napoleon dynamite. i liked it.

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I saw the latest Harry Potter in mid-May (bosslady took us out as a morale event). I don't really do movies, so it'd been a good couple years since I was in a theater. At home, I think the last movie I watched was... around Xmas? Secretary? Pirates of the Caribean? I can't remember, one of those two was last...

I enjoy them, but the whole tension thing in movies makes me one of those annoying people who says "EEEE! What's going to happen what's going to happen NOOOOWWWW!?" And get up and make popcorn or go to the bathroom or do anything to break the tension. :D

"In the beginning there was the book, and the book inspired and angered others to write books, and when the people could no longer cope with all the books they had created, they begat libraries, and the Lord said, "I don't know what else we can do." (Anon

saw THE STATION AGENT on dvd last night. really enjoyed it - one of those movies that seems a bit old-fashioned because it's all about the writing and acting, and the filmmakers had enough confidence to let the story move along at its own pace rather than forcing everything.

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i finally saw CAMP on dvd, which is an indie about a bunch of kids at a performing arts summer camp. although it wasn't a terribly well-made movie, it was definitely soothing (or something) to watch something with teens in it that actually had *some* resemblance to my own adolescence! (unlike all the studio-made teen movies out there...)

and there was one part that was so, so true to my experience as an arty kid living in a very mainstream town who only got to escape during the summers at similar camps, that i burst immediately into tears. thank maude for that kind of place, you know?

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I love eternal sunshine, kate winslet was so beautiful to look at, and it all just felt so real and yet surreal, the fights they had were painfully familiar to me.
I don't get to the movie theater as often as I'd like. but I just went to see something a few weeks ago and now I can't remember what the hell it was! which is ridiculous.
I'll be rushing ot to see the next harry potter film next month. ha! yes, I really will.

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American Splendor. I really liked it - I like those faux documentary type things, and I like that they didn't tuurn him into this horrible sad-sack character. I mean, he IS, but not entirely so. You kind of get the idea, that yeah, this is this guy's life and it is good and bad and hard just like everyones. So we are all extraordinary.

Other than that we also just saw "Good Boy".

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China, i happened to see it too over the weekend. loved it, even though i was totally expecting to be let down part-way through like with the other charlie kaufman movies. (well, that was really only true with Being John Malkovich - Human Nature was just silly, and Adaptation i liked while watching it, but the more time that passes, somehow the less impressed i am...)

i could care less about jim carrey (tho he did a good job, he didn't really have *that* much to do - i can't fathom why they're talking oscar nom), but i thought kate winslet, who i've never been crazy about before this movie, rocked.

to me, Eternal Sunshine succeeded at the sort of poignancy that everyone but me seemed to experience with Lost in Translation, which i didn't like that much.

i don't get out to the movies too often but we watch tons on dvd. i'll try to remember to post when i see something new!

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