Day 11: Austin Powers

Austin Powers

Whose Movie: Mutual Buy

Rating: Funny, best out of all the Austin Powers movies 

It had been a while since we had seen this movie in it's entirety, and after watching it, we remembered why it's the only Austin Powers that we own.  It's the best in the series, and it's still funny. The movie still holds up, even when we realized it's now thirteen years old.  Mike Myers does a great job at being both Austin and Dr. Evil, and this movie has a lot less ridiculous situations than the sequels. 

That's the end of the A's in our collection.  Next we start the B's, which also have a lot of movies.  First up we have the Back to the Future Trilogy, followed by all the Batman movies :)

Day 10: Anchors Aweigh

Anchors Aweigh

Whose Movie: Steph's

Rating: Steph = Awesome, Matt = Sucked

I LOVE this movie.  Matt thought this movie was torture.  It was 2hr and 20 min long and Matt counted down until the end.  I had to explain that movies like this were made to showcase Gene Kelly's dancing, and oh what dancing he did.  This is the movie with his famous  Dance with Jerry Mouse.  I find Gene Kelly incredibly sexy, and love him in anything that he does.  In addition to Gene's amazing dancing, we also had Frank Sinatra!  Frank. Sinatra. Nuff said.  And the female lead was Kathryn Grayson, who has (or had, not sure if she's still alive) the most amazing operatic singing voice.  The plot isn't the strongest, but it's an MGM musical of the 1940s.  It has everything you need, singing, dancing and a happy ending :)

Day 9: American Beauty and Anchorman

American Beauty

Whose Movie: Mutual Buy

Rating: Still good the second time around.

Matt and I borrowed this movie from the library about two years ago and watched it for the first time.  Then we liked it so much that when we found it in the $5 movie bin at Wal-Mart, we didn't hesitate to buy it.  This movie is very well made.  It makes you ponder on your life and your relationships.  Matt and I laughed out loud at parts.  Matt also wants to be just like Kevin Spacey's character, while I hope I never turn into Annette Benning's character.  If you haven't seen it, I recommend that you see it at least once.  It deserves all the academy awards it won.

Anchorman

 

Whose Movie: Matt's (I think) maybe mutual buy, can't remember

Rating: Still hilarious after the hundredth viewing.

Matt and I decided that we will never be able to watch this movie with someone who has never seen it, because we start laughing before the joke even happens.  There is only one scene that I can't watch, it's the flute scene, because Will Farrell isn't playing it right, and it bugs me.  I know, I shouldn't let it bug me, but it does.  I don't know why.  Anyways, I still laughed hard at everything, even though we've seen this movie A LOT.  I'm glad that it still holds up.

Day 8: Almost Famous

Almost Famous

Whose Movie: Steph's

Rating: Super Awesome.

This is a movie that I will always love.  It's the music.  Cameron Crowe picked the best music for this movie.  Bowie, Skynrd, Elton, you name it, it was in the movie.  The story is great too.  I loved this movie since I first saw it in high school.  I wanted to be Penny Lane.  I wanted to dress like her.  I wanted to be William Miller, being able to tour the country with a band and write about it.  Everything about this movie is awesome.  Nothing beats the scene in the bus when the band and the band-aids all sing Tiny Dancer.  Amazing.  

Tomorrow: American Beauty.

Day 7: Alexander Revisited

Alexander Revisited

Whose Movie: Matt's

Rating: Better than we expected

So this is a movie that we bought with neither of us ever watching it. We found it in the $5 movie bin at Wal-Mart and Matt was all "As a classicist, this is a movie I need to own." So we bought it, and Matt watched the first part, and then never finished it.  We procrastinated getting to watch this.  We procrastinated almost a week.  But we finally sat down and watched all 3.5 hours of it.  I found it very interesting.  I felt that the movie was well made, and Matt and I commented that it was almost like the History Channel got a large budget, hired A-List actors and made a movie.  We also found it funny that Angelina Jolie was the only person attempting to sound Greek.  I had to break my "no Angelina Jolie" rule to watch this movie, and it was painful.  She was in it WAY too much for my liking.  I felt that Colin Farrell did a wonderful job as Alexander, and I cried when his lover died right along with him.  I could have gone my entire life without seeing a man smashed by an elephant though.

Next up we continue the A's and return to shorter movies.  Next on the list: Almost Famous.

Days 5 and 6: Addams Family Values and Airplane

Addams Family Values

Whose Movie: Matt's

Rating: A worthy sequel

Okay, so this movie also held up really well.  I had to laugh at all of the antics that went on in summer camp with the Addams kids.  Matt and I also questioned the fact that the baby turned back to normal so quickly after Fester returned.  We also pondered a continuity question: The lady who married cousin It had a "regular" child in the first movie, but he was missing in the second one.  Anyways, this movie was funny, and it was fun to notice things in the background that I hadn't noticed before.

Airplane

 

Whose Movie: Matt's

Rating: Hilarious Comedy

Okay, so I don't know on what planet this movie is rated PG, but I'll just go with it.  I had never seen this movie before, but I had seen bits and pieces of it.  I thought it was hilarious, although I didn't get some of the sight gags.  Yes, the jokes were corny, but it was funny, and the movie was enjoyable.

Six more movies left in the letter "A"

Day 4: The Addams Family

The Addams Family

Whose Movie:  Matt's

Rating: Awesome

This is a movie that we can watch over and over again, and it won't get old.  It's held up through the years, and with each new watching, we discover something new.  This time, we noticed that Pugsly's room was full of stop signs from when he takes them down to hear cars crash.  When Morticia takes Fester to the graveyard and read the Latin inscription on a tomb that is the Addams family motto, Matt pipes up that it's not what it says.  The inscription really reads: "They that fake noun, fake verb, fake adjective, now."  We had fun watching it, we still laughed at all the jokes, and we can't wait to watch the next one.

Next up: Addams Family Values, Airplane and Alexander Revisited.

Day 3: Across the Universe

Across the Universe

Whose Movie: Steph's

Rating: Awesome, though Matt mocked.

If I had to rank all 270 of our movies in order, I would rank Across the Universe as #2.  How can you go wrong with Beatles songs, covered well, and lots of subtle and not so subtle Beatles references.  My favorite scenes match up with some of my favorite Beatles songs.  Strawberry Fields Forever and Across the Universe.  The movie is well acted and visually stunning.  It was refreshing after weeks of watching Evan Rachel Wood on True Blood to be reminded that she is actually a very good actress when given quality material to work with.  I can watch this movie a hundred times and not get tired of it.

Next movies up are Addams Family and Addams Family Values.

Day 2: Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

Today we only had time to complete one movie.

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

 Whose Movie: Mutual Buy

Rating: Lamer than the first movie, unnecessary sequel.

Okay, so watching this movie made the first Ace Ventura movie look genius.  At least the first movie had a coherent plot line that goes from A to B without much straying.  In the sequel, it's just Jim Carey being stupid.  That's it.  Yeah, they have to find the stupid bat, but that doesn't even flesh out very much.  The first movie had Ace being a detective, and actually looking really smart in the end.  This one he just looked like a dumb ass.

Moving on tomorrow.  Next up, Across the Universe...