Screening Log
This new site feature is a collective effort to summarize our viewing habits. Occasionally, you will find titles here that are coming to a theater near you, in addition to films viewed on television, and even films viewed in piecemeal. The screening log is archived each month; to view past entries select a month in the menu below.
January 2005 activity
Total Log Entries: 58
- Adam (0)
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- Chiranjit (0)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (0)
- Jenny (0)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (11)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (17)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (9)
- Timothy (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 19
- Shallow Hal (0)
- The Sure Thing (0)
- Million Dollar Baby (0)
- The Motorcycle Diaries (0)
- Eraserhead (3)
- The Tin Drum (0)
- Crows and Sparrows (0)
- Strike (0)
- Bruce Almighty (1)
- Closer (0)
- Facing Windows (0)
- Secret Honor (0)
- Dogville (0)
- Village of the Damned (1)
- Garden State (2)
- The Aviator (0)
- Sherlock Jr. (0)
- Maisie Was a Lady (0)
- Who’s That Knocking At My Door? (0)
- The Bourne Identity (0)
- Gerry (0)
- Early Summer (0)
- Blue Denim (1)
- Darkman (0)
- Seance (0)
- The Lady Vanishes (1)
- Watch on the Rhine (0)
- A String of Pearls (0)
- The Laborer’s Love (0)
- Made in Britain (0)
- The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (4)
- Million Dollar Baby (0)
- The Harder They Come (0)
- The Pit (0)
- Kronos (2)
- The Return of the Living Dead (2)
- The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (0)
- Random Harvest (0)
- Spider-Man 2 (1)
- Spectre (0)
- Paris, Texas (0)
- Damn Yankees (0)
- Kinsey (1)
- The Incredibles (0)
- Saved! (0)
- A Woman Under the Influence (0)
- Fighting Elegy (0)
- Youth of the Beast (0)
- The Letter (0)
- Fanny and Alexander (0)
- Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (0)
- Partie de campagne (0)
- The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (0)
- A Woman Under the Influence (0)
- Gates of Heaven (0)
- Scenes from a Marriage (0)
- Blow Job (0)
- The Delta Force (0)
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Spider-Man 2 / USA / 2004
Spider-Man 2 possesses action, drama, multiple climaxes, and a main character that’s designed to be easily relatable, so is it warranted for me to say that my favorite scenes in this film (as well as its prequel) include the manipulative publisher? J. Jonah Jameson, publisher of The Daily Bugle, invents headlines to promote Spider-Man’s nonexistent menace—which, from what I gather, are never really effective at instilling caution in his readership. In other words, he does not singularly motivate Peter Parker’s abandon of his “great responsibility.” Merely, he’s like a fly you can’t get rid of: in this film, a constant entertainment.
The action setpieces are expectedly amazing, but, as in most every other film in which a large portion of the budget is devoted solely to computer effects, are also somewhat vacuous. Seeing the penultimate battle on the top of a subway car, for one, I’m irked by the invention of an elevated train in the middle of an otherwise well-rendered New York setting.
by Rumsey Taylor | Source: Columbia Tristar DVD
15 Jan 2005 1:45 PM | Comments (1)
Eva Michelle / 24 January 2005 / 7:49 PM
I would agree it is completely warranted. Jameson provides an element of whimsy that I would say the movie generally lacks. While fun, some of the wooden acting (ahem, Maguire, Franco and Dunst) isn’t helped by the heavy-handedness of the themes (such as betrayal, responsibility to one’s self vs. the world at large). All in all, I left this sequel with mixed feelings.