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Coal Miner’s Daughter
Your typical country girl gets famous thing. It was done pretty well.
Clueless
Like, I totally hope that some nutjob valley girl saw this movie and suddenly realized that she was indeed NOT cool. There’s another planet out there, and it’s right here on earth. The scene where they get on the freeway says it all.
Clue – The Movie
Pretty neat. I don’t remember which ending I saw, but I guess they were all about the same. So many plot twists and turns that you’d go crazy. I’ll have to say that I really liked the clue videotape game – you had to watch these scenes that had all kinds of stuff going, then figure out who did it based on stuff that happened in the scene. The thing is that you didn’t know what to look for until the scene had already played, so you had to remember what the heck happened. I’m not really describing it right, but it was a cool game anyway – very inventive & different.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Just a darn neat film. One of the best “alien visitation” movies I’ve seen. I’ve never met anyone who hated this movie… what can I say?
Clockstoppers
I had to see this movie. It was a plot-line I’d often fantisized about when I was young. I thought, wouldn’t that be great to have all the time in the world? I’d stop the clock for hundreds… maybe thousands of years and do all kinds of crazy stuff that would change the world as we know it. I knew this movie would be dumb, but I was sorry to see how dumb it was. At least now I know. Instead of doing something really creative or interesting with their new-found “power”, the main characters just use it for pointless pranks. The strange thing is how they don’t even see the time-stopping watch as a “big deal”, they treat it like a new video game or something, and pretty much continue with their lives as they were. Come on! an invention of that magnitude would blow-away anybody! A bunch of people complained about the physics of the movie (that it violates all kinds of laws). That didn’t really bother me, the premise necessitated some bending of the rules. It did bother me that the movie violated its own set of rules – near the end this happens a lot, plus there are a lot of scenes where I was squirming, “why don’t they just…”. Plus, the whole liquid-nitrogen thing was just stupid. Bottom line? Don’t bother seeing this movie.
A Clockwork Orange
A well constructed movie from start to finish… although I find it harder to “accept” given the way that “history” is progressing. This movie had tons of classic moments, and grotesque moments which I couldn’t turn away from. I suppose some bits of the movie do age well… What makes us good or evil? What makes us who we are? If we lose our evil side, do we lose ourselves? Weighty topics addressed on screen.
Cliffhanger
Relentless silliness in the mountains of Italy… er… Colorado??? Right. The movie starts with a completely ridiculous opening sequence – people doing something that people just don’t do, and an accident that just wouldn’t happen… The rest of the movie is a bunch of the same stuff.
Clash of the Titans (original)
When this came out, I was stunned. Why wasn’t every movie like this? Now that every movie IS trying to be like this, I’m thinking… um, I wish I could just watch Clash of the Titans.
Clerks
I liked this better than Citizen Kane. The characters were better, the acting was better (not so damn stiff), and directing was… well, a lot like you’d see from those security cams in the 7-11… which is what the director was going for I think.
Clearcut
Documentary about a clash of cultures. The small town old-timers don’t like it when the big city outsider moves in and asserts himself. So, they play the money card, and the kids are caught in the crossfire. I saw this in a small screening with the director, so we could ask him questions and such – that was pretty cool. It was really well done, and thoroughly explores the issue without really finding any good answers… kind of like real life – things are just kind of left in a continuous state of being unresolved. Anyway, the movie is a good metaphor even if you’re a world away from rural Oregon.
Clair Dolan
Have insomnia? This one just might cure you. It’s about a woman who becomes a high-priced whore in order to pay for her mother’s medical care. Then it raises the question – is she now nothing but a whore? or can she rise out of it? Well, there’s so little dialogue that it’s sometimes painfully slow. Maybe my attention span just isn’t long enough… sad that I’ve come to that.
Citizen Kane
Sure it was good, but the best movie ever? I think not. What a silly thing to say anyway, that’s so impossible to say about ANY movie. I guess I liked it, but I find myself shrugging my shoulders when I think about it… nothing too special.
The Cider House Rules
Probably not a big hit with the anti-abortion folks. A young man finds his true mission in life. If I had one complaint, it’s that all the kids in the orphanage are soooo darling, when in truth, they’re all just a bunch of bastards.
A Christmas Story
Classic Christmas story… What can I say?
Children of the Corn
Brainless horror movie. It’s about killer farmkids… need I say more? They even made a sequel, boy people are dumb.
The Chinese Connection
The Bruce Lee movie that everyone forgets about. It was possibly his best. The story was actually well put together, and the movie had a real message about class struggles. It takes more than one man to change things, but all change starts with one man. Great ending too!
Chocolat
One of those movies that I rented simply because of the hype – wasn’t expecting much. It was wonderful movie – everything I secretly hoped it would be. In a way, it was like a modern-day fairy tale. One of those movies that puts you in a good mood without resorting to the usual predictable “hollywood tactics”. btw: I had thought this was a French movie, but it is in English… just set in France. I did have one question though, did they really have cellophane wrapping in 1950’s rural France? I would think the shop would be more likely to use paper wrappings…
Children of Men
Unique premise – the world’s population is dieing-off… It can make you kind of hate people, as you realize that the unfolding of events probably isn’t too far off. It was a little overly-violent though. While I realize they wanted to show the rough edges, it didn’t really help the story… it was just too much and took the focus off the plot. They could have gone though the fighting quicker, and spent more time on the people and character development.
Cheaper by the Dozen
A bunch of spoiled brats shatter the dreams of their push-over father. This is billed as some kind of feel-good movie, but is just totally shameful and stupid. A big family like this would pull-together to help out their Dad! not sabotage his every move. What a bunch of pathetic spoiled brats. If you actually watched this, I feel sorry for you. If you actually liked this, I have no respect for you.
Charlie’s Angels
Well, I didn’t really see all of this movie… but I did see enough to know that it’s really really awful! There are a bunch of occassions where the girls seem to be thinking “what the hell am I doing?” just before delivering their absurdly dumb lines. Also, I find it really odd & ironic that these “great detectives” can’t even figure out who their boss is… is that supposed to be part of the joke?
Chariots of Fire
I should probably see this again, because I saw it when I was like 10 years old and it didn’t make a whole lot of sense to me. The movie is probably best known for it’s theme than anything else. How many movies can say that about themselves?… duum chickachaka, do do do do doom doom…
Chain Reaction
Oh ya… I almost forgot about this movie. Hmmm. It was pretty good I guess. I wonder why it’s never on cable? It seems made for endless cable re-runs. Maybe it’ll happen someday.
The Cell
This movie was eye candy, and little else. The visuals were worth the price, and worth seeing… as for the rest of it? Ummmm…
Caveman
A serious anthropological study of a small band of primitive humans. Probably Ringo Starr’s finest work since the Beatles… He probably could’ve used a little help from his friends though.