What science fiction geek doesn't have this? But, it is slow and long, by today's
standards. Matinee.
The Abyss Special Edition
The theatrical release didn't make sense. The director's cut fills in the gaps.
The making of is really good. Matinee with Dinner.
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Very over the top human cartoon humor, but a tight story. It works and it's fun.
Full Price.
Airplane
I just couldn't resist. So stupid it actually works, most of the time.
Rental with Dinner.
Alien
It didn't really grab me when I first saw it, but it has some good bits. Matinee.
Aliens
OTOH, the first time I saw this one I was on the edge of my seat for the final 45
minutes. This movie was one of the reasons I got a DVD player. Full Price
with Popcorn.
Mostly wanted to hear the director's commentary. It's pretty good. Pay Per
View.
Apollo 13
A reasonably accurate depiction of the flight. I just wish they hadn't implied
that Swigert wasn't qualified to be there. Great commentary tracks. Full
Price.
Awakenings
I have to set aside my machismo and admit the dancing scene still gets to me. Full
Price.
Batman: The Movie
This movie aged fairly well. Outrageous camp humor. Pay Per View.
The Beast
A Russian tank gets lost in Afghanistan and is chased. Very good characters.
Matinee with Popcorn and Drinks.
Big Trouble in Little China Special Edition
The commentary track is really good, with John Carpenter and Kurt Russell. The
wanna-be hero aspect is fun. Matinee with Popcorn and Drinks.
The Bounty
I like how this movie makes both sides sympathetic. I can understand the captain's
motives, and can see how they've backfired. Very slow, though. Matinee with
Dinner.
Braveheart
Sets a tone, but is not historically accurate. Well-paced and a good story.
A very suck-in-able movie. Full Price.
Brazil Criterion Collection
An impulse buy I prolly should have resisted. This movie just doesn't do it for
me. Cable with Dinner.
The Breakfast Club
An interesting setting for a teen angst movie. Provides lots of opportunities for
exposition. Matinee with Dinner.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Fairly cute movie. The commentary and documentaries are interesting. Matinee
with Popcorn and Drinks.
Caddyshack Special Edition
Silly humor by a talented ensemble cast. It works because they had a decent story
and they kept the pace up. Matinee with Dinner.
Does an incredible job of realistically showing how a resourceful man would survive.
Extras are really good. Full Price.
Chicken Run
Lots of homage to old war movies and others. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Matinee with Dinner.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Got it mostly because it's expected of a geek. This movie isn't as smooth as a lot
of Spielberg's best. Matinee.
Contact
A thought-provoking movie about faith. The commentary tracks are really
interesting on this one. Matinee with Popcorn and Drinks.
Crimson Tide
Another of the movies that shows both sides being right and being wrong. Not a
great movie, but does a good job of provoking thought on that issue. Matinee.
Crocodile Dundee
The light-hearted fun struck a chord with me. Matinee with Popcorn and Drinks
Courage Under Fire
About redemption, and honoring the fallen by respecting them enough to lay bare the
truth. Matinee with Popcorn and Drinks.
Dances with Wolves
Good characters and good story shows the Native American way of life without turning
them into saints. Even though it's three hours long, I wanted more when I first saw
it. Full Price.
Dark City
I caught this once on cable and liked a lot of it better than the Matrix, at the time.
Didn't like the big fight at the end very much, though. Rental with Dinner.
Das Boot
WW II from the perspective of a German U-Boat crew. Displays courage in the face
of hopelessness. And honor among the front line troups of the German armed forces.
Full Price.
Die Hard
One of my favorite action movies. The hero doesn't have a Master Plan, he just
gets chased from one predicament to another. It works. Full Price.
The Dish
Bought it on a flyer, having never seen it. Cute story surrounding the big radio
dish used to communicate with the Apollo 11 astronauts during their moonwalk. Rental
with Dinner.
Dogma Special Edition
I thought this was making fun of religion, but it was made by a practicing Catholic.
Lots of interesting stuff in the cut scenes and commentary. Matinee with
Popcorn and Drinks.
The Doctor
Excellent story about a man facing mortality from both sides of the hospital experience.
Very moving. Full Price.
Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
The extras drew me to this one. And, it turns out there are a lot of classic
lines. Rental.
The Dream is Alive
Even though my big screen isn't IMax, the images were really good. This came out
one year before Challenger. Rental.
Escape From New York
Snake Plisken is just a great anti-hero. Rental with Dinner.
ET: The Extraterrestrial
Saw the new cut. I don't like how they show him too early in the film. And
the guns to walkie talkies is just stupid. Very good movie, though. Matinee
with Dinner.
Excaliber
Birthday present. It has some interesting bits, but just didn't flow for me.
