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.
June 2006 activity
Total Log Entries: 38
- Adam (2)
- Andrew (0)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (0)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (1)
- Jenny (0)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (13)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (8)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (1)
- Timothy (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 13
- The Passenger (0)
- Zabriskie Point (0)
- Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (0)
- Total Recall (0)
- The Thin Blue Line (0)
- Vernon, Florida (0)
- Gates of Heaven (0)
- The Hills Have Eyes (0)
- Munich (1)
- Overboard (0)
- A Short Film About Killing (0)
- A Reason to Live (0)
- … Forever and Always … (0)
- The Mongreloid (0)
- Hold Me While I’m Naked (0)
- Little Red Flowers (0)
- Big Trouble In Little China (0)
- United 93 (1)
- Equinox (0)
- The Long Kiss Goodnight (0)
- Audition (0)
- X Men: The Last Stand (2)
- Dazed and Confused (4)
- Brother’s Keeper (1)
- La Notte (0)
- The Forgotten (0)
- Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (0)
- A Prairie Home Companion (0)
- Aliens (0)
- Torn Curtain (1)
- Laputa: Castle in the Sky (0)
- Czech Dream (0)
- The Night of the Hunter (0)
- Virus (0)
- Videodrome (0)
- A.I. (0)
- The Osterman Weekend (0)
- Commando (3)
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The Forgotten / USA / 2004
Criticized as a copout during its initial release two years ago, The Forgotten is more misguided than anything else. Though the concept is inspired—a woman slowly watching her memory challenged, her world collapse—the film becomes a cartoon-like farce 45 minutes in, once the idea of abductions is proposed. Not that an alien flick can’t be clever or compassionate, but it’s nothing new. Why not center the plot around a mother with Altzheimer’s or make the child’s existence more ambiguous? Why does it have to be aliens?
Though the sparse special effects are incredible and the supporting cast is just underdeveloped enough to make them seem untrustworthy, at 91 minutes, the story is so rushed that Julianne Moore’s character never evokes the compassion she should. I found myself marveling at her acting rather than walking alongside her character.
by Adam Balz | Source: DVD
14 Jun 2006 1:05 PM | Submit Comment