Sunshine Cleaning

A few weeks ago I caught this film with a good friend in the theater. I guess it was by the same group who did "Little Miss Sunshine," a flick I haven't seen yet, but am somewhat familiar with, and admit I should have on my list.


SUNSHINE CLEANING

Release: March 20, 2009
Directed by: Christine Jeffs
Screenplay by: Megan Holley
Produced by: Glenn Williamson, Marc Turtletaub, Peter Saraf, Jeb Brody
Co-Produced by: Robert Dohrmann
Cast: Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Alan Arkin, Steve Zahn, Clifton Collins, Jr., Mary Lynn Rajskub
Rating: R
Runtime: 92 Minutes

Terminator 3, Rise of the Machines

I guess by the time this came out in 2003 I had already grown tired of the pre- governor Arnold. I didn't get to catch the whole flick, but I would see this again. There's been some good parts that I would like to post. I'd like to learn how to take clips I like and post them to YouTube.

Officer and a Gentleman

I had forgotten just how well done this 1982 film was done. It's definitely a Top 25 Movie for me. I can't guess how many times I've seen it. It first came out when I was eleven. It's really a good movie, and for me it's a defining film in that ... well, there's more to the story. Maybe I'll add to this another day. There's a good friend of mine out there somewhere who knows why I like this movie so much. I'm looking forward to seeing it again. There's a lot more I could write here.

Hero Wanted

Cuba Gooding Jr. and an interesting cast that easily could have played the neighborhood where I grew up. I should look them up on www.imdb.com sometime. Good Movie, I'd check it out.

The Namesake

Nice independent film. I think there's a book by this name also. If so, I'd like to read it because the movie from a literary perspective was pretty good.

The Last King of Scotland

Academy Award Winner. I was able to see it in the theatre a couple of years ago. I might have this as a Top 25 movie. Wow, I'm looking forward to making that list. Very interesting film of culture, and from a historical perspective of Eadie Armine. (spelling?)

Fistful of Dollars (1964)

You gotta like Clint, and these Spagetti Westerns that were made before I was even born. Classic Clint. With movies like this being the hits of the day, no wonder why 70's kids grew up yearning to be free.

Television Shows

I might have a blog for television shows that I'd like to do, but I don't have plans to make up a separate one for television shows that I really liked. Since, I don't just find entertainment in watching movies, and if I do get in front of a television I like to catch some shows to. I do favor, and have a penchant for the laugh lines of 70's era television. I've found few shows that can come close to matching to quality or frequency of humor in the 70's. (I think the laughter still lives in Maine, but few places I travel to embrace it quite like they do in the State of Maine.)

I'll save some of the best into this post, and add to it from time to time.

Classic Television had to be:

Beverly Hillbillies, Sanford and Son, Good Times, Hogan's Heroes.

I sort of missed the Gun Smoke era, and it's twenty year run, I barely remember Bonanza, or F-Troop, but they're shows I'd love to catch up on now that I'm older.

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I didn't what much television in the 90's, but I like Tool Time whenever I watch it today.

I totally missed Seinfeld, but catch a show from time to time.

I'll keep this running

Crocodile Dundee

Must be a Top 50 Movie -

Proves that Love really can move the world. Even in New York. Might've been an eighties movie, but captured it's day well, and continues to be a classic.

The Last Samurai (2)

As I catch the ending battle of the Last Samurai once again, I can't help but contemplate that the battle that still exists today, and which will be our battle as people of the world again one day is whether or not we will win the battle within to return to not battle with anything but honorable weapons, or even succeed in the inner battle to the degree that peace will once again live and reign in the world because the last battle was done with honor.

I doubt greatly that the Kingdom can come on Earth as is it in Heaven until as a people of the world we can collectively come to this place together in such a way that this is communicated even across the lines of battle before they even begin, and as nations we need to act honorable, to bring honor to ourselves, and those whose ideology is diametrically different from own own. (more on this in the book)

Troy

Great effort at filming an Epic.

"I'll tell you are a secret. The Gods envy us. Right now we are more lovely than we will ever be. We will never be here again."

Lust for Life

Kirk Douglas as Vincent Van Gogh, a troubled Van Gogh at that. I learned more about Van Gogh that I didn't know. It's rated a 4-star movie, for that reason, I'd like to see it again.

The Agony and Ecstasy

Charlton Heston as Michelangelo. I'd like to see this again, and in full. Only a two star, but a telling film. Top 200 for sure.

Four Brothers

Top 150 Movie - Marky Mark does a great job of showing to what extent police will go to, and what tactics many of the bad ones will actually go to.

CaddyShack

Could be Top 25 - definite classic.

Last Samurai

Top 20 Film - lots of good parts, great lines. The best of which are not available on Youtube the way I'd like to present them. There's a lot I could say about this movie.

The Untouchables

I didn't get to the whole thing recently, but I know that I did a long time ago. I think it came out in 1987 with Sean Connery, and what's his name. I was amazed at how the man who was charged with confiscating the illegal booze still hid some in his oven, and even in the movie the officer playing Ness pushes the man off the roof. Amazing how we believe our system is so just, but violated rights, and feeds on itself.

There's a lot more I'd like to write here, but it's for another day, perhaps another topic. (Feudalism, Fairness, and Black Hand.)