Days are like nightmares, nights are a daze. How did it get so weird, anyways?

Dance Your Own Ass Off

2010-01-02T03:06:00.001-06:00

Blues fan? Listen to Janiva Magness. You can thank me later. Its as if she has mentors Bonnie Raitt, Maria Muldaur and Willie Mae Thornton watching over her, smiling and dancing their asses off.

More Things That Don't Make Sense To Me

2009-12-31T03:55:00.011-06:00

This just has some changes and additions to my 7 31 7 post. I appear to have left some things out, so view this link to catch up. Confusion reigns and I am all wet. http://thefirstdukeofurl.blogspot.com/2007/07/more-things-that-dont-make-sense-to-me.html .

I am surprised at times at how much of the world doesn't make sense to me. I am constantly confused by much of it, maybe most of it as time grows shorter.

Things that don't make sense will be updated as long as my life makes less and less sense. I have no idea why any of the following exist AT ALL.

If you have things that don't make sense to you, that confuse you, do drop me a line and I might add them, with full credit, or maybe you can blog them on your space.

There is no particular order to the following:

1. A-cup bras. Really, what is going on other than the bra makers are scamming their customers?

This has nothing whatsoever to do with small breasts. I assure you, they can be wonders of pleasure like any size breasts. The note is only a comment on bra makers scamming customers.

2. Crotchless panties. The most logical use of underwear, to me, is for sanitary purposes. After a bathroom experience there is a chance of a drop of some liquid. Cotton works well here. Shear synthetics do not. Crotchless panties really do not.

If you are up for unexpected sex, go without drawers. Problem solved and more power to you.

3. If a man can afford bespoke clothing: "What side do you dress to?" is a pretty silly question if you are under 6". Be honest with your tailor.

4. Now this one is so outrageous it makes me mad. Why would anyone drink caffeine free diet soda? Duh. Water.

5. Cleavage annoys me. Not having it of course, but displaying it, THEN chastising people who look and its not just men.

6. I think women's fashion and clothes are so often demeaning. Its like just being a woman makes them beauty objects, not equal people who dress funnily / amusingly or dress to please themselves, really.

I will never be a woman and cannot know where their clothes tastes came from but some of these things just don't make sense to me and this one goes beyond fashion to a few notes on sex "hygiene" and comfort:

a.Wearing those dresses with cleavage and a swooping neckline in the middle of winter. They cannot be comfortable.

b. Who thought them up, early on, and who keeps high heels a fashion item? Orthopedists with heavy investments in the shoe industry?

c. I have never understood those silly hats. However if you really do, ignore this note.

d. What's up with make-up? Yuk. It really doesn't make you look better. Different yes. Better, no. Plus it tastes bad if you are having full contact oral sex.

e. What's up underarm deodorant / antiperspirant? Yuk, plus they, too, taste bad if you are having full contact oral sex. Its the aluminum for one of them.

Ditto for "feminine hygiene" deodorants and REALLY ditto for the taste bad part. Sweetie, if we are 69, I do not want a synthetic strawberry smell in my nose, taste in my mouth. It lasts way too long.

Hygiene is being clean, not coating yourself with cover-up smells. This is not to say a FINE perfume tactically placed cannot go beyond

If you pee in an interlude of sex, wash with a light soap, rinse and come on back to bed. I will be happy you thought of me.

I don't think I am alone in saying I don't like the taste of pee.

Ditto and more for #2 in the loo.

A brief suggestion. Just be clean. Take showers regularly. At work, maybe rinse underarms on a long day.

Research suggests the antiperspirants don't really work that well anyway.

f. Do you really need a $150 hairdo to feel attractive?

g. Or a $150 manicure / pedicure?

h. Or a $10K spa weekend?

All of us are pretty, plain or ugly and all the "treatments" in the world won't change this. We can do our best is all. And getting beauty sleep does not work either.

7. A $100K+ sports car in America. There is simply no where to drive it, its at high risk for theft and sale in Russia or South America and it really won't make you a better lover.

8. A $50K + SUV UNLESS you really do go off-road a lot and need one. Hunters, photographers, campers sure, why not if you have the cash. The rest of the car buying public can be much more comfy in other vehicles.

9. Two million dollar mobile homes / travel vehicles. What are you thinking about?

10. Why is everything a war today? Pizza wars, NY vs. Chicago. Iron Chef challenges. Throw downs. Power eating challenges. Why are there no cooperations rather than all those wars?

11. Why don't Americans have health care for all?

12. The Olympic "sports" of banner waving and organized swimming. I am sure power eating and poker are coming up. See below.

13. Why is power eating considered a sport and on ESPN? They should be ashamed OR go a step further and have power drinking, power crack smoking, power heroin shooting and power cocaine snorting too.

14. Why is poker also considered a sport and on ESPN? How's this, have a gambling channel and put all the casino games on it ! There is little in the way of sport in any of them. Skill, yes, sport no.

I consider no-limit hold'em poker fully equal to bridge, chess, checkers and go. These could also be on the gambling channel if played for money.

15. Why is pot illegal and both cigarettes and alcohol are? There is a profit motive at work here and the hordes of religionists don't want anyone to have fun. Maybe they designed the crotchless panties as an attempt at titillation. But why?

16. Why are so many teens funneled to college when they could do much better heading to work, trade school, the military, police, fire department and so on.

Go to work. Later if you find you are needing college, go there with the money YOU earned.

17. Why do people use air fresheners? Just get more air from the source. Its already fresh.

18. Duvets don't make sense to me. What's wrong with sheets and blankets?

19. In UK motels and hotels, wash rags are often not there. I have never been to a hotel or motel in the US that didn't have them, even the no tell motels.

I went to a nice UK motel. The room was OK, if pricey. I inspected the bathroom and was surprised to find no wash cloth. The British call them face flannels for some reason.

Anyway, there was a 3/8" thick $50 towel all warmed up on a $200 towel heater that cost more to run daily than a wash cloth would be just to throw away.

I walked downstairs to investigate. The the bitchy desk clerk looked at me like I had just farted out of tune when I asked for a wash rag. "We don't have those." Now this is just silly. It doesn't make sense.

If you travel in the UK you are expected to bring your own wash rag regardless the price of the hotel room.

Here is a quote from the TV show Monk regarding the British. Its sort of related.

Natalie says, " My grandpa quit his job as a pharmacist and started a toothpaste company in London. In England. Talk about optimism. "

20. Political "pork barrel" projects. I saw one in Louisiana, the state with the very finest politicians money can buy. I was driving along the Mississippi river one day.

There, crossing the highway I was on, was another highway that headed over the river. The bridge was completed. It got almost to the river's edge. Pork at its finest.

What if we took another look at this sort of thing and called it treason to pad decent bills with pork or to sponsor a pork project? The person responsible goes to jail for this. One of Answers.com definitions OF treason, "A betrayal of trust or confidence."

Would pork projects continue if the sponsors/perpetrators were promptly put in prison in the general population in his or her state and they were labeled as traitors?

You don't want to be in the general population in any US prison. Really. Talk about your ass being on the line...

21. The death penalty does not make sense for reasons I have previously written about, mainly the cost to citizens plus, its pretty much not reversible.

There was a recent study, that contradicted earlier studies. It suggested the death penalty does reduce fatal crimes. I was suspicious of the statistics. Still, the cost is prohibitive in my view.

Just convict the person to the level of life in prison and let it go. Imagine if you were in prison. Would you rather be there for decades or be dead?

Raise your hand. My hand is raised for being dead. IF the convicted also raised his or her hand, they get their wish. The public loses.

Make convicts live, suffer and in the very slight chance they didn't do the heinous crime and are exonerated, they get to reenter society which they would not, had they been poisoned, shot, electrocuted, shivved or the like.

In an actuarial sense, I would vote for the exonerated to at least be given a decent place in public housing, medicaid and SSI.

Oops. Here is where some confusion rains. I left some things out from the original post. Sorry.

22. "Air guitar" makes no sense to me. Nor does "air drums" and competitions in these two are just wrong. Learn to play the instruments in front of your wiiiii sort of device or just play with yourself.

22a. Karoke makes no sense either and seems related to 22.

23. DJs who become local celebrities adding a separate beat by scratching records. How silly is that? If the song isn't good enough, get better songs. You might have to return to the early 70s and before to find them however.

24. Flair bar tending seems confusing to me as well. Its now considered one of those silly "sports" much like gluttony and poker and it is also on TV.

Make a good fucking drink. Serve it. Get paid. Done.

OK, its sort of fun to watch for about 4 minutes but I would rather have my drink served quickly and the bartenders can dance around between serving times.

25. You can add things here. Just send them in.

26. or maybe 32? I have lost count. WTF is up with cake art, aka sugar art? Didn't their mother tell them not to waste food and about those starving people in China, or was it Africa?

At present, there are several regular TV shows on food oriented channels that present this absurdity. Well, it just confuses me and I hope they stop.

Da Personals

2009-12-18T02:00:00.002-06:00

Ever wonder if there is someone here online for you if you are damaged?

Sure the personal ad sites all STATE there is. Some have elaborate tests to match you with someone/s. AND its the holidays. Who shouldn't be happy during holidays?

Control yourself. People lie or extend themselves. They, too, are looking online on these sites, hoping for a holiday treat, maybe you, and you know you are no treat.

Its not a picnic knowing a damaged person. Maybe its not a panic either but isn't this best dealt with in person?

I wrote the following several years ago and just got reminded how true it is. Silly me.

Internet Romance
by
Robin Hall

This very morning I got email.
“Hi, Wonderful.” it said. I felt
great and kept reading. “I really
liked your personalize ad. I agree
with you so much I just had to
write. I am looking for the
same sort of relationship. We
look at the world in the same
way and I hope to hear from you
very soon. I really loved what you
said about learning new things all
the time.”

All right! A woman after my own
heart, nice use of a few words, perhaps too
many typos and misspellings, but
what the hay?

I wrote back right away.
The whole enchilada: picture, blog,
more info, reply to the personal
notes she included. By noon I was
almost in love. Then, nothing. No
word for 3 WHOLE hours, a seeming
eternity on the Internet.

Finally about 4 PM this came,
“I am in a verbally
Abusive relationship
Of twenty years and can’t get out.
Oh, I am sorry, yes, I do smoke and
What did that word polyamory mean?
WHAT? Well, I never intended to pursue
That sort of thing, perhaps we can
Be friends. No, I never heard of PalTalk or Skype.
No, I don’t live anywhere near you, I
Am in Oregon. I was just looking for
Someone to talk to.”

Folks, what’s going on here?
Well, while we were not looking
A new thing happened.
It sneaked into some of our lives,
Jumped all over us
Changed the way we communicate
Then confused us to boot.

Why would we tell:
Our life story,
To a complete stranger,
Think they are real,
Expect them to behave as we want,
And be hurt when they don’t?

What is that?
Foolishness?
Hopefulness?
Loneliness?
Or have we all gone mad?

We used to meet at work,
Church, through friends and yes,
Even ads. Then we would
Wait for the mail.
Hoping, expecting, dreaming
Of a bright future, planning.
We might wait for days, weeks,
Months, years.

Now, if the server is down,
The computer crashes,
The lines are busy,
The other person has other things to
Do and a few hours pass without word
We are willing to dismiss the
Whole damn thing.

Rats, she didn’t write this morning.
It must have been something I said.
Maybe she has a new boyfriend. How can
I find her to say I am sorry? Uh, now
What was her name? Where did I put my
Address book?

Repeat the first paragraph.
This is a Recording.
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© Robin Hall 2009

Two Poems

2009-09-27T23:02:00.005-06:00

Days of Wine and Roses

They are not long, the weeping and laughter,
Love, desire and hate.
I think they have no portion in us after
We pass the gate.

They are not long,
The days of wine and roses.
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for a while,
Then closes within a dream.

Ernest Dowson
Hopefully the above is close.

How Heavy The Days

How heavy the days are.
There's not a fire that can warm me,
Not a sun to laugh with me,
Everything bare,
Everything cold and merciless,
And even the beloved, clear
Stars look desolately down,
Since I learned in my heart that
Love can die.

Hermann Hesse

What does this all mean?

2009-09-13T05:27:00.002-06:00

Marc Yu, Lang Lang, Howard Gardner, Ellen Winner. Brain Child on National Geographic.

Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino

2009-09-10T07:16:00.002-06:00

A movie made with finesse, courage and exceptional grace.

My favorite artists.

2009-07-02T02:39:00.005-06:00

A new artform by San Base: http://www.sanbase.com/

Salvadore Dali: http://www.salvadordalimuseum.org/home.html

Gilbert Williams: http://www.gilbertwilliamsgallery.com/

René François Ghislain Magritte: http://www.magritte.be/

Photography by Galen Rowell: http://www.mountainlight.com/

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

2009-06-03T03:27:00.002-06:00

I saw this movie today.

I read reviews after watching it.

Here is MY view. This is a seminal film. Great acting by Pitt and Blanchett, extraordinary cgi and make-up.

In 2008, this is a film that epitomizes what can be done with the real and the computerized.

Pitt's stillness is simply wonderful. Blanchett shines on so many levels its like the sun has risen on a new age of acting.

I look forward to future movies and hope the writing can keep up. That the stories don't devolve to the current comic book mentality. That adult interests are considered in it all...

Use movie critics after the fact, maybe to fill in the blanks, to add to YOUR information. Watch LOTS of flicks. Make up your own mind. Watch more movies. Repeat.

Its the same for any art form: dance, music, painting, sculpture, fiber art, photography... Experience LOTS of it, maybe make your own art, then and only then see what the critics have to say and be absolutely willing to ignore them all.

Take Nasal Hair, Please

2009-03-04T23:49:00.002-06:00

You all know I am not right in the head. I might be insane which = serious depression OR schizophrenia OR many kinds of outside trauma or combinations of these and who knows what other diseases.

I will try to get to most body functions over time. I am pretty sure intestinal winds will show up again soon.

Today's note is about the hair in my nose. Sure, one needs this hair to filter out pollen but let's face it, nasal hair does NOT do that good a job with pollen or bacteria, or viruses.

Sure, this hair is supposed to also keep out roaches, bees, wasps and earwigs. My apartment has none of these so I can experiment.

I have found over the last week that my overly active senses are upsetting me with nose hair moving, and I am detecting the itch from, air flowing in and out of my nose.

This is just wrong and its true. I had to do some serious clipping today so I could get to sleep later on or not be awakened even later.

You can see the sort of problems I face.

I am pretty sure Hercules had no greater task when cleaning the Aegean stables. Maybe he was just hallucinating and it was nose hair.

" It is the worst of days. "

2009-02-23T20:05:00.003-06:00

Every few years, I have a day of grace. "It is the best of times."

I try to write about these days and put the notes here. There are maybe 3 of these since I began writing 18 years back.

Every few months however, " It is the worst of times, " like the last 36 hours.

Some shrinks suggest there are triggers for these. Of course this is just another guess in their HUGE arsenal of guesses. If only they KNEW.

The bad days often take me by surprise. Slowly I sink deeper into depression, slowly.

For those of you who read my notes here, I will add that I am a drunk now. Only the last 6 years of the 48 I have had this syndrome. I DKN, do not know, how these are related.

Anyway. I either begin to feel worse and worse by the hour OR I might just have the whole shebang when I wake up. Both are nasty.

Today I woke up with a gorilla on my back. Everything hurt. LIGHTS hurt. SOUND hurt. I was constipated. I was cold. I was groggy from only 3 hours of sleep but I could not get back to sleep.

A few hours later I kept falling asleep for a half hour or so the rest of the day.

I wanted to shoot something, maybe the moon, maybe a helpless tree, some building. I wanted to shout at the world, which I did several times. I wonder what the neighbors think?

I could not watch TV, access the Internet or think.

Mostly I just lay in the dark of my room dozing and crying and dozing and shouting. Insanity. Insanity.

I was starving and could not eat. My stomach hurt.

I finally did eat some cottage cheese and fell asleep again and was cold.

My eyes hurt and were dry. Drops don't help during this time.

Finally after 34 or so hours, this insanity fever of deep depression began to lift. I had lots of coffee which didn't help earlier. I finally had a bathroom experience dripping from both ends. I had a shower and am here writing in my journal.

If you are a psychiatrist or therapist who only reads about depression or observes your customers, here is how to experience this directly. You will NEVER again think the same way about your clients, I guarantee this.

The next time you have the flu, or a VERY bad cold, start drinking alcohol till you are drunker than you usually get or have ever gotten. Do be careful not to poison yourself however.

Set your alarm for less than half your normal sleep period before you fall asleep.

Get up. Set a LOUD alarm for 15 minutes and let it ring a bit. Do this 3 more times.

While you are awake, turn all the lights on, open the curtains etc. Turn up the radio with blaring punk junk or rap crap, make sure you are pretty cold and sit there suffering. Its not fair to take anything just yet, not even water.

At the end of an hour, begin taking notes on how you feel and write your report.

SAVE this report. Refer to it before you see your next client with depression.

That experience is pretty close to how we feel. But NONE of your clients will be better in a few days like you will.

They will have this sort of really bad day many times a year and lesser versions weekly or daily.

Reading about depression and observing it is NOT enough for you people and you usually think it is.

It is not.

Anhedonia

2009-01-04T12:00:00.001-06:00

Just google the word if its not one you know.

Anhedonia is one of the primary effects of depression. I don't know if ones family and friends notice it before one does.

Imagine a world without pleasure. Don't spend too much time with this however, its depressing.

Imagine a world without passion either.

Its a life lived in gray scale with only 2 steps: one can deal with the world. One cannot.

So imagine a world where other people can have diametrically opposed views of you and both can be correct at any moment.

HOWEVER, at another moment the very same people can have the opposite "person" in front of them so what do they do? How are they supposed to react?

Character comes into play. "They," others, can study up on "our" problems, depression in this instance. They can integrate the illness of their friend or family member into their lives or they can retreat to the safety of rejection.

Character comes into play.

The afflicted one is in the middle.

If you have an afflicted one in your family, or you are the friend of an afflicted one, be honest with yourself and them.

Tell them you will stick around. That is character.

OR, again, just be honest, tell them you are a coward, are not up to the task at hand and you need to reject them.

Think of all the time you will save if you do either of these.

Those with character have taken on a lifetime commitment that will be rewarded somehow, in the end.

Those with no character can try to forget what they have done. Maybe they can do better with another person, another situation.

Or for the terminally silly, like catholics, they can just go to confession and be absolved.

Who needs character when some man in silly clothes can eliminate, by proxy, all your failings?

Character

2008-12-25T22:12:00.005-06:00

The dictionary suggests moral or ethical strength for this word.

My definition also contains these words: choice, duty, responsibility, caring, interest, ability and willingness. Not much difference, just more words.

My grandma and grandpa had character. Both are gone.

Only two people still alive, have displayed character to me.

One is a friend from youth. He has continued writing, communicating over the years even though I got hit by my ongoing illness syndrome, depression and all that entails.

TY Hal "Hall."

The other is my third ex. She has been my constant Internet companion for 10+ years. I would be completely lost without our daily emails, her calls.

Duty, above and beyond. Character.

TY Penny. TY TD.

TY both. You have been there for me when ALL family members and former friends threw me out, didn't care enough, betrayed implied commitments.

Thank you both.

The rest of you, former friends and family. Well, fuck all of you.

Character is earned and the rest of you failed me.

Interestingly, by any definition of character, the rest of you failed yourselves too. Worse, you probably tried to rationalize throwing me out of your lives but, having NO character, guess what? You just failed.

Blood is not thicker than water. Friends are NOT for life when one has no character.

Maybe this is why the catholic church is so popular. One does not need character, per se because some self-sanctified MALE in a funny costume can just grant absolution for virtually anything making the need for character completely unnecessary.

Guess what? That silly church is so very wrong on so very many levels.

I am grateful for my two people of character.

May the force be with them.

Danger, danger !!!

2008-05-24T05:33:00.002-06:00

Things I can no longer eat OR that I should not, but do anyway.

Popcorn is my favorite food. Six years ago I ate my last bowl. I broke one tooth and needed a root canal. Co$t, about $1300. Sadly its on my no longer to eat list.

I have added potato chips to my should no longer eat category. I DO try but I ignore this one, plus chips don't break my teeth and I deserve a nice salty treat.

Corn chips are here too and crunchy corn curls, not the fluffy kind. Ditto on should not but do anyway.

Breyers Vanilla Ice Cream, lactose free, is in my should not list. I ignore this one as well. But I MUST stop eating BVIC with Newman Os, the much better cookie than Oreos.

You see, my taste buds don't give out before I have pigged out.

I will try on these: I am usually able to stay away from bologna, bacon, liverwurst, olive loaf etc. After all I DO read their labels and they scare me. Worse, I don't seem able to digest them. Hours later, more than half the day, I often need to purge these undigested items.

Drat. I have failed again. Shoney's seniors Tuesday breakfast pig-out meal, only $5.00 with tax and tip, has bacon and sausage. I DO like these foods as most any normal person does. Another failure for me most Tuesdays.

I might eat pizza daily but its co$tly and there isn't a single good pizza place within 200 miles that I have found.

Well, you get the picture. Dangerous food for many reasons. I can leave some of them alone, some magically show up in my fridge or cabinets, upset my stomach and then are gone etc.

I would suspect thieves but I actually know better. AD has not as yet set in.

However, some foods break my expensive teeth and MUST stay on the grocer's shelves.

I do the best I can. I am sure you do too.

A list of all the movies I remember seeing.

2008-05-14T06:58:00.001-06:00

05/14/2008

TV shows AND Films: > Movie Series >> To watch. >>> Excellent female actors / performances. >>>> Directors >>>>> Music and other rock films. >>>>>> Interchangeable actors like Toby McGuire / Jake Gyllenhaal OR John Cryer / Matthew Broderick >>>>>>> Excellent male actors / performances >>>>>>>> Underrated actors / actresses like Gary Cole; Vera Farmiga. Already recorded. Actors / actresses to watch: Heather Burns [ Bewitched ]

Abe Lincoln [ ?In Illinois? ] x OK history/histrionic bio
About a Boy xx Hugh Grant 2002
About Adam o 2000 HIGHLY overrated at xxx
About Schmidt x? seriously dreary film but Nicholson's performance is good.
Above and Beyond x-xx Robert Taylor. 1953 film about pilot of the Enola Gay. Too much about his personal life...
Above Suspicion xx
Above the Law xx 1988 Typical Steven Segal flick about the CIA's drug dealing.
Abre los Ojos xx Cruz aka Open Your Eyes
Absence of Malice xxx Newman; Fields
Absolon x about virus that killed of 5 billion, Absolon is treatment.
Absolute Power xx Hackman
The Abyss xx OK Sci-fi flick.
Acceptable Risk x spores in house
Accidental Tourist xx
Ace in the Hole: see The Big Carnival o
Across the Pacific xx Bogart 1942 OK Pre-WW II spy flick
nf Across the Tracks
The Accused xxx Foster
Ace Ventura, Pet Detective x
Action in the North Atlantic xx 1943 Bogart in OK WW II story about merchant marine sailors.
nf Acts of Contrition
Act of Passion Gay flick, Hilton's fav.
Ada 0
The Adams Chronicle 0 TVseries
Adam's Rib xx but rated xxxx. Tracy / Hepburn vehicle of married lawyers.
Adaptation x-xx Cage; vg performance by Streep; Maggie Gyllenhaal cameo 2002
The Addams Family x-xx
Aeon Flux o-x Low rent sci fi that steals plots and gimmicks from way too many other films.
The Adventures of Mark Twain x-xx 1949
nf The Adventures of Pricilla, Queen of the Desert
The Adventures of Robin Hood Errol Flynn 1938 the first decent one... xxxxx One of the best, most interesting etc. films of all times, IMHO
The Adventuress o I fell asleep.
nf Affliction Nolte
The African Queen xxx-xxxx classic Bogart flick. Hepburn.
After the Sunset o
After Tonight xx Pretty good WW I spy flick. 1933. Contstance Bennett xxx-xxxx
Against the Ropes xx Pretty good woman fight promoter, a biopic.
Age of Innocense o Seriously overrated at ***
Agnes of God xx Meg Tilly
AI xxx Haley Joel Osment xxxx Second viewing better than first.
Air Force x "B" WW II , what, recruiting flick? Not really that bad but very low level production values.
Air Force One x Exciting but vacuous / silly.
nf The Air I Breathe
Airport xxx
Airplane xx-xxx
The Alamo? 1960
Alexander x-xx Jolie needed more voice coaching in this silly historical fiction.
Ali xx Will Smith
Alibi o 1929
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore xxx
Alice's Restaurant xx-xxx hippy movie
Alien Hunter xx Spader

Aliens xxx Sigorney Weaver 1
Alien xxx Weaver 2
Alien Resurrection xxx Weaver 4
Alien 3 xx The prison planet one

Alien Nation xxx Original movie Patinkin, good as always.
Alien Nation: The Enemy Within x-xx TVM series see which below
Alien Nation: The Udara Legacy x-xx TVM series

Alien Seige o 2005 Low rent TVM from Sci-Fi channel
Alien vs. Predator o 2004
Alive xx 1993 Flick about South American rugby team who's flight crashed into the Andies. They ate the dead. Lots of C tier actors in this one.
All About Eve xxxx oscar winner
nf Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls (2008)
Allegheny Uprising o Silly Wayne vehicle.
All Fall Down x-xx Typical of era girl gets pregnant. Good cast.
All In o-x Marginal at best, flick about poker playing young woman.
All of Me x Steve Martin; Tomlin
All Quiet on the Western Front xx
All That Heaven Allows x Hudson; Wyman But xxx for some bits about middle-aged; upper middle income / poor dating and its problems.
All the King's Men xx 1949
All the King's Men 2006 x-xx Sean Penn xxx
All the Marbles o 1981 Peter Falk Inane women's wrestling flick.
All the Pretty Horses xx Penelope Cruz
Almost Famous xx-xxx maybe. About teen rock journalist.
Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story xx TVM? about newswoman
Along Came a Spider xx
Along Came Jones x-xx Cooper singing cowboy
Along Came Polly o
Alpha Dog o
The Alphabet Murders
Always xx Dreyfus
Always Outnumbered x-xx Fishburne Pretty good story about a black fellow redeeming his life.
Amateur o
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse x-xx 1938 Bogart and Robinson potboiler about crooked MD.
Amazing Grace x-xx
American Beauty x-xx Spacey
nf American Dreams
nf American Gangster Crowe and Washington
American Gigolo xx Gere 1980
American Gothic xxx The complete series. Gary Cole See: Series
American Graffiti xx-xxx
American Heart xx-xxx Fine performances by all and good slice of poverty stricken father and son.
American History X x-xx Edward Norton, good as usual. About racism and redemption and tragedy.
An American in Paris o-x Musical foolishness with a beautiful Leslie Caron
nf Angels in America
American Me xx Olmos Good for anti gang sentiment, violent
American Outlaws o Silliness about the James gang right after the Civil War.
American Pie o silly teen nonsense
The American President xx 1995
American Psycho x-xx Christian Bale, xx-xxx. But, WAS he a serial killer or only nuts and imagining these things?
The Americanization of Emily xx 1964 James Garner; Julie Andrews about WW II dogrobber and his driver.
nf Amerillo Slim Cage
American Dreamz x but with a few chuckles. Parody of game shows.
American Gangster xx Pretty good gangster flick with
An American Rhapsody o 2001
America's Prince: The JFK Story 0
America's Sweetheart o
Amistad xx-xxx about slaves who rebel

Analyze This xxx Billy Crystal; Robert Deniro
Analyze That xx Billy Crystal; Robert Deniro

Anastasia xxx 1956 Dowager xxxx Anastasia xxxx.
Anastasia o TVM? Amy Irving
Anatomy of a Murder xx OK courtroomer but rated xxxx
And the Band Played On x-xx Matthew Modine as doctor in on the early stages of aids research.
And Justice for All Pacino seen?
Anger Management o 2003 Nicholson; Adam Sandler. OUCH.
Animal Factory x Prison film
Android x Low rent scifi. Maltin's xxx rating ludicrous
The Andromedra Strain xx
And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself o-x Seriously flawed notion and a TOTAL waste of "talent."
An Early Frost x OK early AIDS flick. TVM
Angel Eyes xx Jennifer Lopez
Angel's Dance x-xx Sheryl Lee
Angels and Insects xx UK flick 1995 Matilda actress xxxx
Angel Heart xxx at least DeNiro, again?, plays the devil ; Rourke is the star Excellent graphics, writing, acting. XXXX is possible for this one.
nf Angels in America x Disk one was just a stage play with cheap f/x about early in aids epidemic.
Angels in the Outfield o
An Ideal Husband
Angie xx Gina Davis Second viewing about the same.
Animal xxx Great cast in sobering look into prison, redemption etc.
Animal Factory x Grim prison flick.
Animal House xxx [National Lampoon's Animal House] MUCH better than Maltin's rating. Interesting how this flick has gotten higher ratings over the years...
Anna and the King xx Jodie Foster
An Innocent Man x- Selleck better than usual about convicted AND framed man, innocent. OK see also Innocent
Anna Cristie x Garbo Oh so dreary a film. Depressing in the extreme. The results of childhood rape etc. Sad.
Anna Karenina o-x 1935 Garbo in dreary film. Highly overrated.
Annapolis x
Annie xx
Annie Hall x-xx
Another Man's Poison x-xx Bette Davis B murder mystery. 1951
Another 9 1/2 o Weeks See: 9 1/2 Weeks
Anthony Adverse o
AntiTrust x-xx beginning. xxx ending. Tim Robbins about monopolistic killer company owner being brought down...
Antwone Fisher xx 2002 Washington. Pretty good flick about angry young man who was abused as child, with Washington as his psychiatrist.
An Unfinished Life xx Redford and Lopez.
Antz x cartoon
Any Given Sunday xxx 1999 Pacino coaches pro team. Grim and violent but I suspect its the closest to real of any sport flick.
Any Which Way You Can x Eastwood
Apollo 13 xx
The Apocalypse o
Apocalypse Now xxxx Sheen; Duval. Redux OR Director' Cut as it was termed, IS much better, xxxxx. Its more coherent etc.
nf Apocalypto Mel Gibson
The Apostle x Duvall
The Apple Dumpling Gang x-xx
Arabesque xx Gregory Peck; Sophia Loren
nf Ararat
Archangel x-xx OK Russian modern day, the son of Stalin etc.
The Arch of Triumph xxx Hopkins and Lesley-Anne Down
Arachnophobia x
Arsenic and Old Lace xx 1944
Arlington Rd. o
Armagheddon xxxx Bruce Willis; B.B. Thornton; Michael Clarke Duncan [seen twice]
Around the World in 80 Days xxx-xxxx

The Arrival xxx Charlie Sheen; Ron Silver
Second Arrival x

Arrowsmith x-xx 1931 Ronald Coleman? a doctor who loses his wife to illness.

Arsene Lupin o
Arsene Lupin Returns o

Arsenic and Old Lace xx Cary Grant 1944

Arthur xxx-xxxx
Arthur 2: On the Rocks x-xx

Arthur Hailey's Detective x 2005 Beringer as ex priest turned police detective.
The Art of War xxx Wesley Snipes
As Good as It Gets xx-xxx Nicholson OCD related
The Asphalt Jungle 0
The Assaignment x-xx Cold war about the Jackel
nf The Assassination of Jesse James Pitt
The Assassins xx Stallone; Juiliana Moore
Assassination Tango x-xx OK Duval vehicle where his fluent Spanish and love of the tango mix.
The Assault on Precinct 13 xx-xxx
nf Assisted Living (2005)
The Astronaut Farmer x-xx
nf The Astronaut's Wife
As You Like It o 1930 Olivier. I fell asleep.
Atlantic City xx Lancaster
Attack Force x One of the worst Seagal flicks with hokey f/x.
The Audrey Hepburn Story x-xx 2000 Chick flick with Jennifer Love Hewitt?
Augie Rose xxx odd film with Jeff Goldblum; >>> Anne Heche
nf August Rush 2008 Williams
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman xx 1974
Autofocus o sleazy glimpse into the life of Bob Crane
Autum in New York xxx-xxxx 2000 Gere and Winona Ryder having a spring / fall relationship...
Avalon xxx
Avenger 2006 x OK revenge flick with Sam Elliot, xx
The Aviator xx-xxx
Awakenings xxx 1990 Deniro about catatonics given drug l-dopa, coming out of it briefly, sinking back.
Away From Her x-xx 2006 BUT maybe xxx-xxxx about alzheimers effects.
The Awful Truth 0 Seriously overrated.

Babe xx About Babe Didrickson Zaharias with Alex Karras xxxx

Babe xxx
Babe 2 x-xx

Babel xxx Excruciatingly slow and dull start and excellent denoument.
Baby Doll o WHAT were they thinking about? Its much worse than Lolita.
nf Bachatas Pegaditas en Video (2008) music
The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer o 1947 What in the fuck were these people thinking about? GREAT cast wasted but, what if it WAS a fabulous movie for the era?
Back by Midnight o
Backdraft xx-xxx Firefighting film. Pattern for Rescue Me TV show?
Back to School x Dangerfield

Back to The Future 1 xxx
Back to The Future 2 xx
Back to The Future 3 xxx

Back to the Secret Garden: See The Secret Garden
Backtrack xx-xxx Jodie Foster
The Bad and the Beautiful xx 1952 Lana Turner; Kirk Douglas; Dick Powell Not bad take on Hollywood.

Bad Boys xxx Sean Penn
Bad Boys 2 o

Bad Company xx 1995 Fishburne
Bad Company xx 2002 Hopkins; Chris Rock
Bad Day at Black Rock xxx Tracey 1955
The Bad News Bears xx
Bad Moon
Bad Santa x 2003 Grim BB Thornton flick where he is thieving santa clause.
The Bad Seed xx Cast exceeded themselves. Silly ending with the "theater" type cast bowing etc.
The Badge xxx Billy Bob Thornton, LA
Bait xxx Good bank heist flick.
Ball of Fire o 1942 Professors writing an encyclopedia meet cabaret woman, Stanwyck. YIKES !!!
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever xx
Balls of Fury xx Walken in humorous xxx role.
Bambi xxx 1942
Bananas xxx Woody Allen's Best imho
Bandidas x-xx Two beautiful women rob from the rich. Cruz and
The Bandit of Sherwood o Robin Hood foolishness
Bandits xxx bank robbing comedy bb Thornton, Bruce Willis, Kate Blanchett
Banger Sisters xx-xxx Hawn;
The Bank xx OK AU flick about computer genius bringing down the bank that foreclosed on parents farm.
nf The Bank Job 2008
Barbella x Jane Fonda A seriously wasted talent in most of her films. Nice tits however in uncut versions.
Barefoot in the Park o Ditto comment to Barbarella.
Barfly xx
Barry Lyndon o vs. 3.5* for Maltin. YUK. Box office failure is later recognized as "slow paced" masterpiece.
Basic xx-xxx Travolta 2003 Seen twice I think.
Basic Instinct xxx Michale Douglas; Sharon Stone
Bataan x-xx 1943 OK WW II flick

Batman 1;2;3 xx
Mask of the Phantasm o cartoon?
Batman Begins xxx-xxxx The best of the series with a fine cast.
nf The Dark Knight 2008

Battle Circus x-xx Bogart
Battlefield Earth x
Battleground xx WW II flick that, IMHO, was highly overrated. OK but NOT academy award level.
Battle Hymn o 1957 Too silly to even watch.
The Battle of Algiers xx OK war film, subtitled however, in Algeirs late 1950s
Battlestar Galatica x-xx Edward James Olmos good as usual but only OK TVM
Bat-21 xx Hackman This is, to me, a probably, VG representation of a Vietnam war situation.
The Beach 2000
Beach Boys TVM o
Beaches x
The Beast Must Die o 1974 Low rent werewolf flick.
Beau Brummel xx Good and or accurate rendition of fashion conscious Brummel. Granger?
Beautiful Joe xxx-xxxx Sharon Stone xxxx; Billy Connolly xxxx
A Beautiful Mind xxx Russell Crowe
Beauty and the Beast xxx 1946 French
Becket o Either seen or unwatchable. Grim indeed.
Be Cool o Travolta
The Bedford Incident xx Widmark; Poitier. OK cold war thriller with chilling ending.
Beetlejuice xx with xxxxx scene

Before Sunrise 0
? before sunset

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead xx (2007) Phillip Seymour Hoffman xxxx
Behind Enemy Lines xx Hackman
Behind Enemy Lines 2 x at best

Behind the Camera x TVM bio of Three's a Company
Being John Malcovich o 1999
Being Julia o 2004
Bella Mafia 0 Decent cast simply wasted.5
Bell, Book and Candle xx witches etc.
Belly of the Beast xx-xxx Seagal Better ending, more action than recent films.
Beloved o 1998 Glover; Winfree

Below xx-xxx ?
Below o-x 2002 Below average WW II submarine flick.

Bend It Like Beckham xx 2002 UK soccer / coming of age story.
Bend of the River xx OK western with Jimmy Stewart.
Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor x-xx TVM Very poorly cast
Ben-Hur xxx-xxxx
Benny and Joon x
Bernard and Doris (2007) but only on TV, not nf
nf Beneath 2007
Beowolf o Hopkins, Jolie, hey, its just a cartoon.
Berlin Express xx Dick Powell. Pretty good post WWII / early cold war flick but only a bit of cold war foolishness.
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas xxx Bert Reynolds
The Best Man
The Best Years of Our Lives xx
Betsy's Wedding 0
nf Bet Your Life (2004)
Beverly Hills Cop xx Murphy
Beverly Hills Cop 2 x
Beverly Hills Cop 3 x

Bewitched xx 1945 Disturbing film about MPD.
Bewitched x-xx 2005 Kidman Excellent beginning turns lame
Beyond Borders xx OK Jolie vehicle about volunteer health workers in several countries.
nf Beyond Suspicion
Beyond the Gates x Seriously dreary flick about the plight of Rwandans.
Beyond the Law x 1994 Modest B undercover cop thriller. Linda Fiorentino; Charlie Sheen
Beyond the Sea xxx Spacey xxxx
Bicentennial Man xxx Fine sci-fi with Robin Williams as robot. Pinocchio for the millenium.
Big xx Tom Hanks, fantasy
The Big Bounce x Hawaiian silliness. Freeman has small role in island caper.
The Big Carnival Douglass o
The Big Chill x-xx Highly overrated reunion flick IMHO.
The Big Easy x-xx
Big Fish xx-xxx 2003 VERY quirky film that was incomprensible but a large catfish was involved.
A Big Hand for the Little Lady xx
The Big Heat xx-xxx 1953 Glenn Ford
The Big Hit o Decent cast, flawed flick.
The Big House x-xx 1930 Sobering early prison flick.
Big Kahuna xx good ending
The Big Lebowski o
The Big Red One xx-xxx Marvin. Second viewing better.
The Big Sky xx OK B western. Douglas 1952
The Big Sleep xxx-xxxx Bogart Second viewing, xxxxx
The Big Steal
Big Trouble o
The Big White o
nf Bill 2007 Olyphant
A Bill of Divorcement
The Birdcage xxx Robin Williams
Bird on a Wire xx
The Birds xxx-xxxx Hitchcock scary
The Birdman of Alcatraz xxx Lancaster
Birdy xx Grim early flick with Cage and about fellow who empathizes with birds. Schizophrenia
Birth x-xx Kidman in flick about boy who thinks he is her deceased husband.
Birthday Girl o Starts out very funny glimpse of Russian bride, Nichole Kidman , and quickly turns mean spirited.
The Bishop Murder Case [ Philo Vance ] o Rathburn silliness.

