response 115 of 225:

Nov 26 21:28 UTC 2003

  re #113:  PBS has been doing television adaptation of Tony Hillerman's
  Joe Leaphorn / Jim Chee mystery novels.  "Skinwalkers" is one of them.

  I don't know very much about the Native Americans of the southwest
  and have only read a couple of Hillerman's novels but he seems to get
  the atmosphere and settings right (based on my travels through the 
  Four Corners area) and an acquaintance who's married to a dentist
  formerly in the Indian Health Service and who has worked and lived
  around the Navajo reservation says that Hillerman's research is pretty
  good.

response 117 of 225:

Nov 27 03:04 UTC 2003

There are a couple of these movies out there.  "Coyote Waits" and
"Skinwwalkers".  I hope there are more of them.  I enjoyed them.

response 119 of 225:

Nov 28 15:10 UTC 2003

Re #112: Just out of curiousity, did you like Space Jam?  I hated it,
and I'm trying to figure out if the new Looney Tunes movie is along the
same lines.

response 121 of 225:

Nov 28 16:14 UTC 2003

Monkeybone and Cool World are two others.  I can't remember if Cool World
came out before or after Roger Rabbit, though.

response 123 of 225:

Nov 29 20:08 UTC 2003

There was also a mixed animated/live action "Rocky and Bullwinkle" 
movie.

response 125 of 225:

Dec 1 17:18 UTC 2003

the Dangerous Lives Of Alter Boys has some great animation sequences...
oh, don't forget Beavis and Butthead Do America...;-)

response 127 of 225:

Dec 1 20:58 UTC 2003

Ah, yes, Beavis and Butthead.  My inner 12-year-old loved that movie.  :)

response 129 of 225:

Dec 3 03:45 UTC 2003

MASTER AND COMMANDER: FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD-- This is a terrific sea
adventure movie based on the McManus books.  The ships and costumes of the
period, are re-produced in exacting detail.  The camera even rocks
slightly to mimick the way a ship rocks at sea.  Russell Crowe, among the
world's most charismatic actors, is perfectly cast as the "master and
commander" of the ship, to whom everyone else must swear their loyalty and
give their lives.  Paul Bettany, who played Crowe's imaginary best friend
in "A Beautiful Mind" co-stars as Crowe's real best friend, the
philosophical and humane ship's doctor.  They have a relationship not
unlike Kirk and McCoy on Star Trek.  This movie was well directed by Peter
Weir (director of The Truman Show and Witness and many other movies)  But
the best thing about this movie is the cinematography, the beautiful
scenery and realistic battle scenes between the two ships (the good guy
British Ship and the evil French ship they are chasing around the world)
This movie was a lot of fun (has a nice classical score too)

response 131 of 225:

Dec 3 20:51 UTC 2003

Right - I enjoyed it too.  It wasn't very deep, but the production values
were first rate.

response 133 of 225:

Dec 4 17:56 UTC 2003

I remember that.  Strangest interview I saw on Letterman.  Kind of a 
reverse Space Ghost CTC.

response 135 of 225:

Dec 6 22:22 UTC 2003

I've finally been catching up with what's in the theaters.

I loved "Love Actually". I really debated buying this ticket thinking it
was another chic-flick Hugh Grant vehicle.  I even asked the guy selling
tickets if he'd seen it.  He said his girlfriend insisted he come along
and he was quite surprise to have liked it a lot.  The cast includes
quite a few of my favorites and the writing was clever and honest enough
that I forgave its exaggerations.

"The Missing" is thin on plot, the character studies a little 
thicker, but that scenery!  Wow.  This movie stars New Mexico.

But my favorite of all this season is "Bad Santa".  Offensive
to the max.  I hope the fat boy wins an Oscar.  Not kidding.

response 137 of 225:

Dec 7 15:13 UTC 2003

Re #135:  I enjoyed "Bad Santa" too and agree that the kid's
performance is of best-supporting-actor calibre.  Wouldn't be
surprised to see the Academy shun the film altogether though,
given the nature of material.  Hollywood's come a long way
since the squeaky-clean 1950s, but I'm not sure it's come
*that* far.