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The Mighty Celestial added 5 items to Animate This! My Favorite 2-D Animated Movies list

8 years ago

The Mighty Celestial added 1 item to My Top 275 Favorite Horror Movies of All Time list

8 years ago

The Mighty Celestial added Magnolia (1999) to have watched list

Magnolia (1999)

8 years ago

The Mighty Celestial added 1 item to 150 From Around The World: My Fave Foreign Films list

A porn flick that has to be seen to be believed. This is one of those rare cases where the term "legend" is not used loosely. And neither is the word "fist".

Oh wait.... I think I might be getting this mixed up with another movie......

8 years ago

The Mighty Celestial added 1 item to My Top 15 Halloween Favorites: Slashers list

8 years ago

The Mighty Celestial added 1 item to 300 & 99 From The 1st Decade Of The New Millennium list

8 years ago

The Mighty Celestial added 2 items to 300 & 99 From The 1st Decade Of The New Millennium list

8 years ago

The Mighty Celestial added 1 item to 150 From Around The World: My Fave Foreign Films list

A high school teenager finds himself to be invisible to all the other kids in school. And not just cuz of his lack of personality. The boy's a ghost. And thus begins a tale of redemption from beyond the "other side".

The Invisible (or Den Osynlige, in it's original Swedish title) is yet another fine example of a "foreign" film that got went largely ignored here in the United States because Hollywood decided to produce an inferior remake instead. And of course, in this remake (also called The Invisible, BTW), they eliminated most of the distinctive elements of the original and replaced it with the standard tricks that are supposed to help make the movie a success at the box office. Which it wasn't. Gotta love those formula flicks, huh?

8 years ago

The Mighty Celestial added Super Size Me to have watched list

Super Size Me

8 years ago

The Mighty Celestial added 2 items to Year By Year Of My Favorite Flix list

8 years, 1 month ago

The Mighty Celestial added 1 item to 100 Straight From The Heart: My Fave Romance Flix list

There's a saying about romance that goes something along the the lines "once the romantic love ends, then the real love can begin". In the first two movies in this "Before Trilogy" (I'm assuming that's what it's called since I've never really heard any name actually given to this series), two very smart, very deep and very talkative people from different sides of the Atlantic meet and fall in love in a manner very different from the traditional Hollywood manner.... they actually try to get to know each other. After their initial encounter and a several year bump in their relationship, Before Midnight updates us on the lovers' status, now couple married and with children. And just like every other long termed betrothed relationship, they must deal with the challenges that arise from such a joint venture. And just like the previous films, they talk through their feelings, observations and always present insecurities, learning in the process that, no matter how long or how deep their time spent together, there are always new things to learn about each other. And they might not always be pretty or reassuring, but it's something that they will always share.

8 years, 1 month ago

The Mighty Celestial added 1 item to 20 From 40: My Favorite Movies of The 40's list

8 years, 1 month ago

The Mighty Celestial added 1 item to 40 From 50: My Favorite Films From The 1950's list

I think I vaguely remember the day way back when the Earth stood still. Wasn't that the day that nothing moved? Or am I thinking about Labor Day? My memory gets kinda fuzzy when it comes to the McCarthyism Red scare sci-fi era.

Anyways, this is a film where the aliens do come in peace, but they also come with a warning. We humans need to behave. Or if we don't, the aliens are likely to give us a spanking. On a galactic level.

8 years, 1 month ago

The Mighty Celestial added 1 item to Animate This! My Favorite Stop-Motion Films list

As a comic-book nerd, I first became aware of Coraline as a graphic novel written by comic-book writer Neil Gaiman (though, it's original format of release is as a novella). It's horror fantasy for young readers and as a film, it's a fine modern update of the Alice In Wonderland theme, with it's mixed ingredients of creative psychodelica, slightly edged childlike wonder, along with a nice dash of horror, but just enough to gurgitate a lump of fear in the throat of the kiddie audience within its targeted age. But not so much that it would scare any of it's viewers to the point of absolving their parents of any responsibility for any trauma that might lead 'em up to the top of a building with a sniper gun, later on in life. Hopefully.

8 years, 1 month ago

The Mighty Celestial added 1 item to My Top 85 Favorite 2nd Chapter Sequels list

In the first HtTYD, we were taught the fundamentals on how to train our dragons. And just when you thought you knew all that you had to know about your dragon and how to train him/her, comes along HtTYD2. Which shows us how to train our dragons even more. But, to be quite honest, all I needed to learn when it came to training my dragon was how to keep it from burning down the house. And how to poop in the giant dragon pooper that I got for him. Other than those two pretty important things, anything else the franchise has to show me in the order of dragon-training is just fluff. Sure, it's cool, kick ass and highly entertaining CGI stuff, but in the end, it's still just fluff. Atho, the movies themselves, are pretty damn kick-ass.

8 years, 1 month ago

The Mighty Celestial added 1 item to 100 Straight From The Heart: My Fave Romance Flix list

8 years, 1 month ago

The Mighty Celestial added 1 item to 300 & 99 From The 1st Decade Of The New Millennium list

There's a certain point where the story of Burn After Reading refers to itself as a clusterf#ck. Which, I guess leads me to the opinion that the point of this movie is simply to be the kind of "entertaining clusterf#ck ball of yarn that only the Bros. Cohen could entertainingly pull off". So, yeah.... for me, that's what I'm gonna stick with as far as the description of this here film.

8 years, 1 month ago

The Mighty Celestial added United 93 to have watched list

United 93

8 years, 1 month ago

The Mighty Celestial added 1 item to 100 Straight From The Heart: My Fave Romance Flix list

8 years, 1 month ago

The Mighty Celestial added 1 item to 35 From 1: My Favorite Films From 2001 list

While many of my fellow film connoisseurs were talking up Wes Anderson's first two films, Bottle Rocket and especially Rushmore, I did't really start liking his work until this movie. I know that I'm mostly in the minority when I say this, but his previous two films before Tenenbaums didn't really do anything for me. Now, it has been awhile since I saw those sophomore efforts, so I'd have to watch 'em again to see if my indifference towards them still holds up. Regardless, he has since become one of my favorite directors of contemporary cinema. As a matter of fact, two of his most recent works, Moonrise Kingdom and Grand Budapest Hotel are, IMO, two of the best films of this decade. Anderson has a style of storytelling and art direction that is unique, understated, and blends well with the underlying dysfunctional drama that he likes to add into the mix. It's a brand of film-making that will probably never be suited for mass consumption, but it definitely has the potential to satisfy the appetite for those of us movie lovers who, every once in a while, just wanna expand our palettes beyond that of a typical popcorn flick.

With names like Gene Hackman, Bill Murray, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller and Angelica Houston, it's no surprise that as far as dark comedies go, The Tenenbaums are what you might call the royal family of aristocratic and eccentric dysfunction.

8 years, 1 month ago

The Mighty Celestial added 1 item to Aliens Who Come In Peace list