The Bishop's Wife
nf Black August Gary Dourdain
Black Book 0 Foreign
The Black Dalia o-x 2006
Black Dawn xxx One of Seagal's best so far. See Foreigner 2: Black Dawn
Black Dog x-xx Kurt Russell is a trucker.
Black Fury xx 1935 Paul Muni xxx About coal miner's strike and its consequences.
Black Hand o-x Gene Kelly in a drama about early Italian American scourge, the Black Hand. 1950
nf Black Legion Bogart, rated ***

Black Mask o
Black Mask 2 o

Black Narcissis o 1947 Rated xxxx this is THE most highly overrated films to date. Nuns on a mountain.
Black Pointe xx-xxx David Caruso, AK, stolen $$
Black Rain xx
Black Scorpion o Joan Severance. Silliness or worse
Black Snake Moan xxx
The Black Stallion xxx
Black Sunday ? Robert Shaw
Black Swan xx
Black Widow xxx Debra Winger. Her best role IMHO.

Blackboard Jungle xx
The Black Hand x-xx Story of early attempts to crush Italian mafia.
Blackhawke Down xxx Somolia war

Blade: 1, 2 xxxx
Blade: Trinity xxx

Bladerunner xxxx Harrison Ford; Edward James Olmos has a small role. Umteenth viewing still good. Very rich milieu.
Bladerunner, Director's Cut

Blair Witch x
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch II xx Much better maybe xxx FOR scary movie.

Blame it On Rio xx
nf Blast of Silence 1961
Blaze xx Newman; Davidovitch
Blazing Saddles xxx Only mel brooks film to amuse. One of the top 2 most hilarious scenes in ANY film along with ?
Bliink x Madeline Stowe
Blind Date
nf Blind Eye (2006)
Blind Horizon 0
The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi x-xx OK Japanese "western." This sort of film seems like our super hero films.
Blonde o About Marilyn
Blood and Wine
Blood Angels o Low rent vampires.
Blood Diamond xxx Brutal film of Sierra Leone's civil war and blood diamonds that financed it.
Blood Hunter x 2006 Lucy Liu but barely watchable.
Blood Moon o-x Silly flick about hairy girl.
Blood on the Moon xx 1948 Mitchum xxx in decent oater about changing loyalties, love etc.

BloodRayne o
BloodRayne 2: Deliverance

Bloodsuckers 0
nf Blood, Sweat & Teeth (2007)
Bloodwork xx Eastwood
Bloody Sunday o depressing film about Derry, Ireland riot
Blossoms in the Dust xx Greer Garson about TX children's home.
Blow xx Penelope Cruz 2001 Second viewing xxx. Johnny Depp.
Blow Dry o 1981 BAD news.
Blown Away xx 1994
Blow-Up xx WAY overrated but OK flick about photographer... XXX ABOUT photographer.
nf Blue

Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie xx-xxx Too much reliance on wife jokes which are meaningless to me.
Blue Collar Comedy Tour Rides Again
Blue Collar Comedy Tour: One For the Road

The Blue Gardenia o 1953
Blue Ice xxx 1992 Pretty good cold war flick with Michael Caine and the beautiful Sean Young

Blue Man Group: Rock Tour xxx-xxxx 2003
Blue Man Group: How to Be a Megastar Live! (2008) Even better xxxx. I was singing along.

The Blue Max x-xx 1966 Oddly OK WW I German flying flick. Peppard.
Blue Steel x-xx Jamie Lee Curtis; Ron Silver Cop flick
Blue Thunder x-xx

The Blues Brothers xx
Blues Brothers 2000 o

Blue Sky xx Pretty good Jessica Lange and Tommy Lee Jones about "free" spirited wife who continues to have affairs and ruins Jones military chance for promotion.
Blue Velvet o Silliness
Boardertown xx-xxx
Bobby Z x-xx
The Body xx Banderas; Williams
The Bodyguard xx-xxx Costner
Bodyheat xx Seen twice. Holds up
Boiler Room x-xx Ribisi; Vin Diesle. Low rent Wallstreet but some good performances.
Boiling Point x
nf Bon Cop, Bad Cop (2006)

BOND:

Casino Royale x-xx 2006 My least favorite Bond flick.
Die Another Day xx Brosnan at the ice hotel.
Live and Let Die xx-xxx 1973
The Living Daylights xx 1987 Timothy Dalton
Tomorrow Never Dies xx 1997 Bond with Brosnan

Bone Collector xx Jolie, Denzel Washington
Bonnie and Clyde xxx
Boogie Nights x
Book of Shadows: See Blair Witch
Boomerang o Eddie Murphy
nf Boomtown: see series below
Boots Malone xx OK racetrack flick. Holden is good as hard hearted jocky agent.
Border Incident o
Born in East LA x Cheech Marin
Born on the Fourth of July xxx Cruise
Born to Kill ? xx

The Boston Strangler xx Tony Curtis; Henry Fonda
Bounce o 2000
Bound xx 1996 Gershon is xxx at least as felon / thief making a score.
Bound for Glory xxxx David Carridine 1976 Likely his best performance. About Woody Guthrie. He was mean and violent too.
The Bounty x Hopkins Grim.

The Bourne Identity xxx Second viewing.
The Bourne Supremacy xxx Second viewing xxx with xxxx ending for excitement.
The Bourne Ultimatum xxx-xxxx Very exciting entry in the franchise.

The Boxer x Daniel Day Lewis Dreary film about Irish "troubles," boxing, love etc.
The Boy in Blue o Cage
Boys Don't Cry x-xx story of gender dysphoric girl
Boys N the Hood xxx Laurence Fishburn
Boys on the Side o
Bowfinger ? Doesn't sound good.
Bowling for Columbine xx 2002 Michael Moore's opus about US gun violence.
The Boynton Beach Club x OK flick about seniors in BB dating, hooking up etc.
The Boys in Company C x OK Vietnam era bootcamp and war flick. Seen twice.
Boys in the Band o
Boy's Town xx

Bram Stoker's Dracula x 1992 OVERRATED.
Bram Stoker's Way of the Vampire 0 2005

The Bravados xx Pretty good Western with Gregory Peck.
Braveheart xxxx Mel Gibson
The Brave One 2007 xx Jodie Foster
nf The Brazilian Job Theron
nf Breach
Breakdown o
"Breaker" Morant xxx-xxxx
Breakfast at Tiffanys xxx
Breakfast Club x teen flick Molly Ringwold
Breakfast of Champions o
Breakfast on Pluto xx Pretty good transvestite show.
Breaking and Entering x-xx OK London film about affairs and more.

Breathing Lessons x-xx Garner; Woodward
The Breed x But interesting take on vampires,xxx: virus-based, mutated humans / second who, here, were trying to be accepted into general society though some were not.

Breezy xx-xxx Directed by Eastwood. Wm Holden xxxx and Kay Lenz xxx-xxxx. Fine study in age differences, hypocracy, straight vs. hippy culture etc. So, so middle but good beginning and excellent ending line.

The Bridge on the River Kwai xxx
The Bridges at Toko-Ri x OK Korean War fighter pilot.
The Bridges of Madison County xxx Eastwood
A Bridge Too Far xx
Bridge to Terabithia x Silly children's story.

Bridget Jone's Diary xx Hugh Grant;
Bridget Jone's: The Edge of Reason o

A Brief Encounter xxx 1949 Stars just shine, esp. the female. EMOTIONAL.
A Bright Shining Lie x-xx
Bright Victory xx 1951 About blinded WW II vets.
Bringing Out the Dead xxx Cage
Brokeback Mountain xxx-xxxx with xxxxx cinamatography about gay cowboys in 1963-1975 Wyoming. Gyllenhaal xxxx. Other male lead too.
Brokedown Palace o 1999 About Americans framed for drug smuggling and in a Thai prison.
Broken Arrow xxxx Exciting actioner with Travolta and Christian Slater
Broken Trail xxxxx TVM 2006 Duval was magnificent in this western tale of horse herd travelling for sale.
Bronco Billy xxx Eastwood
A Bronx Tale xxx-xxxx Deniro about boy growing up torn between good father and local criminal.
Brooklyn Rules x-xx
Brother Orchid o Bogart et al Stellar cast in mean spirited flick
Brotherhood of the Bell xx-xxx about secret society, based in a school, that ran people's lives. Removed from Maltin's books but in imdb.com .
The Brothers o 2001
The Brothers Grimm o
Brother Sun, Sister Moon xxxx
Brotherly Love o similar to Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe
Brubaker xx-xxx Redford 1980
Bruce Almighty o YUK
Bruce Lee's Game of Death o AKA Game of death.
Brute Force xx Lancaster at least xxx as usual, in grim prison break-out flick. Rated ***1/2

Buddy Holly Story xxx Gary Busey. First R&R flick I recall.
Buffalo Soldiers o A knock off of Khaki Mafia book by Robin Moore.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer xx Kristy Swanson
A Bug's Life x cartoon
Bugsy xxx Warren Beaty About Bugsy Seigal.
Bull Durham xx baseball
Bullet x-xx 1996 Mickey Rourke Grim, low rent look at low rent folk, drugs, jail, etc. Yet his performance is xxx as usual. WAY overrated on blockbuster.com, IMDB.com rating is OK.
Bullit xx 1968 McQueen
Bulletproof Monk x-xx
Bump in the Night o Meridith Baxter Birney, one of THE most underutilized fine actresses ever but silly flick.
Bunny Lake is Missing NO
Buona Sera Mrs. Campbell

Buried Alive xx TVM
Buried Alive 2 x TVM

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee x OK western.
Bus Stop
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid xxxx Newman;
The Butcher's Wife x-xx Demi Moore
Butterfield 8 x
Butterflies Are Free xx Hawn

The Butterfly Effect xx with xxx end 2004
The Butterfly Effect 2 o-x Really less than first.

Cabaret xx
Cabin in the Sky o 1943
Cable Guy x-xx Jim Carey

Caddyshack xx Bill Murray
Caddyshack 2 o

Cadfael: One Corpse Too Many xxx UK TV series.
nf Cadfael:

Cadillac Man 0
Caesar xx OK TVM
Caged 0
The Caine Mutiny xx 1954
Calendar Girls x-xx Mirren and cast making a nude calendar for charity.
The Calling o
Camille o Grim Garbo fare. 1937
The Candidate xx Redford
Candleshoe o 1977 Ealier Jodie Foster flick
Candy o 2006 About junkies.
Cannery Row xxx Nolte
Capote xxx Good portrait but the narrow time frame is annoying.
Captain Blood x-xx Flynn 1935 Flynn vehicle about becoming a pirate then unbecoming one. Seen twice.
Capatin Corelli's Mandolin x-xx Cage
Captain Horatio Hornblower xx OK but a compilation of 3 novels. 1951 Gregory Peck. Not as good as series.
Captain Kidd 0
Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter xx Pretty racy for era.
Captain Newman, MD xx-xxx Peck
Captains Courageous xxx 1937 Spenser Tracy. First one I think.
Captains of the Clouds x-xx Cagney in pre-WW II Canadian flick about fliers.
Caravans xx Mitchner's book
The Caretakers xx 1963 "Often inciteful look at west coast mental hospital." Maltin.
nf Cars

Carlito's Way xx Pacino
Carlito's Way: Rise to Power xx

Carnivale: See Series

Carrie xxx 1976
Carrie x-xx 2002

Car Wash x Richard Pryor
The Cary Treatment
Cars o Silly cartoon
Casablanca xxx
Casino xx Deniro; Sharon Stone
Casino Royale x-xx My least favorite Bond flick.
Casper NOT seen but Maltin gives it a o.
The Cassandra Crossing
Cast a Dark Shadow o
Cast Away xx Hanks
Casualties of War x-xx OK Vietnam flick about rape of young Vietnamese girl.
Cat Ballou xx-xxx Lee Marvin
Catch a Fire x-xx
Catch and Release x-xx J. Garner as widow of man with secrets.
Catch Me if You Can x-xx 2002 Hanks; Walken sort of like another imposter film
Catch 22 xx-xxx Book MUCH richer.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof xxxx Newman 1953 EVERY viewing gets better... Burl Ives does too.
Cat People xx 1942
Cat's Meow o

Category 6: Day of Destruction o-x TVM Mildly interesting with completely foolish side story of infidelity.
Category 7: The End of the World o TVM even sillier than the other one.

Catwoman 2004

Caught x-xx Young man enters lives of a fishmonger and wife with dire consequences. Olmos is xxx.
The Caveman's Valentine xxx-xxxx Samuel Jackson xxxx About schizophrenic father who is solving a murder and lives in a cave. Excellent film, perhaps the best of Jackson's and about the illness's effects on family and sufferer...
The Celestine Prophesy x-xx Modest prophesy flick set in Peru.
The Cell xx 2000
The Center of the World x
Chacolat: see Chocolat
Chain of Command o TVM?
Chain Reaction xx OK flick about hydrogen power generator.
The Chamber xxx John Grisham novel. 1996
Chances Are xxx Robert Downey, Jr.
Changing Lanes xx Grim story of two men clashing over car collision. Good part about alcohol and alcoholism.
Chaos xx 2005 OK bank robbery.
Chaplin xx Robert Downey, Jr.
Charade xx-xxx
Chariots of Fire xxx

Charlie's Angels x
Charlies Angels: Full Throttle o-x 2003

Charley Varrick x 1973 OK Heist film.
Charlie Wilson's War xxxxx Just fine film making.
Charlotte Gray / Cate Blanchett xxx Scot woman helping frogs in WW 2
Charly xxx-xxxx Cliff Roberts? Retarded man turned into a genius and back.
Chasing Amy xx Ben Afleck; >>> Joey Lauren Adams
The Cheap Detective x-xx Falk and stellar cast in OK Neil Simon flick. Mostly wasted cast, doing good job. I am beginning to think Simon's work was WAY overrated.
Chelsea Walls xxx maybe xxxx Indie flick. Good portrait of creative but damaged folk. Visually sumptious.
Cheyenne Autumn o
Chicago xxx maybe xxxx FOR a musical. Zelweiger xxxx Fine cast, interesting. Time-frame about 1922.
Chicago Massacre x Very graphic and not that engaging.
A Child is Waiting xxx, maybe xxxx for parents of retarded children. Lancaster and Garland in fine flick about training school. aka?
Children of a Lesser God xxx Marlie Matlin
Children of Dune: see TV series
The Children of Men xx Sometimes xxxx dystopic tale of sterile human race and pregnant girl.
Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story xx 2001 Surprisingly good TVM. Star of show seemed to me a better actress and decent dancer. Temple could sing better.
Chill Factor 0
China Beach xxxx 1988 One of the best TVMs of all time.
China O'Brian o
China Moon x Ed Harris; Stowe
China Seas xx-xxx Decent Gable vehicle about captain of cargo ship in that area.
The China Syndrome xx-xxx
Chinatown xxx Nicholson see: The Two Jakes x
Chinese Coffee o Pacino in yet another low budget play.
Chocolat xxxx-xxxxx Juliette Binoche; Lena Olin; Johnny Depp; Judi Dench. Second viewing even better.
Christmas Lillies of the Field o Billy D. Williams in WAY over his small head.

Pitch Black xxx Vin Diesel
The Chronicles of Riddick xxx Very different but still worth a watch.

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe xx-xxx 2005 Pretty good children's story by C. S. Lewis
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader o 1990 Stick with the new version.
nf The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian 2008

Chu Chu and the Philly Flash o
The Cider House Rules xx
Cincinnati Kid xxx poker game, sort of similar to The Hustler
Cinderella Man x-xx About Depression Era fighter Jim Braddock
The Circle o 2006
Circle of Friends o
Citizen Kane xxxx
nf Citizen X
City by the Sea xx-xxx Deniro in story of redemption of father / son relationship
City for Conquest x-xx 1940 Cagney vehicle
City Hall xx Pacino
City Heat x Reynolds; foolishness
City of Angels xxx Meg Ryan; Nicholas Cage
City of Ghosts o
City of Lost Children xx

City Slickers 1 xxx
City Slickers 2 xx

A Civil Action xxx 1998 Travolta; Duval is especially good.
Clear and Present Danger xx-xxx Harrison Ford
The Clearing x Marginal kidnapping flick with Mirren and Redford
nf Clementine
Click x-xx OK fantasy with Sandler.
The Client xx
Cliffhanger x Stallone
Clive Barker's The Plague o The actors were on autopilot in this rip off flick.
The Clock xx 1945 OK Judy Garland marrying during WW II
Clockers o Silly drug film by spike lee.
A Clockwork Orange xx-xxx
Close Encounters of the Third Kind xxx At least
Close Your Eyes x Marginal kidnapping and psychic flick.
Closure x One gets to see Gillian Anderson's tits.
Cloverfield 0 WTF?
Club Paradise x-xx OK Robin Williams and SCTV cast.
Clueless o 1995 Simply silly.
Coach Carter xxx-xxxx Jackson in fine basketball flick. While this genre can be inspiring fine films they are almost falsehoods that show how a tiny few coaches are good. NONE of this genre show how bad the average coach is.
Coal Miner's Daughter xxx
Coastlines x-xx Marginally interesting, Tim Olyphant of Deadwood, as ex con.

Cocoon xxx
Cocoon 2: The Return. x

Cocktail xx-xxx Cruise
Code Name: Wolverine x navy seal and family chased
Code Red: The Rubicon Conspiracy x-xx about alien bugs, cover up and alien
Cold Comfort Farm xx-xxx with xxx-xxxx ending. Star was xxx-xxxx. Quirky UK flick, likely an Indy.
Coldblooded xx Peter Reigert as a hitman.
Cold Mountain
Collateral xx
Collateral Damage xx Arnold Second viewing somewhat worse.
Collision Course o Jay Leno; Pat Morita
nf The Color of Freedom
The Color of Money xxx xxxx > Newman's reprise of The Hustler' Fast Eddie Felson; Tom Cruise
The Color Purple xxx Oprah Winfrey
Colors xx
Colossus: The Forbin Project xx NOT the xxx of Maltin's book
Coma x Douglas; Bujold Tolerable medical mystery / thriller.
Comanche Moon xx TVM OK western sage, last of three in Lonesome Dove series..
Comancheros xxxx Excellent Wayne vehicle.
Comedian o Uninteresting documentary about Seinfeld and another comedian.
Come See the Paradise 0
Command Decision xx Clarke Gable Somewhat static, its based on a play, WW II film. 1948
Commando o-x Schwartzeneger
Coming to America xx Eddie Murphy
nf Company K 2004
Company Man o at best
Compulsion o
The Con VG con movie with
nf Contour
Conagher xx Tom
Con Air xx-xxx
Coneheads x
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind x Was Chuck Barris an assassin? DNK
Confessions of a Nazi Spy x 1939 USA pre-war propaganda film. Edward G. Robinson
Confessions of a Thug
Confidence xx OK Scam flick.
Confidential Agent x-xx Charles Boyer
Congo xxx
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court xx 1949
Conspiracy x 2001 Nasty story about nazi plan to exterminate Jews
Conspiracy x - xx 2008 Kilmer
Conspiracy Theory xx-xxx Gibson
The Constant Gardener xx About Africa / UK and drug companies testing dangerous drugs on indigenous folk. Scary, but realistic concept and likely true.
Constantine xx-xxx Good f/x and decent flick about good vs evil, devils and angels.
Contact xxx Jodie Foster
Continental Divide x Belushi
The Contract xx OK story of hitmen led by Morgan Freeman.
The Contractor xx Snipes vehicle as assassin in the UK
The Conversation xxx Hackman
Coogan's Bluff xx Eastwood
Cookie xx-xxx Peter Faulk
Cookie's Fortune x-xx 1999 Glen Close in quirky sort of comedy.
A Cool Dry Place o 1998
Cool Hand Luke xxx Newman 1967
Cool Runnings xx
nf The Cool Surface
Cop xx James Woods
Copland x-xx 1997
Copycat xx-xxx 1995 Weaver; Holly Hunter
Copying Beethoven x-xx about copyist working for Beethoven.
Cornered x-xx Dick Powell Post WWII flick about vichy collaborator hunted by Powell for killing wife. OK.
The Corruptor xx-xxx Chow Yun Fat; Mark Wahlberg
The Corsican Brothers xx Not bad older flick about twins and vendetta.
The Count of Monte Cristo xxx Early version ?
The Count of Monte Cristo xxx-xxxx 2002 Seen twice and better the second time.

Counter Strike o maybe - o Toys could do a better job.
Country x-xx Lang ?
Courage Under Fire xx
The Court-Marshal of Billy Mitchell xx
Cousins x
nf The Covenant
Cover (2007)
Cowards Bend the Knee (2003) 0 Unless on HBO or TV.
Coyote Ugly xx Decent date flick about bar, singer etc.
nf Cracker Series 3
Crack-Up xx-xxx 1946 Good cuckoo flick
Cradle Will Rock x with xxxx ending. 1999 Emily Watson and Turturo xxxx in quirky flick involving WPA theatre project, communist influences etc.
The Craft xx
Crank xxx Surprisingly good, and speedy, flick.
Crash xx-xxx Sandra Bullock
Crash xxx James Spader and fine cast in very kinky flick.
Crash and Burn
Crazy People x-xx Dudley Moore xx. 1990 Yet another cuckoo house flick.
Creature from the Black Lagoon x-xx Saw as a child.
Crime Doctor xx OK, and overrated, early Philo Vance flick with William Powell.
nf Crime Fiction 2007
Crimes of the Heart o
Criminal x
Criminal Intent o 2005 TVM? Just bad.
Criminal Law xx Disturbing legal drama about serial killer.
Criminal Passion o
Crimson Force o Totally forgot what this was about. Oh, Mars. Duh.
Crimson Tide xx Washington; Hackman
Critical Assembly 0

Crocodile Dundee xxx
Crocodile Dundee 2 xx
Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles 3 xxx Almost as funny as the first. 2001

Cross Creek xx Steenburgen
Crossfire xxx Very good cast in murder mystery with background of anti-Semitism, plus a bit of preaching about it's evils.
Crossfire Trail xx OK Western with Selleck.
The Cross of Lorraine xx-xxx Frog WWW II flick.
Crossroads x-xx William Powell vehicle.
Crossroads o ? year
The Crossing xx 2000 TVM about George Washington's Deleware crossing. Jeff Daniels in typical role.
Crossing Delancy xx 1988 Peter Riegert xxx; Amy Irving
nf Crossing Over
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon xx
Croupier x About casino dealer.
The Crow xxxx Brandon Lee
The Crow: Wicked Prayer o 2005 NOT related to Lee's.
nf Cruising Pacino seen?
Cry Danger xx Dick Powell 1951 Decent B flick.
Cry Havoc xx-xxx 1943 Very well done flick of women in early WW II flick who were nurses and volunteers in Phillipines.
A Cry in the Dark xxx Streep; Neill. dingo story
Cypher x Would have been better sci-fi if it was shorter.
Cyrano de Bergerac x

Dagon x-xx about sea god who mutates town
Dances With Wolves xxxx Costner
Dancing in Lughnasa xx-xxx 1998 Streep
Dangerous o 1935 Betty Davis vehicle.
Dangerous Ground o
Dangerous Liaisons xx
Dangerous Touch o-x
Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe see: Robinson Crusoe
Dante's Peak x-xx Brosnan
Dare to Love xx With xxx for realistic schizophrenia portrayal.
The Daredevil x Silly, cartoonish characters. Ben Affleck; Jennifer Garner
Dark Asylum o
Dark Blue x-xx 2002 Corrupt cops in LA during Rodney King era.
Dark City xx-xxx
Dark Command xx Wayne vehicle, early on.
The Dark Corner x-xx OK, B, PI flick.
The Dark Crystal xx cartoon
Darkdrive o
The Dark Half o-x Silly horror flick.
Darklight o-x Low rent SciFi channel flick about Eve / Lilith

Darkman xx 1999
Darkman II: The Return of Durant
Darkman III: Die Darkman, Die

The Dark Knight: see Batman
Dark of the Sun x-xx 1968 Rod Taylor; Jim Brown Soldiers of fortune flick. 1968
Dark Passage xx-xxx B flick raised by stars, photography etc. Bogart; Bacall
Dark Prince o-x "The true story of Dracula."
The Dark Past xx-xxx Psychological story of escaped con and psychologist.
Dark Victory x-xx 1939 Davis; Bogart; Reagan in very good drunk role. Excellent cast in OK film.
The Darwin Awards x-xx Some very funny bits, overall average comedy.
Das Boot xx Claustraphobic WW II German U-boat flick.
A Date With Darkness o 2001 About serial rapist.
Dave
David and Lisa xx-xxx 1962
David Copperfield xxx Interesting enough with xxxx-xxxxx as always for Freddie Bartholamew and xxxx for Edna May Oliver. [ The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copperfield, the Younger (1935 ]
The Da Vinci Code xx
Dawn Patrol x Flynn vehicle. 1938. WW I UK fliers...
The Day After o-x 1983 Pre-Glasonst cold war foolishness and atomic bombings.
The Day After Tomorrow o-x Plus, seen already?
Daylight
The Day of the Jackal xxx 1973
The Day of the Jackal xx-xxx
The Day Reagan Was Shot o
The Day the Earth Stood Still xxx
The Day They Robbed the Bank of England x-xx Bank caper.
Daylight o
Days of Heaven xxx Gere Visually sumptuous, interesting topic etc.
Days of Thunder xx Cruise
The Days of Wine and Roses o Nice poem however.
The Day the World Ended o
Dead Again o-x silly film, decent cast
Dead Bang 0
Dead Calm xx
Dead End xxx 1937
nf Dead Fish
Deadline USA x-xx OK Bogie as news editor flick
Dead Man x Depp xxx as usual. Music WAY too loud. Quality b&w photography.
Dead Man Walking xx Sarandon won supporting academy, but overall, xx AT BEST.
Dead Men's Walk see short term TVM series xxx-xxxx
Dead Poets Society xx Robin Williams

The Dead Pool see Dirty Harry
Dead Presidents x
Dead Reckoning x-xx OK Bogie vehicle.
Dead Ringers xx twin doctors
Dead Silence o?
The Dead Zone xx Christopher Walken
Deaf Smith and Johnny Ears, AKA Los Amigos o Just not interesting flick about early years in TX.
The Deal x-xx
The Deathlands x dystopic TVM
Deadlocked: Escape form Zone 14 o OUCH!!! Sci-fi drivel.
Death Becomes Her x Silly vampire spoof. Descent cast, almost watchable. Very funny music score.
Death By Magic o-x Silliness about the clash between good and evil.
Death of a Salesman Hoffman?
Death to Smoochy o
Deceived xxx Hawn in one of her best films
Deceiver x
Deception o 1946 Bette Davis in such a mean-spirited flick I could not watch. It upset me.
Decoration Day x-x/2 James Garner
nf Deep Blue
Deep Blue Sea xx About sharks with larger brains.
The Deep End o
Deep Impact xx
Deep Rising x-xx could have been much better without end which was like Webs
Deepwater xxx Good psycho flick with Black from American Gothic.
The Deer Hunter xxxx
Deja Vu xx OK sci-fi with Denzel.
The Deliberate Stranger x-xx Mark Harmon about Ted Bundy long; TVM?
Deliverance xxx Voight
The Delta Force
Demolition Man xx Stallone; Snipes
Denise Calls Up o
The Departed xx HIGHLY overrated gangster flick. Fabulous cast however.
nf The Derby Stallion
Desert Fox x-xx Slight bio of Rommel
Desert Heat o Van Damme
The Desert Rats xxx 1953 Very good WW II flick about UK and AU soldiers holding Tobruk.
Desparado 0
The Desparadoes x-xx OK western.
Desparately Seeking Susan x-xx

Desparate Hours xxxx Bogart
Desparate Hours x 1990 Rourke

Destination Tokyo xx 1943
Destry Rides Again xx-xxx Stewart
Detective Story xxx Kirk Douglas as police detective.
The Detenator x-xx Snipes vehicle.
Detour o Tom Neal; Ann Savage, and an appropriate name THAT is. 1945 What? B flick like most of today's TV?
Deuces Wild o This was really bad.
nf The Devil and Daniel Johnston
The Devil and Miss Jones xx Decent cast in OK "screwball / social commentary " comedy.
Devil in a Blue Dress xx-xxx Washington
Devil's Advocate xxx Pacino
The Devil's Brigade 000
The Devil's Deciple xx 1959 Virtually stellar cast on OK flick: Lancaster; Kirk Douglas; Lawrence Olivier
Devil's Doorway xx 1950 OK yarn about Indian who owns 50K acres of land.
The Devil's Own xx-xxx Ford and Pitt in pretty good flick about an IRA man coming to the US for funding.
The Devil Wears Prada x Disappointing affair with Streep.
The Devine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood o gril flick
Dexter: See series
nf Diamond Men
Diary of a Mad Black Woman o
Diary of a Serial Killer o
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer x It mentions Rose Red...
Dick Tracy x-xx
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star o
Die Another Day: see Bond
Diner x-xx
Dinner at Eight o
Diplomatic Courier xx Pretty good cold war flick about a courier.
Diplomatic Seige o
Dirty o

Dirty Dancing xxxx Swayze; Jennifer Gray? Second or third viewing as good as the others.
Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights xx Swayze barely shows up. This is not as good but it is funny at times.

Dirty Dozen xxx
Dirty Dozen 2 x

Dirty Harry xxxx
Magnum Force xxx
The Enforcer xxx
Sudden Impact xxx
The Dead Pool xx

Disappering Acts o Snipes vehicle.
Disaster in Time x Low rent time machine flick about disaster travelers from the future. Maybe x-xx in parts.
Disclosure xx Douglas
Dive Bomber xxx Flynn as flight surgeon trying to solve some of aviation's early problems like g force black outs.
Doctor Bell and Mr. Doyle x-xx

Doctor Doolittle 1 xx-xxx Eddie Murphy
Doctor Doolittle 2 xx
Doctor Doolittle 3 o

Doctor Ehrlich's Magic Bullet xx

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1936

Dr. Newman, MD xx Peck in pretty good WW II psychiatrist flick.
Doctor Dr. Strangelove xx-xxx IMHO seriously overrated by others
Doctor T and the Women 0 Gere Upper income foolishness.
Doctor Zhivago xxxxx HIGHLY underrated.
Dodson's Journey
Dodsworth xx Walter Houston Oldie about the breakup of a marriage in wealthy couple.
Dog Day Afternoon xxx Pacino
Dogma o 1999 WTF? Good cast wasted.
The Dogs of War xx Walken in OK mercenary flick.
Dog Soldiers xx
Dogville o Kidman beautiful as ever in dreary play on DVD. The worst parts of Our Town and Waiting for Godot.
Domestic Disturbance xx Travolta
Domino o
Don Juan De Marco xx Depp as schizophrenic man and Brando a psychiatrist.
Donnie Brasco xx Pacino; Depp. Stellar cast in modest wiseguy flick.
Donny Darko xx
Donovan's Brain o-x "B" sci-fi flick from 50's.
Don't Bother to Knock o
Don't Go Near the Water o Glenn Ford : ^(
Don't Say a Word xx
The Door in the Floor o
Door to Door TVM x-xx William Macy
The Doors xx-xxx Kilmer Excellent for its type.
Double Bang o ?
Double Indemnity xxx 1944 MacMurry; Stanwyck; Robinson
Double Jeopardy xx ? Tommy Lee Jones Pretty good. Seen twice.
Down and Out in Beverly Hills o Nolte; Dreyfus
Down in the Delta xxxx-xxxxx Extraordinary cast, writing, information...
Down in the Valley o A dreary story with Edward Norton wasted.
Down to the Bone x Vera Farmiga xx-xxx about junkies and rehab.
Downtown 1990 nfw

See Bram Stoker's Dracula
Dracula 2000, see Wes Craven's
Dracula 2002 o PBS offering misses the point.

Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story xx
Dragonfighter o-x TVM? Barely watchable from sci-fi channel.
Dragonfly xx-xxx Costner 2002
Dragonheart xx-xxx
The Dreamcatcher xx Odd thriller.
Dream Lover 1994 x-xx Spader
Driftwood xx-xxx 1997 Spader in Misery-like flick.
Driven xx OK race movie with Stallone
Driving Miss Daisey xxx
nf Dr. Bell and Mr. Doyle
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde x
Drop Zone x-xx Snipes
Drums Along the Mohawk o
Duck Soup xxx Marx Brothers
The Duelists xxx
Dumbo xx Cartoon 1941 Seen when I was a child.
Dummy

Dune xxxxx
nf Dune: Extended Edition (1984)
Dune o-x TVM special that was not. SOME, x bits, but drab overall. See TV series.

Dungeons and Dragons x silly overall. Some nice FX.
Duplicates o

Each Dawn I Die xxx Cagney
Earthsea x Modest TVM, SciFi channel.
nf Eastern Promises
nf Easy Living
Easy Rider xxxx

Eddie Murphy: Raw o
Eddie Murphy: Delirious o His Stand-up routines.

The Edge
Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield x-xx Very realistic look at a serial killer.
Edge of Darkness xxx Errol Flynn
Edge of the City x-xx Poitier; Way too emotional for content, flick about interracial friendships, strife etc.

The Edge of the World xxx 1937 Excellent slice of life on a dying island well off the coast of Scotland in the years before the movie was made. The director is especially cited in this, Michael Powell...
Return to the Edge of the World 1978 Doc with director and a few cast members returning to the island this was filmed on.

Edison, The Man x-xx 1940 Tracy
Edison Force x-xx Spacey
EDtv x Stupid show about 24/7 reality programming of Ed's life. Carey movie was better.
Educating Rita xxx
Edward My Son o 1949 Tracy Too much whining by all. I fell asleep.
Edward Scissorhands xx
Ed Wood o seriously overrated
Edie and Pen o
The Effects of Magic o
The Efficiency Expert o 1992 Hopkins and Crowe
Eiger Sanction xxx Eastwood
Eight / 8 Seconds o
nf 84 Charring Cross Road
Eldorado
Election
The Electric Horseman xx Redford
Elektra x-xx Jennifer Garner
The Elephant Man xx-xxx
Eleventh Hour 0 Patrick Stewart
Elling (2001) nfw
Elf o nfw. This is for dull children only.
Elizabeth
Elmer Gantry xxx Burt Lancaster
Elvis: That's The Way It Was o
Elvis Has Left the Building
Elvis: The Miniseries see series
Embedded o
Embrace of the Vampire o 1994 One of the many silly vampire films that I have watched. o
The Emperor's Club x Klein about a teacher
The Emperor's New Clothes 0 2001
Emperor of the North x-xx Borgnine; Marvin. Very mean spirited.
Empire x-xx Leguzmano. OK drug dealer film. I think he produced it.
nf Empire Falls (2-Disc Series) (2005)
Empire of the Sun x-xx Grim flick about pre-WW II China and a boy who gets separated from his parents. The end scene is xxxx. Maltin just nailed the film in his review, xx.
Enchanted Cottage xx
Encore o
Encrypt x-xx hologram finds love
End Game xxx-xxxx Fine Cuba Gooding as Secret Service agent when president is killed.
The Endless Summer xxx Surfing documentary.
The Endless Summer 2 xxx
End of Days xx
The End of the Affair x-xx Julianne Moore
The Enemy o-x About deadly WMD toxin.
Enemy at the Gates xx
The Enemy Below xxx Good WW II submarine vs. cruiser.
Enemy Mine xx-xxx Decent sci-fi.
Enemy of the State xx-xxx Gene Hackman; Will Smith
Enemy Within x-xx
The Enforcer xxx Bogart
The Enforcer xxx 1976 Eastwood's Dirty Harry
Enough xx Jennifer Lopez as battered wife who fights back
The Entertainer xxx1/2
Enter the Dragon xxx Bruce Lee
Entrapment

Epoch xx
Epoch:Evolution x 2003

Equilibrium x-xx OK dystopia. Stolen from: Fahrenheit 451; 1984; Data and Spock
Eraser xx-xxx
nf Eraserhead
Erin Brokovich xx
Escape x-xx Robert Taylor? Low rent pre-WW II sort of flick, anti-Nazi propaganda but likely on target. One wonders about the total significance, inpact, of this sort of film?
Escape From Alcatraz xx
Escape from Ft. Bravo xx 1953 Not bad cowboys and indians flick.