Cable with Dinner.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
A silly, over the top, bigger than life character and his friends take one last fling
before graduation. Matinee with Dinner.
A Few Good Men
The tension of how they're going to get them off when the star lawyer doesn't think it's
possible really works. Commentary sucks, though. Rental with Dinner.
First Blood
Great action movie that shows both sides of the conflict. Matninee with Dinner.
A Fish Called Wanda
A lot of good lines, and really fun characters. Matinee.
Fistful of Dollars
A great example of an opportunist playing one side against the other. Lots of fun.
Matinee with Dinner.
For a Few Dollars More
I don't think I've even watched this one, yet.
For All Mankind
I know I watched it, but don't remember anything. Cable.
Forrest Gump Special Edition
The making of is fascinating. And of course, the movie is very good. Full
Price.
From the Earth to the Moon
A decent overview of the US space program. Based on Andrew Chaikin's book, A Man on the Moon.
Matinee with Popcorn and Drinks.
The Fugitive
One of the few DVDs available when I bought my unit. The ensemble cast of the US
marshals carries this movie. Rental with Dinner.
Ghostbusters
Light-hearted silly fun. Matinee with Dinner.
Gladiator
The story just carries you along. Somewhat realistic portrayal of the life of a
gladiator. Matinee With Dinner.
Glory
The trials of getting a black regiment into battle during the Civil War. Matinee
with Dinner.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The signature Spaghetti Western. The opening, the music, the characters. It
doesn't have the pace of a modern movie, but it mostly keeps you intrigued. Full
Price.
Grosse Pointe Blank
A very odd setting for an intelligent character to find a new respect for life.
Matinee with Dinner.
Groundhog Day
What if there were no tomorrow? A fun look at all of the consequences of that
question. Matinee with Popcorn and Drinks.
Heat
A gritty look at professional thieves and the cops that chase them. Great cast and
tight story. Full Price.
Hick Trek the Moovie
I tried to watch it. Only made it about ten minutes. Commercial with Popcorn
and Drinks.
Independence Day Special Edition
Despite the fact that they tried to throw every science fiction plot device into one
movie, the characters carried it. And, it looks good on a big screen with good
sound. Matinee.
James and the Giant Peach
This was read to me in, I think, Fourth grade. I really liked the story. The
movie is pretty good during the animated bits. The real bits are a little flat.
Matinee.
Jaws
There was a gap of over ten years from when I saw this in the theatre until I rented it.
I had forgotten how much humor there was. Matinee with Dinner.
Jerry Seinfeld
I enjoy his stand-up. Pay Per View.
Jurassic Park Collector's Edition
Mostly fun and only a little bit of silly stuff. And technologically impressive
for its time. Matinee.
Kentucky Fired Movie
Juvenile humor done very well. Pay Per View.
Ladyhawke
A fun fantasy love story. The ending was a teeny bit flat. Matinee with
Dinner.
L.A. Story
Somehow manages to have real feelings in an over-the-top LA. Rental with Dinner.
A finale that lives up to the previous films. Felt like many more war scenes than
the previous. But they didn't drag on. It flowed well. Full Price.
Mad Max Special Edition
It is amazing how much better this movie is in the original Australian. Much
interesting trivia, too. Matinee with Popcorn and Drinks.
The Mask
Another one that I got just because I didn't have much choice early on. Somehow a
little flat. The director's track is fascinating, though. Rental with Dinner.
Visually stunning, albeit much of the science fiction is horrible. Matinee.
Matrix Revisited
Just behind-the-scenes stuff. Nothing huge, that I remember. Cable with
Dinner.
Men in Black
Wench and I were the only ones laughing in the theatre for a lot of the movie. I
had fun with it. Matinee.
Monty Python's Flying Circus Disks 1-4
What can I say? It's Python. Rental.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail Ultimate Definitive Final Edition
Almost the entire movie is quotable. Full Price.
My Life
An-Asshole-Learns-What's-Important movie. Rises way above the formula. One
of my favorites. Full Price.
Mystery Science Theatre 3000 The Brain That Wouldn't Die
Mystery Science Theatre 3000 Eegah
Got both of these without having seen them before. A bit of a mistake. Maybe
MST3K just isn't as much fun without a group? Cable with Dinner.
NASA To the Moon
Spliced together bits of missions. Just didn't flow well. Cable with Dinner.
Nightmare Before Christmas Special Edition
Good animated musical. Brings back the feeling of watching Christmas specials as a
kid. Matinee with Dinner.
Office Space
Rides the edge of realistic and bizarre. It grew on me. Matinee with Popcorn
and Drinks.
