48. Blade Runner (5 out of 4)
49. Ghost in the Shell (5 out of 4)
50. Wall Street (2 out of 4)
51. Solaris (4 out of 4)
52. The Lake House (2 out of 4)
53. Volver (1 out of 4)
54. The Fountain (3.5 out of 4)
55. Roger & Me (2.5 out of 4)
53. Aliens (5 out of 4)
54. Babel (2 out of 4)
55. Inland Empire (? out of 4)
56. The Omega Man (1.5 out of 4)
57. Flash Gordon (1.5 out of 4)
58. Hanabi (3 out of 4)
59. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (3 out of 4)
60. License to Kill (1.5 out of 4)
61. Inside Man (3 out of 4)
62. The Proposition (2.5 out of 4)
63. Land of the Dead (3 out of 4)
64. Pan's Labyrinth (3 out of 4)
65. Little Miss Sunshine (3 out of 4)
66. 12:01 (2.5 out of 4)
67. Logan's War (1 out of 4)
68. Demolition Man (1.5 out of 4)
69. Kingdom of Heaven Director's Cut (3 out of 4)
70. Yojimbo (3 out of 4)
71. Last King of Scotland (2 out of 4)
72. Body Heat (2.5 out of 4)
73. Kita no Zeronen (1.5 out of 4)
74. Children of Men (3.5 out of 4)
75. Batman Begins (6 out of 4)
76. Body Double (1.5 out of 4)
77. Bad Education (2.5 out of 4)
78. Retribution (2.5 out of 4)
79. Narc (3.5 out of 4)
80. Birth of a Nation (1.5 out of 4)
81. The Queen (2.5 ot of 4)
82. The Hills Have Eyes remake (3 out of 4)
83. Solid State Society (147+ out of 4)
84. Terminator 2 (4 out of 4)
85. Girl Who Leapt Through Time (4 out of 4)
86. Conan the Barbarian (2.5 out of 4)
87. 300 (3 out of 4)
88. Fullmetal Alchemist movie (2 out of 4)
89. Rope (3.5 out of 4)
90. Nayakan (1.5 out of 4)
91. The Host (3 out of 4)
92. The Virgin Spring (3 out of 4)
93. Reign Over Me (2 out of 4)
94. TMNT (2 out of 4)
95. Grindhouse (2.5 out of 4)
96. Cujo (1.5 out of 4)
97. Memories of Murder (3 out of 4)
98. Fritz Lang's Metropolis (3 out of 4)
99. Double Indemnity (3 out of 4)
100. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (2 out of 4)
101. Miami Vice (2 out of 4)
Movies in bold were released in 2007.
Sunday, April 15, 2007
No reason to get excited
OK.
Final Fantasy III for DS.
This game is going on a one-way trip.
A one-way trip STRAIGHT UP MY ASS.
WHY is there no save points in dungeons?! What FUCKING ASSHOLE at Square Enix thought that was a bright idea? Especially when there's a random shitty battle nearly EVERY STEP. And the waiting period (3 battles or whatever!) to switch between jobs? That can lick my balls. Especially when I just gain a new spell for my useless black mage who is suddenly NOT useless because I GOT A NEW SPELL!!!!11111 Better switch my useless thief back to a black mage to use this strong spell that might be good!
So.
I'm in the Cave of Water or whatever. With Aria, this princess whore. Who casts Cura or Protect randomly on me - RANDOMLY - so when I cast Cura or Cure I'm effectively WASTING my MP. Thanks, Aria. You slimy bitch. I can't replenish my MP. At least not in the middle of a dungeon. And there are no ethers. So, with MP impossible to recover in the middle of a dungeon with no save points AND ENDLESS RANDOM BATTLES I can't help but eventually run out of MP and ways of healing all together.
Add a cheap overstrong octopus boss (not Ultros), NO phoenix downs (can't buy those and I haven't found any in hours!) and that's a fucking night of dungeon crawling down the drain.
I swear to fucking god.
Every Final Fantasy before FF6 can go. To.
HELL.
Meanwhile. I deftly placed the DS cartridge up my sphincter.
Where it shall remain.
FOR ALL ETERNITY.