Escape from New York xx
Escape from LA o one of the worst flicks I ever sat through

Escape from Sobibor x-xx OK nazi death camp flick.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind xx
E.T. The Extraterrestial xxxx
Eureka x-xx
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford x 1936 Wm. Powell "Screwball comedy." OK
Excess Baggage xx >>> Alicia Silverstone
NFW Evan Almighty a follow up to Bruce
Eve's Bayou o silliness in black community 1997
Evelyn x Pierce Brosnan, Irish family law
Even Cowgirls get the Blues x-xx Relatively silly but the Princess, a drag queen, is funny and Olmos has a cameo in a band.
Even Money o
Event Horizon xx
Evel Knievel x TVM George Eads
Ever After o 1998 Silly Cinderella tale with Angelica Huston. YUK.

nf Everest: The Death Zone Jodie Foster
Everybody's All American x Dennis Quaid; Jessica Lange Hmm. Second viewing xx.
Every Which But Loose xx Eastwood
Evolution o
Excaliber x-xx 1981 EXCELLENT cast in highly overrated film. Maltin gave it 3.5 *. Oy
Executive Decision xx-xxx
nf Exiled
eXitenZ xx Jennifer Jason Leigh
Exit Wounds xx Seagal
Exodus xxx

Exorcist xxx
Exorcist II: The Heretic xx

The Experts x Travolta in Russian spy village
The Explosive Generation o Early William Shatner flick.
Exterminating Angel o
Extremities Farrah Fawcett
Extreme Measures xx OK medical thriller with Hugh Grant and Hackman.
NO > Eye of the Beast
Eye See You xx Sylvester Stallone
Eyes in the Night o
Eyes of Laura Mars xx
Eyes Wide Shut x Cruise and in odd modern marriage.

The Fabulous Baker Boys x-xx Bridges, one and all
A Face in the Crowd xxx Andy Griffith; Patricia Neal; Walter Matthau. Extraordinary cast in early roles.
Face Off xx 1997 Cage and ? in over the top actioner about terrorist vs. cop. Faces were exchanged in operation.
Faith of My Fathers
Faces o 1968 Pretentious indy and inane. Highly overrated at *** 1/2
Factotum x
Farhenheit 451 xx Julie Christie. OK sci-fi dystopia.
Fail Safe xx 1964
Fairy Tale: A True Story xxx Surprisingly good story about two girls and fairies.

Falcon series: > NO
The Gay Falcon o

Faith of My Fathers x-xx TVM Bio of John McCaine.
Fallen xx Washington in flick about ancient spirit that kills people. Seen twice.
nf The Fallen 2004
Fallen Angel x? Senise OK TVM BUT missed the last half.
Falling Down xx 1993 Seen before story of cop, Duval, flipped out Douglas.
The Family Man
nf The Fan
Fanny and Alexander o
Fantastic Four o-x Woof, a real dog.
Fantastic Voyage xx 1966
Far and Away xxx Cruise;
The Far Country xx OK western with Stewart.
Far From Heaven xx Julianne Moore was good
Farewell My Concubine xxx
A Farewell to Arms o Overrated WWI flick.
Fargo xx
Fast and Furious x Vin Deisel

Fast and Furious o 2001
Fast and Furious 2 o 2003 REALLY bad

Fastbreak xx 1979 Gabe Kaplan Not bad for a basketball flick.
The Fastest Gun Alive xxx >>>>>>>> Glenn Ford in very good western, shot on a budget.
Fastfood Nation o
Fat Actress 0 Kirsty Alley
Fat Man and Little Boy xx Newman, the Manhattan Project
Fatal Attraction xxx Douglas; Close.
Fatal Desire o
Fatal Error x-xx sci fi outbreak flick
Father Goose xx
nf Fay Grim
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas o Depp Might be xx or better IF seriously tripping / stoned but DNK.
Fearless xxx-xxxx Jeff Bridges
The Fearless Vampire Killers o Spoofs rarely work. This one was worse than most.
Fear Strikes Out
Feast of Love 2007 0? Did I even see this?
Femme Fatale o 2002 Banderas
Ferris Bueller's Day Off xx
nf The Fever
A Few Good Men xx 1992
Ffolkes xx
F For Fake o 1973 This is the silliest piece of shit Welles ever did and Penn and Teller STATED this was a toss-up to Welles best. WTF? Their comments were long winded and inane.
Fiddler on the Roof x-xx OK musical
The Field xx
Field of Dreams xxxx Costner in great sport flick.
Fierce Creatures xx Jamie Lee Curtis; John Cleese about circus etc.
Fifteen Minutes x Fine cast wasted: DeNiro; Grammer; Farmiga
The Fifth Element xx-xxx
Fifty First Dates o Typical Adam Sandler drivel.
Fight Club xxx-xxxx Brad Pitt; Edward Norton
The Fighting Seabees xx Wayne vehicle.
The Fighting 69th x-xx Cagney vehicle. A coward redeems himself.
Final x-xx
The Final Cut xxx Fine sci fi with Robin Williams
Final Move o
nf Final Season
Finding Forrester xx Connery. Similar to Good Will Hunting but not as good.
Finding Neverland x-xx Depp
A Fine Madness o
Fingersmith x Fair look at women in love
Fire xx Real India. Two women fall in love. Well worth watching.
Firecreek
Fire Down Below xxx Stevan Seagal
nf Firefly
Fire in the Sky o-x Sci-fi flick.
Fire on the Amazon xx-xxx Bullock
Firewall xx A decent kidnapping flick.
The Fire Within (1963) in French
The Firm xxx
First Contact: See Star Trek
First Daughter xx
First Knight xx
First Shot o-x Mariel Hemmingway TVM? Low-rent flick about one of the militant groups shooting her and president.
First Time Felon x-xx
First To Die x
Do not ponder this foolishness, First Wives Club
A Fish Called Wanda x
The Fisher King xx-xxx Williams
F.I.S.T. xx
A Fistful of Dollars xxx Eastwood
Fist of Fury xx-xxx Bruce Lee
Five Came Back x-xx Early airplane disaster film. Some good performances, personal sacrifices, but overall, modest.
Five Days to Midnight xx TVM Timothy Hutton
Five Easy Pieces xx-xxx Nicholson
Five Fingers xxx Good WW II spy flick about theiving butler.
Five People You Meet in Heaven x-xx
Flamingo Road xxx Joan Crawford as low class woman who has ambitions. Trashy sort of novel typical of the era but well done.
Flashback 0 1990
Flashdance x-xx
Flashpoint xx Christopherson; Treat Williams
Flatliners x-xx 1990
Fled x-xx Fishburne 1996 Prison break movie about hacker, mob etc.
Flesh and Bone xx Dennis Quaid; Paltrow; Meg Ryan OK story about adult portion of abused child's life.
Flight of Fury x PU this is the worst Seagal flick yet. He wrote it.
Flight of the Intruder x-xx
Flight of the Phoenix xx Stewart vehicle about ?? time frame downed plane show.
Flightplan xx-xxx Jodie Foster in plane bombing flick.
Flirting o
nf The Flock Gere
The Fly xx 1986
Flyboys xxx Good WW I Americans in France before US entered war.
The Fog o-x 2005 Typical tame Stephen King story.
Follow Me Quietly o 1949
Following x-xx odd UK story of man being framed for murder
Follow the Boys 1963, follow up to Where the Boys Are.
For a Few Dollars More xx-xxx Eastwood
nf The Forbidden Kingdom
Forbidden Planet xxx at the time
Force of Evil x OK B gangster flick.
Forces of Nature o Insipid road trip with Bullock.
Foreign Correspondent 0 Maltin rated this ****

Foreigner x Stevan Seagal
Foreigner 2: Black Dawn See Black Dawn xxx

nf Forget About It 2006
Forget Paris x Billy Crystal; Winger Second viewing worse than first.
nf Forgiving the Franklins
nf The Forgotten 2003
The Forgotten xxx VG sci-fi with Julianne Moore. Slow start, good finish.
1408, Directors cut x OK scary movie about hotel room.
Forth Protocal xx
For the Love of the Game xxxx Costner
Forumla 51 xxx Samuel Jackson; >>> Emily Mortimer
[ Forty ] 40 Days and 40 Nights x childish take off on Seinfeld's master of my domain Maggie Gyllenhaal has small part.

Forty-Eight Hours xxx
Another 48 Hours xx

Forty Four 44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shootout
4400 Forty Four Hundred: See Series
Forty-Ninth 49th Parallel x-xx OK WW II flick about nazis in CA.
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Foul Play o Chase; Hawn
The Fountain xxxx 2006

The Four Feathers xxx
The Four Feathers xxx-xxxx Heath Ledger; [black fellow ?] about cowardice, redemption, loyality

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse x-xx Ford. Subject matter xxx in a 1938 Parisian location. Poor execution however.
Four Rooms o
Four Weddings and a Funeral xx
nf 1408 Fourteen o 8
nf The 4th Dimension (2006)
The Fourth Protocol xx
Fracture 2007 xx Hopkins
Frailty xx-xxx at end Paxton demon killing etc.
Framed

Frankenstein xxxx Karlof 1931 version
Frankenstein o-x Low rent 2004 TVM.

Frankie and Johnny xx-xxx Pacino
Frantic xx-xxx Ford Kidnapping flick.
Freedomland xx Jackson in OK cop flick.
Freedom Strike 0
A Free Soul o 1931

French Connection xxxx Hackman
French Connection 2 xx

Frequency xx Dennis Quaid
Fresh xx about young chess player from bad background
The Freshman x
Frida x-xx 2002 seen already. OK story of Frida and painter Diego Rivera in Mexico.
Friday Night Lights xxx BB Thornton in a fine sports movie.
Frighteners xxx funny
Frisky Summer 2: Sebastian Gay flick.
The Frogmen x-xx Richard Widmark WW II about new commander of UDT team.
From Beyond xx 1982? Jeffrey Combs in early role.
From Dusk to Dawn x discordant vampire flick George Clooney
From Hell xx
From Here to Eternity xxx 1/2 1953 Lancaster
From the Terrace xxx Newman 1960 Good "adult" flick about the climb up the corporate ladder.
The Front x-xx 1976 Woody Allen foolishness.
The Front Line xx 2007 Another OK bank film, in Ireland
F**k x-xx OK doc about the word. Some funny bits.
The Fugitive xx
nf Full Frontal
Full Metal Jacket xx
The Full Monty x
Funny Face o 1957 Audry Hepburn in usually over her head role.
Funny Girl x Streisand
Fur xxx Surprisingly good "imaginative" bio of Diane Arbus.
Futureworld xxx

F/X xx
F/X 2 x-xx

FX

Galaxy Quest x
The Gallant Hours xxx Cagney as Halsey in WW II
Gallipoli xx Mel Gibson
Gambit x-xx 1966

The Gambler x TVM Kenny Rogers
The Gambler Returns TVM x

The Game xx-xxx
Game of Death o Bruce Lee was only in a few brief scenes.
Gandhi xx-xxx Kingsley
Gangs of New York xxxx 2002 DiCaprio xxxx; Daniel Day-Lewis xxxxx A WINNER for director Scorscese too.
nf The Gang that Couldn't Shoot Straight 1971 Deniro
Gardens of Stone xx

Gaslight o Bergman; Boyer Too creepy to watch. or look for
Gaslight 1940 version which might be even creepier but was rated better by Maltin.

The Gathering x-xx TVM Ed Asner
A Gathering of Eagles o
The Gathering Storm xx about Winston Churchill
Gattaca xx
Gaudi Afternoon x for women, I suppose
The Gauntlet xx-xxx Eastwood
The General's Daughter xx 1999
Georgy Girl xx-xxx 1966
Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) xxx Hackman; Damon; Wes Studi as Geronimo. Great cast. Sobering thoughts about the tragedies.
Gerry o
Get Carter x Stallone

Get Shorty xx 1995

The Getaway x 1994
Getaway xx McQueen; McGraw Likely seen several times.
Ghandi xxx
Ghost xxx
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir xx-xxx 1947
The Ghost and the Darkness xx Lion hunting in Africa wherein the lion was a killer.

Ghostbusters xx
Ghostbusters 2 xx

Ghost Rider x So did I but it slipped in. Ty Burr hated it.
Ghost Ship xxx Juliana Margulies; Gabriel Byrne. Pretty scary
Ghosts of Mars x
Gia xx Jolie, AT LEAST xxx as usual.
Gideon Oliver, TVM series o
Gideon's Trumpet xx? TVM
GI Jane xxx
Gidget x-xx Sandra Dee 1959
The Gift x-xx 2000 OK psychic flick. Good cast. Overrated.
Gigi x Leslie Caron In many ways better than or more original than My Fair Lady
Gigli 2003 x-xx Afleck and Lopez as hit wo/men who kidnap mentally retarded man.
Gigot xxx 1962 Fine performance by Jackie Gleason
The Girl Hunters x-xx 1963 Mickey Spillane AS Mike Hammer. OK B flick.
Girl, Interrupted xxx Jolie
Gleason x Good performance by star. 2002, but grim portrait of miserably annoying person.
Glen Gary, Glen Ross x 1992 Excellent cast in dreary film about salesmen.
Glimmer Man x
A Glimpse of Hell x Caan dull as usual. Second viewing better, xx.
The Glenn Miller Story, seen?
Gloria 0
Glory xxx 1989 Matthew Broderick in Civil War flick about black regiment
Glory Road xxxx An excellent basketball sport film.
G-Men x-xx "B" flick about the FBI I think. Cagney.

Godfather xxxxx
Godfather 2 xxxx
Godfather 3 xxxx

Goal: The Dream Begins xx-xxx Surprisingly good soccer flick, sport
Gods and Generals o
nf Godsend
Godzilla x
Go For Broke o
Goin South xx
Going My Way xx 1940 Bing Crosby and the other priest, xxxx. Catholics might like it more than I did but top drawer production values, cast...
nf The Golden Compass
Gone Baby Gone
Gone in 60 Seconds xx Jolie
Gone With the Wind xxx
Good Advice x Charlie Sheen
The Goodbye Girl x-xx
Goodbye Mr. Chips xxx-xxxx Sweet film about UK public school teacher at beginning of 20th century.
The Good Earth xxx Muni Excellent film with much to learn about family life.
GoodFellas xxx
The Good German x-xx OK WW II flick about coorespondent Clooney.
The Good Shepherd xx-xxx Damon in 1960s CIA flick.
The Good Girl o-x Jennifer Anniston xx SERIOUSLY overrated, IMHO
Good Morning Vietnam xx-xxx Williams
Good Night and Good Luck xx Grim b&w flick about Edward R. Murrow and the Joe McCarthy era. Murrow seemed to be a fine patriot and doing a public service.
nf The Good Shepherd
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly xxx Eastwood
Good Will Hunting xxxx Matt Damon; Robin Williams 1997 Second viewing still fine.
A Good Woman xx OK retelling of Lady Windemere's Fan
A Good Year x-xx
Gorillas in the Mist xxx
Gorky Park xx
Gothika x OK possession story.
Gotti xx Assante TVM?
The Graduate xxx
Grand Canyon xx IMHO, overrated.
Grand Central Murder nfw
nf The Grand Harellson
Grand Hotel xxxx 1932 Garbo is wonderful. Whole cast is top notch in early soap opera.
The Grand Illusion
The Grass Harp x-xx Women's film, IMHO. But with great cast...
Gray Matters o Spacek and others in inane brother, sister and other triangle.
Grease x
Great Balls of Fire xx Dennis Quaid About Jerry Lee Lewis
nf The Great Debaters (2007) Well rated by Ebert
The Great Dictator o
The Great Escape xxx McQueen

Great Expectations xx 1946
Great Expectations x Marginal coming of age flick.

The Greatest Game Ever Played xxx Fine early golf game.
The Great Locomotive Chase xx Fess Parker, maybe xxx as Civil War spy for the North.
The Great New Wonderful x Maggie Gyllenhaal about cake makers
The Great Outdoors ? x Akroyd; John Candy
The Great Raid xxxx 2005 Excellently done and well acted.
The Greatest Show on Earth xxxx
Greenfingers xx Good prison reform flick.
The Green Mile xxx Michael Clarke Duncan; Tom Hanks
Gremlins xx 1984
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan xxx Lambert
The Grey Zone xx-xxx VERY DEPRESSING story of WW II concentration camp where jews
opressed others to live a bit longer and better

Gridlockd x junkies trying to get into rehab
The Grifters o nasty tale of con men and women
The Groomsmen o
Grosse Pointe Blank x John Cusack in OK assasin going to HS reunion.
Groundhog Day xxx
The Grudge
Grumpy Old Men xx
Guadalcanal Diary x B WW II flick.
The Guardian o-x Low rent spiritual sort of flick.
The Guardian xxxx 2006 Costner and Kutchner in Coast Guard
Guarding Tess xx Cage; Shirley McClaine, sp.? Seen twice. Same rating.
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner xx Tracy; Hepburn
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints o
Guilt by Association o And WTF was Morgan Freeman thinking of?
Gulliver's Travels x-xx Ted Danson
Guninvere xx Odd tale of semi-bohemian photographer and his string of barely legal companions. Might have played better set in bohemian days.
Gun Shy x-xx Sandra Bullock
Gunfight at the OK Corral, 1957 xxx Lancaster; Kirk Douglas
The Gunfighter xxx-xxxx One of the classics.
Gung Ho x Keaton, At his best. Sad. Well, at his best for a whole flick.
nf The Guys Weaver
Gypsy Moths xx Lancaster

Hable Con Ella rent when/IF Spanish is learned
Hackers x Earlie Jolie flick about computer hacker HS students
Hades Factor x-xx TVM OK bio-terrorism flick.
Hair Spray x
Half Past Dead xx Stevan Seagal better than the last one, some parts xxx
Hamlet xxxx-xxxxx 1948 Olivier stars and directs. Exceptional. First time I understood the words even let alone the connection between the poetry and the prose of the writer. Shakespeare opines on the very process of acting and many other things in his alter ego, Hamlet...
Hamlet Mel Gibson x-xx I began to get a sense of the themes / meaning with this one but star and closeups annoyed.

Hang 'Em High xx-xxx Eastwood
Hangman x-xx Marginally OK Lou Diamond Phillips as police.
Hangmen Also Die xx Czechoslovakian resistens fighters in WW II
Hangmen o Early Bullock is just sad news.

Hannibal xxx
Hannibal Rising x-xx 2006 Prequel.

Happy Texas 0
Hard Contract
The Hard Easy 0
Hard Ground x OK B western with decent cast.
Hard Rain x-xx
Hard Times xx
The Hard Way x 1942
Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle o Nuff said.
Harold and Maude xxx
Harrison's Flowers xxx reluctantly but about war photographers in Yugoslavia 1991
Harry and Tonto xxx

Harry Potter and the Sorcer's Stone xxx [ second viewing even better than first ]
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets xxx
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azbakan 2004 xxxx A fine film. The girl is being pimped out.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 2005 xxxx
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 2007 xxx Excellent f/x.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2008 rent

Hart's War xxx Willis
Harvest of Fire
Harvey xxx Stewart Second viewing o
The Haunting x
Hawaii xx
He Ran All the Way x Shelly Winters; About crook invading Winter's apartment. Not bad, not that good.
Heartbreak Ridge xxx Eastwood
Heartbreakers xxx-xxxx Sigorney Weaver; Hackman in very funny scam artist film.
Heart and Souls x-xx Robert Downey, Jr. Yes, IMHO, overrated.
Hearts in Atlantis xx Hopkins
Heart Like a Wheel o 1983
Heat xxx Deniro; Pacino
Heaven x-xx
Heaven Can Wait xx
Heaven Knows Mr. Allison x-xx 1957 Mitchum; Kerr? OK WW II flick about nun and marine on an island.
Heaven's Burning xx
Heaven's Prisoners x Alec Baldwin in his best performance to date, xx-xxx. Former NO cop. But title makes no sense.
He Got Game x-xx Marginal sports flick with Washington
Heiress o 1949 Olivia DeHaviland
Heist xxx Hackman

Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues xx Not bad overall. Winningham xxx-xxxx

Hell and High Water x-xx 1954 OK post WW II flick about quadraplegic vets. Everett Sloane xxx as doctor.

Hellboy xx-xxx Surprisingly good and funny comic book hero with Ron Perlman
Hellboy 2: The Golden Army 2008

Hell is For Heros xxxx HUGE cast. One of the best WWII flicks.
Hell Storm o
Helter Skelter x 1976 Flick about Charles Manson. Star xx-xxx.
Hendrix x low rent R&R flick, TVM? BUT x-xx FOR R&R flick
Henry V xxx 1945 Olivier's production. I wrote this: "It was an inventive production though it was also troubling to watch as it switched from stage, to outdoors, to table top sets and a sound stage then back to the fake stage ON a sound stage... I preferred the previous production I mentioned, Hamlet since it kept to one setting, but maintain Olivier seems to have understood Shakespeare better than anyone I ever knew about. He keeps the prose AND the poetry and goes MUCH further, experiments with modern theatre techniques, modern film techniques and transcends them in his understanding as an actor, director and producer. Brilliant. I looked up my view of Hamlet and it was 3 years later. Olivier had made serious progress."

Henry Fool o
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Here Comes the Bride o 1955 Mucical about orphans.
Hero x 1992 Great cast.
Hero 2002 x-xx Jet Li in kungfoolishness but some of the FX were interesting.
Heroes xx Winkler; Field

H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds xx-xxx for the time. See War of the Worlds.
H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds 2005 o

Hidden Agenda x Marginally watchable
nf Hide and Seek
The High and the Mighty
High Art o Ally Sheedy; >>> Patricia Clarkson of special note; et al. Hmmm. o is always or usually, a flick I did NOT watch. Yet, second chance at this one [ seeing the whole film ] left me with xxx recommendation overall. It WAS about art, same sex relations, their impact on heterosex relationships, drugs AND one of the BEST background music scores I recall.
High Crimes xxx Freeman; Ashley Judd Second viewing just as good. Judd is excellent.
Higher and Higher nfw
High Fidelity o or worse
Highlander o-x silly mythology
High Noon xxxx Cooper
Highway o 2001
The High Sierra xx Bogart. 1941. This was said to be his break out film. Maltin's 3* over states it.
The High Wall o Due to asylum subject matter.
The Hill xxx 1965 A fine performance by Sean Connery about cruel military prison and rated *** 1/2 I am sure I have seen this before and have NO memory of it or I never did and there was much deja vu.
Hills of Home o 1948 A Lassie movie.
The Hindenberg xxx 1975
His Gal Friday o 1940
His Kind of Woman xx Mitchum; Jane Russell 1951 OK B thriller / mystery or?
Hitch o Will Smith
The Hitch-Hiker 1953 Seen but NOT remembered TFU.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy o Fatuous ala Kurt Vonnegut.
A History of Violence x
Hitler: The Rise of Evil TVM x-xx
The Hit List x
Hitman xx-xxx Pretty good flick with Olyphant as assassin.
Hit Me x weird robbery gone bad. Sort of like No Exit

The Hoax x-xx 2006 Gere
Hocus Pocus x
Hoffa x Nicholson; DeVito wasted in dreary flick.
Hold Your Man x-xx 1933 Harlow and Gable are grifters.
Holes 2003 x-xx Weaver has small role in pretty silly disney flick about boys in a desert camp for errant youth.
Holiday o
Holiday Heart xx Ving Rhames as a drag queen singer. Bitter sweet and in many scenes xxx.
nf Hollywoodland Afleck
Hollow Man x
Hollywood Homicide xxx 2003 Harrison Ford; Lena Olin There are xxxx bits of humor in quirky comedy. VERY hard to rate...
Holy Man x Williams
Home Alone x-xx
Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story TVM x-xx
Home of the Brave x-xx
Homicide: The Movie xx Updating of the TV series.
Hondo xx 1953 Decent Wayne vehicle Western.
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids x-xx silly children's flick
Honeymoon in Vegas o Caan A waste of film.
Honeysuckle Rose xxx Willie Nelson
Honky Tonk xx ?
Honkey Tonk Man xx Eastwood
Hoodlum o Fishburne
Hook o Williams; Hoffman. Stellar cast in upsetting, far too fast paced film for ANYONE.
The Hook x-xx 1963 Decent character study in WW II on a freighter. Douglas etc.
Hooper x-xx Reynolds; Vincent
Hope and Glory o 1987
Hope Floats xx Sandra Bullock
Horatio Hornblower: see series
The Horror of Dracula x Marginal 1958 version.
The Horse Soldiers x-xx Wayne vehicle about Civil, and what WAS civil about it, war.
The Horse Whisperer x-xx
Hostage xx OK kidnapping flick with Willis.
Hostile Waters xx russian submarine hits US one and sinks Rutger Hauer good
Hotel New Hampshire xx-xxx 1984 Jodie Foster and Rob Lowe in John Irving book film.
Hotel Rwanda x-xx about tootsies vs. hootu
Hot Millions xxx 1968 Good embezellment flick with Ustinov xxxx and Maggie Smith xxxxx
The Hot Rock xx 1972 OK Redford vehicle about a heist of large diamond.
Hotshots o take off of Top Gun
Hound of the Baskervilles xx-xxx 1939 Rathbone
nf Hounddog
Hour of the Gun x James Garner Grim, flat western with Garner as Wyatt Earp. Sad.
The Hours xx Extraordinary cast in OK flick involving depression. Streep; Kidman; Julienne Moore
nf House of Bamboo
House of Dark Shadows o 1970
The House of Flying Daggers xx but with some truly beautiful cinematography.
nf The House of Mirth
House of Wax x One of the first disturbing films I saw and recall.
The House on 92nd Street x-xx Overrated WW II propaganda / spy film.
How the West Was Won ?
Howard's End xx
The Howling xxx
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Hud xxxx Newman in superior flick about 1950's cattle ranch in TX. Melvin Douglas xxxx
Hudson Hawk o 1991 Fine cast, stupid flick.
The Hudsucker Proxy xx Tim Robbins
nf The Human Stain
Humoresque 1946 ??? about rating. Maybe xxxx? Joan Crawford; John Garfiedld. This is a very powerful, and underrated flick about seriously trashed adult relationships, musicians and MORE. Maltin liked it xxx1/2.
The Hunger xx Whitley Streiber novel about vampires done pretty well.
The Hunt for Red October xx subs; Harrison Ford
The Hunt for the BTK Killer x Low rent TVM based on real events I think. btk= bind, torture, kill. YUK.
The Hunted xx-xxx 2003 Tommy Lee Jones
The Hunting Party xxx VG Gere vehicle as a video journalist. Black fellow VG.
The Return of Hunter: Everyone Walks in LA x TVM from series without Stephanie Kramer

Hurlyburly o wasted fine cast
The Hurricane 1938 o Just too old to watch
Hurricane xx Denzel Washington about Reuben, Hurricane, Carter
Hush 2005
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte xx-xxx 1965
The Hustler xxxxx Newman: also The Color of Money xxxx One of the close to perfect flicks...

I Am Legend xx-xxx Will Smith
I Am Sam Sean Penn, Michelle Pfieffer
The Ice Harvest xx Pretty good scam flick.
Ice Station Zebra x
I, Claudius o
I Have Never Forgotten You 2006 Doc about Simon Weisenthal, Nazi hunter.
I'll Cry Tomorrow o 1955 One of THE most overrated flicks ever.
I Love Trouble x Julia Roberts; Nick Nolte in slight newspaper feuding future spouses.
I Love You Alice B. Toklas o Peter Sellers foolishness.
I Love You Again o Good cast, wrong turn.
I Love You to Death x Tracy Ulman
I Married a Witch xx
nf Imaginary Heroes
I Never Sang for my Father 1970 o Hackman in self-indulgent film about guilt.
I Shot Andy Warhol x-xx Lili Taylor xxx performance.
I Spy o-x wasted Eddie Murphy nonsense
nf I'm Not There
I'm With Lucy o 2002
Ice x-xx
Ice Age x cartoon
Ice Station Zebra xx Hudson
Ice Storm xx Snippets of dysfunctional families
nf Identity
I Dream of Murder o
If o 1968 Gay themed.
If Its Tuesday, It Must Be Belgium xx
An Ideal Husband o PU
Ike: Countdown to D Day x 2004 Selleck TVM
The Illusionist xx OK story about stage magician.
Imagination xx for now 2007 Music does not fit the flick.
Imitation General x-xx Glenn Ford potboiler. Amusing sometimes.
Immortal Battalion xx AKA The Way Ahead
Immortal Beloved xx
The Immortal Sergeant xxx Fonda Decent war flick.

The Importance of Being Earnest 1952
The Importance of Being Earnest o 2002 Just pretentious.

Imposter xxx 2001 Gary Senise; Madeline Stowe; Vincent D'Onofrio Forgotten and seen twice. Second viewing xx.
Impulse xx Therese Russell IMHO overrated by Maltin
In a Lonely Place xxx Solid Bogart flick about violent writer. alcohol alcoholic
The Incident xxxx Sheen et al. 1967 Excellent cast. All US visitors should see this. All US citizens too and take heed.
Incognito xxx
An Inconvenient Truth xx Doc Al Gore
In Country xx

Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark xxxx
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom xx
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade xx
nf Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 2008

The Incident xx
I Dreamed of Africa x
In and Out o PU
Independence Day xxx
The Indian Runner o Sean Penn directed and wrote.
Indian Summer o
Infamous xxx Another good flick about Truman Capote
Inferno x? DNK what year, which version.
Infinity xxx Mathew Broderick, lead and director; >>> Patricia Arquette
Inherit the Wind
In Harms Way xx Wayne vehicle.
In Like Flint xx See: Our Man Flint
In Love and War o
In My Country xx Jackson, Binoche in after apartheid flick. Well done and necessary watching **
An Innocent Man x- Selleck better than usual about convicted AND framed man, innocent. OK 1989
The Innocent xx OK Cold War story.
Inn of the Sixth Happiness
In Pursuit of Honor xx Don Johnson Horses, old west. One of his best performances.
The Insatiable 2006 o The silliest movie I have watched all the way. Vampire etc.
The Insider x-xx Pacino xxx as usual. Already seen once story of tobacco company whistle blower, Wygand with Russel Crowe.
Inside Man Jodie x-xx with very confusing ending. Washington; Foster.
Insomnia xx 2002 Pacino

nf Inspector Morse 0
nf Inspector Lewis 0

Intermezzo: A love story nfw
nf In The Place of The Dead
Instinct xxx Hopkins
Internal Affairs x OK flick of bad cop.
The Interpretor x-xx About UN interpretor, Kidman. OK thriller.
Interrupted Melody o 1955 The beginning of this bio about an opera singer who gets polio was just awful.
Interview With the Vampire x
In the Bedroom o 2001 Spacek DNK what this about. Title SEEMS to refer to lobsters in a trap.
In the Heat of the Night xxxx-xxxxx
nf In the Land of Women
In the Line of Fire xx-xxx Eastwood 1993
In the Shadows x-xx
In the Time of Butterflies xx Olmos
In the Valley of Elah x Marginally watchable flick abuot killing of soldier just back from Iraq.
In This Our Life o 1942 Bette Davis
Intolerable Cruelty x-xx 2003 Clooney in odd tale of lawyer who falls in love.
In Too Deep o
The Insider xxx-xxxx about CBS news show 60 Minutes reporting of tobacco scandal. Pacino; Russell Crowe
Into the Blue
Into the Fire o Dreary, neverending and confusing tale of NYPD diver.
Into the Sun x-xx 2005 Seagal vehicle in Japan. Good swordplay.
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
Intruder in the Dust xxx Juano Hernandez xxxx; Elizabeth Patterson xxxx. Interesting study in racism. 1949 Almost as good as To Kill a Mockingbird.
nf Into the Wild
Invasion
Invincible x-xx football flick, sports
The Invisible x Dreary flick about teen who's ghost needs others to find his body.
Invisible Stripes xx Bogart; George Raft about ex-cons life after prison.
In Which We Serve
In With Thieves 0
The Ipcress File xx-xxx
IQ x-xx Meg Ryan; Matthau was good
I Robot x
The Iron Giant -x Seriously flawed cartoon.
nf Iron Man 2008
Irreconsilable Differences o 1984
I See a Dark Stranger: see The Adventuress
The Island o Really low rent sci-fi.
The Italian o foreign
Italian Job xx-xxx Theron
It Could Happen to You x lottery ticket shared with waitress
It Happened One Night xxxx
nf It Runs in the Family
Its a Mad, Mad, Mad World xx 1963
Its a Wonderful Life xxxx 1946
Its a Wonderful World ? Stewart;
Its Always Fair Weather o Gene Kelly nonsense.
It Started With a Kiss o Silly fabrication with wasted cast.
Ivanhoe xx Made around the same time as the Adventures of Robin Hood, this grim film pales in comparison, as do its stars.
I Witness 2003 xx Spader

Jack xx Williams
Jack and Sarah o 1995
The Jackel xxx First version.
The Jackal x-xx 1997
Jackie Brown o Serious waste of DeNiro etc.
Jacknife xx-xxx DeNiro
Jacob's Ladder xxx
Jade o-x David Caruso in typical performance.

Jane Doe o Silly disney actioner.
nf Jandek on Corwood 2003

Jaws xxx-xxxx
Jaws 2 x

Jekyll 2007 xx ; Disc 2 xx-xxx

Jerico: See series
Jerimiah Johnson xxx
The Jerk x-xx Steve Martin
Jerry Maguire xx Cruise
Jersey Girl xx-xxx Cute flick about widower and daughter.
Jesse James xx 1935

Jesse Stone: Night Passage TVM xx Selleck. This is his best role to date in Robert B. Parkers series, Jesse Stone.
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise xxx TVM Selleck is just getting better and better, like redemption for all the skating he did earlier on?
Jesse Stone: Sea Change x The worst of the series so far. Is he back to skating?

The Jewel of the Nile xx Douglas relatively low rent answer to Indiana Jones
JFK: Reckless Youth xx TVM? Star very good.
Jim Thorpe, All American xxx Lancaster

[ John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars: see Ghosts of Mars x
John Carpenter's Escape from LA same as Escape from LA o terrible
Vampires x-xx James Woods, slayer from youth. 1998
Vampires Los Muertos xx 2002 Not Bad update of vampire hunter.

Jersey Girl xx-xxx Cute story about widower and child.
The Job disc 1, o
Johnny Apollo
Johnny Belinda xx Jane Wyman xxx 1948 About deaf woman who is raped.

Johnny Eager xxx 1942 Robert Taylor is xxxx in this excellent film about emotionless gangster and his moll Lana Turner.
Johnny Mnemonic xx
Johnny Suede 0 1992 Pitt
John Q xx-xxx xxx-xxxx >Denzel Washington
Johnson County War o
The Joker Is Wild
Journey for Margaret o 1942
Journey Into Fear xxx 1942 VG WW II spy sort of flick. Joseph Cotten wrote and starred, xxx-xxxx. Orson Welles lost control of project and was listed almost last in credits but had a second star role...
The Journey of Natty Gann o Silly Disney? kid flick.
Journey to the Center of the Earth xx 1959
Journey to the Center of the Earth o Treat Williams TVM?
The Joy Luck Club xx
nf Juarez, Mexico
Jubal xxx Glenn Ford xxx-xxxx on second viewing.
The Judge: see Steve Martini's The Judge
Judge Dredd x
Judgement at Nuremenberg xx 1961
Judgement Day xx Sci fi about asteroids.
Judge Priest o
Juggernaut xxx-xxxx Hopkins; Richard Harris
Julius Caesar xx-xxx 1953 Brando and cast are good.
Juliette of the Spirits o due to being in Italian
Jumanji xx
nf Jumper 2008
Jungle Fever o 1991 Snipes Overrated by Maltin at xxx.
The Juror xx 1996 Demi Moore was xxx as usual. Pretty good thriller.

Jurrasic Park 1 2 3 xxx

Just Another Secret xxx
Just Cause xx OK Sean Connery vehicle, lawyer trying to get murder off of death row. Suceeds and man is guilty.
Just Like Heaven xx Cute Witherspoon in a blend of Ghost and Snow White flick.
Just Visiting x Jean Reno Magic based foolishness about 13th century knight.
Kalifornia xxx very grim Pitt; Juliette Lewis

The Karate Kid xxx
The Karate Kid 2 xx
The Karate Kid 3 xx
The Karate Kid 4 x

K-19 The Widowmaker xxx Russian sub in 1960
K-Pax xxx
Kate and Leopold xx-xxx 2001 Star Jackman good. Star Meg Ryan is xxxx. This is an excellent actress.
Keeping Mum xx Maggie Smith is paroled from 40 years in jail for double murder.
Kelly's Heros xxx
The Kennel Murder x-xx see: Philo Vance
The Key xx Holden; Loren. Odd tale of woman sort of "tied to" / involved with an apartment. She stayed on while a series of UK WW II rescue tug captains came and went when they died. Certainly watchable.
nf Keys to Tulsa 1997 Spader
Kidnapped 1938 0

Kika in Spanish

Kill Bill x-xx Cartoonish revenge flick but Uma Thurman xxx-xxxx at times.
Kill Bill 2 x-xx Ditto

Kill Me Twice x Kilmar
Killer Diller x Lucas Black xxx as music savant/
Killer Instincts 2 0
The Killers xxx 1946 Lancaster
The Killers x-xx Marvin
The Killing x Heyden 1956 IMHO, seriously overrated flick. Modest heist film given WAY too much attention due to Kubrick's direction.
Killing Zone x Eric Stoltz Modest heist film.
nf Killshot
Kindergarten Cop x-xx Schwartzeneger
Kind Hearts and Coronets x-xx
The King o
King Arthur xxx 2004 Large scale early tale about the origins of the legend, set 1000 years before.
The Kingdom x J. Garner OK Iran war flick.
Kingdom of Heaven xx-xxx Very good spectacle but pretty weak story and end.

King Kong xx 1933
King Kong xx 2005

The King of California 0 Drivel with Douglas, Michael.
King of Comedy x
King of Hearts xxx
The King of Marvin Gardens xx Burstyn
King of New York x-xx Great cast modest flick
King of Texas TVM x-xx Patrick Stewart
King Ralph x Goodman, John
Kings Go Forth o
Kings of South Beach 0
King's Row xxx Fine cast, supposedly Reagan's finest performance.
The King's Thief xxx Good historical fictioner with fine performances.
Kinky Boots xxxx I think as I was DAU.
Kinsey 2004 xx Somewhat gay themed about the sex researcher.
A Loss Before Dying 1956
A Kiss Before Dying x
Kissed o Yuk. About necrophiliac young woman.
Kissing Jessica Stein o
Kiss of Death x David Caruso; Cage 1995 Cage's pumped character was xx-xxx
Kiss of the Dragon xx
Kiss the Bride x OK marriage flick with upper middle income squabbles etc.
Kiss the Girls xx-xxx Freeman; Ashley Judd
nf The Kite Runner
The Knack and How to Get It o Highly overrated at 3.5 stars.
Knight Rider 0 2008
Knights of the South Bronx 2005 xxxx Ted Danson as chess coach David Macnulay Mac Elvulay?? Wonderful cast and writing. This one hour TVM / FILM was excellent.
Knockaround Guys xx
Kotch o
Kramer vs. Kramer xx-xxx
Kundun xx Fairly interesting tale of 14th Dalai Lama.

