4 Movies To Add To My DVD Collection
Well, I can now cross four movies off of my list of movies to buy, most of which I’ve previously written about on this very blog:
This Is England
Wonderful well-acted movie. The ending was heart wrenching. See my blog post.
A story about a troubled boy growing up in England, set in 1983. He comes across a few skinheads on his way home from school, after a fight. They become his new best friends even like family. Based on experiences of director Shane Meadows.
Shoot ‘Em Up
Awesome adrenaline rush from start to finish. See my blog post.
A man named Mr. Smith delivers a woman’s baby during a shootout, and is then called upon to protect the newborn from the army of gunmen.
Brick
An amazing high school meets classic film noir flick. See my blog post.
A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.
Disturbia
A great modern take on Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window, which had me on the edge of my seat.
A teen living under house arrest becomes convinced his neighbor is a serial killer.
Chinese Democracy Next Month?
It’s probably nothing (I’m 99.8% sure it’s nothing actually), but both Play.com and Amazon UK seem to believe that Guns N’ Roses long-awaited Chinese Democracy will be released March 24th. Personally I think that that’s way too short notice for a major album release like this, but I just thought that it was kinda funny that they both had the same date and it’s usually all kinds of dates on the various online stores.
2 Books On Their Way
With 3 books collecting dust that I have barely ever opened and one more from a previous Amazon order that still hasn’t arrived, it might not be the best idea to buy two more books. But I did and I can’t wait for them to arrive.
Please Don’t Kill the Freshman: A Memoir by Zoe Trope
The author of this book was just 15 and still in high school when she wrote this book, which got her a $100,000 deal. From what I can understand it’s brutally honest and I usually find myself appreciating that in a book. I saw this recommended if you liked The Perks of Being a Wallflower and that just happens to be my favorite book, so my expectations are pretty high I would say.
Book description:
I wrote a story about you. Well, sort of, see, it’s mostly about me. Well, entirely about me, but here’s the catch: I’m you. No, really, I mean it. Not like that transcendentalism stuff we’re learning in English class, but really, truly, I’m you. I know what it feels like when your heart beats so hard against your white bone ribs, when you sing in the shower with soap in your eyes, when you run until you get a side ache. I wrote this story about you because I am so in love with you, your broken-fence teeth and your tissue-paper scars. I love you when you’re so exhausted it could topple you to the ground, so in love it could snap guitar strings, so sickly sweet it could make lips smile. This is a reckless love story. This is my shameless confession.
Hairstyles of the Damned by Joe Meno
Book description:
Hairstyles of the Damned is a punk rock coming-of-age novel set among the Catholic schools, blue-collar families and conservative values of Chicago’s south suburbs circa 1991. There’s not much plot to speak of — it’s simply a year in the life of Brian Oswald, a metalhead kid who’s in love with his best friend, a slightly overweight punk rock girl named Gretchen. Both come from “damaged” families: Brian’s parents’ marriage is teetering on the edge of collapse, and Gretchen’s family has been shattered by her mother’s recent death. Over the course of a school year, Brian’s affection for Gretchen surges and wanes as he does all the things that most high school students do: makes and destroys friendships, discovers new music and new ideas, experiments with drinking and drugs, and tumbles headlong into the confusing but irresistible world of sex and relationships.
Temptation Got the Best of Me
I gave in and bought a few more movies I’ve been meaning to buy from Amazon for a while.
Grizzly Man
I watched most of this documentary on Discovery about a week ago and throughly enjoyed it. I had only heard good things about it and now I know why. I want to watch it all the way through, so I bought it.
For thirteen consecutive summers, the American Timothy Treadwell moved to Katmai in the Alaskan Peninsula to live among the grizzly bears, with the pretext of studying and protecting them. In 2003, his girlfriend Amie Huguenard and he were surprisingly attacked and ate by a bear. Werner Herzog somehow accessed more than one hundred hours of footages filmed by Timothy and released this documentary, showing the life and death of Timothy Treadwell.
Kids
Kids has aired on TV here in Denmark numerous times and mostly I haven’t been able to change the channel - I simply had to watch it one more time.