Once Upon a Time in the West
Another of the great spaghetti westerns. Saw a show that said Henry Fonda turned
it down, until one of the other actors showed him scripts vs finished products of some of
Leone's other films. Matinee with Dinner.
Paint My Wagon
Mostly works for me, and a bit of a nostalgia trip. I saw this when I was at a Boy
Sprout summer camp. A lot of good stuff in it. Rental.
The Paper
Day in the life of a small paper. Great characters. Fast-paced story.
Believable and fun. Matinee with Dinner.
Light-hearted fun. Fun characters, decent story, good pace, excellent special
effects. Interesting commentary track. Matinee.
Platoon Special Edition
Got it for the commentary. Pay Per View.
Poltergeist
A top Spielberg movie. Great mix of humor with suspense. Interesting
characters. Matinee.
The Princess Bride Special Edition
Sweet story. Lots of extras. And someone must have told Reiner how to do
commentary, becuase this one is so much better than A Few Good Men. Matinee.
Quigley Down Under
This one never took off at the box office, but I liked it. Matinee.
Raising Arizona.
Another over the top human cartoon movie. Distinctive characters, wild
cinematography and the bizarre soundtrack make this movie work. This is one that
people either love or don't understand. Full Price.
Road Warrior
Man, that opening really draws you into the movie. Ross and I went to this
thinking it would suck, and after the opening we looked at each other and said, "This
is great!" Full Price.
Robocop Criterion Edition
Lots of action and great bad guys make you want Robocop to win. Matinee with
Dinner.
Romancing the Stone
Just a sweet, fun romance novel on film. You really see the characters grow during
the movie. Matinee with Dinner.
Roxanne
A modern Cyrano de Bergerac. A love story with lots of comedy. Also a chance
for Steve Martin to play a cartoon character. Matinee with Dinner.
A good story in the best depiction of war yet put on the screen. Full Price.
Schindler's List
An opportunistic businessman in Germany discovers humanity. An incredibly
difficult movie to watch, but an incredibly important one to see. Full Price with
Popcorn and Drinks.
A little too much shaky love story, but the fight scenes were pretty good.
Especially Yoda. Matinee with Dinner.
Star Wars IV: A New Hope
That opening scene was awe-inspiring the first time I saw it. It's still a lot of
fun 28 years later. This just works as a modern fairy tale. Full Price.
Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back
The Walkers were great. And the whole thing worked well, despite the cliffhanger.
Full Price.
Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi
The series lost the grungy used look and the actors were in designer cammies. The
droid humor was forced. The Ewoks were too saccharine. Matinee.
Stripes
Very quotable movie. One of my favorites. Matinee with Popcorn and Drinks.
Tenacious D
Just plain silliness that I had to have. Rental with Dinner.
Terminator Special Edition
Arnold plays a walking gun platform. Tight story and good action. The new
soundtrack is mostly good, but they screwed up and put machine gun sounds over the shotgun
a coupla times. Oops! Full Price.
Terminator 2 Special Edition
A sequel that lives up to the original. Linda Hamilton plays psycho-bitch from
hell. Full Price.
Time Bandits Criterion Collection
Got this mostly because Bruce and Scoo like it so much. There's good stuff, but I
had trouble with it, somehow. Pay Per View.
Fun and exciting and gives everyone what they want to see. Men enjoy the action
and special effects and women enjoy the love story. Full Price.
Top Gun
I got this one mostly to show off my sound system. I do enjoy the admittedly
simple story and decent aerial scenes. Matinee.
Toy Story I & II Gift Set
The first one was a cute animated story, and technologically impressive at the time.
I haven't seen the second all the way through, yet. Some of the extras are
interesting. Matinee.
True Lies
Basically, the James Bond of the '90s. Only it works much better. Full
Price.
Twister
There wasn't much else to choose from at the time. Shows off the sound system.
Very silly movie, though. Cable with Dinner.
Under Siege
Somehow, they keep the verisimilitude together in this movie. Lotsa good lines.
Matinee with Dinner.
The Usual Suspects Special Edition
A very engrossing mystery movie. Very hard to describe without spoilers, and this
is one you want to experience fresh the first time. Full Price.
Wall Street
Got it mostly for the commentary. Rental with Popcorn and Drinks.
Wallace & Gromit
Predecessor to Chicken Run. Love the technique. Stories are pretty good.
Rental.
Weird Al Yankovick Video Collection
Most are pretty good. It is interesting to see the production values improving in
the newer ones. And it's interesting seeing who he gets to cameo in them.
Matinee with Popcorn and Drinks
Youngblood
I can justify it because it's hockey. But I have to admit that I find Cynthia Gibb
to be totally scrumptious. Pay Per View with Popcorn and Drinks.
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