La Bamba xxx Lou Diamond Phillips
LA Confidential x Spacey; Russell Crowe
LA County 187 o
Ladder 49 xx Good f/x but very grim flick.
La Dolce Vita o seriously overrated at 3.5*.
La Perla x-xx 1948 Mexican film, with subtitles, adapting Steinbeck's The Pearl.
The Lady Eve o-x Fonda et al. Fine cast in inane potboiler unworthy of all but the most dull of evenings. : ^(
Lady for a Day x-xx
Lady in Cement No
Lady in the Water xx Low key fantasy.
Lady in White o
Ladykiller/s x Alec Guiness 1955
Lady Sings the Blues xx Diana Ross. About Billie Holliday
A Lady Without Passport nfw
The Lake House x-xx Mildly amusing time travel flick.
Lantana x mystery in AU
Larceny, Inc. xx Robinson; Jane Wyman Maltin's ***1/2 is way too many.
Laserhawk o
Lassiter xx
The Last Action Hero xx Arnold
The Last Boyscout xx OK Willis vehicle. First viewing better than second.
The Last Castle xx
nf The Last Chance Cafe
The Last Confederate 0
The Last Days of Patton Only IF the 4 hour flick.
The Last Englishman 0
The Last Emperor xx-xxx
The Last Gangster xx-xxx E. G. Robinson
The Last Hunt x Robert Taylor about last buffalo hunt
The Last Hurrah xx xxx> Spencer Tracy
The Last King of Scotland xx (2006) Forest Whitaker I was not taken by his performance. The other star seemed better.
Last Man Standing xxx Willis in gangster flick.
The Last Musketeer x 2000 Marginally watchable about UK fencer.
The Last of the Dogmen xxxx 1995 Highly underrated. A score for Berringer too. About lost Indian tribe.
The Last of the Mississippi Jukes x doc OK but music marginal
The Last of the Mohicans xx Daniel Day Lewis; xxx+ for Madeline Stowe. xx for second viewing.
The Last of Mrs. Cheney x 1937 Joan Crawford; Dick Powell as con artists in the UK.
Last Orders o too UKish
La Strada o Subtitles
The Last Run x-xx Armand Assante end of cold war movie
The Last Samurai 2003 xxxx-xxxxx Cruise does another wonderful job.
The Last Seduction xx-xxx >>> Linda Fiorentino
The Last Sentinel o
The Last Shot o
The Last Starfighter seen?
The Last Time I Saw Paris xx Typical of era, 1951, semi-morality plays about "adultery" etc.

The Last Wave xx
The Last Waltz xxx Fine documentary with interviews, The Band's final show.
Latter Days o Gay flick Hilton recommended
Laura xxx 1944 Second viewing xx

Laura Croft: Tomb Raider 2001? xxx Jolie Second watching not nearly as good. Third was better.
Laura Croft: Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life xxx 2003 Her performance was xxxx.

Laurel Canyon x-xx Semi-dysfunctional family with well off hippy mom, but she really is too young.
The Lawman xxx 1971 Lancaster in good Western.
Laws of Attraction o
Lawrence of Arabia xxx
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen x 2003 Sean Connery is wasted here.
Lean on Me xx Freeman
nf Leatherheads
Leave It to Beaver -o 1997 Enough said.

Bruce Lee

The Big Boss AKA Fists of Fury x
Return of the Dragon AKA The Way of the Dragon xx with Chuck Norris
Enter The Dragon AKA The Deadly Three xxx-xxxx
Game of Death o

Legal Eagles xxx Redford

Legally Blonde xx 2001 Reece Witherspoon xxx second viewing
Legally Blonde II xx 2003

Legend o Early Cruise fantasy.
The Legend of Butch and Sundance xxx-xxxx Interesting preqel to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Legends of the Fall xxx-xxxx Hopkins; Pitt; Quinn; Julia Ormond
Leaving Las Vegas xxx Cage [ Oscar winner as terminal alcoholic ]; Shue
The Legend of Bagger Vance xx Matt Damon, the golfer; Will Smith, bagger
The Legend of Zorro o-x the silliest one so far.

Lethal Weapon 1, 2, 3,4 xxx for first, xx others Gibson; Glover

The Letter x Small vision flick with decent cast overrated at 3.5 stars.
Letters from Iwo Jima x-xx Eastwood directs mostly in Japanese
Levity xxx Thornton and Freeman
Liar, Liar x-xx Carey
The Libertine xx Depp as free living ? who gets syphillus.
nf Liberty Stands Still
Libled Lady x-xx 1936

Librarian: Quest for the Spear x Noah Wylie Silliness like an Indiana Jones knock off.
Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mine

Lies He Told Me 0
Life x 1999 Eddie Murphy Slight film but worth watching.
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp xxx 1943 x beginning but winning xxxx performance by star, an Army man over his years of service...
Life in the Balance o Bo Derek
Life is Beautiful
The Life of David Gale xx OK flick about the death penalty and more.
The Life of Emil Zola x-xx Paul Muni. OK flick about life of Zola.
Life or Something Like It xx Jolie
Lifebreath o 1997 I have NO clue what this was about. Silly at any rate.
Lifeforce 0
Light in the Piazza o 1962
Lillies of the Field xx Potier Book much better.
Lilly x
The Life of David Gale
Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story xx Corbin Bernsen xxx his best performance to date, IMHO.
Lionheart
The Lion in Winter xx 1968
Lions for Lambs xxx-xxxx Redford
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe xx-xxx Pretty good children's story by C. S. Lewis' , see which, Chronicles of Narnia
Liquid Sky
nf The Listener
Little Big Man xx-xxx Hoffman
Little Caesar xx
Little Children o
Little Fish x-xx
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane o Foster This could be a much better rated flick but the child abuse angle cut me from it.
Little Lord Fauntleroy xxx 1936 With very sweet natured Freddie Bartholomew.
Little Man Tate xx Jodie Foster
nf Little Miss Sunshine
A Little Princess xxx
Little Richard x-xx But good for R&R flick.
Little Shop of Horrors xx Rick Moranis ?
The Little Shop of Horrors ? 1960 Nicholson
Live and Let Die: see Bond
Live Free or Die Hard xxx-xxxx Very exciting first 1/2 or so then its just over the top computerized crap about lead. Timothy Olyphant is good.
Live Nude Girls x Delany
The Living Daylights: see Bond
Living in Oblivion xx OK Indie? Looked like Cruise in opening scene.
Living Proof: The Hank Williams, Jr. Story x-xx
The Lives of the Bengal Lancer xxx 1935 Cooper
The Local Stigmatic o One act play with Pacino trying out a Cockney accent and Guilfoyle a UK accent and failing miserably.
Lockdown x-xx prison film
Logan's Run xx OK Sci-fi, 1976.
Logan's War: Bound by Honor o-x Chuck Norris vehicle.
Lolita xxx-xxxx at time
Lone Hero xx OK modern day western...
Lone Star xx-xxx about siblings becoming lovers, but did not know.
Lone Wolf McQuaid xx Norris
Lonely Are the Brave xx Kirk Douglas
Lonely Hearts x-xx

Lonesome Dove xx TVM
Return to Lonesome Dove x TVM

Lone Wolf Spy Hunt o
Long Day's Journey Into Night x-xx 1962 K. Hepburn xxxx. Its just grim and WAY too long.
The Long Hot Summer xxx 1958 I thought Newman was much better than Johnson and this version was as good as Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Long Hot Summer x Don Johnson 1985
The Long Kiss Goodnight xx-xxx Geena Davis 1966 Pretty sure seen before.
The Long Voyage Home xx 1940 with Wayne in early role

The Longest Day xxx-xxxx 1962 Top notch WW II flick of Normandy invasion. Great cast. Maltin liked it better.
The Longest Yard xx-xxx Reynolds
Look Back in Anger o
nf The Lookout
Lord of the Flies xx 1963

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring xxxxx Second viewing places this xxxx-xxxxx
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers xx
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King xxxxx Simply wonderful entertainment.

Lord of War xx OK Cage vehicle about arms dealer.
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner xxx
Lorenzo's Oil xxx Nolte; Sarandon; the boy was terrific too.
Los Amigos: See Deaf Smith and Johnny Ears
Lost Boundaries xxx-xxxx 1949 Excellent flick about negro doctor passing for white. Racism is very well dealt with.
nf The Lost Boys 1978
The Lost Boys o 1987 Very bad vampire flick.
Lost City o? Saw only the first 40 minutes.
Lost Horizon xxxx Jane Wyatt
Lost in Translation xx Low key love story with Bill Murray xxx and Scarlett Johansson xxx-xxxx SEXY
The Lost Patrol xx, rated xxxx, WW I flick set in some desert.
The Lost Room xxx TVM, Sci-Fi channel about lost motel room etc.
The Lost Ship o
The Lost Weekend xxx-xxxx Ray Milland xxxx, won Academy award. About alcoholic / alcohol .
The Lost World ? 1960
Love Actually x-xx Modest blending of several stories.
Love Affair
Love at First Bite o
The Loved One o
Love in the Time of Money o
Love Potion # 9 o-x Better left to teens. Early Bullock flick.
Love Story xx-xxx
A Love Song for Bobby Long xxx
Lovely and Amazing o foolishness
Loving Annabelle o This lesbian themed flick is simply bad.
Love is a Many Slendored Thing o
Low Down Dirty Shame x
Lucan x
Lucky Numbers x John Travolta
nf Lucky Number Seven Freeman
Lucky 7
Lucky You xx OK poker, love story flick. DeNiro was good.
Lust for Life x-xx OVERRATED, IMHO Given xxxx
The Lusty Men o 1952 Mitchum vehicle.

"M" o
MacArthur 1977 xx Peck
Machine Gun Kelly xx
The Machinist xx-xxx with Christian Bale xxxxx He lost 65 pounds for role.
Mad City o

Mad Max xxx
Mad Max 2 xxx
Mad Max 3 xx

Madame Bovary o 1949
Madame Curie xx-xxx 1943 Greer Garson xxxx
Magic x-xx 1978 Hopkins
The Magician o
The Magic of Ordinary Days x Hallmark TVM Typical pablum, yet I watched it. Certainly no magic.
Magnificant Ambersons o 1942 One of THE very most overrated movies of ALL TIME by MALTIN. Histrionic early pattern for TV soap operas. YUK. Supposed to be a follow up to Citizen Kane. This piece of shit must have had some SERIOUS proponents.
Magnolia x confusion reigns
nf Magus
Maid in Manhatten
Major League xx-xxx Not bad sports film.
Malcom X xx
Male Animal o 1992 H. Fonda This just seemed silly.
Maltese Falcon xxx Same for second viewing.
The Mambo Kings x-xx Banderas; Assante OR? Mambo Brothers
The Man xx Extended fart joke with Samuel Jackson and
Man About Town o
A Man Apart xx Vin Diesel
A Man Called Horse xxx

Manchurian Candidate xxx
The Manchurian Candidate xx 2004 Washington

The Man from Elysian Fields xxx odd film about writer and gigalo Andy Garcia; Olivia Williams and Mick Jagger
The Man From Planet X xx
Manhatten Melodrama xx Gable. First pairing of Loy and ?
Manhunt x-xx based on a pretty good novel.
Manhunter x Low rent version of Red Dragon
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit xx-xxx 1956 Peck, as post WW II "everyman" white collar worker runs through the gamut of adult problems.
The Man in the Iron Mask xxx ?date
The Man in the Iron Mask x-xx Jeremy Irons 1998
The Man in the White Suit xx OK flick about new material in a mill.
Mannequin seen?
Man of the House o
Man of the West xx 1958 OK and authentic looking western.
nf Man of the Year
Man on a String
Man on the Moon o 2000 Such a to do about nothing.
Man on Fire xxx Good flick with Denzel Washington about kidnapping in Mexico. He is bodyguard to child.
The Man Who Cried xxx Good WW II story of jewish Russian girl trying to find her father in America
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing xx Lee Marvin

The Man Who Knew Too Much o 1934 version
The Man Who Knew Too Much o-x 1956 version

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence xx
The Man Who Wasn't There xx-xxx Billy Bob Thornton in quirky flick.
The Man Without a Face xx Gibson
Man Without a Star xx 1955 Decent Kirk Douglas vehicle.
Manticore o
nf Map of the World
The Marathon Man xx-xxx Hoffman
March of the Penguins xx Well done doc but way too long.
Maria Calendaria x 1944 Mexican film, with sub-titles. OK. About indian / indigenous woman, a painter, prejudice etc. Maybe xx IF I spoke Spanish.
Marie x Spacek 1985 About government scandal in TN.
Marked for Death xxx One of the best Segal flicks in Jamaica. I think I saw it before.
Mark of the Vampire o 1935 Early silliness. Offered nothing of interest in vampireology.

The Mark of Zorro xxx Tyronne Power. 1940
The Mark of Zorro 1976 Ixnay

The Marksman x-xx Snipes OK, low-rent post cold war tale of Chechnya nuke plant being bombed.
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Story o for me but this seemed well done. It was just disturbing.
Marlowe xx James Garner; Bruce Lee 1969
Marnie xx-xxx at end odd story of abused child, now a grownup
Married to the Mob o
The Martian Child xx Sweet natured story of orphan. Similar to Kpax but for children.
Martin and Lewis x 2002
Martin and Orloff o
Martha Stewart x TVM AKA as Martha, Inc.: The Story of Martha Stewart. Sybil Shepherd in her usual fine fettle.
Marty xxx Ernest Borgnine
Mary Poppins xx Julie Andrews
MASH xxxx-xxxxx
The Mask xx-xxx Carrey
Mask of Dimetrios x
The Mask of Zorro x-xx 1998 See Zorro
The Master o-x Jet Li
Master and Commader xxx 2001 Russell Crowe as ship captain in Napoleanic war UK. Excellent and violent film. COULD also be very accurate in what it showed.
Master Race o-x Mean-spirited anti-nazi anti-master race propaganda flick. Somewhat predictible but very cruel.
Matchpoint o Yet another of Woody Allen's flicks with NOTHING to like.
Matchstick Men o-x Dull story of con man.
Matewan xx
Matilda xx children's story
Matinee xx

nf Matlock. Season 1; Disc 1

The Matrix xx Keanu Reeves; Lawrence Fishburne Second viewing xxx.
The Matrix Reloaded xx 2003
Matrix Revolution xxxx Simply excellent flick and the f/x were fabulous.

Matthew Blackheart o silly cartoonish
nf Maurice
Maverick xx-xxx Familiar cast, plot make it watchable...

McBride: 0-x See Series

The McKenzie Break WATCH but only with subtitles for EXTENSIVE german verbage. Brian Keith.
McQ xx OK Wayne vehicle of cop vs the system.
Mean Streets xx-xxx DeNiro
Me and the Mob -x However, Sandra Bullock does get it from behind in a rousing romp with lover.
The Mechanic x-xx Bronson; Jan-Michael Vincent, a TOTALLY inept faceman.
Medicine Man xx
Meet Boston Blackie x OK B flick about retired jewel thief.
Meet Joe Black x-xx Hopkins, xxx, head of wealthy family. Seen.
Meet John Doe x-xx Gary Cooper
Meet Me in St. Louis xx
Meet the Fockers o Fine cast wasted.
Me, Myself and Irene o foolishness with Carey
Meltdown x TVM
Memoirs of a Geisha xx 2005
Memory xx Low budget flick about MD who ingests a hallucinogin and has memories from his mother.
Memphis Belle x Slight WW II bombadier pilots.
nf The Men
Men Don't Leave o 1990

Men in Black 1 xx
Men in Black 2 xx

Men of Honor xx Deniro
Men of the Fighting Lady xxx Korean war
Men of War xx Dolph Lundgren Second viewing worse.
The Merchant of Venice xx Pacino xxx Pretty good version. Nice scenery.
Mercenary for Justice
Mercury Rising xx Easy Living
Mercy x
Mermaids xx Cher; Ryder
nf Merrill's Marauders (1962)
Metro o
The Mexican xx Brad Pitt
Miami Blues x-xx Odd film about really nasty criminal.
Miami Vice o 2006 Too silly for words
Michael xx-xxx an angel Travolta
Michael Clayton xx-xxx George Clooney as a fixer / janitor
Michael Collins
Michael Shayne, Private Detective x-xx 1940 Mild attempt by Loyd Nolan at duplicating Mike Hammer or the like.
Mickey Blue Eyes xxx Hugh Grant; James Caan With some xxxx comedic scenes. Like a modern day screwball comedy.
nf Midnight 1939
Midnight Express xx-xxx in Turkish prison for smuggling hash
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil x-xx
Midnight Lace o 1960 Silly Doris Day vehicle.
Midnight Run xxx 1988
Midsomer Murders: The Killing at Badger's Drift x
The Mighty o 1998 Silly ?Disney? kid's flick.
Mighty Aphrodite xxx Mira Sorvino
nf A Mighty Heart Jolie
A Mighty Wind o 2003 Fatuouness with old SNL crew.
Mildred Pierce xxx
Miller's Crossing x-xx
The Milagro Bean Field War xx Wonderful xxxx beginning though.
Million Dollar Baby xxxx Eastwood acted, produced, directed flick about female boxer. Just excellent.
Million Dollar Hotel x Odd group of people. Mel Gibson searching for murderer
Mimic xx-xxx
Mindhunters x-xx Kilmer has a small part. OK psycho killer flick, FBI profilers etc.
Mindstorm o-x Eric Roberts silliness about telepathy
Ministry of Fear xxx or so
Minority Report xxx SciFi with Tom Cruise WAY OUT THERE
The Minx 0 or worse.
nf Miracle 2004
Miracle on 34th St. xx-xxx for Xmas flick.
The Miracle Worker xx-xxx Patty Duke
Mirage xxx-xxxx Gregory Peck
The Mirror o Self indulgent Russian flick.
The Mirror Has Two Faces o
Misery x-xx
The Misfits xxx Gable and Monroe. Their last film.

Miss Congeniality xxx
Miss Congenialty 2 x-xx This is not that good.

Missus / Missis Mrs. Doubtfire xx Williams
Misses Mrs. Minever xx
Miss Ever's Boys xx 1997 Fishburne; Alfre Woodward xxxx TVM
Miss Firecracker o Holly Hunter female movie
The Missing First rating was o. Second was xxx, a fine westernn.
The Mission xx Deniro

Mission Impossible xxx Cruise
Mission Impossible 2 xxx Cruise Perfect opening shot
Mission Impossible 3 xx-xxx

Mission to Mars xx
Mission to Moscow xxx 1943 Walter Houston is xxxx. True story, or based on the book, of Ambassador to USSR before WW II. Stalin was portrayed as a hero?
Mississippi Masala x Washington

See also: Mister

Mr. Arkadin o 1955
Mr. and Mrs. Loving xx 1996 Supposedly true story of interracial couple from VA in early 1960s. Not bad slice of life. Seemed accurate.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith xx Pitt and Jolie xxx Silly but fun offering about spys from different agencies...
Mister Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House o Cary Grant foolishness. Way overrated by Maltin at ***.
Mister Mr. Deeds o, less than o
Mister 880 xx 1950
Mister Murder / Mr. Murder 1999 o
Mister Mr. Rice's Secret xx for kids
Mister Roberts xxx
Mister Mr. Smith Goes to Washington xxx gave birth to TV show Mr. Sterling?
Mister Mr. Wonderful o
The Mists of Avalon xx-xxx Very watchable MZ Bradley story. TVM?
Mobsters x-xx 1991 Barely watchable early-times crime story about Murder, Inc.; Luciano; Lansky; Seagal. Second viewing NOT better.
The Mod Squad o
Mogambo o 1953 Clarke Gable nonsense.
Mojave Moon x silliness but with Angelina Jolie; vg Anne Archer too
Monkey Business 1952
Molly xxx Elizabeth Shue about autistic woman given operation [ seen twice] Rated x / bad rating
Momento xx VERY confusing movie about short term memory loss after attack.
Momenutm x About people with telekinesis.
Mommie Dearest x-xx mean bio about Joan Crawford
Mona Lisa Smile x-xx Julia Roberts. Wasted talent. Lots of young stars in this 1953 college flick.
The Money Pit x YUPPIES 1986
Money Train xx
Monsieur Verdoux o Chaplin's ode to himself
Monster x-xx with Charlize Theron xxxx as mass murderer.
Monster's Ball xx BB Thornton
Monstors, Inc. 2001
nf Montana Phillip Hoffman
nf Moody Blues: A Night at Red Rocks
Moonlight Mile x
Moon Over Parador x-xx
Moonstruck xx-xxx Cher
Mork and Mindy: Behind the Camera x TVM
Morning Glory x Christopher Reeve
Morris o-x Early Hugh Grant flick about 1910 gays.
Mortal Storm xx Stewart Propoganda but decent one. Good anti war flick, anti tyrrant, etc.
Moscow on the Hudson xx Robin Williams xxxx Second viewing xxxx as well.
Most Wanted x-xx
bb Motel Blue
Mother o Brooks ANOTHER snoozer from a loser.
Mother, Jugs, Speed x Pretend hippy flick.
Mother Night xxx 1996 Nolte xxxx about WW II American broadcasting for Nazis Surprisingly good Vonnegut film.
Mothman Prophesies xxx Richard Gere
Moulin Rouge xx
Mountains of the Moon

see also: Mister

Mr. Brooks xx 2007 Costner
Mr. Jones xxx-xxxx Gere xxxx and Lena Olin. She's the doc. He has manic-depression. Meds aren't satisfactory.
Mr. Lucky o
Mrs. Henderson Presents x-xx OK story of pre-WW II theatre. Judy Densch is good.
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont xxx
Mr. Wonderful o
nf Mr. Woodcock
Much Ado About Nothing xxx 1993 Fine, poetic, production of Shakespeare play.
nf Mulholland Drive (2001)
Mulholland Falls x
Mumford xx Sweet natured film about fake psychologist.
The Mummy xx 1999
The Mummy Returns xx
nf Munich
Murder at 1600 xxx-xxxx Snipes as ? secret service. One of his very best.
Murder at the Presidio o-x Lou Diamond Phillips Low-rent Army CID warrant officer mystery.
Murder by Numbers xx Sandra Bullock
Murder Inc. 1960 x-xx Stuart Whitman; May Britt
Murder, Inc. xx Peter Falk's fine film debut, xxx.
Murder in My Mind -x
Murder in the First xxxx 1995 Exceptional performances and story about jailed man hounded in prison by the warden.
The Murder Man xx Spenser Tracy as a dipsomaniac newspaper writer and killer.
Murder, My Sweet xxx-xxxx Dick Powell.
Murder 101 0 Silly Dick Van Dyke flick.
Murderous Vision o-x
The Murders in the Rue Morgue o Shame on George C. Scott
Murder Without Conviction o
Muriel's Wedding x-xx AU film overrated
Murphy's Romance x-xx James Garner; Sally Field
Murphy's War xx O'Toole
Music and Lyrics x-xx OK Hugh Grant and ? but the music was bad.
Must Love Dogs
My Best Friend's Wedding xxx 1997 Julia Roberts in very decent, bitter-sweet chick flick about her best male friend getting married.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding xxx Surprisingly funny. Second viewing x-xx.
My Couisin Rachael xx 1952 Burton in odd relationship with his step mother who stole his possessions.
My Cousin Vinny x-xx
My Darling Clementine xx 1946 Fonda Odd version of OK corral fight and Doc Holiday and events leading to it.
My Fair Lady xx
My Favorite Year o Didn't finish film. Good cast though.
My House in Umbria xx quiet film about bombing survivors Maggie Smith
My Left Foot xxx Daniel Day Lewis
My Life
My Man and I 1952 o
My Man Godfrey xxx
nf My Own Private Idaho Gay themed.
Mystery, Alaska
Mystic River xx

Nadine o Decent cast wasted.
The Naked and the Dead x Grim WW II Pacfic theater flick. 1958
The Naked City x-xx BUT with very annoying narration.
Naked in New York xx 1993 Eric Stoltz OK flick about budding screenwriter.
The Naked Spur x Jimmy Stewart oater. 1953
The Name of the Rose x-xx Second viewing of wasted talent film.
Narc x-xx Liotta 2002

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe xxx
nf The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian 2008

The Narrow Margin xx 1952 Killers trying to kill police informant. Seen twice.
Narrow Margin xx Hackman
Nashville xxx
National Security x-xx 2003 Martin Lawrence silliness about security guards who bring down a dangerous thief. Watchable.

National Treasure x-xx Cage vehicle in cartoonish search for a national treasure.
nf National Treasure: Book of Secrets

National Velvet xx 1944
The Natural xxx
Natural Born Killers xx
Navy Seals o
Nearing Grace o 2005
Necronmicon o
nf Ten 'til Noon
The Negotiator xx-xxx Kevin Spacey
Nell xxx Foster in her best role, IMHO.
The Net xx-xxx
Network xx-xxx
The New World x-xx Confusing cutting etc. but some nice shots about early colony, Pocahontus etc.
The Neverending Story o very disappointing
Never on Sunday o
Neverwas x-xx About delusional UK actor xxxx, and a children's book.
New Jack City xx Snipes
The Newton Boys xx Not bad about bank robbers in the early 1900's.
The New World xxx
Next xxx Cage in good sci-fi fantasy about man who sees into the future.
Next of Kin x
Nick Fury o cartoonish, poorly done even so
Nick of Time o Depp
Night and the City xx-xxx Richard Widmark as unsuccessful scam artist in dark, so-called, film noir.
Night Falls on Manhatten xx
Stephen King's The Night Flier ?
Night Into Morning xxx Ray Milland xxxx in story of professor approaching alcoholism. About alcoholic / alcohol.
The Night Listener x-xx Robin Williams in a kinky futuristic, sort of, sci fi.
Night Must Fall o Upsetting.
Night of the Hunter xx-xxx Mitchum xxx 1955
Night Passage xx Pretty good Western.
Night People xxx VG Cold War flick. Gregory Peck.
Night Shift xx Winkler; Long; Keaton 1982
Nighthawks xx Stallone
Nightlife x-xx on first viewing. Nice, silly, background music. Vampire movie spoof.
Nightmare Before Christmas x-xx Tim Burton film.
A Night to Remember xx-xxx VG story of sinking of Titanic.
Night Watch o

9 1/2 Weeks xxxx This is one sexy flick. Anyone watching with a companion should get laid at least once.
Another 9 1/2 Weeks o Sad

Nine Lives o
Nine Months x-xx Hugh Grant as dad to be.
1900 Nineteen Hundred xx Rated xxx1/2 by Maltin. This was edited with a pick ax.
Nine to Five xxx Parton
Ninotchka xx Way overrated for me.
The Ninth Configuration xxx Keach
The Ninth Gate x 1999 Depp
Nitti the Enforcer o
Nixon x-xx Hopkins and other good cast members but editing stinks as does film. SERIOUSLY overrated
Noble House xx Disc 1;
No Code of Conduct 0
No Country for Old Men xx-xxx, less than an Oscar.
No Escape x Liota Distopic 2022 prison colony
No Mercy xx set in LA swamp
Nobody Lives Forever x 1946 Con artist flick so -x for content.
Nobody's Fool x-xx Newman 1994 Small but OK flick.
No Good Deed x Samuel Jackson
Noel x or so. Said to be the first FLEX? DVD, wherein one got a dvd, paid about rental fees, and had only 48 hours to view?
No Name on the Bullet xx OK western with Audie Murphie.
Norma Rae xx-xxx Fields won academy
North by Northwest xx Cary Grant Pretty good spy mystery.
North to Alaska o
North Country o Theron Now, not o for effort etc. It was just too grim about women getting harrassed at work in a mine.
Northwest Passage xx-xxx Fine Kenneth Roberts book/film with ? Second viewing?
Nostradamos x Low-rent flick about A coming apocalypse. We survived.
Not as a Stranger x-xx 1955 Mitchum as cold doctor with loving wife.
The Notebook xxx-xxxx 2004 James Garner in sweet romance.
Notes on a Scandal o
Not Without My Daughter x-xx 1991 Grim flick about retaining custody for woman entering Iran.
Nothing But a Man xxx
Notorious xxx
nf The Notorious Betty Paige
Notting Hill xx Grant; Roberts
No Way Out xxx >>> Sean Young; Costner; Hackman
Now Voyager xx-xxx 1942 Betty Davis soap opera about young woman under her mother's thumb.
Now You See It o-x Silly Disney flick.
Numb 0
The Number 23 x Claustrophobic nonsense about psychotic schizphrenic with amnesia.
Nuremburg 2000
Nurse Betty xx Freeman; Zellweiger
Nuts xx 1987 Good observation of results of child abuse with xxx-xxx performance by Barbara Striesand, one of her best.

Objective Burma xx 1945

Ocean's Eleven xx
Ocean's Twelve xxx Better than the first.
Ocean's Thirteen xxx-xxxx

The Octagon xx Norris
October Sky x Jake Gyllenhaal
The Odd Couple xx
An Officer and Gentleman xxx Richard Gere;
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou xxx at least, maybe xxxx . Clooney and other excellent cast members. Check writer/director for more of their work.
O Henry's Full House x-xx Collection of short stories.
Old Yeller xxx as a child
Oliver o Silly musical. Rated xxx1/2 by Maltin
Oliver Twist xxx Well done but grim and likely pretty accurate.
The Omen x-xx
On Any Sunday xx McQueen in motorcycle documentary.
nf Once in the Life Fishburn
On Dangerous Ground xx-xxx 1951 Robert Ryan
On Deadly Ground x-xx Seagal
On Golden Pond xxx
On the Waterfront xx
Once Upon a Dead Man o TVM pilot for McMillan and Wife Rock Hudson; Susan St. James
Once Upon a Time in America xx-xxx ? DeNiro; Woods
Once Upon a Time in Mexico xx 2003 Banderas; Depp
The One xx
One False Move x BB Thornton; Tom Paxton robbers on the lam
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest xxxxx
101 Dalmations One Hundred, one... xxx Nice cartoon.
One Man's War x Hopkins in Paraguay in the thralls of a dictatorship.
Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior
The Onion Field xxx Gritty, grim police procedural from Wambaugh novel.
One Hour Photo xx Robin Williams some excellent "stills"
One Man's Justice o 1995
One Night at McCool's o
One Night Stand x OK story of Snipes and Kinksi swapping marriage partners.
One True Thing x sometimes xx Excellent cast in overall grim flick with some xxx-xxxx performances by Meryl Streep. 1998
One, Two, Three 0 Seriously overrated by Maltin.
Ong Bah: The Thai Warrior o Really bad dubbing.
Onion Field x Grim flick, good cast wasted.
Only Love o
nf The Only Witness
On Thin Ice 0
Open Range 2003
Open Your Eyes xx in spanish Cruz aka Abre los Ojos remade with Cruise, Vanilla Sky
Operation Crossbow x-xx Way too much made of Sophia Loren's time on screen compared to film's content / topic.
Operation Petticoat xx
Operation Sandman x sleep deprivation experiment gone bad
Ordet o Foreign language.
The Original Kings of Comedy o Typical mean-spirited black comedy routines.
Original Sin xx-xxx with X-rated sex scene, YEOW >>> Angelina Jolie
Ordinary Decent Criminal xx Kevin Spacey
Oscar and Lucinda x
Othello o 1952 Welles in silly, overrated production.
The Other xx spooky story of twins / mpd
Other People's Money xx Devito; Gregory Peck about greedy wall streeter
The Others xxx scary Nichole Kidman
The Other Sister x-xx
Outbreak xx Hoffman

Our Man Flint xxx
In Like Flint xx

Out for a Kill x Seagal
Out for Blood x vampires
Outland xxx
The Outlaw Josie Wales xx-xxx
Out of Africa xx-xxx
Out of Reach xxx Seagal
Out of Sight xx
Out of the Past xxx Stellar cast. Second viewing just as good maybe xxx-xxxx.
Out of Time o 2003 Washington in really silly ??? It was too silly to know.
The Outsiders x-xx What a fabulous cast. Likely xxxx for that age group.
Owning Mahoney x Phillip Seymour Hoffman
The Ox-Bow Incident xxx-xxxx

The Pacifier o Vin Diesel
The Package xxx
Painkiller Jane x TVM about virus that makes Jane better, stronger etc.
The Painted Veil x-xx Story about mid 1900s UK resident doctor in China.
Paint Your Wagon x Lee Marvin musical
Pale Rider xxx Eastwood in a fine western. Maltin's review of xx was simply wrong and pretentious.
The Pallbearer
The Palm Beach Story x 1942 Claudette Colbert xxx
Pandemic x OK out of control virus in LA.
Panic x 2000
Panic in the Streets xx 1950
Panic Room x-xx Jodie Foster
nf Pan's Labyrinth
The Paper o 1994 Double plus bad duck speak...
Paper Chase xx
Paper Moon xx
Papillon xxx-xxxx McQueen
The Paradine Case x Peck
nf Paradise, TX
The Parent Trap xxx Haley Mills
nf Partition
Passage to India x-xx low key film about rape charges in 1920s India
Passenger 57 xxx Snipes
Passion of Mind xx maybe xxx
Passion of the Christ x-xx Overrated for me but some very nice photography.
nf Pasttime
Patch Adams xx Williams
A Patch of Blue o I simply could not watch this 1965 Poitier film due to the mean-spiritedness involved. Critics praised it and in this case I am not arguing, its just that I could not watch it due to emotional trauma.
Pathfinder xxx-xxxx BUT xxxxx for building a wonderful, believable milieu.
Paths of Glory xxx Stinging anti-war story.
Path to War xx about Lyndon Johnson
The Patriot xxx Gibson
The Patriot x-xx Segal
Patriot Games 1982 xx-xxx
Patton xxxxx G.C Scott Last Days of Patton, TVM, x
The Pawnbroker x-xx Steiger
Payback x-xx Revenge film with Mel Gibson Also saw director's cut.
Paycheck xxxx Affleck and Thurman in fast paced sci-fi thriller
Pay it Forward xx Spacey
Peaceful Warrior xxx Good mystical film with Nolte.
The Peacemaker xxx Clooney; Kidman
Pearl Harbor xxx Ben Afleck
The Pelican Brief xxx
Pendulum o
The Pentagon Papers x-xx OK docudrama about Danial Ellsburg
The People Against O'Hara xx Spencer Tracy. OK court drama with somewhat wasted cast.
People I Know x-xx Pacino
The People vs. Dr. Kildare o Lame, series?, best to ignore.
The People vs. Larry Flint x
Perfect Creature x-xx Pretty satisfying flick about renegade vampire.
A Perfect Day x
nf A Perfect Murder
The Perfect Storm xx-xxx
Perfect Stranger x
A Perfect World xx Kostner and Eastwood, who also directed.
Perfume xxxxx Only second one in a decade.
Perry Mason o 1930 series. Histrionic foolishness.
The Pest 0
Peter Pan xxxx
The Petrified Forest xxx Early Bette Davis flick; Bogart was VERY good
Peyton Place o 50's foolishness and highly overrated at ***1/2 by Maltin.
The Phantom o silly comic book characters

Phenomenon xxx Travolta 1994
Phenomenon II xxx Christopher Shyer TVM Different but equally good.
George's FRIEND, the one who ALWAYS accepted him, loved him, made a HUGE difference.

Philadelphia xx Hanks aids story
The Philadelphia Experiment xxx time travel in storm
The Philadelphia Story xxx

Philo Vance mysteries: O for NO GOOD.
The Bishop Murder Case o Rathburn PU
The Kennel Murder x-xx

Phoenix x another good cast wasted
Photographing Fairies x
PI: Faith in Chaos xx but very busy and upsetting
The Pianist x Grim jews in early WW II Poland ghetto. Strangely annoying
The Piano xxx
Picnic o 50's foolishness
Picture Claire x-xx Julliette Lewis xxx-xxxx
The Picture of Dorian Gray xx-xxx
Pictures of Hollis Woods x-xx About young orphan finding a home.
Pie in the Sky o
Pierrepoint x Story about last hangman? in the UK.
Pillow Talk o P U Foolishness with Doris Day and ?
Pink Floyd: The Wall o 1982 Dreary early rock video.
The Pink Panther x-xx
The Pink Panther o 2006 Even worse than the first.
Pinky xxx Excellent flick about prejudice in late 40s South. Grandma xxxx
Pinocchio xxx-xxxx As a child.
nf Pipes of Peace Bagpipe music, Doc.
The Pirate o

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl x-xx 2003 Depp.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest xxx-xxxx Terrific f/x
nf Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End x Begining, xxxxx finish in f/x with xx story line.

Pistol Whipped
Pitch o WTF were they thinking about?

Pitch Black xxx Vin Diesel Under The Chronicles of Riddick

A Place in the Sun o Painfully dreary film about infidelity, and who cares angst.
Places in the Heart xxx-xxxx Fields
The Plague: see Clive Barker's The Plague
Plain Truth

Planet of the Apes xx
Beneath the Planet of the Apes xx
Escape From the Planet of the Apes x
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes x
Battle for the Planet of the Apes o-x
Planet of the Apes, 2001 xx

Platoon xxx
Played 0
The Player
Playing by Heart x-xx Jolie; Sean Connery [2nd watching as bad as first.] Good cast.
Playing God x Duchovny, Jolie
Play Misty for Me xx Eastwood
Pleasantville x-xx
The Pledge xx Nicholson is policeman gone mad
Plunder of the Sun
Point Blank o-x Waste of good cast.
Point Break x-xx
Point of No Return xx Bridget Fonda; Byrne
Police Story o Chan
Poltergeist xxx
Pool Hall Junkies xx and could have been xxx. Walken; Director/Star Mars Callahan xxx
Poor Boys Game xx-xxx 2007 Good boxing film, redemtion etc. Danny Glover xxxx, KC Collins xxx
The Pope of Greenwich Village xxx Rourke and Roberts at their best
Popeye xx-xxx
Pop Rocks xx Gary Cole TVM Sweet R & R flick for kids.
Pork Chop Hill
Porkys x Teen foolishness.
Portrait of Jenny xx Sometimes haunting movie about ghost or the like.