Kids follows a group young, unsupervised, not mature, but all-too-grown-up kids in New York. One girl has just been diagnosed with HIV and is trying to notify the boy who gave it to her, who is on a quest to sexually prey upon innocent girls. The film follows these characters and their friends through the day, hanging out, playing, carousing, and going to parties. Each scene is intriguing and disturbing — conveying an urban reality that includes drugs, sex, guns, and disease; and yet never letting you forget these are *kids*, some of them barely in puberty.
Gummo
This one’s an odd one and certainly not for everyone, but I personally appreciated and loved it.
Solomon and Tummler are two teenagers killing time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.
Zero Day
I simply needed this movie. It’s so damn good. I wrote a review of it over a year ago.
High school friends Andre Kriegman and Cal Gabriel declare war on their classmates and plan a terrifying assault on their high school. As they begin the deadly countdown to their final act of revenge, the two start a video diary to explain their feelings and chronicle their mission.
The Basketball Diaries
Leonardo DiCaprio (pre-Titanic) is the main character in this movie and he does a wonderful job.
The film was adapted from Jim Carroll’s novel “The basketball diaries” which is a autobiographical chronic of the lives of five kids until they become youth. It is a picture of bad kids who start with small crimes and end up braking bones and more.
Chinese Democracy Available for Pre-Order
Several sites have mentioned that this might be a hoax, but here goes: Guns N’ Roses’ long awaited album Chinese Democracy can be pre-ordered on Amazon UK. The release date is supposedly February 12, 2008. What exactly is wrong with this? Apparently albums are released on Mondays in the UK, but February 12 is a Tuesday. Hopefully it will be very close to that release date. The album has been postponed too many times and has been in the making for 13 years! I hope they pull a “Radiohead” as I like to call it. Radiohead recently announced that their album would be coming out in 10 days. Well it’s more like a week now. Now that is pretty awesome.
Amazon.com Redesign
Amazon.com has a new design up. While I don’t think the website looks great as in flashy or jaw-droppingly good, big companies that actually want to sell stuff rarely have that. I think it does a better job of presenting itself than before and is an overall improvement. I still can’t believe that Amazon.com has been redesigned, like, twice now in a rather short time, but Amazon.co.uk (which is where us Danes and other Europeans have to do our shopping) has looked like itself for such a long time. I’m pretty sure that Amazon.com used to look like what the UK version does now at one point at least.
Haruhi: SE
Just preordered the first volume of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya: Special Edition from Amazon and right now you even save $20.
Amazon UK Around Christmas
Bought First Three Seasons Of South Park
My recent obsession is South Park. Yesterday I spent the entire day after school watching episodes, probably like 7 or something and I knew I had to own them all. I usually order region 2 DVDs since that’s what we use here in Denmark, but the South Park seasons would be too expensive and they are only up to season 4 I think and the packaging looks awful. Sooo region 1 it is. This way it will take forever though, and as always I know I’ll be counting the days till these babies arrive.
Delivery estimate: November 13, 2006 - December 21, 2006
Sigh..
Ordered Some DVDs
So I decided to order some DVDs from Amazon the other day.
Green Street Hooligans My brother recommended this movie and it was awesome. So awesome, in fact that I decided to buy this DVD.. and the other ones below just kinda followed. Anyway it’s nice, although a little odd, seeing Elijah Wood in such a different role than as a hobbit in Lord Of The Rings. I don’t care for soccer anymore (at all!), but while watching this movie you don’t have to. It’s got so much going for it. Can’t wait to watch it again once it arrives. Review coming soon.
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind Jim Carrey’s best performance in my opinion. I love the Ace Ventura movies of course and think that he’s a comedy genius, but in this movie he really took me by surprise and proved that he can be in a serious role as well. One of my favorite movies ever. Review coming soon.
Garden State A very good movie. Some will probably argue that it’s boring, but maybe some of us can see something in this movie not everybody can?
Boondock Saints Didn’t care much for the movie the first time I saw it, but then saw it a few years later and absolutely loved it.