Ollie's World of Movies

Decided to post what I've been watching via DVD, VHS, or in the theater.

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Saturday, August 25, 2012

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Watched: 8/25/12
With: myself
Year: 2008
Rating out of 5: 4
Reason for watching: DVR
Opinion: Interesting way to get over an ex.
Watch again?: probably
Recommend?: probably

The Lake House

Watched: 8/25/12
With: myself
Year: 2006
Rating out of 5: 3
Reason for watching: DVR
Opinion: If it was Keanu then I would probably have enjoyed it more. It was predictable but still enjoyable.
Watch again?: maybe
Recommend?: maybe

Sunday, August 19, 2012

The Jacket

Watched: 8/19/12
With: myself
Year: 2005
Rating out of 5: 4
Reason for watching: DVR
Opinion: An interesting concept of a movie. Still can't stand Keira Knightley but Adrien Brody makes it work.
Watch again?: probably
Recommend?: probably

Milk

Watched: 8/19/12
With: myself
Year: 2008
Rating out of 5: 4.5
Reason for watching: DVR
Opinion: Great biography about Harvey Milk played by Sean Penn. I can understand why this movie got some Oscar buzz
Watch again?: probably
Recommend?: yes

Open Water 2

Watched: 8/18/12
With: myself
Year: 2006
Rating out of 5: 3
Reason for watching: DVR
Opinion: Don't waste your time unless you enjoy seeing a bunch of idiots who can't think ahead.
Watch again?: maybe
Recommend?: maybe

I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry

Watched: 8/18/12
With: myself
Year: 2007
Rating out of 5: 4
Reason for watching: DVR
Opinion: Kevin James and Adam Sandler play to heterosexual firemen who are forced to marry in order for Kevin's character to maintain benefits for his children after his wife passed away. Some laugh out loud moments.
Watch again?: probably
Recommend?: probably

Guess Who

Watched: 8/18/12
With: myself
Year: 2005
Rating out of 5: 4
Reason for watching: DVR
Opinion: Ashton Kutcher and Bernie Mac did a decent job as possible future in-laws and dealing with racism that continues to exist in today's society.
Watch again?: probably
Recommend?: probably

The Rocker

Watched: 8/18/12
With: myself
Year: 2008
Rating out of 5: 4
Reason for watching: DVR
Opinion: Much funnier than I was expecting. Rainn Wilson plays a drummer who ends up being kicked out of a popular rock music band to only get stuck playing with a high school average act.
Watch again?: probably
Recommend?: probably

21

Watched: 8/18/12
With: myself
Year: 2008
Rating out of 5:  4
Reason for watching: DVR
Opinion: A much better movie than I was anticipating with Kevin Spacey as a college professor who takes the brightest to hustle at blackjack in Vegas.
Watch again?: probably
Recommend?: probably

Saturday, August 18, 2012

Edison, The Man

Watched: 8/18/12
With: myself
Year: 1940
Rating out of 5: 4
Reason for watching: DVR
Opinion: Spencer Tracy did a great job portraying Thomas Edison.
Watch again?: probably
Recommend?: probably

Half Light

Watched: 8/18/12
With: myself
Year: 2006
Rating out of 5: 4
Reason for watching: DVR
Opinion: Interesting movie with Demi Moore as a writer who has lost her son.
Watch again?: probably
Recommend?: probably

Hart's War

Watched: 8/12/12
With: myself
Year: 2002
Rating out of 5: 4
Reason for watching: DVR
Opinion: Not a bad war trial movie with Colin Farrell, Bruce Willis, and Terrance Howard.
Watch again?: probably
Recommend?:probably

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Rendition

Watched: 8/12/12
With: myself
Year: 2007
Rating out of 5: 3.5
Reason for watching: DVR
Opinion: Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal star in this dramatic movie where Jake's character is faced with a heavy choice to make.
Watch again?: maybe
Recommend?: probably

The Butterfly Effect

Watched: 8/12/12
With: myself
Year: 2004
Rating out of 5: 4
Reason for watching: DVR
Opinion: Decent suspenseful mystery starring Ashton Kutcher
Watch again?: probably
Recommend?: probably