Posiedon Adventure 1972
Posiedon Adventure 2005 TVM x

Posse
Possessed xx Joan Crawford OK woman falling into schizophrenia flick but she is a bit old to be doing this.
Possession x-xx
nf The Postcard Bandit
Post Impact o-x TVM
The Postman xx-xxx Costner in near future, long, dystopic film about love and hope
The Postman Always Rings Twice xx 1946 version.
Powder xxx
The Power o-x Low rent 50's sci fi.
The Power of One xxx
Prancer xx ??
The Preacher's Wife x Washington

Preditor xxx Schwartzeneger
Preditor 2 xx Schwartzeneger

Premonition o Bullock in premonition flick and she really is not on my a b or c list anymore. Too many bad movies.

President's Man xx Chuck Norris xxx for concept
The President's Man: A line in the Sand o-x

The Presidio xx
The Prestige x-xx This could have been so much better.
Presumed Innocent xx-xxx
Pressure Point xx OK psych unit doctor's flick.
Pretty Baby xx 1978 NO hooker's daughter...
Pretty in Pink x Molly Ringwold
Pretty Poison
Pretty Woman xxx-xxxx Roberts; Gere
A Price Above Rubies o
Pricilla Queen of the Desert xxx-xxxx Fine transvestite flick in AU on a bus.
Pride xx Pretty sports flick, swimming.
nf Pride and Glory

Pride and Prejudice x-xx 1940 Greer Garson xxxx

Pride of the Marines o First 35 minutes so dismally bathetic as to make rest unthinkable.
The Pride of the Yankees xx 1940 Cooper in flick about Lou Gehrig.
Primal Fear xx-xxx Gere
Primal Force xx Ron Perlman sci fi
Primary Colors x Travolta Stellar cast in taudry political piece, targetting Bill Clinton. While Travolta STATED Clinton helped his pseudo religion scientology, he also shit on Clinton here. There is more to this than meets the eye. This Travolts needs to be watched by decent citizens and maybe removed from making flicks. HIGHLY overrated.
Primer x-xx OK B flick about time travel machine.
Prime Suspect: The Last Act Helen Mirren as now alcoholic Jane. Alcohol, alcoholism.
The Prince and the Pauper o Maybe OK for children.
Prince of the City xx Treat Williams
Prince of Tides xx
Princess Bride x
Princess of Thieves 0
Prison of Secrets o
Prisoner of Zenda xx 1937 Seen twice. Both good about look alikes, who are distant cousins. Coleman very good.
Private Benjamin xxx Goldie Hawn
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes see: SH
Private Lives o Mean spirited bickering couple. 1931 Good cast but YUK.
Private Parts x Howard Stern Way overrated.
nf Private Resort
The Prize xx Newman; Elke Sommer <<< HOT
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio o 2005 About fools who had 10 children.
Prizzi's Honor x Fine cast, wasted, acting school for Angelica Houston? If so, it didn't work. WAY overrated.
The Prodigy x
The Professional xx-xxx 1994 Jean Reno Hmmm. Sort of pedophile? theme? DNK. Seemed innocent enough.
The Professionals xxxx 1966 Lee Marvin; Burt Lancaster. Exceptional cast, production values about retrieving a "stolen" wife from Mexican bandit. Claudia Cardinale is striking.
The Program o 1993 James Caan foolishness.
Project A 2 o Jackie Chan AND with dubbed English.
Promise o Grim beginning so I had to stop.
Proof xxxx
Proof of Life xx Spacey?
nf The Proposition (2005)
Pros and Cons o-x Larry Miller foolishness 2002
The Protector o Chan
Protocol xxxx 1984 Goldie Hawn star and producer. One of the funniest flicks I recall. HIGHLY underrated...
nf Provoked
Psycho o Probably well done and deserving xxxx, it was TOO much for me at 17.
PT 109 x-xx About JFK's wartime.
Public Enemies 1995
Pulp Fiction xxx
Pumpkin Eater o Still o after all these years.
Punchline xx Good cast, modest flick.
The Punisher x Marvel comic book character flick.
Pure Country o
The Purple Heart xx
The Purple Plain (1954) NFW

Pursued x Michael Clarke Duncan VERY predictable stalking film. Stalker was head hunter Slater, Christian xxx-xxxx
The Pursuit of Happiness o Too close to home to finish. Will Smith pretty good.
nf PU-239
Pushing Tin x-xx
Pygmalion xxx

Q&A xx OK police procedural.
Quality Street o 1977
Quartet o
The Queen x but Mirren xxx WAY too much about princess Di's death.
Queen Christina xxx
Queen of the Damned x-xx Vampires somehow related to Lestat.
The Quick and the Dead xxx-xxxx Sharon Stone, Hackman and others in a western where Stone is gunfighter.
Quick Change xx 2004 Murray Second viewing x.
The Quiet x-xx 2005 Disturbing flick about so-called deaf teen and her adoptive family.
The Quiet American
Quiet Man xx Wayne
Quigley Down Under x-xx Selig in best performance to date, imho.
The Quiller Memorandum xx-xxx 1966 Better than average Cold War spy thriller.
Quills xx
Quincearana o
Quiz Show xx

Rachel and the Stranger xx 1948 OK Western with a odd sort of marriage that becomes real.
The Rack xx-xxx
The Racket o
Radical Jack o
Radio NFW
The Rage o 1996 This is worse than a potboiler.
Raging Bull xxx Deniro
Rhapsody in Blue xxxx 1945

Raiders of the Lost Ark xxxx

Raid on Entebe xx 1977
Railroaded o 1947
Rain o
The Rainmaker xxx Lancaster
The Rainmaker x-xx 1992 Grisham novel about Memphis lawyer who wins huge case. I read the book.
Rainman xxxx Cruise; Hoffman Stellar cast excels.
Raintree County o 1953

A Raisin in the Sun xxx-xxxx Poitier; Claudia McNeil xxxx-xxxxx the mother in a struggling black family, mid 1950
A Raisin in the Sun 0 2008

Rambling Rose o Dern

Rambo: First Blood xxx
Rambo: First Blood II xx
Rambo III xx-xxx
Rambo 2007

Ran xxx
Random Harvest xxx-xxxx Coleman; Greer Garson Tear jerking, button pushing, yet beautiful foolishness.
Random Hearts xx 1999
Ransom xx-xxx
nf Rapid Fire Brandon Lee
Raptor Island -xxxx Fernando Lamas stars. Enough said.
The Rapture o OUCH. Good cast, sad flick. OUCH. Mimi's tits were nice. SERIOUSLY overrated at ***
Rare Birds x
Rashomon o
Raw Deal x Arnold foolishness
Ray xxx VG Bio of Ray Charles
Razor Blade Smile x vampires
The Razor's Edge xx-xxx Pretty good study in post-WWI life among the rich. Sommerset Maugham's book I think.
Real Genius x Kilmar's early flick
The Real Glory xxx-xxxx 1939 Gary Cooper fine apres Spanish-American war flick.
The Real Macoy [McCoy] x-xx Kilmer; Watchable bank heist flick.
Reality Bites o

see: Re-Animator?

Real Women Have Curves x "Chick flick?" Who cares?
Rebecca o Olivier in retelling of story.
Rebel Without a Cause xx
Recoil o
The Reckoning x-xx Medieval murder mystery.
The Recruit xxxx Pacino
The Red Badge of Courage o
Red Ball Express xx OK WW II flick about transportation batallion.
Red Corner xxx-xxxx Gere VG-E film concerning China and its intrigues, communism, legal courtroom fight etc.
Red Dawn x
Red Dragon 2003 xxxx
Red Heat xx-xxx Arnold
Red Planet xx Val Kilmar
Redemption x-xx Prison flick about Crips gang founder
Red River xx-xxx Good Wayne flick, his "son" was very good.
Reds xxx Large scale production about 2 Americans caught up in early Russian revolution/s.
The Red Shoes o 1957
Red Violin o
Red Without Blue 0
The Ref x-xx Leary
Regarding Henry xx Harrison Ford
Reindeer Games xxx 2000 THE most convulted movie I recall and well worth trying to keep up. ALSO one of THE most highly UNDERRATED movies of all time, IMHO.
Relative Strangers o
Remains of the Day Hopkins
Rembrandt o Gloomy biopic.
Remember the Titans xxxx Denzel Washington I think his best performance.
Renaissance Man xxx Devito
Rendition x-xx 2007 OK flick about a needless incarceration of Egyption / American.
Renegade Force o-x
The Replacement Killers xxx exciting, bullet ridden film. Chow Yun-Fat; Mira Sorvino
The Replacements xxx-xxxx 2000? Hackman; VG on second viewing too story of football strike breaking team. "Danny Falco" DOES sound like "Denny Crane."
Requim for a Dream o
nf Rescue Dawn Director Werner Herzog
Reservoir Dogs xx Good cast but only OK, bloody/violent film. Seen twice.
Resident Evil xx scifi: HUGE company making virus and genetic weapons
Restoration x-xx Robert Downey, Jr.; Meg Ryan Nice sets and photography.
Resurrecting the Champ xx-xxx

Resurrection xxxxx Ellen Burstyn
Resurrection x Delany reprises Burstyn's role TVM

Resurrection x Lambert
The Return x 2006 Sarah Michelle Geller, yes, BUFFY.
The Return of Frank James xx 1940 Fonda vehicle.
Return to Me x Modest date movie.
Return to Paradise x Heche. Grim film about harsh drug laws in Malaysia
nf Revamped 2008
Reveille With Beverly NFW [ And never mind Good Morning Vietnam ]

Revelations x
Revenge xx Costner in Mexico with love interest. Gets beaten up and seeks,
Reversal of Fortune x-xx about von Bulow murder
Reversible Errors x TVM
Revolver xx 2005 About a man seeking revenge.
Rhapsody in Blue xxxx 1945 Robert Alda and excellent cast, some playing themselves about life of George Gershwin.
Rhinestone o
nf The Rhinemann Exchange (1977)
nf Rico, the Mean Machine
Riders of the Purple Sage x-xx
Ride the High Country xx-xxx Good western.
Right at Your Door xx 2006 Not bad post dirty bombs going off in LA.
The Right Tempatation xx Demornay; Keiffer Sutherland Pretty good "B" movie
The Ring xx-xxx 2002 Pretty scary.
Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story o Real documentary but about boxing, maybe well done but not interesting.
Rio Conchos x B western
Rio Grande xx 1950 OK Wayne vehicle.
Ripley's Game xx Malkovich, maybe xxx performance. Seen twice.
Rise; Blood Hunter x 2006 Lucy Liu but barely watchable.
Rising Sun xx
Risky Business xx-xxx Cruise
The River xx Jean Renoir director. Lovely photography, use of color etc. but cold / distant.
The River King o Some murder mystery gone wrong.
A River Runs Through It xx Brad Pitt
The Riverman x About search for serial killer. WAY overrated. 2004
The River Wild o
Riverworld x TVM

Roadhouse xxx Patrick Swayze MUCH better than certain critic's x rating. zap2it.com is one of these silly rating sites.
Roadhouse II x Low rent follow up without Swayze.

Road to Perdition xx 2002 Stellar cast in modest crook flick.
The Road to Wellville o 1994 WAY overrated at **, WAY overrated. Hopkins and other decent cast simply wasted.

Robert Ludlum's Covert, Part I x Low rent TVM

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves xxx not as good as Adventures of Robin Hood
Robin Hood o 2006 the BBC series is inane. Archery feats are simply not possible, the people call him Robin of Locksley. Likely this is to not confuse the teen audience. The sheriff of Notingham is just wrong.

Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe x-xx Pierce Brosnan in typically limited role. Seen twice. NO MORE.
nf Robinson Crusoe 2007

RoboCop 1 xxx
RoboCop 2 xx
RoboCop 3 xx

Rob Roy xxx Neeson
The Rock xxx

Rockford Files TVM: I Still Love LA o I tried to like it...
Rock School o 2004 Documentary about a rock school.

Rocky 1 xxxx
Rocky 2 xxx
Rocky 3 xx
Rocky 4 xx
Rocky 5 xx 1990
ROCKY BALBOA xx 2006

Rogue Cop x-xx Robert Taylor Decent B organized crime melodrama.
Rollerball xx James Caan, 1979
Rollerball -x New version about Russian mafia's cash cow.
Rolling Kansas o Silly, OVERRATED, flick about the hunt for pot.
Romancing the Stone xx-xxx low rent, autre, of Indiana Jones series, but first one about as good as IJ 2 or 3.
The Romance of Rosy Ridge o
Roman Holiday xx maybe xxx
Romeo and Juliet xx
Romeo Must Die x? Jet Li

Romy and Michele's High School Reunion o
Romy and Michell in the Beginning o

Ronin xx DeNiro
The Rookie x Eastwood; Charlie Sheen
The Rookie xxxx Feel good baseball film.
Rooster Cogburn xx John Wayne
Rope xx Jimmy Stewart xxx
The Rosa Parks Story x-xx
The Rose x-xx
Rose Hill x tvm? Jennifer Garner
Rose Red x about house that grows bigger on its own See:[The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer]
Rosemary's Baby xx-xxx
The Rose Tattoo x-xx Lancaster good as always
Rough Cut x-xx Burt Reynolds as a jewel thief
Rough Magic 1995 Russell Crowe and Bridget Fonda in story about real magic.
Rounders xxx Damon about poker
Round Midnight xxx-xxxx Jazzman in Paris
Rowing With the Wind o
Roxanne xx Steve Martin
The Royal Scandal: see Sherlock Holmes
Ruby in Paradise x-xx 1993 Chick flick I suppose. DNK recall when I saw this before at all.
Rudy x about football wishful thinker who finally gets to play Good ending xxx good performance by Charles Dutton
Rudy, The Rudy Giuliani Story o-x 2003 James Woods. Very modest TVM? about...
Rules of Engagement xxx Samuel Jackson; Tommy Lee Jones
Rumor Has It o Silly Anniston fare.
A Rumor of Angels o
Runaway Bride xx Julia Roberts; Richard Gere

Runaway Jury xx 2003 OK rendition of book by Grisham. Muddled beginning and end was better.
Rundown o 2003 Well
Run for the Money o
Run for the Sun o 1956
Run Lola, Run o

Running Scared xx 1986
Running Scared x 2006 but barely Low rent undercover cop flick.
Running With Scissors o

Rush Hour x
Rush Hour 2 o
Rushmore NFW
The Russell Girl x Family oriented about young woman with ALA or the like.
Russia House xx-xxx Connery
nf Russian Folk Song and Dance (1999)
Ruthless People xx DeVito 1986
RV o Robin Williams worse. This was sillier than Chevy Chase doing his family flicks.

Saboteur x Robert Cummings 1942 OK B WW II spy flick. Overrated.
nf The Saddest Music in the World (2004)
Safe Julienne Moore
Safe House xx Patrick Stewart xxx at least. 1999 Good flick and good representation of falling into Alzhiemers. Patriotic as well. Worth watching by any means.
Sahara xx Bogart xxx WW II flick.
Sahara xx 2005 Cruz

The Saint in NY 1938
The Saint

Saint x-xx Val Kilmar 1997

St. Elmo's Fire o 1985 Good cast of youngsters, TOTALLY wasted.
Saint Sinner x-xx
Saints and Soldiers x 2003 Low budget modern day B WW II flick.

Salem's Lot x-xx 2004 Stephen King vampire tale. TVM?
Salem's Lot x-xx King's first film of book, 1979. Equally tepid.

Salton Sea xx Val Kilmar [ state specific: speed ]
Same Time Next Year xxx 1978 Burstyn; Alda
San Antonio xx 1945 Erroll Flynn; Alexis Smith < very attractive. Jodie Foster looks like her.
Sanctimony o
The Sand Pebbles xx book was better
Sandpiper xx maybe xxx then 1965 Burton and Taylor in flick of forbidden love.
Sands of Iwo Jima xx Wayne vehicle

The Santa Clause xx-xxx Tim Allen
The Santa Clause 2 xxx
The Santa Clause 3 0

Sarah, Plain and Tall x TVM Glenn Close
Skylark x TVM
Winter's End TVM x

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning o
Saturday Night Fever xxx Travolta
nf The Savages
Savannah Smiles xx
Save the Last Dance o Teen silliness.
Saving Grace xx OK pot growing widow and Craig Ferguson.
Saving Milly o About Parkinsons, Morton Condrache's book.
Saving Private Ryan xx Hanks
Sayonara o Just no.
Scaramouche o
Scarface x-xx 1932 Muni, xxx, as a gangster on the rise.
Scarface xx-xxx Pacino
The Scarlet Pimpernel xxx-xxxx Leslie Howard 1934
nf A Scanner Darkly
Scars of Dracula 0 Christopher Lee
Scent of a Woman xx-xxx Pacino
School for Scoundrels x BB Thornton is scam artist trainer 2006
School Ties x About jewish racism at a HS prep school.
Scorched 2002 o-x Barely watchable flick about bank robbing.
The Score xx Deniro
Scorpion King o The Rock
Screamers x killer robots on alien mining planet.
Seabiscuit xxxx-xxxxx 2003 Toby McGuire is a simply wonderful film about a horse.
The Sea Hawk xx-xxx Errol Flynn in rousing tale of privateers in 1500 England. Claude Rains is excellent too and was prominent in The Adventures of Robin Hood along with Flynn.
Sea of Love xx-xxx Pacino; Barkin
The Sea Wolf 1941 xx Robinson xxx-xxxx A grim film of Jack London novel.
The Search o 1948
The Searchers xxx Wayne
Searching for Bobby Fischer xxx Fishburne
Seargeant Bilko: see: Sgt. Bilko
The Sea Wolves xx-xxx Decent WW2 flick and excellent cast.
Second Arrival see: Arrival
Second Hand Lions xxxx Great cast: Duval, Michael ? and the boy. Story of great uncles raising a boy. Just excellent.
Second in Command x Marginally watchable Van Dame flick. Worse than the very worst Seagal flick.
Second Nature xx Alec Baldwin 2003 Second viewing x.
The Secret ??? x-xx ???
The Secret Command xxx Fine WW II sabotage flick.
The Secret Fury Do not record.
The Secret Life of Words xx Young woman damaged by Balkan war.
The Secret Life of Zoey o
The Secret Garden xx-xxx
Back to the Secret Garden o 2000 This was a waste of film

The Secret of NIMH o Abomnible cartoon.
The Secret Partner x-xx OK B crime flick.
Secret Window o 2004 Depp
Secretary xxx sexy BDSMy sort. James Spader; >>> Maggie Gyllenhaal Second viewing xxx-xxxx and stars xxxx.
Seems Like Old Times o 1980 Silly Chase / Hawn vehicle.
The Seige xx good cast, modest film
The Sellout x-xx 1951 OK BOSS HOG flick but, there could be more, a genuine social commentary that made a difference.
Semi-Tough x-xx Burt Reynolds
Sense and Sensibility o 1995 UK foolishness
The Sentinel xxx Pretty good Secret Service flick with Michael Douglas and Keifer Sutherland
Serafin Falls xx
Sgt. [ sergeant ] Bilko o-x foolishness. Steve Martin completely wasted. One of the most critic-wise, overrated films ever.

Sergeant York xxx 1941
Selena xx Jennifer Lopez; Olmos Singer Selena Quintanilla Perez's life.
Separate Tables xxx with several xxxx performances 1958 Lancaster; Niven won best Actor Oscar; Wendy Hiller won best supporting Oscar in the 1959 Oscars.
Serenity xxx Commendable sci fi movie. A continuation of TV series.
Serpico xxx Pacino
The Set-up xx 1949 OK Robert Ryan boxing "B" film.
Seven Se7en xxx Pitt; Morgan Freeman
Seven Columbian Kilos -xx Way too bad to watch. No writing, acting or filming.
Seven % Solution See: Sherlock Holmes
Seven Seconds x-xx Snipes vehicle.
Seven Thieves xxx Fine early casino robbery with E. G. Robinson and Rod Steiger. Second viewing xx.
The Seventh Victim xx-xxx Pretty good oldie about devil worshippers killing erant member.
Seven Years in Tibet xx Pitt
1776 o
The Seventh Cross xxx Tracy
The Seventh Seal
The Seventh Sign 1988
The Seventh Veil o
nf Sex & Consequences
Sex, Lies and Videotape xx Spader Seen twice.
Sexy Beast o
Shade x Stallone in card sharp movie.
Shades o
Shade x-xx Con story of card cheaters with Stallone as the Dean.
The Shadow o-x foolish cartoon character
Shadow Boxer xx OK hitman couple with Helen Mirren
Shadow Conspiracy x 1997 Nothing special in yet another conspiracy flick. OK cast.
Shadowlands xxx-xxxx 1993 Hopkins; Winger in xxxx performance. Better on second viewing about writer C. S. Lewis and American poet.
Shadow Man x-xx Seagal vehicle
Shadow of a Doubt o
Shadow of the Vampire x-xx
Shadow on the Wall x-xx Decent B mystery. Nancy Davis was good. Well, kiss my ass. This was Nancy Reagan...

Shaft xx-xxx
Shaft in Africa xx-xxx
Shaft , with new character in the year 2000 x-xx Samuel Jackson

Shakespeare in Love xx-xxx 1998 Sweet natured film.
Shallow Grave xxx ? another viewing produced o
Shallow Ground o 2005 Well, the flick was what was shallow.
Shallow Hal x Jason Alexander; Gwenyth Paltrow
Shall We Dance xxx-xxxx VG dance movie with Gere and Lopez
Shampoo x Beatty 1975 Dreary.
Shamus x Reynolds
Shane xx
Shanghai Knights o 2003 Yet more Chan silliness. Don't watch him again.
Shanghai Noon o 2000 Jackie Chan silliness.
Sharkey's Machine x 1981 Reynold's vehicle and his direction just stinks. Choppy cutting etc.
Shattered x 2007 Amnesia etc.
The Shawshank Redemption xxx Robbins, Freeman
Shepherd of the Hills x Wayne vehicle but the star is Harry Carey?
She Stood Alone: Tailhook Scandal o TVM?
She's The One o Just stupidity.
Shenandoa 1965 Stewart

Sherlock Holmes series:
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes xx 1970 Pretty good single episode about Loch Ness Monster, a spy etc. AND the cocaine. The Royal Scandal x Matt Frewer with an abomnible accent. Most anyone could do better.
Seven % Solution xx Actually one of the better ones.
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon 1942 Rathbone
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars o-x 2007 The worst so far.

Sherrybaby xxx Maggie Gyllenhaal about child abuse, drug abuse, after prison life, more, truth.
Shindler's List xxx
Shine xx schizophrenia
nf Shine a Light: see docs.

The Shining xx 1980 Nicholson
The Shining xxx TVM seemed better to me

Shining Through o 1992
Ship of Fools xx-xxx
The Shipment xx silliness about Mexican viagra, crooks etc.
The Shipping News xx Spacey
Shipwrecked x Low rent but OK children's story.
Shock to the System o
Shock Treatment nfw
Shogun xx-xxx Clavell's novel
Shooter 2007 xx OK marksman Mark Walberg flick
The Shootist xxx Wayne
Shoot to Kill x-xx Poitier; Berenger in OK actioner.
The Shop Around the Corner xx
Shortbus xxx Fun sexy flick of underground sex club.
Short Circuit xx
Showgirls x Grim story of criminal becoming a showgirl in LV.
Showtime x-xx DeNiro; Murphy

Shrek xx
Shrek 2 xx
Shrek the Third 0

Sicko Michael Moore 0 doc
nf Side Street
Sideways o
The Sight x-xx 2000 This looked to me like what the TV show Medium was based on.
Signs xx Mel Gibson
Silence of the Lambs xxxx >>> Jodie Foster; Hopkins
The Silencers o
Silent Running xx 1972
Silhoutte o Faye Dunaway stars, produces SHIT.
Silkwood xxx Cher
nf Silver Man
Simone xxxx Pacino 2002
Sin o
Since You Went Away o OUCH, early soap operatic foolishness. Decent cast, cast aside in the suds.

Sin City xx-xxx Stylish flick from a graphic novel.
nf Sin City 2

The Singing Detective o 2003 Downey is just wasted.
Singing in the Rain x Gene Kelly MUSICAL
Sink the Bismarck xx 1960 Decent WW II UK flick about this event.
Sirens xx Hugh Grant 1994 Soft core porn. Might be interesting on DVD.
Sister Act xx Whoopi Goldberg
Sitting Pretty o
Six Days, Seven Nights xxx Harrison Ford; Ann Hesche Good, modern day sort of, screwball comedy.
Sixteen Blocks xxx Willis in tale of dirty police. Mos Def did a fine job, xxx-xxxx.
The Sixth Day x ARNOLD
The Sixth Sense xx 1999
Skins x story of reservation policeman who was a vigilante
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow o Stylized, cartoonish and the color scheme was very annoying.
Skylark: see Sarah plain and tall
Skyriders o 1976
Slayer nfw
Sleeper xxx Allen For me, his best but I said this of bananas.
Sleeper/s xx-xxx DeNiro; Hoffman... Stellar cast
Sleeping Beauty xxx
The Sleeping Dictionary x-xx
Sleeping With the Enemy x-xx Roberts
Sleepless in Seattle xxx
The Slender Thread o About a suicide hotline.
Sleepy Hollow x-xx with xxx ending. 1999 Depp in retelling of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

Sleuth xx 1972 NOT xxxx as Maltin. Michael Caine, Lawrence Olivier.
nf Sleuth 2007

A Sleuth
Sliding Doors o Incomprehensible at best.
A Slight Case of Murder o Macy
Slingblade xxx Thornton
nf Slipstream Hopkins
Slip Stream -o This vies with the VERY worst movies I actually watched. TVM, Sci-Fi channel.
Slither x Odd road movie of sorts. Very good beginning. The rest is drivil.
Sliver
Slow Burn
Slums of Beverly Hills o Teen flick showing a tiny bit of skin and young teen coming of age, sort of.
Small Sacrifices o Woman might have killed her children?
Smash-Up o
nf Smiley's People UK series.
Smoke xx William Hurt is better than usual. Harvey Keitel is good.
Smokey and the Bandit x-xx Reynolds
Smokin Aces x-xx Affleck
Snake Eyes x-xx Cage; Senise
The Snake Pit Likely xxx but I could not watch it all, cuckoo hospital scenes etc.
Snatch xxx Brad Pitt
Sneakers xx-xxx Redford
The Sniper 1954 o About a serial killer of women. *** rated

Sniper xx
Sniper 2 x
Sniper 3 xx < best production values

Snow Cake x-xx OK story of autistic Sigourney Weaver losing her daughter.
Snow White xxxx
Snow White: A Tale of Terror o Weaver
Snow Wonder o
Soapdish x xx for some laughs Good cast, somewhat wasted.
Solaris xx 2002 Clooney
Soldier xx scifi Kurt Russell
Soldier of Fortune xx Clarke Gable 1955
A Soldier's Story xx-xxx Black lawyer defends blacks in 1944 Louisiana batallion.
A Soldier's Sweetheart xx 1996 Interesting flick about girl who comes to visit boyfriend in Vietnam and REALLY takes to the experience, ends up going out on patrols with the greenies, the Green Berets.
Soldiers Three x Silly 1918 UK empire army flick in India.
Solo o Silly robot warrior vs. evil colonel flick.
Somebody Up There Likes Me xx
Some Like It Hot x-xx Hey, fuck it, this was simply not that interesting.
Someone Like You x silly gril stuff
Some Came Running x
Something of Value x-xx Hudson; Poitier Some xxx thoughts on black / white interaction.
Somethings Gotta Give xxx at least 2003 Diane Keaton was xxxx. Nicholson was good too in a chick flick about age related dating etc. Very fun.
Something to Talk About
Something Wicked This Way Comes o
Something Wild x Griffith; Daniels

Sommersby xxx Foster; Gere
Songcatcher x-xx
The Song of Bernadette x-xx Jones xxx-xxxx
Sonny x-xx 1981 NO male prostitute.
The Son of Monte Cristo o Silly tale of general trying to rule Lichtenberg.
Son of the Mask x
Sophie's Choice xxx Jean needs to see this one.
Sopranos: see series
So Proudly We Hail x WW II nurses in the Phillipines.
Sorcerer xxx
Souls Midnight 0 or worse.
Sound of Music xxxxx
nf A Sound of Thunder
Sounder xx
The Southerner o
South Pacific
Soylent Green x-xx
Space Cowboys xx 2000
Spanglish
Spanish Judges xx-xxx DeNofrio. Quirky heist, double cross flick.
Spartacus x-xx 2004 Goran Visnjic from ER. TVM 4 hours.
Spartan xx-xxx
nf Speakeasy
The Specialist xx Stallone

Species x-xx sci fi
Species 2 x
Species 3 o-x, Barely.
Species 4: The Awakening o 2007

Speed xx
Speed 2 xx Sandra Bullock. FLAWED, string pulling but special effects concept was cool.

nf Speed Racer (2008)
Spellbound xxx 1945

Spencer: Pale Kings and Princes x low rent
Spencer: Small Vices x low rent.
Spider xx 2003 Fiennes xxx Man just out of mental hospital.

Spiderman xx
Spiderman 2 x-xx
Spiderman 3 x-xx

The Spiral Staircase x-xx 1946 thriller
Splash xxx Hanks; Hannah a mermaid. Sweet film
Splinter 0
Split Second o
The Spring x-xx Kyle MacLachlan
Spun o
Spy Game xxx Pitt; Redford
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold xx 1966
Squanto: A Warrior's Tale xx-xxx
The Staircase Murders
Stakeout xx Dreyfuss Overblown as usual.
Stalag 17 x-xx
The Stand xx TVM with Senise, the first time I saw him.
Stand and Deliver xxx Olmos
The Star Chamber
Stardust o-x BUT DeNiro xxx as drag queen pirate.

Stargate xxx Spader; Kurt Russel TV series better, just like MASH
nf Stargate: The Ark of Truth

Starman xxx Jeff Bridges very good, much better than TV series
Star Quest o 1994 but with special effects of 1950 or earlier.
Starsky and Hutch

Star Trek original cast
Star Trek: The Motion Picture xx-xxx
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan xxx
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock xxx
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home xxx
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier xx
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country xx
Star Trek VIII: Frist Contact
Star Trek IX: Insurrection
Star Trek X: Nemisis
Star Trek

Next Generation

Star Trek: Generations xxx
Star Trek: First Contact xxx
Star Trek: Nemesis xxxx-xxxxx The whole Next crew: Stewart, Sirtis, Frakes, Spiner, McFadden,Dorn and
Star Trek: Insurrection xxx

Star Wars 1 2 3 xxx
Star Wars 1 : Phantom Menace xx
Star Wars 2 : Attack of the Clones xx convoluted
Star Wars 3 Revenge of the Sith x This was just silly but the end was OK.

Starship Troopers xx Heinlein's story
Starting Over
State and Main o
State of Grace x
nf State of the Union
Stateside o Kilmer
The Station Agent xxx
Steal x OK B heist flick with xxx music IF stoned.
Steel Dawn x-xx Swayze
Stella Dallas o
nf Steel Toes
The Stepford Wives o 2004 Kidman

Stephen King's: Desparation o from the start and I could not get past the first few mean-spirited scenes. DNK what it was about.
Stephan King's Kingdom Hospital, Thy Kingdom Come o This was just wrong. He did not write the novel. Silliness with an anteater playing a big part.
Stephan King's Death's Kingdom: Goodbye Kiss o

Steve Martini's The Judge

Steven Wright: When the Leaves Blow Away xxxxx This was the funniest routine I have seen. All oneliners. An entire comedy ballet in another dimension that I really wanted to be in.

The Stickup xx Spader
The Sting xxxxx Newman; Redford Great flick, cast etc.
The Sting II xx Jackie Gleason was xxx

Stir of Echoes xx Kevin Bacon; Catherine Erbe

Stone Cold x-xx Selleck in MUCH improved acting. OK version of Robert Parker novel

nf Stop-Loss 2008
Stormy Monday xx
The Story of Dr. Wassell xx Early WW II doctor, Cooper, who was a hero.
The Story of GI Joe xx
The Story of Louis Pasteur x-xx 1936 Paul Muni xxx
The Story of Robert Adams: See The Last Confederate 0
Storyville x-xx Spader xxx
The Straight Story xx 1999 Star Richard Farnsworth xxx-xxxx.
Straight Talk x-xx Parton; Woods
nf Straight Time
Strange Cargo xx Gable Seen before.
Strange Days xx scifi Juliette Lewis 1995
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers x-xx OK flick with Stanwyck; Douglas 1946
The Stranger 1946 xx Orson Welles; E. G. Robinson
A Stranger Among Us xx hasidic community, policeWOMAN..
Stranger Inside inside a woman's prison xx
Strangers on a Train xx-xxx
nf Strangers with Candy (2005)
Stranger Than Fiction x
The Stratton Story xx-xxx 1949 Stewart xxxx as usual. Story about baseball player who lost his leg and went on playing.
nf Strays Vin Diesel
A Streetcar Named Desire xx-xxx
Striking Distance x-xx Willis
Stripes x-xx Bill Murray
Strictly Sinatra o
Stuck on You o
St. Valentine's Day Massacre
The Subject Was Roses xx-xxx
Submerged x-xx 2001 ? True? tale of pre-WWII sub that sinks.
Submerged xx 2005 Steven Segal vehicle about mind control device, destroying the inventor etc.

Subspecies IV: Bloodstorm o vampire inanity

The Substitute x
The Substitute 2 o-x
The Substitute x

Suddenly xxx Sinatra
Suddenly Last Summer xx Elizabeth Taylor xxx at least in grim play about family secrets and children eating her cousin.
The Sugarland Express o 1974 Hawn wasted once more.
Suicide Kings o-x 4 youths kidnap mafia boss
Sullivan's Travels o 1941
Sum of All Fears xxxx
The Sum of Us x Russel Crowe as a gay fellow who tends to his father.
Summer and Smoke 0 1961 One of many in this era of smoldering but repressed sexuality.
Summer of Sam o 1999 Cheesy TVM about David Berkowitz.
A Summer Place xxx-xxxx in many ways the most influential or emotion laden film I ever saw. Sandra Dee; Troy Donahue
Sunrise at Campobello o About FDR SERIOUSLY overrated.
nf Sunrise Earth: American Sunrises: Disc 1
Sunset Boulevard xxx 1950 Gloria Swanson. Odd, adult oriented movie about compromised writer, aging silent film actress etc.
Sunshine 2007 xx-xxx or xxxx Low budget story of crew sent to ignite bomb in the sun. Surprisingly good.
The Sunshine Boys xx ?
nf Suspension (2008)
Superfly o 1972 This is a joke.

Superman: The Movie xxx
Superman 2 xx
Superman 3 x
Superman 4 x
Superman Returns xx-xxx Maybe/

Supernova x-xx Spader; Angela Bassett
Support Your Local Sheriff xx-xxx Garner
The Sure Thing o 1985
nf Surveillance 2005
Suspect xxx Cher in good courtroom drama.
Suspect Zero xxxx Mass murder mystery. Ben Kinglsey xxxxx
Susperia o
Suspicion xx 1941 Overrated for me at xxxx. Mean spirited film with Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine.
Swamp Thing x
SWAT xx-xxx 2003 Samuel Jackson xxx at least. Violent actioner about SWAT in LA.
nf Sweeney Todd 2007 Depp
The Sweeney: Series 1: Disc 1 0
Sweepings o
Sweet Bird of Youth x-xx Newman et al. Stellar cast in seriously grim ADULT, emotion-wise, film.
Sweet Dreams x Patsy Cline Biopic
Sweet Talker x-xx
Swing Time o 1936 Astaire; Rogers
Switching Channels x 1988 Low rent Network sort of show with bits of humor.
The Swimmer xx 1963 Lancaster xxx-xxxx. Odd story, rated by Maltin at 3.5* as VASTLY underrated. However, I simply saw it as a man sinking into some sort of brain disorder who had escaped from his psych hospital. The time "lost" during each swimming pool varied and his behavior just placed this into a brain disorder category rather, like Maltin said, a "memory" category, IMHO...
Swimming With Sharks
Swordfish xx
Sword of Sherwood Forrest o Robin Hood foolishness
Sybil xxx
Sylvia o Teen? angst about Sylvia Plath.
Sylvia Scarlett o
Syriana x

Tactical Assault o
Tadpole o-x Weaver for bright mid-teenage boys?
The Tailor of Panama xx Brosnan
Take the High Ground x Widmark. BUT xx as a recruiting flick maybe xxx for accuracy of boot camp.
Take the Lead xxx Fine modern day dance flick.
Taking Lives xx OK Jolie as FBI agent in CA.
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three xx 1974
The Talented Mr. Ripley xx Matt Damon
Talent For the Game xxx 1991 Olmos in vg baseball flick.
A Tale of Two Cities x-xx 1935 WAY overrated at ****
A Tale of Two Cities o ?
The Talk of the Town xxx
Talledega Nights o
The Tall Men o 1955
The Tall Target xxx Surprisingly good pre-Civil war tale of policeman Dick Powell protecting Abe Lincoln.
Tammy x-xx
Tango and Cash xx
Tap xx Hines
Tape o This is worse than the other reunion flick, The Big Chill.
Target x Hackman
Target Earth o-x Seen twice. Same rating, AT BEST.
The Tarnished Angels x Disguised morality tale. 1958

Tarzan the Ape Man xxx-xxxx Weissmuller
Tarzan and His Mate xxx-xxxx Weissmuller; O'Sullivan
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan xxx Lambert
Tarzan the Ape Man o Bo Derek stars and produced. 1981

Task Force xx-xxx Cooper in navy
Tea and Sympathy o 1956 I think this is a soaper about college life.
Tea With Mussolini xx 1999 Exceptional cast, acting xxxx, OK true? story.
Teahouse of the August Moon xx-xxx 1956 Brando; Ford and Ford are all excellent.
Tears of the Sun xxx Willis Good but disturbing story of Rangers sent to Nigeria during wartime to retrieve a female doctor.
Telefon xxx Bronson
Tell Them Willie Boy is Here xx
ten 10 xx
The Ten Commandments xxx Heston
Ten Days or the like x
Tender Trap o
Ten Gentlemen From West Point
[Ten] 10 Items or Less x Very funny start that fizzles.
nf 10,000 BC
nf Ten 'til Noon
Tenth & Wolf x-xx Kilmer gets killed in this FBI profiller killer.
Tequila Sunrise o Gibson
The Terminal xx 2004 Hanks
Terminal Error o-x
Terminal Invasion x low budget scifi

Terminator 1 xxx >>>> James Cameron
Terminator 2: Judgement Day xxx-xxxx
Terminator 3 Rise of the Machines xx 2003 Still watchable.

