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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, 3 months ago

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

8 years, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months ago

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

8 years, 3 months ago

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

8 years, 4 months ago

The Mighty Celestial added United 93 to have watched list

United 93

8 years, 4 months ago

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

8 years, 4 months 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, 4 months ago

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

8 years, 4 months ago

The Mighty Celestial added The Queen to have watched list

The Queen

8 years, 4 months ago

The Mighty Celestial added District 13 to have watched list

District 13

8 years, 4 months ago

The Mighty Celestial added 1 item to 30 From 98: My Favorite Films From 1998 list

8 years, 4 months ago

The Mighty Celestial added 1 item to 25 From 79: My Favorite Films Of 1979 list

8 years, 4 months ago

The Mighty Celestial added Good Night, and Good Luck. to have watched list

Good Night, and Good Luck.

8 years, 4 months ago

The Mighty Celestial added 1 item to 25 From 82: My Favorite Films Of 1982 list

8 years, 4 months ago

The Mighty Celestial added 1 item to 20 From 71: My Favorite Movies Of 1971 list

8 years, 4 months ago

The Mighty Celestial added Sideways to have watched list

Sideways

8 years, 4 months ago

The Mighty Celestial added Godzilla to have watched list

Godzilla

8 years, 4 months ago

The Mighty Celestial added The Wind that Shakes the Barley to have watched list

The Wind that Shakes the Barley

8 years, 4 months ago

The Mighty Celestial added Tropic Thunder to wanted list

Tropic Thunder

8 years, 4 months ago

The Mighty Celestial added 1 item to Yet Another Listal Member's Top 50 Fave Movies list

Kevin Costner reaches his career peak in this non-stereotypical tale of how the West was truly won. A really great movie that really was one KC's last great movies. No, seriously..... If you were to take all the things that were wrong with Coster's follow-up flicks, like Waterworld and the Postman, irradiate them with the energies that bind, compose and allow the Bizarro world to exist (i.e. "the opposite"), then what you would get would be this movie. No, seriously.... you would. I tried it once.