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Watched:8/12/12
With: myself
Year: 1953
Rating out of 5: 4
Reason for watching: DVR
Opinion: A decent musical with Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell about two singers that go to Paris and one is followed by a private investigator.
Watch again?: probably
Recommend?: probably

The Bourne Ultimatum

Watched:  8/11/12
With: John
Year: 2007
Rating out of 5: 4
Reason for watching: DVR
Opinion: Not as solid as the others in the series but still full of action and with a reasonable plot.
Watch again?: probably
Recommend?: probably

John Tucker Must Die

Watched: 8/11/12
With: myself
Year: 2006
Rating out of 5: 3
Reason for watching: DVR
Opinion: A silly teenager movie about what happens to teenage girls when they're scorned by the popular boy.
Watch again?: maybe
Recommend?: maybe

Burn After Reading

Watched: 8/11/12
With: myself
Year: 2008
Rating out of 5: 4
Reason for watching: DVR
Opinion: An amusing film with an all-star cast (Brad Pitt, George Clooney) about a missing disk of a former CIA's memoirs.
Watch again?: probably
Recommend?: probably

Surf's Up

Watched: 8/5/12
With: myself
Year: 2007
Rating out of 5: 3.5
Reason for watching: DVR
Opinion: A cute movie about penguins who surf.
Watch again?: maybe
Recommend?: probably

Blackout

Watched: 8/5/12
With: myself
Year: 2008
Rating out of 5: 1
Reason for watching: DVR
Opinion: Did not finish this movie. Was not what I wanted to see. Could have been an interesting plot-3 people trapped in an elevator and one is a killer
Watch again?: no
Recommend?: no

White Noise

Watched: 8/5/12
With: myself
Year: 2005
Rating out of 5: 4
Reason for watching: DVR
Opinion: Michael Keaton plays a man whose dead wife tries to contact him.
Watch again?: probably
Recommend?: probably

Condemned Women

Watched: 8/5/12
With: myself
Year: 1938
Rating out of  5: 3
Reason for watching: DVR
Opinion: An average classic about women in prison.
Watch again?: maybe
Recommend?: maybe

The Pink Panther

Watched 8/5/12
With: myself
Year: 2006
Rating out of 5: 4
Reason for watching: DVR
Opinion: An amusing film with Steve Martin as an detective with a bad accent.
Watch again?: probably
Recommend?: probably

Let Freedom Ring

Watched: 8/4/12
With: myself
Year: 1939
Rating out of  5: 3
Reason for watching: DVR
Opinion: An average classic about the railroad expension.
Watch again?: maybe
Recommend?: maybe

Saturday, August 04, 2012

Premonition

Watched: 8/4/12
With: myself
Year: 2007
Rating out of 5: 4
Reason for watching: DVR
Opinion: Interesting suspense movie with Sandra Bullock who seems to have futuristic thoughts about things that happen to her family.
Watch again?: probably
Recommend?: probably

Undisputed

Watched: 8/4/12
With: myself
Year: 2002
Rating out of 5: 4
Reason for watching: DVR
Opinion: I'm not a huge boxing fan but Wesley Snipes and Ving Rhames did an amazing job as prison boxers.
Watch again?: probably
Recommend?: probably

Open Season

Watched: 8/4/12
With: myself
Year: 2006
Rating out of 5: 4
Reason for watching: DVR
Opinion: Amusing cartoon movie about a domesticated bear coming to his own in the wild.
Watch again?: probably
Recommend?: probably

Northwest Passage

Watched: 8/4/12
With: myself
Year: 1940
Rating out of 5: 4
Reason for watching: DVR
Opinion: Interesting movie with Spencer Tracy and the United States expansion to the West.
Watch again?: probably
Recommend?: probably

The Brothers Grimm

Watched 8/4/12
With: myself
Year: 2005
Rating out of 5: 4
Reason for watching: DVR
Opinion: Nice to see Heath Ledger in another film. Interesting cast.
Watch again?: probably
Recommend?: probably

Big Miracle

Watched 7/31/12
With: myself
Year: 2012
Rating out of 5: 4.5
Reason for watching: Netflix and my love of whales
Opinion: Anyone who knows me, knows that I love whales and that I had originally gone to school to study them. I vaguely remember hearing about these gray whales and their horrific story.
Watch again?: yes
Recommend?: probably