Terms of Endearment x-xx Winger?
The Terror Nicholson
T-Force o At best. Silly sci-fi about robotic SWAT team.
Thank You For Smoking x-xx
That Uncertain Feeling o 1941
Thelma and Louise xxx
The Theory of Flight
There Goes My Baby xx
There Will Be Blood x 2007
They Call Me Sirr xx Michael Clark Duncan Fact based. Good motivator for youth.
They Died With Their Boots On o 1941 Errol Flyn silliness about the young Custer, inadvertantly becoming genera..
nf They Live by Night
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? xxx but VERY depressing.
They Were Expendable xx Wayne vehicle
They Won't Believe Me
Thick as Thieves x-xx
Thief of Time o Hillerman novel
The Thin Man xxx 1935 Dick Powell; Myrna Loy
The Thin Red Line, seen twice, xxx Nolte and others
The Thing from Another World xx-xxx Arness
The Third Man xx-xxx Music more memorable than film
The Third Miracle xx
Thirteen Days [ Cuban missle crisis ] xxx Costner
The Thirteenth Floor xx-xxx about advanced computer simulations
thirteenth The 13th Warrior xx-xxx on second viewing.
thirteen thirty 13 Going on Thirty Modest flick about magic dust turning Alias star into adult and back.
Thirty Nine 39 Steps xxx-xxxx 1949 Very watchable spy flick, circa pre-WW II I think.
The 39 Steps 1935

This Boy's Life x-xx Deniro; Barkin. Grim life of abuse boy who becomes famous writer, Tobias Hill?
This Gun for Hire xx-xxx Ladd
This Island Earth x Foolishness in 1955 sci-fi. WAY overrated, IMHO.
This is My Affair 0
This Sporting Life x 1963 Very grim Richard Harris flick about rugby.

The Thomas Crown Affair x-xx Brosnan
The Thomas Crown Affair xx-xxx First one, 1968.
A Thousand Clowns x Star in the vein of Elwood P. Dowd, Harvey and Grandpa in You Can't Take It With You. Then it got pompous about its own cuteness / sweetness. It was a way to explain social dropouts, namely hippies, to straight people.
Thr3e x-xx 2007

Three Amigos xx
< Three Amigos 2 x-xx

Three Came Home xx Pretty sure I saw it.
Three Comrades xx
The Three Faces of Eve xx-xxx Somewhat grim film about MPD but Woodword xxxx.
Three Godfathers
300 xxx 2007 Stylized flick about Spartans.
Three Kings x-xx Clooney
The Three Lives of Karen x Marginally watchable flick about MPD . 1997
Three Men and a Baby xx
Three/// 3000 Miles to Graceland
Three Needles x-xx OK look at possible causes of aids spread but NOTHING about its origin.
The Three Stooges x-xx 2000 TV bio

Three ten 3:10 to Yuma 1959 xx Glenn Ford as the bad guy in a pretty good western.
Three ten 3:10 to Yuma 2007

Three Wiseguys o 2005
Threshold o-x 200? Marginally watchable flick about alien moths etc.
The Thrill of it All 1963 Garner
Thunderball xx-xxx Bond flick
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot xxx
Thunder Road o
nf Thirty Days of Night
THX 1138 -x Robert Duval Total waste of talent.
Ticker xx
Tigerland x-xx OK boot camp flick.
Tightrope x Eastwood; Bujold
Till Death Do Us Part o
Till the End of Time o
Time Bomb o Silly TVM that IS a bomb.
Timecop x-xx Van Damme
Timeline xx-xxx Good translation from novel..

The Time Machine xx-xxx 2002
The Time Machine xx 1960 version

The Time Shifters x
A Time to Kill xx from Grisham book
A Time to Remember 0 Dana Delany Drivel
Tin Cup xxx Costner; Russo golf theme story
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy o
Tin Man x Marginally watchable version of The Wizard of Oz.
Tin Men xx DeVito
Tin Star xxx Excellent Henry Fonda western.
Tipping the Velvet x-xx Victorian era lesbians.
Titan A.E.

Titanic xx-xxx 1953
Titanic xxx Pitt
nf TKO (2007)
The Toast of New York o Old flick that I just could not get into.
Tobruk xx OK war flick.
To Catch a Thief xxx 1955
To Dance With the White Dog x-xx Cronyn / Tandy 1993. Hmm. This could be a very good film to show children about dying grandparents etc. In this, xxx.
Today You Die xx Seagal vehicle that works well about ? prison etc.
To Die For xx with xxx bits Kidman; Illeana Douglas <<< VERY attractive woman
Together foreign BUT rent it someday
To Have and Have Not xx Bogart
To Hell and Back xx-xxx Audie Murphy
To Kill a Mockingbird xxxx Peck
T-Men x-xx 1947 Adequate B flick about treasury agents.

Tom and Viv x Willem Defoe. Marriage of poet T.S. Elliot to crazy woman
Tom Dick and Harry o-x 1941 Early teen foolishness with Ginger Rogers.
Tom Horn xx
Tomb Raider, See: Laura Croft xxx Jolie Second watching not nearly as good.
Tombstone xxx-xxxx Kilmer; Kurt Russell get xxxx for their best parformance ever. VG cast. Second viewing upgraded from xx-xxx.
Tomorrow
Tomorrow is Forever xx 1946 Welles in OK flick. Second viewing xx-xxx.
Tomorrow Never Dies xx Bond with Brosnan
Tomorrow the World o
nf Tom Waits: Under Review: 1983-2006
Tony Rome x-xx OK Sinatra PI flick.
Too Hot to Handle x-xx Gable and Myrna Loy foolishness. Would have been better with nipples.
Too Late the Hero xx OK WW II flick about heroism and cowardice.
Tootsie xxx
Topper xx 1937 Became a TV show.
Topper Returns x-xx 1941 Ok silliness about man who can see ghosts.
Topper Takes a Trip x 1939 Marginally watchable Topper silliness.

Topaze o
Top Gun xxx-xxxx Tom Cruise
Topkapi
Tora, Tora, Tora xx Storyline seems accurate AND bombing of Pearl Harbor also seems to have been preventable. Huge screw-ups from Marshall down contributed. No ONE might have been preventable but as a whole, SNAFU.
Torrid Zone o Cagney vehicle
Torque 0
Tortilla Flat o Spencer Tracy. Sorry about this one. Its simply lame AND prejudicial.
Total Eclipse o DiCaprio. Ouch this was bad.
Total Recall xxx Arnold
Touching Evil x-xx Series 1 Disk 1
Touch of Evil o-x One of the worst overratings I know of. Heston; Welles etc. P U.
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar xxx Snipes; Patrick Swayze xxxxx SERIOUSLY underrated flick about drag queens on a road trip. [ I am not gay but whoever knows? I loved this flick. Reviews often go into details, give away the plot line. I won't, ever. My suggestion is just watch movies and enjoy them or not according to how good they are for you.
Later, if you feel criticism is needed, look the film up on google etc. and add the comments to your, YOUR, feeling for the film. Here, and no criticism involved, drag queens do a ROAD TRIP. Its topical, funny, FUN and, well, just watch it...robin ]

Toy Story xx
no > Track of the Cat
Trade xx 2006 Kevin Kline The International sex trade. Very disturbing.
Trading Places xx-xxx Eddie Murphy
Traffic x Michael Douglas 2000 et al. Good cast but I don't have a clue what it was about other than drug trafficing. Maybe the good stuff got lost in the network version?
The Train xx Nazis try to steal art.
Training Day xx-xxx Denzel Washington Very violent and mean spirited but still interesting.
Trans America o
Transformers o WTF?

The Transporter xxx funny sort of anti-Bondish character who transports anything...
The Transporter 2 xxx and good f/x.

Trapeze xxx 1956 Lancaster
Trapped x Low rent thriller. Not really that bad.
Treasure Island xxxx 1939
The Treasure of Pancho Villa xx Shelly Winters but the real star was ____ Not bad Mexican Revolution flick.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre xxx
Tree's Lounge x
Tremors xx 1990
The Trial o 1955 Worse than waiting for godot sort of flick.
Trial and Error 0
The Triangle x TVM 2005 about Bermuda Triangle
Tribute to a Bad Man xx 1956 Decent western / Cagney vehicle.
Trio o
Tron xx-xxx 1982 Early video game flick.
Troop Beverly Hills x-xx
Troy xx-xxx 2004 Pitt is xxx after he drops accent with xxxx fight scene between Achilles and Hector.
True Believer x-xx
True Colors 1991 xx Spader
True Confessions xx
True Crime xx Eastwood
True Grit xx-xxx
True Lies xxx Scwartzeneger
True Romance x 1993
The Truman Show x-xx Jim Carey silliness, mean-spirited at that. On par with EdTV.
nf Trumpets Fade
Trust the Man o Great cast wasted in yet another IN JOKE, NYC relationship bs. Who OKd this flick? Do these make money?
The Truth About Charlie x-xx
The Truth About Harry
Truth or Consequences, NM x-xx OK drug theft flick.
Tuck Everlasting xx
Tuff Turf 1985 0 Spader
Tulsa MAYBE x but I fell asleep. 1949
Turbulence
The Tuskegee Airmen x-xx
The TV Set o
The Tuxedo o-x Jackie Chan silliness but enough laughs to watch.
Twelve 12 Angry Men xx Henry Fonda stars but the rest of the cast is excellent too.
Twelve Monkeys xxx Brad Pitt
Twelve O'Clock High xxxx Peck
12:01 Twelve o one
[ Twenty-eight ] 28 Days xx

28 Days Later 0
28 Weeks Later NFW

25th Hour x-xx
nf 21 Grams
[ twenty thousand ] 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea xxx 1954
twenty thousand 20,000 Years in Sing Sing o 1933 Tracy and Davis in prison flick.
Twilight of Honor 1963 xx Richard Chamberlain in court room drama. The special prosecutor was very good.
Twisted xxx VG serial killer flick with Ashley Judd and Samuel Jackson.
Twister xxxx Helen Hunt 1996 MUCH better second time.
Twins xx Schwartzeneger; DeVito
nf Two For the Money Pacino
The Two Jakes x see: Chinatown
Troop Beverly Hills x-xx Hawn
Troy xx Pitt is xxx when he drops the accent about half way. Great fight scene with Hector and Achilles.
Tuesdays With Morrie x-xx
Turk 182!
nf The TV Set
Two for the Money x-xx OK flick about sports handicapper, Matthew McConnighy.
Two For the Seasaw o Good cast in very dated sex romp.
Two if by Sea o
The Two Jakes x-xx Nicholson see: Chinatown
Two Mules for Sister Sara xx Eastwood

[Two Thousand one] 2001: A Space Odessy xxxx
[Two Thousand ten] 2010 xxxx

Two Weeks Notice xxx Hugh Grant; Sandra Bullock Holds up on second viewing.
Two Women In Italian. Don't watch.

UFC 60: Ultimate Fighting Championship: Hughes vs. Gracie
U-571 xxx 2000 Submarine actioner
U-Turn x Odd flick with good cast. Likely seen twice.
Ulzana's Raid xx Lancaster OK westerner about Apache Ulzana leaving reservation. Might be good training film for officers.
Unbearable Lightness of Being xxx Daniel Day Lewis; Juliette Binoche
Unbreakable xxx Willis; Samuel Jackson
Uncommon Valor xxx 1987 Hackman in good POW rescue flick.
Undefeated x-xx Leguizmano boxing film
The Underground o I slept.

Under Seige xx Segal
Under Seige 2: Dark Territory xxx Segal

Under Suspicion xx Hackman and Morgan Freeman
Under the Tuscan Sun x-xx 2003 About writer moving to Italy and restoring a villa.
nf Under the Volcano

Underworld x 2003 Not that good about ongoing war between vampires and their former helpers, werewolves.
Underworld Evolution 2006 xx-xxx

Undisputed xxx Wesley Snipes
Unfaithful xx Gere; Diane Lane infidelity leading to killing
nf An Unfinished Life
Unforgiven xxx Eastwood
Undercover Brother 0
Unknown x-xx Confusing tale of men locked up in a warehouse.
Unleashed xxx Surprisingly good Jet Li flick with Morgan Freeman
United 93 x grim portrayal of the incident 9/11 2001
Universal Soldiers 0
Unstopable x Snipes
Untamed o 1955 Tyrone Power
Untamed Heart o ? 1993
Untouchables xxx
nf Untraceable
Up Close and Personal xx-xxx Redford; Pfeiffer
Uprising ??
The Upside of Anger o Costner Duh.
Urban Cowboy xxx Travolta
Urban Justice x 1996 Seagal in one of the lesser vehicles.
U.S. Marshalls xx-xxx
U.S Seals o Seal foolishness.
The Usual Suspects xx Kevin Spacey

Valentine o
The Valley of Light o Post WW II vet goes home, falls in love etc.

Vampire in Brooklyn x
The Vampire Journals o
Vampires x-xx James Woods, slayer from youth [John Carpenter dir.] see john carpenters
Vampires Los Muertos: See John Carpenters Van Helsing
nf Vampyres 1974
Vampyr: Der Traum des Allen Grey o
Van Helsing

Vanilla Sky xxx Tom Cruise, Penelope Cruz remake of Open Your Eyes
nf Vantage Point 2007
Vatel xxx-xxxx This was just a fine film and fuck the critics. Depardeau et al.
nf Venice Underground Edward Furlong
Venus xx-xxx Good story with Peter O'Toole xxxxx about the love and last days of London character actor.
Vera Cruz xx Cooper; Lancaster in Mexico
nf Veronica Guerin
The Verdict Newman xxx-xxxx 1982
Vertigo xxx own. Stewart; Novak
Very Bad Things o Gen X stupidity.
V- For Vendetta x-xx Comic book character turned into OK revenge film.
The Village o-x This is simply fatuous / overblown. I am not a fan of M. Night. There were some very good performances. The blind girl for one.
nf The Visitation
Victim o
Victor/Victoria xx
Vigil in the Night o 1940
The Virgin Suicides o
Virtual Nightmare x-xx Decent for "B" scifi flick.
Virtuosity xx-xxx better than Maltin's 1
Virus x Low rent sci fi about alien computer virus
nf The Visiting
V.I. Warshovski o-x
Volcano
Volunteers Tom Hanks
Volver o Spanish Cruz
Von Ryan's Express xx-xxx Sinatra

The Wackiest Ship in the Army xx
Wag the Dog 0
Wait Until Dark xx-xxx Audrey Hepburn as resourceful blind woman faced with home invaders.
Wake Island 1942 xx OK WW II flick.
Waking Life
Waking the Dead x
Waking Up in Reno o

Walking Tall xx
Walking Tall o 2004

A Walk in the Clouds x-xx
A Walk in the Sun xxx WW II story
A Walk on the Moon o
Walk the Line x-xx About Johnny Cash
Walk the Proud Land x-xx 1956 Contrived but based on true story of Indian Agent who tries to help Apaches.
Wall Street xxx Douglas
nf Wanted 2008 Jolie
The War of the Roses xx Douglas

War of the Worlds xx 1953 See HG Wells W of the Worlds
War of the Worlds 2005 o Really bad acting, poor production values. Original much better.
NO War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave (2008)

The Warriors x-xx
nf War Stories
The War Tapes o doc Uninteresting view of Iraq war soldiers.
The War Wagon x-xx Wayne
Warlock xxx-xxxx Henry Fonda. Maybe, for a Western, xxxx-xxxxx
Warlord sounds familiar
Wasabi xx Jean Reno, dubbed English
Watch on the Rhine xxx maybe xxx-xxxx Engaging anti-fascist movie.
The Watcher x-xx >>>>>>> Spader
The Water is Wide o 2006 TVM about Conroy a young teacher on an island. Just nothing of interest here.
The Water's Edge 0
Waterworld xx Costner Second viewing xx-xxx
Wayne's World x
The Way of the Gun xx-xxx about VERY violent people
The Way We Were likely seen
The Weather Man x-xx Cage Pithy end. Rest is just plodding and humorless.
The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time
Webs x TVM
The Wedding Singer
Weird Science x
Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael 1990 o-x Similar to Desparately Seeking Susan.
Welcome to Hard Times x-xx Fonda 1967 E. L. Doctorow novel. Not that good.
Welcome to Mooseport o Hackman is SO wasted on this flick.
We Own the Night
Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000 o-x
West of Zanzibar o 1928 Silent movie that is silly.
West Side Story x-xx highly overrated
The Westerner xx 1940 Cooper
Westworld xxx
We Were Soldiers xxx Mel Gibson, 3 day battle in Vietnam 1964 Good war movie.
The Whale Rider xxx BUT xxxx for Keisha Castle-Hughs. Wonderful performance by young girl / woman.
What About Bob 0 simply too foolish to watch more than 3.000001 minutes
What a Way to Go o 1964
What Dreams May Come xx-xxxxx Robin Williams; Anabella? Sciorri? The visuals alone make this worth watching. The content fluxuates wildly... Williams and co-star Sciorri? were simply superb.
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane xx
What Lies Beneath xx Mildly scary murder flick with Pfeifer and Ford
What Women Want xxxx Mel Gibson can hear women's thoughts
What's Eating Gilbert Grape x-xx Depp, DiCaprio xxxx
What's Love Got to Do With It x about an abused Tina Turner
When a Man Loves a Woman x-xx Flick about alcohol / alcoholism. Good cast: Meg Ryan; Andy Garcia was esp. good.
When Harry Met Sally xxx
When the Partys Over -x Yet another silly early Bullock film.
When the Sky Falls x
Where Eagles Dare xxx
Where the Boys Are xxx First teenage viewing, 1960 Follow the Boys, followup.
While You Were Sleeping xx

The Whistler x
Whistling in Dixie o
Whistling in the Dark o Red Skelton nonsense. 1941

White Dwarf xx scifi
White Fang xxx Modern version of Jack London book. TVM? Likely interesting to children AND adults. Violent dog fighting scenes might upset the very young.
White Hunter, Black Heart seen?
White Line Fever
White Men Can't Jump xx Harrelson; Snipes. Interesting turns of events.
White Palace xx Spader. This is the 3rd time I have added it to EditPad Lite with NO results
White Heat xxx-xxxx 1949 Cagney as psycho bank robber
White Oleandar xx
White Palace xx

Whole Nine Yards x
The Whole Ten Yards x Willis as an assassin.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe x-xx
Who Shot Pat o Bullock in early role, drivel
Wicker Man o Cage
nf Wild at Heart (1990)
Wild River o 1960 flick about TVA.
The Wild Bunch xxx
Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken xx horse act
Wild Hogs xx Some funny moments, mostly silly road trip.
Wild Orchid o
Wild, Wild West o 1999
Wilde xx About Oscar Wilde The star was xxxx
Will Penny
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory x
Winchester 73 xx
The Wind and the Lion 0
Windom's Way x-xx Interesting ONLY for adult oriented / mature, male/female interactions.
Windtalkers xxx Cage
The Wind that Shakes the Barley o Grim flick about Irish terrorists.
Wing Commander xx Low rent AU scifi B film, xx for B film
The Wings of Eagles o 1958 Wayne foolishness
Winnie xxx 1988 Meridith Baxter or Baxter-Birney xxxxx Simply extraordinary performance.
Winning xx 1969 OK Newman; Woodward vehicle about racing, romance and betrayal.
Winter's End: see Sarah, Plain and Tall
Wire in the Blood See series
Wiseguy xx Wahl is hurt I think but its the same old program.
Wit o female flick about cancer
The Witches x-xx Norweigian witches
The Witches of Eastwick xx-xxx
With Friends Like These o For ouch.
Witness xxx
Witness to Murder o Seemed to pat to bother with.
Without Reservations o Hooey.
Wizard of Oz xxxxx
Wolf xx-xxx Nicholson; Pfeifer
Wolfen x-xx OK werewolf flick with Olmos.
Woman of the Year o 1942 Spencer; Hepburn
Woman on the Run o
Woman on Top x-xx 2000 Cruze is xxx at least in story of Brazillian chef heading to US
A Woman's Face x Crawford xxx 1941
A Woman Under the Influence 0 Gena Rowlands likely good but this is just too dismal to watch.
Wonder Boys x 2000
nf Wonderland
The Wood Don't record.
nf
Woodstock xxxx
The Wool Cap xx Macy, good as usual as actor and screenwriter adapting tale, Gigot?, from short story by Jackie Gleason.
Working Girl xx
The World According to Garp xxx
nf The World According to Shorts (2008)
The World is Not Enough xx Bond flick with Brosnan
The World of Henry Orient rated xxx 1/2
World's Fastest Indian xx Hopkins Low key flick about NZlander going to Bonneville speed trials
World Trade Center x-xx OK flick about 9-11 with Cage
nf Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)
The Wrong Box o
The Wrong Guy o
Wuthering Heights xxx-xxxx 1939
Wyatt Earp xx 1994 Costner; Quaid; Hackman Essentially, a waste of talent, IMHO.

X-Men x-xx
X2: X-Men United o-x 2003 Not nearly as good as first.
X-Men 3 x-xx

X-Files: The Movie xx Duchovny; Anderson
XTRO II o OUCH.
XXX xx Vin Diesel
XXX: State of the Union o Why did I rent this?

The Yards x I think I saw this before.
Yearling
The Year of Living Dangerously xxx
Year of the Dragon xx Mickey Rourke; John Lone
Yellow Sky xx 1948 OK Western with Gregory Peck and Anne Baxter.
You Can't Take it With You xxx Stewart et al in early, excellent comedy. I played Grandpa, his part.
Your Cheatin Heart
Young Bess x Jean Simmons?
Youngest Godfather xx OK early mafia flick of the Bonanno family. Olmos
Young Frankenstein x-xx Wilder

Young Guns xx
Young Guns 2 x-xx

Young Lions xxx Brando. Good anti-war film
The Young Poisoner's Handbook x 1996
Young Savages xxx VG Lawyer, Lancaster, tries to find justice in a street slaying.
Young Sherlock Holmes xx with xxxx scenes with that religious group.
Your Cheating Heart: The Hank Williams Story xx-xxx George Hamilton was vg and it could be a good flick about an alcoholic.
nf Youth Without Youth (2007)
You've Got Mail xx

Zero Effect x
Zodiac x Marginal serial murder story. Good cast.
Zoot Suit xxx Excellent song and dance history lesson on pachucho. Olmos early flick.
Zorba the Greek x-xx 1964 Quinn is xxx Grim story of Crete villagers who kill a woman for no reason. YUK.

Zorro:
The Mark of Zorro xxx 1940 Tyronne Power
The Mask of Zorro xx
The Mask of Zorro x-xx 1998 Banderas
The Legend of Zorro o-x 2005 Banderas Very silly and the worst of the lot.

Series >> To watch. >>> Excellent female actors / performances. >>>> Directors >>>>> Music and other rock films

>>>>>> Interchangeable actors like Toby McGuire / Jake Gyllenhaal >>>>>>> Excellent male actors / performances

TV weekly shows and series good or of merit:

American Gothic xxx Six discs 1995 Gary Cole CBS
nf Boomtown season 1 disc 1
Boston Legal xxxxx ABC 2004, 05 06, 7 and this is now one of my top 2 favorite shows. 2006.
The Brotherhood o-x
Carnivale, Season 1 & 2 from HBO xxx-xxxx
Cracker xxx best UK series Robbie Coltrane

Deadwood xxxxx Ian McShaine excellent villain. TV series:
Season 1: Disc 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Season 2: Disc 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Disc 6 extras o
Season 3: Disc 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
nf Season 4: Disc 1,

Dexter Season 1: Disc 1 xx, 2 xx, 3 xx, 4 xx
nf Dexter Season 2: 2007 Release date unknown.

Elvis: The Miniseries 2005 0
ER xxxx Noah Wylie was always the star.

nf Fat Actress Kirsty Alley Season 1, Disc 1

4400 xxx 2004-5 Forty Four Hundred TVM/Short Series xx Not bad summer feature.
Grand NBC xx-xxx for comedy
Hill Street Blues xxxx

Horatio Hornblower xxxx Original tv series
HH new adventures seen.

House xxx 2005 xxxx for the star. Just excellent. Hugh Laurie.
Jekyl x-xx
Lost ABC xxx-xxxx 2004-5
MASH CBS xxxx Favorite comedy or any half hour series. One of my favorite one hour shows of all times.
Monk USA xxxx 2002? One of my favorite one hour shows of all times.
Northern Exposure xxx
NYPD Blue ABC xxxx One of my favorite one hour shows of all times.
Over There xxxx Summer 2005 FX channel. It keeps getting better. The 9 28 5 show simply made me cry for all of our fighting men.
Oz Season 1 x-xx 2 discs of season 1
Rescue Me xxx-xxxx 10 04
Rome Season 1: disc 1 x-xx OK BBC production of ancient Rome.

Sopranos xxxx on HBO Seasons 1-5. Where is 6 part 1?
nf Season 6 Part 2 disc 1 = xx; disc 2 = x-xx This is very dreary. Season 6 Part 2 Disc 3 xxx, much better.
Season 7

ST x-xx
Star Trek, the Next Generation xxxx One of my favorite one hour shows of all times.
ST-DS9 xx
ST-Voyager x-xx Worst captain
ST-Enterprise x-xx Worst captain

Threshold xx-xxx 2005 Fall season. Very promising. CBS didn't last
2.5 Men xxx-xxxx one of the best sit-coms ever.
West Wing NBC xxx-xxxx Still on in 2005

TV weekly shows or series, pretty good or just OK.

Committed x-xx 2005 EXCELLENT female star.
Ghost Whisperer x 2005 Female star is seriously stacked and is show's producer.
The Inside x-xx 2005
Johnny Zero xx 2005
Killer Instinct x-xx 2005
Rough Diamond x-xx UK series about thief and son.
Seven Days

TV weekly shows or series, not to watch / bad or worse.

The Bedford Diaries "-1" Teen silliness.
Blade o
The Book of Daniel o 2006
Boomtown x-xx
Buck Rogers o for OUCH
Code Name Eternity o for OUCH
Courting Alex or something like this
Crumbs o 2006
Dark Angel 0 2006 Teen angst in a sci-fi setting about genetic research.
Designing Women o for OUCH.
Dharma and Greg
Dr. Who o
Earl o PU
Fastlane 2005
Friends
How I Met Your Mother o 2005
Inspector Lynley
Inspector Morse
Jerico UK detective show
Judging Amy
The Kindred o About vampires.
Knight Rider Saw pilot. o.
Level 9 o
Love Monkey 2006
Keen Eddy 2008
MacGuyver
McBride: Murder Past Midnight Laroquette in another bad show
McBride: Semper Fi
Missing -1
Nightman o Pathetic.
Night Stalker original and 2005 version o Just silly
OC
Out of Practice o 2005 VERY good cast totally wasted.
Players o 4 7 8
Reno 911
Reunion 2005 season. o YIKES.
Roar
Roswell o Teen silliness
She Spys o Well, this is just pathetic.
Stacked o Silliness about bookstore BUT with SERIOUSLY stacked first episode person.
Supernatural o Teen silliness.
Torchwood x
To Serve and Protect o
Tripping the Rift o
Veronica Mars o for OUCH. Teen detective silliness.
Viva Laughlin o 2007 Silly ripoff of Cop Rock and LV.
Weeds o
Wild Card o

Documentaries, Specials, Music videos: seen, TV and other.

- Biltmore Estate A&E xx But the place was simply wonderful.
- Bowling for Columbine xx
- Deep Blue xxx and xxxxx for some of the underwater photography.

- Denis Leary's Merry Fucking Christmas xx-xxx 2005
- Denis Leary's Lock and Load o

- Dennis Miller: The Raw Feed
- Dylan 2 part /4 hour PBS xxx BUT, Dylan did seem seriously damaged and without affect in performances. Producer,?, Martin Scorsese.
- I Have Never Forgotten You 0 Dull
- Live: The Drums of Tokyo: Oedo Sukeroku Taiko xxx
- Mystery of Genius x Boring. Howard Gardner is on the thing too but boring.
- Pipes of Peace 0 Bagpipe music, Doc of Rufus Harley.
- Secrets of the Samurai Sword xx-xxx
- nf Shine a Light Rolling Stones
- Sicko o Dull first minutes
- Street Thief x Barely a doc about career criminal who might have been killed.
- War Dance x too much politics and tragedy, little music.
- Winged Migration xx Very nice photography and backrounds, just too long and not enough voice over.

TV series TO watch:
- Food Channel 56 Good Eats with chef Alton Brown

TV limited run series WATCHED or will continue TO watch:

- Alien Nation: The Enemy Within x-xx TVM series see which below
- Alien Nation: The Udara Legacy x-xx TVM series

- Band of Brothers xxx-xxxx One of the best series ever made but Over There IS as interesting to me.

- Brotherhood disc 1

- Elvis 2005 x-xx Two part series. The other one, some years back was MUCH better.

- Elvis xx ?? year.

- Dune o-x TVM special that was not. SOME, x bits, but drab overall.
- Children of Dune. Six hours total. xx MUCH better than first TVM.

- 4400 [Forty Four Hundred] xx TVM/Short Series Not bad summer feature. Moved to TV weekly section and xxx-xxxx.
- Gettysburg xx OK civil war 6 hour series. Good cast. Some VERY bad makeup, beards...
- Into the West xxxx 2005 Extraordinary. Research, acting, writing, photography. One of TV's finest.

- Lonesome Dove xx
- Lonesome Dove 2 x-xx
- Dead Men's Walk, Lonesome Dove prequel xxx-xxxx Olmos had a fine part.

- The Scarlet Pimpernel xx Richard Grant, xxx.

- Stephen King's Storm of the Century x 6 hour series about big storm and demon that comes to a small island.

- Taken xx-xxxx in 106. Seen: 1?; ; 3?; 5; 6

- Ultra Violet o-x About vampire killing team in the UK.

Often forgotten titles of excellent films and TV shows:

American Gothic TV show
The Whale Rider movie

Comedians of note / merit:

"Fat" comedienne Jessica Kirson Fat woman, smart, perceptive...

TV show comments

TV Shows, Series etc. favorites > series

I think there are many levels of reality shows, maybe many levels of reality but that part is speculative.

1. first level of reality: News cameras capture something in real time, like CNN showing something happening.

2. second level reality show: News cameras, news readers, capture film, edit it, then show it and comment on it.

3. third level: live interviews with observers of an incident.

4. fourth level of reality: recorded interviews with observers of an incident.

5. fifth level of "reality": cooking shows and the like. They are doing things real people do, cooking...

6. these are faux "reality" shows like Survivor etc. where the cameras DO record the happenings, but these happenings are totally made up. Fear Factor etc. I also place "game shows" and all the court shows like Judge Judy, Dr. Phil and the TV talk shows here...

Well, after all that, I forgot what the point was. Maybe the cooking show. YES. I was going to say, with all the TV I have to watch to fill my day, I am now looking at the TV guide listings for the Food Network. I recorded only one so far, likely won't see it for 3 weeks, about HOT foods. WHEW.

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3-5 xxx-xxxxx films

". Favorite films don't fall into categories. Here they are. I rate every film I watch with Xs. So my favorites are xxxx or xxxxx films: The Adventures of Robin Hood; AI; All About Eve; Angel Heart; Apocalypse Now; Armagheddon; Arthur; Beautiful Joe; The Big Sleep; The Birds, though I don't usually like such scary films; Blade. I REALLY like good stories about vampires; Bladerunner; Bound for Glory, about one of our most influential folk singers, Woodie Guthrie; Braveheart; Breaker Morant; A Bronx Tale, with Robert DeNiro; Brother Sun, Sister Moon, which I would dearly love to see again with you there; Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which was a play first but the movie with Paul Newman was simply excellent; The Caveman's Valentine by one of our finest black actors, Samuel Jackson; Chelsea Walls; Chocolat, one of my top 9 films. I rated it xxxx-xxxxx; Citizen Kane; The Color of Money and The Hustler, the first in the pair of films; The Crow; Dances With Wolves, a lavishly produced film with Kevin Costner; The Deer Hunter, a disturbing but excellent film; Desparate Hours; Dirty Dancing, a fine film indeed; several of the Dirty Harry movies; Doctor Zhivago, an xxxxx film about your revolution. I read the book too by Boris Pasternak, an author banned there still, in some places; Down in the Delta; Dune, xxxxx, one of my top 4 films of all times; Easy Rider, early hippie film; E. T. , a wonderful film; Fearless; Field of Dreams; Fight Club; For the Love of the Game; The Four Feathers; Frankenstein, the Boris Karlof 1931 version; The French Connection with Gene Hackman; All of the Godfather films; Goodbye Mr. Chips; Good Will Hunting, an excellent flick with Matt Damon and Robin Williams; The Greatest Show on Earth; Heartbreakers; Hell is for Heros; High Noon; Humoresque; The Incident; Indiana Jones, I love adventure shows; In the Heat of the Night; The Insider; It Happened One Night; Its a Wonderful Life; Jaws; Laura; Lolita; Lord of the Rings series; Lost Horizon; MASH; Mirage; Oh Brother, Where Art Thou; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I did this play twice and read the book.; Out of the Past; Papillon; Patton, this one is xxxxx rated, one of my 4 favorites; Peter Pan; Places in the Heart; Pretty Woman; Protocol; Raiders of the Lost Ark; Rainman; Random Harvest; The Recruit; Red Corner; Red Dragon; Remember the Titans, the finest sports film I recall; Resurrection, xxxxx, one of my top 4, maybe THE favorite one; Rocky; The Rookie; The Scarlett Pimpernel; Secretary; Silence of the Lambs; Simone; Snow White, the original; The Sound of Music, xxxxx one of my top 4; Star Trek, Nemisis; The Sting; Sum of All Fears; A Summer Place, a very early favorite; Tarzan; Terminator; To Kill a Mockingbird; Top Gun; Twelve O'Clock High; 2001 a Space Odessy; The Verdict; Warlock; The Whale Rider, a VERY sweet film in the end; What Dreams May Come; What Women Want; The Wizard of Oz, an early xxxxx favorite; Woodstock, early rock and roll film. Whew, I never sent anyone my xxxx-xxxxx list before.

Movies rated xxxxx so far, 1 29 05: Resurrection, Dune, Brother Sun, Sister Moon, Sound of Music, Robin Hood, Dr. Zhivago, Godfather, Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, MASH, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Star Trek: Nemisis, The Wizard of Oz, The Big Sleep, Patton and Perfume

Movies rated at least xxxx so far: You might want to skip these:

Kill Bill x-xx Cartoonish revenge flick but Uma Thurman xxx-xxxx at times.

Kill Bill 2 x-xx Ditto

We have seen many of the same films. You rate many higher than I did.

Here is my xxxx at least, out of xxxxx flick list, ie., its my list of films I rated xxxx or xxxxx:
Movies rated at least xxxx so far: The Adventures of Robin Hood; AI; All About Eve; Angel Heart; Apocalypse Now; Armagheddon; Arthur; Beautiful Joe; The Big Sleep; The Birds, though I don't usually like such scary films; Blade. I REALLY like good stories about vampires; Bladerunner; Bound for Glory, about one of our most influential folk singers, Woodie Guthrie; Braveheart; Breaker Morant; A Bronx Tale, with Robert DeNiro; Brother Sun, Sister Moon; Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which was a play first but the movie with Paul Newman was simply excellent; The Caveman's Valentine by one of our finest black actors, Samuel Jackson; Chelsea Walls; Chocolat, one of my top 9 films. I rated it xxxx-xxxxx; Citizen Kane; The Color of Money and The Hustler, the first in the pair of films; The Crow; Dances With Wolves, a lavishly produced film with Kevin Costner; The Deer Hunter, a disturbing but excellent film; Desparate Hours; Dirty Dancing, a fine film indeed; several of the Dirty Harry movies; Doctor Zhivago, an xxxxx film. I read the book too by Boris Pasternak; Down in the Delta; Dune, xxxxx, one of my top 4 films of all times; Easy Rider, early hippie film; E. T. , a wonderful film; Fearless; Field of Dreams; Fight Club; For the Love of the Game; The Four Feathers; Frankenstein, the Boris Karlof 1931 version; The French Connection with Gene Hackman; All of the Godfather films; Goodbye Mr. Chips; Good Will Hunting, an excellent flick with Matt Damon and Robin Williams; The Greatest Show on Earth; Heartbreakers; Hell is for Heros; High Noon; Humoresque; The Incident; Indiana Jones, I love adventure shows; In the Heat of the Night; The Insider; It Happened One Night; Its a Wonderful Life; Jaws; Laura; Lolita; Lord of the Rings series; Lost Horizon; MASH; Mirage; Oh Brother, Where Art Thou; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I did this play twice and read the book.; Out of the Past; Papillon; Patton, this one is xxxxx rated, one of my 4 favorites; Peter Pan; Places in the Heart; Pretty Woman; Protocol; Raiders of the Lost Ark; Rainman; Random Harvest; The Recruit; Red Corner; Red Dragon; Remember the Titans, the finest sports film I recall; Resurrection, xxxxx, one of my top 4, maybe THE favorite one; Rocky; The Rookie; The Scarlett Pimpernel; Secretary; Silence of the Lambs; Simone; Snow White, the original; The Sound of Music, xxxxx one of my top 4; Star Trek, Nemisis; The Sting; Sum of All Fears; A Summer Place, a very early favorite; Tarzan; Terminator; To Kill a Mockingbird; Top Gun; Twelve O'Clock High; 2001 a Space Odessy; The Verdict; Warlock; The Whale Rider, a VERY sweet film in the end; What Dreams May Come; What Women Want; The Wizard of Oz, an early xxxxx favorite; Woodstock, early rock and roll film. Resurrection and Brother Sun, Sister Moon were among my xxxxx.

Yikes !!! Plus my favorite movies.

2007-12-23T06:38:00.000-06:00

I was thinking back to my last post. I have not entered anything since Aug. A month after that posting I stopped drinking. That is going very well. I am pleased.

