My Recent DVD Rentals & Other Movie News

[Mark Chance]

You ever been in a hobby store? Seen all the miniature body parts and related accessories that people can use to make their own dolls? Creepy, huh?

Well, May is the movie that confirms that, yes, we all should be very afraid of people who make their own handcrafted dolls.

Every wonder what happens on off-shore oil rigs? When you did wonder, did your thoughts stray toward demonic rituals?

Well, as Ghost Rig explains, such a direction for straying thoughts is only natural. Err, supernatural. Well, you get the basic idea.

 

[Dimwhit]

Well, as Ghost Rig explains, such a direction for straying thoughts is only natural. Err, supernatural. Well, you get the basic idea.

Is this any good? My wife and I almost rented it last weekend.

We've been on a cheesy horror kick lately. We've rented Dark Wolf (horrible), Session 9 (excellent), Enigma Game (decent), They (good), When Darkness Falls (good kind of cheesy), and I think one other than I don't remember off hand. Oh, and The Ring, which wasn't cheesy, and we quite enjoyed it.

Anyone have any other suggestions? (Sorry if I'm hijacking your thread, Mark. )

 

[Mark Chance]

Ghost Rig wasn't too bad. A lot of the acting left a lot to be desired, but it was an interesting story once you get over the major of question of, "Why did all this get started to begin with?"

I rented Enigma Game today. Haven't watched it yet. Did watch Final Destination 2. Quite silly, but so was the first one. Still, I can think of worse ways to waste 90 minutes.

I also purchased the original The Haunting (the one with Claire Bloom). Classic. Watched about half of it with my wife last night before she made me shut it off because of the heebie-jeebies creeping up and down her spine.

Against my better judgment, this summer I also rented Ted Bundy and Dahmer (with Bruce Davidson as Dahmer's father). Both were extremely graphic, especially the Bundy movie, but definitely had that grit-your-teeth-in-horror feel to them.

 

[Mark Chance]

Finally got around to getting rid of the kids long enough to take my wife Katrina out to see Whale Rider. Absolutely wonderful film. The best movie I've seen in theaters this year.

 

[Mark Chance]

Watched Enigma Game. It worked fairly well all the way until about the last 15 minutes. Then the movie just fell apart and dithered its way into the credits. How disappointing.

Today, I rented a two DVD collection of David Bowie videos, concert clips, TV appearances, et cetera. Earliest stuff dates to 1972. I'd forgotten how shockingly bad his music had grown by the 1980s, starting with Serious Moonlight. Still most of the collection is good. Takes me back to the day.

 

[Jamdin]

I watched May a few weeks ago. All I can say is that it is the weirdest movie since Slaughterhouse Five and not in a good way. I was about to shut the video off several times but the last 15 minutes is the best part of the movie.

 

[Olive]

Finally got around to getting rid of the kids long enough to take my wife Katrina out to see Whale Rider. Absolutely wonderful film. The best movie I've seen in theaters this year.

Hows it doing over there anyway? My girlfriend grew up around the area that it was filmed in. It made her so home sick she cried in the first 5 minutes...

 

[Mark Chance]

Hows it doing over there anyway? My girlfriend grew up around the area that it was filmed in. It made her so home sick she cried in the first 5 minutes...

Not sure. I do know it hasn't had a "full opening" here in Houston. There are over a dozen theaters here, and Whale Rider is playing at only about 3 or 4 of them.