Now, on to the movies. I keep this up to date daily. These are my favorites with xxxx or xxxxx for each:
The Adventures of Robin Hood; AI; All About Eve; Angel Heart; Apocalypse Now; Armagheddon; Arthur; Beautiful Joe; The Big Sleep; The Birds, though I don't usually like such scary films; Blade. I REALLY like good stories about vampires; Bladerunner; Bound for Glory, about one of our most influential folk singers, Woodie Guthrie; Braveheart; Breaker Morant; A Bronx Tale, with Robert DeNiro; Brother Sun, Sister Moon; Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which was a play first but the movie with Paul Newman was simply excellent; The Caveman's Valentine by one of our finest black actors, Samuel Jackson; Chelsea Walls; Chocolat, one of my top 9 films. I rated it xxxx-xxxxx; Citizen Kane; The Color of Money and The Hustler, the first in the pair of films; The Crow; Dances With Wolves, a lavishly produced film with Kevin Costner; The Deer Hunter, a disturbing but excellent film; Desparate Hours; Dirty Dancing, a fine film indeed; several of the Dirty Harry movies; Doctor Zhivago, an xxxxx film. I read the book too by Boris Pasternak; Down in the Delta; Dune, xxxxx, one of my top 4 films of all times; Easy Rider, early hippie film; E. T. , a wonderful film; Fearless; Field of Dreams; Fight Club; For the Love of the Game; The Four Feathers; Frankenstein, the Boris Karlof 1931 version; The French Connection with Gene Hackman; All of the Godfather films; Goodbye Mr. Chips; Good Will Hunting, an excellent flick with Matt Damon and Robin Williams; The Greatest Show on Earth; Heartbreakers; Hell is for Heros; High Noon; Humoresque; The Incident; Indiana Jones, I love adventure shows; In the Heat of the Night; The Insider; It Happened One Night; Its a Wonderful Life; Jaws; Laura; Lolita; Lord of the Rings series; Lost Horizon; MASH; Mirage; Oh Brother, Where Art Thou; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I did this play twice and read the book.; Out of the Past; Papillon; Patton, this one is xxxxx rated, one of my 4 favorites; Peter Pan; Places in the Heart; Pretty Woman; Protocol; Raiders of the Lost Ark; Rainman; Random Harvest; The Recruit; Red Corner; Red Dragon; Remember the Titans, the finest sports film I recall; Resurrection, xxxxx, one of my top 4, maybe THE favorite one; Rocky; The Rookie; The Scarlett Pimpernel; Secretary; Silence of the Lambs; Simone; Snow White, the original; The Sound of Music, xxxxx one of my top 4; Star Trek, Nemisis; The Sting; Sum of All Fears; A Summer Place, a very early favorite; Tarzan; Terminator; To Kill a Mockingbird; Top Gun; Twelve O'Clock High; 2001 a Space Odessy; The Verdict; Warlock; The Whale Rider, a VERY sweet film in the end; What Dreams May Come; What Women Want; The Wizard of Oz, an early xxxxx favorite; Woodstock, early rock and roll film. Resurrection and Brother Sun, Sister Moon were among my xxxxx.

Take News Commentators, PLEASE

2007-08-14T23:41:00.000-06:00

Take News Commentators, PLEASE
by
Robin Hall

I cannot understand why Hardball and its ilk are so popular. This sort of show seems to usually be mean-spirited Republicans, from religious backgrounds, pablum-izing news of the day for less intelligent folks.

The commentators get some pretty fabulous salaries to do this too. Essentially, in my view, they are a news version of a preacher.

The audience is likely to made up of churchgoers who are used to having much of their lives spoon fed to them from the pulpit. No one has to think for themselves about how to run their own lives.

The preachers tell the congregation how and what to think: what is OK in the way of birth control, abortion and most social issues etc.

And is it any wonder the world's population is so out of control? The catholic church needs to work on this.

Religionists are just used to not needing to think for themselves on science either. I mean really, creationism?

Along come the news commentators. They do EXACTLY as the preachers so their flocks don't have to think either.

Hmm. I am suspicious. Has the church taken over this segment of the news and neglected to tell anyone?

Now I like news shows at times. In the UK people like Peter Jennings are called newsreaders. He was my favorite here. He was a host and newsreader for the evening news.

His sort had usually been in the field as reporters first. They get a promotion to the nightly news, make more money and give us a focused version of the day's happenings from the standpoint of a field reporter.

I was there sort of thing. And they were. Maybe a different disaster, war etc. but they were there.

CNN has dozens of these highly trained and competent reporters on staff. Fox news does too as do the major networks.

How many of the news commentators were there? Did anyone ask them? Does anyone care?

There are other sorts of news programs that are useful.

Nightline gave us extended news. It was not pablum. It was longer stories of pertinent news.

Another kind of news is highly trained interviewers expanding the news by going to the source. They usually keep their egos in check and tease out news that no one else might know of. There are several fine interviewers on Sunday morning for instance.

These interviewers and news readers perform a service for us. They give us news and let us make up our own minds.

News commentators usually DO have an agenda, don't want us to think and their egos are often the only reason they even have a show. Perhaps they really are just news preachers.

There are other sorts of news and views shows on TV and radio. I particularly appreciate the interviewing skills of Larry King. Here is a fellow who gets the widest range of guests of anyone on TV. He can almost disappear, ego-wise, and draw out interesting things from about anyone.

Has anyone noticed however that so many of the commentators and interviewers have seriously shady dealings from time to time, sort of like TV preachers?

'Nuf said.

Santafucking Claus, Angels and All Things Holy

2007-08-10T11:35:00.000-06:00

Santafucking Claus, Angels and All Things Holy
by
Robin Hall

I tried to watch Angels in the Backfield though it was a kids movie. Angels and stuff. I won't make that misnake/sic again.

We are shitting on our children when we bring up this sort of otherworldly hope. We live in a world that does not support hope, what with some spirit in the sky which is going to make everything OK, angels which will guide us, santafucking claus who will bring us presents BUT ONLY IF WE ARE NICE, easterfuckingbunnies with modest chocolate treats etc.

AND these are only the myths in the US. I cannot imagine the sillinesses of other cultures.

Something is wrong here. Why do we perpetrate this sort of thing ON our children?

I absolutely recall the day my mother told me there was no santafuckingclaus. I was washing up in the bathroom. She sat me down on the commode with its seat down.

"There is no santa." I was the oldest kid in my class who didn't know. My fucking mother and grandparents had been lying to me for a decade. No fuckingsanta. Is it a wonder I never learned to trust anyone?

Ever.

I tried too.

Ever.

Why do progenitors feel the need to lie to their offspring? Fess up all you parents and quit lying to your kids about santafuckingclaus, some spirit in the sky, the easter bunny and all the bullshit present in other cultures.

Why is truth so hard to deal with? You cannot tell your own family truth where IS truth?

Etc.

Say You Had Someone, Who Lied

2007-08-10T00:33:00.000-06:00

Say You Had Someone, Who Lied
by
Robin Hall

3+ years back I had a companion in this low rent public housing I live in. The situation was ideal. She lived on the same floor, about 50' away. Nice for anyone in public housing.

We spent 2-3 months "in love." We shared food, time, intimacy. Emotions were expressed, never ending emotions like, " I don't want to live without you. "

Two days after this expression from her, essentially, I never heard from her again. WTF?

Over the next year she would lie to me many times, "come back." She cheated on me, stole from me too.

She already had another man in the interim however.

One day she visited after a hormone shot. She pulled up her shirt and bra and said, "Look, they've grown."

Another day, she brought me a dildo. She leaned against the door jam proactively with a bag in her hand and said she bought me something. I told her I didn't want anything from her in my place.

"You will like it." I looked at the bag and knew what it was. She said, "I went to a sex club and bought it for you."

I did not take it, she went away in a huff.

Almost a year later a friend of hers told me more. Debbie had found a lover in AL while we were still together. More lovers. She had PROMISED me she would never be with someone while she and I were together.

Then she left here to move in with with her older friend's son to OH.

There are no guarantees in love, like or lust. We try, is the best that can be said. If THEY are lying, well, we get lied to. End of lesson.

There are NO lessons in how to observe lying. How to stop it. How to get away from it. How to prevent it. How to keep it from breaking your heart.

People who lie are not smarter than their victims. Likely they do have more practice. DANGER.

Say You Had Someone, Who Lied

2007-08-08T04:05:00.000-06:00

Say You Had Someone, Who Lied
by
Robin Hall

3+ years back I had a companion in this low rent public housing I live in. The situation was ideal. She lived on the same floor, about 50' away. Nice for anyone in public housing.

We spent 2-3 months "in love." We shared food, time, bed. Emotions were expressed, never ending emotions like, " I don't want to live without you. "

Two days after this expression from her, essentially, I never heard from her again. WTF?

Over the next year she would lie to me again, "come back."

One day she visited after a hormone shot. She pulled up her shirt and said, "Look, they've grown."

Another day, she brought me a dildo. She leaned against the door jam proactively with a bag in her hand and said she bought me something. I told her I didn't want anything from her in my place. "You will like it." I looked at the bag. She said, "I went to a sex club and bought it for you."

I did not take it, she went away in a huff.

Almost a year later a friend of her's told me more. Debbie had found a lover in AL while we were still together. More lovers. She had promised me she would NEVER be with someone while she and I were lovers.

Then she ran off / moved with this older friend's son to OH.

There are no guarantees in love, like or lust. We try, is the best that can be said. If THEY are lying, well, we get lied to. End of lesson.

There are NO lessons in how to observe lying. How to stop it. How to get away from it. How to prevent it.

People who lie are not smarter than their victims. Likely they do have more practice. DANGER.

Redundancies in Government

2007-08-06T05:51:00.000-06:00

Redundancies in Government
by
Robin Hall

This has confused me for decades, so many of the various government agencies doing about the same thing.

CIA / FBI / NSA for instance. Now the point of each of these, with the very well paid TOP DOGs in each agency, seems to be protecting the USA.

I fully support the USA being protected but do we need three agencies with well paid directors and sub directors doing this? Why not have one agency? One well paid director, less well paid sub directors and one point, protecting the USA?

Take the military, please.

I don't know the whole bit but there seems to be an Army, an Air Force, a Navy, a Marine Corps, a Coast Guard, a Merchant Marine and who knows what else?

Could even one of you STATE we need as many generals or admirals as we have in comparison to working, qualified majors or commanders? In comparison to the number of qualified, working E6 ratings?

Why do each of the combative services have their own flight training programs with attendant upper level generals who are paid more than the pilots? Flying is flying.

Really, is flying for the Army different from flying for the Navy, Marines, Air Force or Coast Guard?

Further, each of the combative services has their own "special forces." Why?

We have some seriously kick-ass fellows out there protecting us but do we need so many special schools, with their own well paid directors, training SEALS, recon Marines, Air Force and Army Rangers and who knows what else like Delta Force and maybe the President's Man?

In civil service there are the well paid top dogs in police and firefighting. The heroes of these departments always deserve our respect but does there need to be two well paid top dogs helping us? Why not one with decently paid underlings?

Consider other civil servants. For instance public housing's dozens of bureaus. Who is served here except the top dogs with their expanded salaries?

Take all those czars some moron came up with like a drug czar. What is that? Does the USA want even a single czar? We tried to trash the Russians who suffered under czars. Do we want czars?

That sort of thing. Duplications in government that are top heavy in management and salaries and simply duplicates in actions. I vote that we prune duplications NOW.

Pare our government to the bone. EVERYONE of us citizens will benefit at the bank with less taxes EXCEPT the top dogs in the duplication bureacracies.

Kidnappings

2007-08-06T04:07:00.000-06:00

Kidnappings
by
Robin Hall

Daily there are listings or threats in the news of kidnappings by muslim religionists.

Daily there are NO listings in the news of kidnappings by atheists.

Daily there are no listings or threats of kidnappings by America or its allies OF muslims.

America and its allies don't blow themselves up to further their religion, or views. No suicide bombings originate in America.

We don't EVER hear about moderate muslim religionists blowing up the more radical ones, the ones perverted by those madrasas to save the rest of the world.

What can we learn here? We need to learn something here and we need to learn it NOW.

Daily we in countries not run by muslims are now at risk from muslims. So-called moderate muslims don't want to control their own radical elements. What are we to do?

I think we should encourage normal muslims to police their own perverted elements.

We should seek out these madrasas and put the leaders in prison, perhaps too the poor students who have been there more than a year.

The youngest students MIGHT be retrained and returned to their own society and we can hope they are not too damaged to be decent citizens once more: get a job, do the best they can.

Oy, Comments

2007-08-02T03:55:00.000-06:00

Oy, Comments
by
Robin Hall

This is sad for me. A wo/man or corporation commented on an article here. I like comments and have posted all of them until now. There are only a tiny few total. This one seemed like spam.

IF the author had given me a way to send email, I would have published the note. I went to the website and there were no email links to verify intent.

It seemed to be, basically a STATEMENT that ANYONE could overcome depression or anything else IF they signed up for their workshops etc. The foolishness of this almost made me laugh, almost.

There have been so MANY folks of this ilk, so very many workshops without research to back up their claims.

Recall, Bhagwan Shree Rashneesh and his squeeze Sushila, or L. Ron Hubbard?

And have any of you understood the real co$t$ involved in their MANY programs? Do think about it. Poor folks are simply NOT welcome.

If you don't believe this and you have gotten "clear" with scientology or managed the to finish ANY of the other programs, was the person next to you living in public housing, on disability, on SSI? Even one? Even ONE homeless who could have most benefited IF the claims were true? Even ONE?

Transcendental Meditation is included in this. Did they let EVEN ONE homeless person finish their siddha program, flying, walking through walls etc.? Even ONE?

It seemed to be the worst sort of spam since I could not even email the person, dialog and then post, IF the comment was real, not spam. My few readers could make up their own minds of course but I won't publish spam.

I am sorry that I did not wish to post this comment. IF I could have inquired with the author, I would have more information and perhaps post what s/he said AND comments.

I cannot do this.

Comments here do NOT have to be positive, just real, verifiable and not spam.

No Best Friend?

2007-08-02T02:24:00.000-06:00

No Best Friend?
by
Robin Hall

All my life I wanted a best friend. Some of my friends likely tried. I likely tried too. I did my best. They did their best and I had one for some years as a child but not since then.

I am guessing I was incapable, early on, of forming close attachments. Later doctors discovered or diagnosed me and I am thinking there were parts of the illnesses at a very young age.

Read my back blogs. I am seriously damaged with depression, OCD, anxiety and their cousin personality defects. I am also a 35 oz. a day vodka drunk.

I wonder how far back the depression syndrome started that my earlier friends and I didn't ever and forever blend and become "best friends?"

There were some great guys and gals too. I tried. They tried. I cried. Love died.

Second tier friends was the best that ever happened for long for me. Briefly, best friends, briefly. Second tier friends ongoing or not.

In each case, I regret my inability to commit to being BEST FRIENDS. Maybe I DID commit but I was incapable. Maybe no one liked me enough.

Its sad, not being capable of being / having a best friend due to an illness no one could cure, few even knew about. No one understood. Sad.

I am not alone here. Look within. Something similar happened to many of you.

What can we do, if anything, other than having second tier friends who stayed with us or first tiers who gave up on us?

Maybe second tiers we keep trying with, and them knowing what happened. They kept trying too and there is value. Love as best there can be for us, the seriously damaged.

Its tricky. Its the best we can do.

Pain, tolerance and acceptance is what happens.

I have to settle for this.

My very own family did MUCH less. My friends did MUCH more.

Some friends are still around. Most bailed.

My family is not around. Isn't that sad, the family is not around?

Blood, in my experience, is much thinner than water.

There was a blood connection for me, at one time. It faded due to death of the primaries. It dies due to inconvenience for the less committed. Blood is thinner than water. MUCH thinner for many of us.

More Things That Don't Make Sense To Me

2007-07-31T08:23:00.000-06:00

More Things That Don't Make Sense To Me
by
Robin Hall

This will be updated as long as my life makes less and less sense. I have no idea why any of the following exist AT ALL. If you have other ideas, do drop me a line and I will add them, with full credit, or maybe you can blog them on your space.

1. A-cup bras. Really, what is going on other than the bra makers are scamming their customers?

2. Crotchless panties. The most logical use of underwear, to me, is for sanitary purposes. After a bathroom experience there is a chance of a drop of some liquid. Cotton works well here. Shear synthetics do not. Crotchless panties really do not.

If you are up for unexpected sex, go without drawers. Problem solved and more power to you, like in the sea grapes on Lantana Beach with Phyllis.

3. If a man can afford bespoke clothing: "What side do you dress to?" is pretty silly under 6". Be honest with your tailor.

4. Now this one is so outrageous it makes me mad. Why would anyone drink caffeine free diet soda? Duh. Water.

5. Cleavage annoys me. Not having it of course, but displaying it THEN chastising people who look and its not just men.

6. I think women's fashion and clothes are so often demeaning. Its like just being a woman makes them beauty objects, not equal people who dress funnily / amusingly or dress to please themselves, really.

I will never be a woman, cannot know where their clothes tastes came from but some of these things just don't make sense to me and this one goes beyond fashion to a few notes on sex "hygiene":

a.Wearing those dresses with cleavage and a swooping neckline in the middle of winter. They cannot be comfortable.

b. Who thought them up, early on, and who keeps high heels a fashion item? Orthopedists with heavy investments in the shoe industry?

c. I have never understood those silly hats. However if you really do, ignore this note.

d. What's up with make-up? Yuk. It really doesn't make you look better. Different yes. Better, no. Plus it tastes bad if you are having full contact oral sex.

e. What's up underarm deodorant / antiperspirant? Yuk, plus they, too, taste bad if you are having full contact oral sex. Its the aluminum for one of them.

Ditto for "feminine hygiene" deodorants and REALLY ditto for the taste bad part. Sweetie, if we are 69, I do not want a synthetic strawberry smell in my mouth. It lasts way too long.

Hygiene is being clean, not coating yourself with cover-up smells. This is not to say a FINE perfume tactically placed cannot go beyond

If you pee in an interlude of sex, wash with a light soap, rinse and come on back to bed. I will be happy you thought of me.

I don't think I am alone in saying I don't like the taste of pee.

Ditto and more for #2 in the loo.

A brief suggestion. Just be clean. Take showers regularly. At work, maybe rinse underarms on a long day.

Research suggests the antiperspirants don't really work that well anyway.

f. Do you really need a $150 hairdo to feel attractive?

g. Or a $150 manicure / pedicure?

h. Or a $10K spa weekend?

All of us are pretty, plain or ugly and all the "treatments" in the world won't change this. We can do our best is all.

7. A $100K+ sports car in America. There is simply no where to drive it, its at high risk for theft and sale in Russia or South America and it really won't make you a better lover.

8. A $50K + SUV UNLESS you really do go off-road a lot and need one. Hunters, photographers, campers sure, why not if you have the cash. The rest of the car buying public can be much more comfy in other vehicles.

9. Two million dollar mobile homes / travel vehicles. What are you thinking about?

10. Why is everything a war today? Pizza wars, NY vs. Chicago. Iron Chef challenges. Throw downs. BBQ wars. Power eating challenges. Why are there no cooperations rather than all those wars?

11. Why don't Americans have health care for all?

12. The Olympic "sports" of banner waving and organized swimming. I am sure power eating and poker are coming up. See below.

13. Why is power eating considered a sport and on ESPN? They should be ashamed OR go a step further and have power drinking, power crack smoking and power cocaine snorting too.

14. Why is poker also considered a sport and on ESPN? How's this, have a gambling channel and put all the casino games on it ! There is little in the way of sport in any of them. Skill, yes, sport no.

I consider no-limit hold'em poker fully equal in difficulty, skill level to bridge, chess, checkers and go. These could also be on the gambling channel if played for money.

15. Why is pot illegal and both cigarettes and alcohol are? There is a profit motive at work here and the hordes of religionists don't want anyone to have fun. Maybe they designed the crotchless panties as an attempt at titillation. But why?

16. Why are so many teens funneled to college when they could do much better heading to work, trade school, the military, police, fire department and so on.

Go to work. Later if you find you need college, go there with the money YOU earned.

17. Why do people use air fresheners? Just get more air from the source. Its already fresh.

18. Roulette and craps. These confuse me. People put money on squares or the like, a ball is put into a spin or dice are tossed. Its gambling but how could it be fun? You know you will lose. Why not attempt poker? At least there is a chance to win. Not much. A chance. Do learn how to play first however. The pros will take your money, any amount and thank you for it. Some are rude and will laugh at you.

19. Gossip. There are folks in my seniors building who will sit for hours at a time, outside in hot weather, make noise, squawk, cackle, say nothing, laugh and that is their day. I tried it once and lasted 10 minutes.

20. Taking a bath rather than a shower.

Consider. Here is a bath tub. Did you actually clean the tub first? You fill it with fresh water. Here you are dirty.

There are parts of you that are dangerously dirty and check out the research on e coli.

There are parts of you that are seriously at risk, like your eyes that have a direct tube to your nasal cavity which could lead to your lungs or stomach,

Now, you step into the bath. Your feet, ripe with fungus and whatever else pollute the water immediately.

Next you sit. Folks you just infected the water with E. coli and who knows what else, along with various bacteria, fungus, pollen and even virus that has collected on your skin.

You may wash your head first. Guess what you are washing and rinsing with, bath water. Your eyes are under attack.

Your privates are also subject to the polluted water. I suspect your urethra is under attack and how many women have constant bladder and urethral problems due to the bath soup of infections and some men too.

IF you actually wash all over, how many of you rinse under the shower after a bath? I suspect few use the shower. They just dry off and wonder why their skin is a mess. YUK.

Just take a shower. All the problems go down the drain, you are healthier and life goes without worries from cleaning yourself.

If you like a bath, just get in, relax then take a shower after to actually get clean and don't immerse your head in the bath. Your eyes don't like problems.

21. Six pound hamburgers. Now this would make a fine meal for a basketball team but not any one person.
http://www.offroaders.com/album/clearfield/clear06092006/index5.html

This confuses me. Only one person so far has won this challenge for a free meal. A small 100 pound woman of 19 downed the 6 pound burger in under 3 hours.

WTF? Its 1/16th of her entire weight. Birds would be envious. YIKES. Why was there no video of this feat and the aftermath? What was she thinking? Did it kill her? Is she on ESPN now as a power eater?

This same place also has a 15 pound burger. How could you even cook a 15 pound burger? What would the spatula look like? "Denny's also has the "Beer Barrel Belly Buster" a monstrous 15-pound burger featuring 10.5 pounds of ground beef, 25 slices of cheese, a head of lettuce, three tomatoes, two onions, a cup-and-a-half each of mayonnaise, relish, ketchup, mustard and banana peppers. On a bun."

Its a meal for 32 hungry middle income folks or 64 homeless souls. Are they expecting Paul Bunyan coming in for a snack?

22. There are words that don't make sense to me. Today's word is foolproof. Think about this. Someone competent designs a product and labels it foolproof in setting up, managing etc.

Weigh this against ALL the fools in the world. Someone is going to be a bigger fool than the product. Its statistics. There are some very focused fools.

Maybe the term should be almost foolproof. OR the company could hire fools to test products and state, this product is 87% foolproof.

This does not even include people like my ex-wife. She is not a fool by any means BUT she was born with the ability to destroy anything. I call her the Queen of Chaos. I am positive there are many like her in the world fully qualified to destroy most anything.

Companies should pay her great sums to test products. Pay the fools too of course.

They should come up with a product rating that blends chaos with foolery. This product is 87% foolproof and our Chaos expert PC took 4 months to destroy it. It took her only 3 months to destroy a Sherman tank.

Think about this. Really.

We do have a Sherman Tank. Penny destroyed it in 3 months. Well it was really 2 months but none of our technicians found out till we tried to start the tank after her visit.

Two days after Penny's visit, our best technician was there. She got inside the tank for a routine inspection. There was dog hair on the control panel. This WAS our very best tech, so she inspected further. Then she tried to start the tank. Nothing happened. She even had the key. Nothing happened. Other techs visited the tank to no avail.

We have since moved the tank to another location. Now its a very sturdy building shield. We drained the fuel. Top military advisers are still confused but this tank just won't work. Chaos at work.

The Queen of Chaos had visited. I rest my case.

23. Don't you think TinyURL should now be called medium sized URLS? Really.

24. After trying for years to find a companion online, I am now sure this makes no sense to me. We meet online. Do we? He could be a she and we wouldn't know. Photos can be sent that are not the person.

We can do video chat which is indicative. Regular voice or vidcam chat. Email. Find the right address and do google searches and then paid searches.

The more we do the closer to reality we get BUT a single day in person is worth more than all the chats, the words, the photos.

Make it real. Visit. DO NOT STAY AT THEIR PLACE. Get a m/hotel room when you visit and go on regular dates. Expect no more than a regular date.

Do not go to foreign countries looking for love or just to get laid. YOU WILL SUFFER.

Save sex for when you both exchange full blood tests for HIV, HHV, the 3 liver tests and all the STDs you never wanted to get.

If you cannot afford to do these things, you shouldn't be seeking a companion online who is not in your very own town or city. IF you search in your own town or city, don't forget the blood tests.

25. Raw flesh consumption confuses me. I call all of it sushi / sashimi, but raw flesh is OK too. It just doesn't look good on a menu. Five ounces of raw beef. Four ounces of raw sawfish, etc.

No, restaurateurs dress up raw beef and call it steak tartare, kitfo etc. Folks this is raw cow meat. Does your local cook Fred have the training or the microscope to KNOW WTF he is sending out the kitchen door?

Cooking doesn't take that long. Be patient and let the other restaurant patrons end up in the hospital.

Think about all the parasites, bacteria and even virus that flesh is subject to, the processing methods of butchers and fishmongers. How fresh their products actually are.

Imagine your insides. Then ponder this. Just how many chefs in the whole world are capable of absolutely KNOWING which raw flesh is safe for your insides and back this up with a health guarantee?

We don't see much pig sushi in local restaurants like Nam Mu Sod , chicken sushi, deer, horse or lamb sushi / raw flesh / sashimi meals on many restaurant's menu for the day?

Would you really want to visit a generic restaurant in Chattanooga, TN and order sushi? Would it be catfish from the Tennessee river? Is this wise? What could they offer that was fresh and safe?

Until I can afford the top drawer chefs who charge up to $100 for a single raw clam, more than $500+ for a meal and my insides have a fighting chance, I will have to stick to overcooked foods at the local RFC, MinnyDs, PancakesRUS and an OK Chinese restaurant.

26. Just what IS fat free sour cream OR fat free ice cream? They have been in the stores for years now. I never wanted to take them home. They are lies. Look up cream in your dictionary. There is no such thing as fat free cream.

Its worse than the W. C. Fields quote, "Its like corn on the cob without the cob."

There are other products like this, lies that we tolerate.

27. Why is the VA so willing to try to ignore veteran's claims? Is this a mandate from Congress, any particular sitting President or is it a government agency with no accountability, no professionals doing the right thing? Psychiatrists, podiatrists, osteopaths, internists and all the other specialists needed to do their homework and do right by the veteran?

From the time of our country's first wars, the government has found ways to ignore the needs of veterans. This continues till the present and will likely continue in future. This agency, the VA, is often in complete control of who gets served properly, treated properly, who gets the medical benefits they deserve at the level they are needed.

There does not appear to be a civilian review board of qualified professionals in the first paragraph who are paid to do one thing, their best, when reviewing claims AND after interviewing the veterans.

This civilian review board should begin now. They should be able to access ALL prior claims, act on them AND make recompense when their findings conflict with the VA's ill thought out previous decisions and do it NOW.

28. Most reality TV shows. There are just too many problems with these to go in to so I won't spend much time on them.

Now I don't consider a cooking show to be one of these. History, interviews, news etc. No, these is just aspects OF TV. I don't even mind the dance shows, talent shows or the like. They are entertainment.

Its when "reality" shows attempt to enter our consciousness as a new form of ritual or truth that they become annoying and offensive. Bridezillas is a fine example. The many quest shows.

Just take your own quest or go to some church or other for rituals. Go to EST, ISA, a football game or the like. I hate "reality" TV.

The above are just examples of how foolishness is hurting us. Like sports video games. You think you are doing something online or in a digital game. Say its a bicycle race.

Jack, or Jill, after mastering this sort of video game, enter a real world bicycle race and see how well you do. Buy the very best cycle on the planet, get out there in the air, the real world and start pedaling.

Oops, the digital world does NOT equal the real world. Bikes don't have joy sticks and you don't have the endurance, strength or the will to win IN the real world.

The word on old style pinball machines to describe a physical fault was TILT.

29. Flash Gordon and Dr. Who. Such wooden acting, writing and production values? Who watches this drivel?

30. There is " virtually " nothing here that makes sense to me. Not that the article was inaccurate, just what it was about:

" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/11/AR2007081100351.html "

Why would anyone pay so much money to play an online game? The amounts involved in buying digital real estate, houses, avatars, sex movements and more simply startles me.

What? Lawsuits over " rights, " or "thefts" of digital items inside the game? This is worse than a scam, its a travesty.

Buy low, sell high? How high do you have to be to buy digital real estate? I am always drunk. I used to be always stoned. I NEVER bought digital rights nor did I think one could sell nothing for more than nothing.

DUH. Check the ads and try flipping.

I suspect this game is SUCH an improbable scam that few realize what is happening to them.

Its sort of like what happens with religions and we all know how that works out. Oops, most don't actually know what IS happening to them.

What is next in Second Life? A digital godlike figure similar to L. Ron Hubbard, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, the angel Moroni, and is no one else disturbed by an angel only an i away from moron?, the founder of EST and so many more "religions" whose the members have to pay to worship?

Why are there no full scholarships to scientology for instance?

And what was up with Bhagwan and Sushila and why did Bhagwan actually need more than 5 Rolls Royces?

Inquiring minds want to know. Will the digital gods require you to buy their particular choices of cars, houses and stereo systems?

Will the payment scheme TO worship these 0&1 gods, these digital gods, be monthly dues or a HUGE lump sum? Will you win the lottery when you pray to 0&1 gods?

Will your life be better, your reality life family be better? Will you be able to get a refund if its not? Same for regular world based religions. A refund if not satisfied?

Why do so many wish to give so much to so few for so little just TO worship something that is not really there but they wish was there?

All these things confuse me.

Does this make sense to anyone?

2007-07-28T00:07:00.000-06:00

Does this make sense to anyone?
by
Robin Hall

From the NY Times today. "The Bush administration is preparing to ask Congress to approve an arms sale package for Saudi Arabia and its neighbors that is expected to eventually total $20 billion at a time when some United States officials contend that the Saudis are playing a counterproductive role in Iraq."

Contend? Sell arms to Arabs? Neighbors?

This seems insane to me. We are arming our enemies as always for big business to thrive. Then we go to war with these same enemies. Then we pay them for war damages. Then they have money to buy more arms from us.

I KNOW I have missed somethings here, but what?

Follow the money and what do we see? Who gets paid off? Shouldn't these people be tried for treason?

Corporate Greed 3: Guarantees

2007-07-27T22:46:00.000-06:00

Corporate Greed 3: Guarantees
by
Robin Hall

Words used to mean something I think. Someone says, "I guarantee," he or she meant it. Some folks took this responsibility seriously. Some were less serious.

Today most guarantees seem meaningless.

Take a single example, fans, Patton fans. My last purchase of an Industrial Grade model cost about $30 at a local HugeMart. The box clearly listed a 10 year warranty for the 20" model.

Not so long ago the box listed a 25 year warranty which Patton actually honored.

The trick these days is that the fine print is in the manual in the box. I could read it if there is a problem but only after opening the box.

Sure, the HugeMart would take it back within a month or so and in this HugeMarts are honorable and consistent. I appreciate this.

I didn't read the new warranty manual. I should have and then taken the fan back because about 13 months after purchase the fan died and I was left with a large paper weight.

You see, while the fan was guaranteed for 10 years, the warranty stated that I must pay two way shipping to the factory. Cost? About $30.

This seems like one of the more clear cut instances of corporate greed I know of so far but I will keep looking.

Foods

2007-07-27T07:58:00.000-06:00

Foods
by
Robin Hall

Its not easy saying your favorite things to ingest are all troubling: butter, tequila, Southern Comfort, Drambuie, most nuts, most nut butters, sour cream and taters, sour cream and chocolate powder, sour cream, Breyer's Vanilla, potato chips, popcorn, the crispy corn curls, creme de cassis, cream, clean pj and maybe clean ? with the right, you know. Just read between the lines.

Then there is chocolate. Pies of all sorts of course. A. B. Toklas brownies. Carrot cakes. Other cakes and I bet you NEVER heard of psyllium chocolate cake and if you have I will exchange recipes and maybe we should meet. Lets make it soon at Jackson Square near smiling Andy on a horse.

Next we move on to most breads, many pastries like elephant ears, raised donuts, many cheeses, a fine hamburger and wouldn't you really like a fillet mignon hamburger too?

Lobster served with a good melted butter in Maine. Alaska king crab legs in Alaska. Thin fried catfish and crayfish etouffee in Louisiana plus a tour of Louisiana's best other treats like: summa dem' po boy sammiches from New Orleans with Dixie Beer on a hot afternoon. Chile, yaint had dis, yaint had a sammich. Seriously. Go visit.

Kahlua soufflé. Hawaiian Delight ice cream from Dallas.

I want there to be more items in my list of foods. A week at elBulli for instance would get me started. A week of traveling with Anthony Bourdain, a week with Andrew Zimmern. Whole weeks each dining at restaurants run by Flay, Chiarello, Emeril, Batali, Thomas Keller, the Do Wa in NYC.

Lessons from Wolfgang, Michael, maybe Tyler. A close up of Giada in her dressing room.

Foods and more.

Death With Honor

2007-07-27T00:59:00.014-06:00

There is no shortage of organs available to the organ banks.

There is a shortage of good legislation however.

Simply legalize suicide and let it work like this: If life is intolerable for anyone, they would need a single half hour session with a death counselor. A one day wait after that will be fine.

Next, the person wanting suicide enters a hospital where blood and organ tests are done.

After the tests to find out how much can be harvested, a full harvest is performed. The agreement signed would absolve the hospital from liability AND require them to do the harvest even if nothing is useful.

Obviously, the person dies. That is the point for them.

Why shouldn't this be the law? Why should anyone be required to suffer? Prisoners facing a long sentence, sure. Folks living in daily terror from abuse, yes. Terminally ill, indeed. People living with any pain that is unrelenting whether of the body or of the brain, like depression, of course.

Let those who do not want to live help those who do.

Simple. Death with honor. Suicide that helps the living. Pain is ended for the one on the table and life continues for the ones they help, the ones who want to live.

That is all. Forever after there would be no shortage of organs. It seems logical and simple to me.

I will cue up first. My blood type is A+.

This is an ongoing note / commentary about suicide.

Boozed

2007-07-22T11:49:00.000-06:00

Boozed
by
Robin Hall

I wonder how much alcohol I can drink? Daily I express this wonder in fact and daily its more. Today's 38 oz. of vodka is an example of me doing my best to figure this out. Its a lonely and endless quest.

Well, not endless. One day I will find an answer. I won't be writing any more after that. Likely that is good for all.

Folks, don't try this speculative behavior at home, at a bar or anywhere. You will lose as I am.

Skunk Bacon

2007-07-18T06:23:00.000-06:00

Skunk Bacon
by
Robin Hall

I was just watching my favorite Travel Channel show, No Reservations. Tony was busy with Las Vegas paint balling and I began to wonder, "Where's the food?" and why hasn't Tony fallen over due to unreasonable amounts of alcohol? Why hasn't he visited some interesting house of hookers or gambled till he dropped?

My brain works differently than most and I began to wonder why we don't see small critters in the butcher shops that much? Really. What happened to experimenting with prolific wild life?

Why don't we see skunk bacon on any menus?

Why doesn't any Steak and Shake offer armadillo steaks?

For fine dining, why are there no porcupine chops?

Does your local WalMart offer rabbit or possum burger?

Where is the squirrel pie at Denny's?

Is there a rat stew at Ryan's? I KNOW there are plenty of rats. Why no rat stew or nutria stew?

Our food choices are weird. We rejoice in raw seafood, pay hundred$ for a meal but in the South, there is no catfish sushi. I am troubled by this.

There is little evidence of crayfish sushi either and try as I might, I have yet to find chitlin / chitterling sushi.

OK don't get your shorts in a curl. I think all raw flesh should all be called sushi.

We eat raw beef and call it steak tartare, but its just cow sushi.

You actually think its easy being insane, don't you?

I will try to keep you posted on other troubles I have. There are many.

Who Stole the Beauty?

2007-07-18T06:14:00.000-06:00

Who Stole the Beauty?
by
Robin Hall

In my lifetime the beauty has been stolen many times from the rest of us.

I cannot visit the beautiful island of Cuba that is only 90 miles from the US. Why?

Communism stole the beauty. Everywhere communism has been, beauty has been stolen, cheapened or destroyed. The people are drained, to the glory of the so-called state.

Everywhere. Russia, China, North Korea, Vietnam. Everywhere communism, the perversion of the human spirit has taken root, beauty is destroyed.

The Cultural Revolution? Get real. There was no revolution, cultural or otherwise. It was nothing more than the death dealing communists killing, stealing beauty and becoming their own religion.

We think that only nazis stole the beauty early in the 1900s and ignore the fact that communism's proponents, champions like Stalin, and was that his REAL name?, killed more people than the entire WW II. Really.

Take the former jewel of the Mediterranean, Beirut. Within my 62 years of life it was considered a PREMIER tourist destination. The muslims ruined this. Billions in tourism lost to terrorists. Imagine.

I am sure a top notch accountant could work out the figures. Money lost by the entire world due to muslims ruining just this one city. Then add in the negative costs of the religionist's attacks on others.

Further, just what do all these criminal muslims do for work? Who supports them versus what money they make from work.

This has troubled me for decades now, what do all those terrorists do for work? Does killing people pay well?

The religionists cost each and every one of us money and beauty.

Everywhere in the world that beauty is stolen, NOTHING is gained. Billions are lost in tourism alone. Death reigns.

The religionists have ruined so much of the world in so little time. You think communism wasn't a religion? Dig deeper in the dictionary.

Its time for decent people to take back the world from religionists, to reclaim beauty. Let your voice be heard. Reclaim beauty.

Getting Old Stinks

2007-07-18T06:07:00.000-06:00

Getting Old Stinks
by
Robin Hall, age 62

I have written several notes on getting old and this is another. Its almost a tautology, sort of, maybe.

The thing in my family that was just wrong was that no one prepared ME to get old. There were no OLD lessons. No one wanted to mention what they were going through.

This was wrong. We need lessons on moving through the stages of life. We don't usually get lessons. This stinks.

Anyway, when I was young I observed old folks all around me. I observed my own family's members.

Observed. I had no understanding of what they were going through. Now I do.

It stinks and literally at times. Just wait till you poo your pants in public the first time. It stinks, its embarrassing and you will NEVER get over it even if it never happens again.

For me, the first understandings of getting old included pain from arthritis. It took longer to wake up, longer to prepare to go outside.

There was less hair and what was left was the wrong color. My knees hurt too and there were odd pains that came and went.

There are now stomach pains, other aches and my shoes don't seem to fit. I don't see as well. I don't care as much about anything.

Did you know that old folks can be really alone? Yes, no friends or family to visit with. None to tend to them / us when this is needed?

Do you have even the slightest clue how much insurance costs that would actually pay for good senior care / assisted living? You start when you are 22, put in $400 a month till you are 63 and MAYBE you will earn decent care but just maybe.

The monthly rental amount for assisted living in this area ranges upward from $2500 and that is not a private room.

I have nothing more to add here. Getting old stinks.

Condoleezza Rice Should Never Have Had Her Two Major Postings in this Administration

2007-07-17T23:40:00.000-06:00

Condoleezza Rice Should Never Have Had Her Two Major Postings in this Administration
by
Robin Hall

OK, call me silly but putting a bright to brilliant woman into her two postings in this administration just seemed wrong to me. We are fighting seriously damaged men and women of islam.

Only the men really matter in the milieu of islam. In no way that I can determine would ANY of these fucking criminals of islam, honor the qualities and output of a fine mind that was female.

Yet our president thought, what? I will appoint a female who is a lot smarter than I am to deal with men who have no respect for females and will balk at even talking to our National Security Adviser, Secretary of State. I am confused.

Why didn't our president Bush appoint this very capable person to a well paid advisory position, a puppet master of the highest order, with the understanding that when a position in government comes up that does not have direct contact with the men of islam who hate women's freedom notions, she would get this position?

More, should Dr. R. wish most any posting in the civilian world she was qualified for, she would get that at the end of her National Service.

But no. Our president, feeling unworthy? but in a position of power chose the most qualified person and ignored the facts of islam.

Well, that is my view. Silly me.

The Fellow Down the Hallway is Me, He is YOU: The Need for Nationalized Health Care

2007-07-17T09:33:00.000-06:00

The Fellow Down the Hallway is Me, He is YOU: The Need for Nationalized Health Care
by
Robin Hall

I live in public housing, just like "Jim", the fellow down the hallway. I will soon be his age. He has recently become unable to realize he is peeing in his pants, or worse.

There is no one to tend to "Jim". No family or friends because sometimes we outlive them all or they don't want us.

There is no nurse or social worker either to guide "Jim" as he passes through the very natural stages at the end of his life.

Each and every one of us here at Chester C. Powell Apartments and all the other public housing units around the country is a heartbeat, a small stroke or coronary event away from the grave or worse, a low rent nursing home.

When we are young and sometimes prettier, this part of life is easy to ignore.

Few of us understand the need to save the enormous amount of money we will require for our own care as a senior. Few have the money TO save, especially the disabled, like me.

Especially too, the working poor.

Even active middle income folks usually ignore this desperate failing in our medical and insurance systems.

We need decent nationalized public health care. We need it now. Keep this in mind when you go to the polls: its YOUR future you are voting for.

"Oh shit, Robin, its too fucking expensive to vote in Health Care for all."

Well, Jack or Jill, unless you are a close relative to Bill or other rich folks, its going to be your turn one day and it could be sooner than you think.

A tiny stroke, a drunk driver, some exotic bird disease or the like and you will be needing what you just voted NOT to have.

We do not have to make decent health care perfect before its voted in.

Think this through, vote it in and keep making it more efficient over the years, till YOU need it.

Our President Bill Clinton tried to make this happen. Today others are trying. Let them have their way.

Vote FOR national health care for ALL of our citizens before its too late for "Jim", or Robin.

Vote FOR national health care for ALL before its YOU that is the fellow down the hallway with no one to care.

Corporate Greed 2, Toast

2007-07-16T10:06:00.000-06:00

Corporate Greed 2, Toast
by
Robin Hall

My last note about corporate greed mentioned something like a paradigm change in rechargeable batteries. Paradigm is a bit large for this but its accurate.

Today's observation concerns bread and toasters. Not that many years back, most bread was about the same size. Toasters could then be made the same size. The economy of scale which is a wonderful part of our US economy and keeps our prices down kept our toaster prices down too.

Toasters last a very long time. There is no need to replace them until they die.

I think manufacturers came up with another way to sell more toasters. Convince bread makers to make bigger bread that didn't fit in older toasters. Toast eaters got tricked and bought bigger toasters rather than regular sized bread.

However, the bread makers saw a flaw. Bread was bread, more or less. SO they began to offer dozens of types of bread, even to local stupidmarkets.

How many of you toast eaters noticed, rebelled and kept buying regular sized bread? Raise your hand.

Bigger bread needs bigger toasters. More toasters are sold. More types of bread are sold. Almost everyone wins.

Several snags. Toasters must be bought when they are not needed. The bread, being bigger, adds calories to our diet.

What became of our old toasters? The junk yard. The junk yard is filling up. More junk yards are needed. There is not room for more junk yards.

We spend more on both bigger toasters and bigger bread. We eat more bread. We get fatter.

Big business is making us fatter. How many of us are able to observe the bigger bread slices, cut them in half or so and eat that sort of sandwich?

I mean, really, a sandwich is a sandwich isn't it? AND we like two slices of toast with breakfast or a BLT. Its just bread, isn't it? Isn't it?

A Quote from Today's News

2007-07-15T04:30:00.000-06:00

A Quote from Today's News
with
Robin Hall

A partial quote from today's news: "L.A. Archdiocese to Pay $660M for Abuse LOS ANGELES (AP) - The nation's largest Catholic archdiocese has settled its abuse cases for $660 million, by far the largest payout in the church's sexual abuse scandal, The Associated Press has learned. The Roman..."

Isn't this special? Can you even feature what GOOD $660M could do, the people it could help, yet the saintly religionists continue to pay for their own sins while ignoring decency?

More, can you imagine what this church's greatest perversion, its Spanish Inquisition [ there was more than one ], would have done to its own members being caught with their pants down? There are entire museums dedicated to the machines of torture these monsters used.

Has anyone checked today's headlines on perversion payoffs for the un-religious? Zero buck$. Religionists are out $660M, atheists are not.

Hmmm. This is just ONE church, the ever present and perverse catholic church.

I wonder what the methodists, baptists, CoC and Lutherans are up to?

Say, wouldn't that be an interesting study? Church by church. Which church has the most payoffs due to some priest / pastor trashing the life of some youngster?

In this light, I wonder what the Inquisition would have cost the catholics or how much their participation with the nazis in World War II would have drained their deep pockets? And don't forget Napoleon and the catholic church AND their ongoing connections to the IRA. Well now.

Next, figure in the damage muslims are doing in the name of their particular church. Don't forget other brands of christians and do not let the jews off either, they are not without "sin". YIKES. Are there other churches? Add them as well unless they are without "sin/s."

I just had another wondering. What perversions are muslims hiding in their secret ness? We don't know. And what perversions are those burkas hiding? Men traveling around as women? Ugly women? Ugly men? Terrorists? Oh, what an original a thought?

And just which god is this particular church serving? OR which demon?

Further IF there are various aspects of this church, why aren't its good parts finally bitch slapping the terrorists, UNLESS their beliefs are not that different?

There are enough people in the world today trying to hurt us. Do we really need gods, demons and churches to hurt us more quickly? Do we need the guilt these religions produce? And where is the good they are SUPPOSED to produce but are not?

Words

2007-07-10T03:30:00.000-06:00

Words
by
Robin Hall

There words in this news piece that should not be in the same paragraph in the writings of a sane society.

"Pakistani troops seized Islamambad's Red Mosque on Tuesday and attempted to flush out the remaining militants entrenched inside a women's religious school in fierce fighting that left at..."

Fierce fighting, militants, women's religious and school. How do these words relate, in a sane society?

I am not convinced the upcoming years are going to be our best ones.

The UK is suffering bombings that are not, more or less, home grown as with the IRA, a catholic organization or organization of catholics who were radical religionists.

Perhaps the real big bang the physicists speak of is just the regular blowing up that religionists do to society?

Stand Up and Fight

2007-07-07T09:05:00.000-06:00

Stand Up and Fight
by
Robin Hall

Can you even imagine the courage it would take for a muslim religionist society to have done this?

"Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf Saturday ruled out any compromise with the hardcore militants holed up in a besieged mosque for last five days and warned them to surrender or face death."

Salute.

Beer is the New Wine

2007-07-07T06:15:00.000-06:00

Beer is the New Wine
by
Robin Hall

I am watching a Food Network or Travel Channel show, Epicurious. The chef is making food with beer AND connecting a particular beer afterward.

It seems that beer is the new wine as there are books about blending food and beer.

There needs to be new food research. Blending food with ones illness and stages thereof.

Beef bourguignon with anxiety, a light salad with a dark depression cycle, a milk shake with OCD etc.

I want to rant on about the silliness of something being the new something else, Beer is the New Wine, but its quite a popular current linguistic notion and I will use it too.

Blogging is good.

Are Religionists Proud Of All Their Killing?

2007-07-03T00:55:00.000-06:00

Are Religionists Proud Of All Their Killing?
by
Robin Hall

This note is triggered by today's news about suicide bombings in the UK.

Some low grade bombs where only the suicide bomber dies, that is dangerous and upsetting enough but what if these insane people finally hire a good bomb maker? Will the UK's reaction be the same? Unlikely. Would our reaction in the US be the same? Unlikely.

The difference between a dud / low grade bomb to serious explosive could be a half pound of some substance or other or just a more knowledgeable bomb maker.

Now I fully support suicide. No rational society should MANDATE its citizens cannot die with dignity.

That said, I also support suicide bombing as a social statement BUT not with the purpose of killing anyone but oneself, otherwise the phrase, suicide bomber, is just wrong. I have no good choice here. Hmm. Insane, perverted person wanting to kill others who is so alienated from society that s/he REALLY JUST WANTS TO COMMIT SUICIDE BUT CLOAKES THEMSELVES IN RELIGION TO FEEL BETTER Bomber? OK that is too long.

Here is my suggestion. Call a press conference in a very open stadium, field or the like. Make your statement to the press while you are at a safe distance from everyone and either set yourself on fire or blow you and you alone up.

For myself, I would really listen to someone willing to do this for their cause. I would want to know what their grievance was. I would listen to their message. I would write my government's officials if that was the request for a better world.

Only one person gets killed. A HUGE message goes out.

However when these murderers slaughter others, the group members should simply be put down like rabid dogs. Period.

Next, their keepers, their "cell," everyone involved in the sort of tragic upbringing and training that would produce these rabid murderers, ALL of these people should be put down too.

Maybe then some healing can happen. Its my contention as well, that these murderous groups should be dealt with by whatever over-religion is involved. Muslims clean up their own. Christians clean up their own etc. Something in the over-religion caused their own militants to slaughter. Its time for them to take out the trash.

Can you even imagine a culture / religion which is so alienated / deluded / perverted where a doctor, among the wealthiest of technocrats in any country, would plot the destruction of society rather than work to make the world better? AND most of the time there is simply no statement involved like, hey, leave our country or we need food, help us.

Its beyond me. I maintain that religion per se is at fault in the destruction of the world today and that it could ruin everything decent we have worked so hard to build.

The christian catholic IRA, the American separatists / skinheads and others wish to claim "spirit in the sky" acceptance of THEIR views. Can all the religions lay claim to acceptance of THEIR view and be sane or correct?

And isn't it men's writings rather than some divine intervention that really is the cause? Some men get together, write stories about how to live, maybe have some food edicts for their era, health items really, then they foist the stories, edicts and a religious hierarchy on to everyone and state this is how to live OR ELSE. The OR ELSE for some religions is death to you if you don't bow down to THEIR spirit in the sky notion.

No modern terrorist attack has been claimed by atheists and no brand of religion has had its main group even try to control the so-called radicals in its midst. One wonders if the radicals only expand on what the main body of religionists really feel?

Society in general is under attack by religionists. These religionists actually run most of society in the civilized world. What are we to learn? My view is that religion is dangerous. Religionists are dangerous.

Perhaps its time to collect ourselves and click the delete button on religions or put the brakes on it: stop all government subsidies TO churches, that is churches pay tax on income like any business.

Actually separate church and state. Encourage all to take part in the world regardless their age, sex or other items and IF a faction of some religion starts blowing people up, start taxing their church to pay for the damages with restitution to families.

Folks, religion is killing us. Think about that.

Sometimes We Need to Exceed Ourselves

2007-06-29T02:06:00.000-06:00

Sometimes We Need to Exceed Ourselves
by
the writer

Article

The above link refers to the article that follows. Internet links often get broken. I claim nothing in this other than I am copying the entire article as I found it. I DO hope you just read it when questions of science vs. religion show up.

I also hope the authors will forgive me for including it on my blog. Again, I did not initiate any of their copyrighted material and only want to pass it along because it begins, in part, to explain my annoyance with religion.

The authors did this on their own of course.

The article explains how the religious perpetrate themselves and if you read between the lines, why. If you extend this, well things COULD LIKELY get better, but due to the religious, they are probably not going to in our lifetime.

Again, the authors are not even likely to have even done what I think they did, just that I read the article and it seemed to fit things in my mind.

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The developmental data suggest that resistance to science will arise in children when scientific claims clash with early emerging, intuitive expectations. This resistance will persist through adulthood if the scientific claims are contested within a society, and will be especially strong if there is a non-scientific alternative that is rooted in common sense and championed by people who are taken as reliable and trustworthy. This is the current situation in the United States with regard to the central tenets of neuroscience and of evolutionary biology. These clash with intuitive beliefs about the immaterial nature of the soul and the purposeful design of humans and other animals — and, in the United States, these intuitive beliefs are particularly likely to be endorsed and transmitted by trusted religious and political authorities. Hence these are among the domains where Americans' resistance to science is the strongest.

WHY DO SOME PEOPLE RESIST SCIENCE?
By Paul Bloom and Deena Skolnick Weisberg

PAUL BLOOM is a psychologist at Yale University and the author of Descartes' Baby. DEENA SKOLNICK WEISBERG is a doctoral candidate in psychology at Yale University.

Paul Bloom's Edge Bio Page
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WHY DO SOME PEOPLE RESIST SCIENCE?

It is no secret that many American adults reject some scientific ideas. In a 2005 Pew Trust poll, for instance, 42% of respondents said that they believed that humans and other animals have existed in their present form since the beginning of time. A substantial minority of Americans, then, deny that evolution has even taken place, making them more radical than "Intelligent Design" theorists, who deny only that natural selection can explain complex design. But evolution is not the only domain in which people reject science: Many believe in the efficacy of unproven medical interventions, the mystical nature of out-of-body experiences, the existence of supernatural entities such as ghosts and fairies, and the legitimacy of astrology, ESP, and divination.

There are two common assumptions about the nature of this resistance. First, it is often assumed to be a particularly American problem, explained in terms of the strong religious beliefs of many American citizens and the anti-science leanings of the dominant political party. Second, the problem is often characterized as the result of insufficient exposure to the relevant scientific facts, and hence is best addressed with improved science education.

We believe that these assumptions, while not completely false, reflect a misunderstanding of the nature of this phenomenon. While cultural factors are plainly relevant, American adults' resistance to scientific ideas reflects universal facts about what children know and how children learn. If this is right, then resistance to science cannot be simply addressed through more education; something different is needed.

What children know

The main source of resistance to scientific ideas concerns what children know prior to their exposure to science. The last several decades of developmental psychology has made it abundantly clear that humans do not start off as "blank slates." Rather, even one year-olds possess a rich understanding of both the physical world (a "naïve physics") and the social world (a "naïve psychology"). Babies know that objects are solid, that they persist over time even when they are out of sight, that they fall to the ground if unsupported, and that they do not move unless acted upon. They also understand that people move autonomously in response to social and physical events, that they act and react in accord with their goals, and that they respond with appropriate emotions to different situations.

These intuitions give children a head start when it comes to understanding and learning about objects and people. But these intuitions also sometimes clash with scientific discoveries about the nature of the world, making certain scientific facts difficult to learn. As Susan Carey once put it, the problem with teaching science to children is "not what the student lacks, but what the student has, namely alternative conceptual frameworks for understanding the phenomena covered by the theories we are trying to teach."

Children's belief that unsupported objects fall downwards, for instance, makes it difficult for them to see the world as a sphere — if it were a sphere, the people and things on the other side should fall off. It is not until about eight or nine years of age that children demonstrate a coherent understanding of a spherical Earth, and younger children often distort the scientific understanding in systematic ways. Some deny that people can live all over the Earth's surface, and, when asked to draw the Earth or model it with clay, some children depict it as a sphere with a flattened top or as a hollow sphere that people live inside.

In some cases, there is such resistance to science education that it never entirely sticks, and foundational biases persist into adulthood. A classic study by Michael McCloskey and his colleagues tested college undergraduates' intuitions about basic physical motions, such as the path that a ball will take when released from a curved tube. Many of the undergraduates retained a common-sense Aristotelian theory of object motion; they predicted that the ball would continue to move in a curved motion, choosing B over A below.

An interesting addendum is that while education does not shake this bias, real-world experience can suffice. In another study, undergraduates were asked about the path that water would take out of a curved hose. This corresponds to an event that most people have seen, and few believed that the water would take a curved path.

Our intuitive psychology also contributes to resistance to science. One significant bias is that children naturally see the world in terms of design and purpose. For instance, four year-olds insist that everything has a purpose, including lions ("to go in the zoo") and clouds ("for raining"), a propensity that Deborah Kelemen has dubbed "promiscuous teleology." Additionally, when asked about the origin of animals and people, children spontaneously tend to provide and to prefer creationist explanations.

Just as children's intuitions about the physical world make it difficult for them to accept that the Earth is a sphere, their psychological intuitions about agency and design make it difficult for them to accept the processes of evolution.

One of the most interesting aspects of our common-sense psychology is dualism, the belief that minds are fundamentally different from brains. This belief comes naturally to children. Preschool children will claim that the brain is responsible for some aspects of mental life, typically those involving deliberative mental work, such as solving math problems. But preschoolers will also claim that the brain isn't involved in a host of other activities, such as pretending to be a kangaroo, loving one's brother, or brushing one's teeth. Similarly, when told about a brain transplant from a boy to a pig, they believe that you get a very smart pig, but one with pig beliefs and pig desires. For young children, then, much of mental life is not linked to the brain.

The strong intuitive pull of dualism makes it difficult for people to accept what Francis Crick called "the astonishing hypothesis." Dualism is mistaken — mental life emerges from physical processes. People resist the astonishing hypothesis in ways that can have considerable social implications. For one thing, debates about the moral status of embryos, fetuses, stem cells, and non-human animals are sometimes framed in terms of whether or not these entities possess immaterial souls. For instance, in their 2003 report (Being Human: Readings from the President's Council on Bioethics), the President's Council described people as follows: "We have both corporeal and noncorporeal aspects. We are embodied spirits and inspirited bodies (or, if you will, embodied minds and minded bodies)."

In addition, certain proposals about the role of imaging data in criminal trials assume a strong form of Cartesian dualism. Some have argued that if one could show that a person's brain is involved in an act, then the person himself or herself is not responsible, an excuse that Michael Gazzaniga dubbed "My brain made me do it." This belief that some of our decisions have nothing to do with our brains reflects a profound resistance to findings from psychology and neuroscience.

One reason why people resist certain scientific findings, then, is that many of these findings are unnatural and unintuitive. But there is more to the story than this. After all, some unintuitive scientific facts come to be broadly accepted. Even though children may initially find it hard to understand that objects are made of tiny particles or that the Earth isn't flat, most everyone comes to accept that these things are true. How does this happen?

Also, there are cultural factors that need to be explained. Americans are not more resistant to science in general. For instance, 1 in 5 American adults believe that the Sun revolves around the Earth, which is somewhat shocking—but the same proportion holds for Germany and Great Britain. But Americans really are special when it comes to certain scientific ideas—and, in particular, with regard to evolutionary theory. The relevant data are shown below, from a 2006 survey published in Science. What explains this culture-specific resistance to evolution?

How children learn

Part of the explanation for resistance to science lies in how children and adults process different sorts of information.

Some culture-specific information is not associated with any particular source. It is "common knowledge." As such, learning of this type of information generally bypasses critical analysis. A prototypical example is that of word meanings. Everyone uses the word "dog" to refer to dogs, so children easily learn that this is what they are called. Other examples include belief in germs and electricity. Their existence is generally assumed in day-to-day conversation and is not marked as uncertain; nobody says that they "believe in electricity." Hence even children and adults with little scientific background believe that these invisible entities really exist, a topic explored in detail by Paul Harris and his colleagues.

Science is not special here. Geographic information and historical information is also typically assumed, which is how an American child comes to believe that there is a faraway place called Africa and that there was a man who lived long ago named Abraham Lincoln. And, in some cultures, certain religious beliefs can be assumed as well. For instance, if the existence of supernatural entities like gods, karma, and ancestor spirits is never questioned by adults in the community, the existence of such entities will be unquestioningly accepted by children.

Other information, however, is explicitly asserted. Such information is associated with certain sources. A child might note that science teachers make surprising claims about the origin of human beings, for instance, while their parents do not. Furthermore, the tentative status of this information is sometimes explicitly marked; people will assert that they "believe in evolution."

When faced with this kind of asserted information, one can occasionally evaluate its truth directly. But in some domains, including much of science, direct evaluation is difficult or impossible. Few of us are qualified to assess claims about the merits of string theory, the role in mercury in the etiology of autism, or the existence of repressed memories. So rather than evaluating the asserted claim itself, we instead evaluate the claim's source. If the source is deemed trustworthy, people will believe the claim, often without really understanding it. As our colleague Frank Keil has discussed, this sort of division of cognitive labor is essential in any complex society, where any single individuals will lack the resources to evaluate all the claims that he or she hears.

This is the case for most scientific beliefs. Consider, for example, that most adults who claim to believe that natural selection can explain the evolution of species are confused about what natural selection actually is—when pressed, they often describe it as a Lamarckian process in which animals somehow give birth to offspring that are better adapted to their environments. Their belief in natural selection, then, is not rooted in an appreciation of the evidence and arguments. Rather, this scientifically credulous sub-population are deferring to the people who say that this is how evolution works. They trust the scientists.

This deference to authority isn't limited to science; the same process holds for certain religious, moral, and political beliefs as well. In an illustrative recent study, subjects were asked their opinion about a social welfare policy, which was described as being endorsed either by Democrats or by Republicans. Although the subjects sincerely believed that their responses were based on the objective merits of the policy, the major determinant of what they thought of the policy was in fact whether or not their favored political party was said to endorse it. More generally, many of the specific moral intuitions held by members of a society appear to be the consequence, not of personal moral contemplation, but of deference to the views of the community.

Adults thus rely on the trustworthiness of the source when deciding which asserted claims to believe. Do children do the same? Recent studies suggest that they do; children, like adults, have at least some capacity to assess the trustworthiness of their information sources. Four- and five-year-olds, for instance, know that adults know things that other children do not (like the meaning of the word "hypochondriac"), and when given conflicting information about a word's meaning from a child and from an adult, they prefer to learn from the adult. They know that adults have different areas of expertise, that doctors know about fixing broken arms and mechanics know about fixing flat tires. They prefer to learn from a knowledgeable speaker than from an ignorant one, and they prefer a confident source to a tentative one. Finally, when five year-olds hear about a competition whose outcome was unclear, they are more likely to believe a character who claimed that he had lost the race (a statement that goes against his self-interest) than a character who claimed that he had won the race (a statement that goes with his self-interest). In a limited sense, then, they are capable of cynicism.

Implications

In sum, the developmental data suggest that resistance to science will arise in children when scientific claims clash with early emerging, intuitive expectations. This resistance will persist through adulthood if the scientific claims are contested within a society, and will be especially strong if there is a non-scientific alternative that is rooted in common sense and championed by people who are taken as reliable and trustworthy. This is the current situation in the United States with regard to the central tenets of neuroscience and of evolutionary biology. These clash with intuitive beliefs about the immaterial nature of the soul and the purposeful design of humans and other animals — and, in the United States, these intuitive beliefs are particularly likely to be endorsed and transmitted by trusted religious and political authorities. Hence these are among the domains where Americans' resistance to science is the strongest.

We should stress that this failure to defer to scientists in these domains does not necessarily reflect stupidity, ignorance, or malice. In fact, some skepticism toward scientific authority is clearly rational. Scientists have personal biases due to ego or ambition—no reasonable person should ever believe all the claims made in a grant proposal. There are also political and moral biases, particularly in social science research dealing with contentious issues such as the long-term effects of being raised by gay parents or the explanation for gender differences in SAT scores. It would be naïve to ignore all this, and someone who accepted all "scientific" information would be a patsy. The problem is exaggerated when scientists or scientific organizations try to use their authority to make proclamations about controversial social issues. People who disagree with what scientists have to say about these issues might reasonably infer that it is not safe to defer to them more generally.

But this rejection of science would be mistaken in the end. The community of scientists has a legitimate claim to trustworthiness that other social institutions, such as religions and political movements, lack. The structure of scientific inquiry involves procedures, such as experiments and open debate, that are strikingly successful at revealing truths about the world. All other things being equal, a rational person is wise to defer to a geologist about the age of the earth rather than to a priest or to a politician.

Given the role of trust in social learning, it is particularly worrying that national surveys reflect a general decline in the extent to which people trust scientists. To end on a practical note, then, one way to combat resistance to science is to persuade children and adults that the institute of science is, for the most part, worthy of trust.

[This is a modified version of P. Bloom & D. S. Weisberg, "Childhood origins of adult resistance to science", published in Science, May 18, 2007. This article contains citations of the experimental studies discussed here.]

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Morning Smile

2007-06-27T03:54:00.000-06:00

Morning Smile
by
Robin Hall with a little help from my friend

You know what I mean here, a morning smile. Each of us wants this. We often go to the ends of the earth to find it, preserve it. We hope we deserve it, a morning smile.

You know the sort I am talking about. Only you ever get to see it. Unfettered love backs up the smile. Its just for you and yours. You smile back and you would give your life for that person, your very life.

Morning laugh.

Morning sex.

Look within. Isn't that how you really want to start your day and end it? A simple morning or evening smile.

Black Snake Moan, My View

2007-06-27T02:51:00.000-06:00

Black Snake Moan, My View
by
Robin Hall

I have watched over 3000 movies and rated each of them with Xs. Yesterday, 13 had earned my top xxxxx level. Today there are 14.

Black Snake Moan is like a paradigm shift in film making. A simple story with writing, acting, directing and shooting that goes beyond

I am still in tears

Without even a hint of button pushing this film enveloped me in a mist that unlocked my soul for a while and refreshed my mind

Samuel L. Jackson, Christina Ricci, John Cothran Jr., S. Epatha Merkerson and director Craig Brewer plus the editor, shooter and writers Sometimes a film does something so powerful its beyond words.

Just Say No to Food

2007-06-26T02:47:00.000-06:00

Just Say No to Food
by
Robin Hall

Earlier I was having a bit of acid reflux / heartburn etc. The causes were many. I read up on it and my entire stock of food is attacking my stomach.

Taming of the acid is a bit tricky. I SERIOUSLY suggest you check with more than one doctor if this remains problematic and don't listen to anything I say. I am not a doctor, don't play one on TV and don't even have one to play with.

We can seriously over react and head for the H2 receptor antagonists or proton pump inhibitors right off or save them for later. That is my choice.

In the meanwhile we can use various antacids like baking soda, calcium carbonate or magnesium hydroxide. Each of these have problems if used at all or to excess. One problem is throwing our electrolytes out of whack. I hate it when that happens but these are cheap and fast.

We can search the Internet.

Well, isn't this special? One site recommends unsalted almonds. Scrolling down, white vinegar is also a cure. I am skeptical about each of these so-called cures and the site itself.

GERD is an acronym that shows up. Its scary.

I googled " heartburn " , " heartburn remedies " , " acid reflux. " I also googled " heartburn milk " and " heartburn tomatoes " which I eat a lot of. Also " heartburn cheese, " " heartburn salt " and " heartburn beer. " I have a limited diet.

In MANY resource sites we are told to avoid most food, certainly most good food:

Citrus fruits, yet each of them have wonderful antioxidant properties and taste good.

Chocolate is on most lists. Who in their right minds would delete this for more than a few days? Drat, this is really upsetting me. I have very little left after the following items.

Drinks with caffeine, alcohol and beer are especially said to produce acid. Beer is really the culprit and it just tastes so good, so fucking what?

Drink it, take an antacid. Down the coffee, tea, chocolate and do what you can. Other items to follow.

An insert here. I read a study just now and 7 cups of coffee a day cut acid reflux. I am wondering if the coffee industry funded this study? And there would be many trips to the loo.

Insert 2. The above mentioned study suggested that spirits did not increase stomach acid or acid reflux. WTF?

I KNOW I am not like many folks but when the food journalists and researchers can change their views in the same week, isn't something basically wrong?

Back to the foods. Fatty and fried foods? WTF? This leaves out all fast food, most Chinese food and so many other country's basic foods, especially Southern USA foods, well we are all in trouble. Just watch the Food Channel's Paula's Home Cooking show which would include about two total recipes that are NOT fatty or fried.

BUTTER RULES, tastes good and should be completely excluded from food lists that exclude foods.

Garlic and onions? I eat most everything with garlic and onions. There is no tasty cuisine I know of that leaves out garlic and onions. These bad food lists are annoying.

Mint flavorings. Oy. I cannot even use my toothpaste without risking heartburn. I cannot gargle, brush or tune up my enamel.
: ^ (

Spicy foods. By this time just what is left? Its the spice of life is just so in our culture.

Hmm. No spice. Do you really want to dine on the Russian delicacy pelmeni for the rest of your life? Its worse. Pelmeni is a bit of beef and pork surrounded by dough and boiled. No spice. Ok, the recipe can involve spice but the ones I had while there did not.

Dull fucking food without spice or salt. We are just about left with eating bananas, apples and broiled chicken or fish.

Tomato based foods, like spaghetti sauce, salsa, chili, tomato juice, V8 juice, bloody Marys and pizza. Now this really pisses me off since even moderately heated tomato sauce is rich in lycopene another fine antioxidant.

Well, you can see MY problem here. There isn't anything left to eat.

I don't think sushi is on any of the DON'T FUCKING EAT THIS lists but really. Estimates for a true and safe sushi master's meal ranges upwards from $500.

I was watching Tony Bourdain's excellent No Reservations. He was IN Japan at a small mom and pop sushi restaurant. He trusted the fare. A single raw mollusk was $50. So sushi is off my menu.

Well prepared venison would be OK. WalMart has no venison here in SE TN.

Low fat beef on occasion is OK. Most meats are OK, sometimes, but only the lean bits. This leaves out all pork, all the tasty beef parts, all of everything.

We are told that sea creatures contain heavy metal. I wish my bank had plenty of gold in my account, but no.

Nickle and lead are in tuna, salmon, mackerel, shrimp etc. Drat. They are out too. No lobster either.

Most grains can cause allergies. Most legumes: peas, peanuts, some beans; nuts of all sorts.

Now see here. If I can't fucking eat a fucking peanut butter sandwich, someone is going to pay.

I just looked in my pantry. I have navy beans that MAY be OK. I have LOTS of chocolate. Not good. Peppermints galore. Not good. Pickles with too much salt, vinegar, ketchup, pasta sauce, mustard. All contain too much salt and spices.

My freezer has tomato juice, pasta sauce, grains, breads, seven different nuts, all that chocolate I am not supposed to have, coffee. There is ice cream, Breyers Lactose free, the good stuff with all that fat.

There IS powdered fat free milk, slightly less of a problem. I have some frozen vegetables in the OK list, a few frozen fruits. Some of the juices are OK but not orange or grapefruit, which itself can interfere with many medications.

There is one logical thing at this point. Have a bloody Mary, go down the street for a pepperoni pizza, toss back a few beers and hope I don't need to sleep for another 25 hours.

Another problem for quelling heartburn, one is not supposed to eat within 4 hours of sleep. For me its closer to 12 hours. Isn't this getting out of hand?

Food should be refreshing, nourishing and fun if taken in a congenial atmosphere but what am I supposed to eat even IF I had friends and a nice place to eat in?

This rant ends soon. Please be patient.

Questions still abound. What IS fat free sour cream? What is fat free ice cream? What do these things even mean?

Are such products the literal deconstruction [google that word for fun] of the English language or just big business realizing how much we love fat and that there is a niche market for many others who want to cut down on fat?

Really.

One other item. This is just wishful thinking on my part. I suppose its an attempt to find some meaning in life but what if none of this mattered if meals were taken with loving friends and family in a calm atmosphere? Would any food actually harm us?

Real Memories 1

2007-06-26T02:12:00.000-06:00

Real Memories 1: Early drinking problem and psyc wards.
by
Robin Hall

The day I graduated from college I put wine and Rice Crispies in the blender for breakfast. I don't recall the rest of that glorious day. I got my degree, my diploma. I woke up another day. That was Dec. 1974 or maybe it was August.

I was married. We drove to FL to work with John Costaine McCamy in Human Life styling. That lasted a month.

I got a teaching assistant ship to a school in Omaha. I went. Three months after arriving I tried to electrocute myself and spent 2 months at Nebraska Psychiatric Institute. It was pretty good except they gave me anti psychotics instead of anti depressants.

One day they gave me prolixin. The next day I was literally walking in circles. It seemed my left foot was nailed to the floor. They gave me something to relieve this.

My wife left me for another woman just before I went into the hospital. She stole my car, my records. She did not give the cats away, tend to them. I got back to the house a month later, I had two one-month admittances, the poor cats were roaming around the house hungry, thirsty etc. They had peed everywhere.

I got my MA from Florida State University, August 1982. I had spent the week previous to finals in the local mental hospital. Florida had some deal where you got out in a week, no there was a 4 day hold. Maybe that was it. Maybe it was two weeks.

The day after I got my MA I drove up to Atlanta and headed immediately back to FL. I lived with my grandma for several years, taught 24 sections of speech in the local Community College, worked at Florida State Prison for a month.

I took 1800 Mg. of lithium a day for 2 years, some tricyclics in addition, for half that time. I slept a LOT. I only missed two classes in 3 years at PBJC. I don't recall a single student's name. I recall one face.

Real memories, for me, are often that I didn't recall any memories from some time or other. Long fugue states seem to have happened. Most of my life is a fugue.

Borked

2007-06-26T00:31:00.000-06:00

Borked
by
Robin Hall and Others

Borked is not a word, nor is doh. Yet, when I updated / pinged my blogs at Technorati both were used to tell me their site was down.

I actually understood each word at a different level which essentially was: "Oops our site is fucked," or with yet other words, "We are sorry for the inconvenience, our site is not working right now."

I liked their version but can you feature any English speaking person ANYWHERE in the world, however fluent but without the Internet to check current word usage, understanding this slang? Still its fun.

Wouldn't it be neat to have a comedy show, say Get Your Freak On, International, where top comics from anywhere who were totally fluent in English, vie for the ca$h as TOP Freakin' International Comic? I would watch it.

Imagine Scots, Americans, Irish, English, South Africans, New Zealanders, Canadians, Australians, real Indians and whoever the fuck else was fluent / had nailed our HUGE language, with whatever accent, ALL competing and what fun we could have checking out who would be the top freaking English speaking comic in the whole world?

There could local tryouts in virtually any country in the world for half hour shows. Regionals etc. There could be videos sold for the top comics in each venue.

In the end ONE person would actually BE the funniest person ANY English speaking human in the world. This person would have simply shattered the funny bones of more humans than anyone in HISTORY, other than some of the politicians...

6 to 9

2007-06-25T04:47:00.000-06:00

6 to 9
by
Robin Hall

Every da is dayja vu,
Every night's a nightmare 2.
Sittin' here doing 6 to 9,
All I got is lots of time.

Others here they doing life,
Outta the cell, lotsa strife.
Stayin inside, goin outta my mind
Go outside, you in the grind.

You got no friends when you inside.
Everyone wants to have a ride.
Read all day, cry all night
Guys and gals, you best learn how to fight.

What to Watch on TV

2007-06-24T03:13:00.000-06:00

What to Watch on TV
by
Robin Hall

Ultimate Fighter OR Giada in Paradise were my choices on the last VCR tape. I rarely choose, just watch.

UF was silly. I wrote SpikeTV and suggested they take the gloves off, open the fights to everyone and see if their ratings improved. No answer.

Giada is a Food Network cook with 4 star "C" cup cleavage. I opted for her show.

DRAT. I cannot even watch the show for the cleavage. Its like a cobra and the waving of the pipe by a snake charmer. OK, for me, more like a small grass snake and a snack, but still.

I have 148 more tapes to choose from.

Confusion reigns. I am drenched. Its 4:15 AM. Drunk as usual.

Blood, Water and Truth

2007-06-23T10:44:00.000-06:00

Blood, Water and Truth
by
Robin Hall

This one is short.

Blood ties: paternity, maternity, sorority, fraternity. Its my experience that all these so-called blood-ties are simply bull shit, per se, and NOT thicker than water. NO ONE chooses family AND family often UN-chooses its own members.

Sometimes we find our true family, or begin one. I am guessing mostly we are neither born into our ONE true family nor do we find our own. I am guessing we spend much of our lives TRYING to find our family, trying to find our own true family or some ONE/S.

Ask yourself this current question. How is that going for you? Answer. Look into the fucking mirror of your life and ANSWER, for once in your life ANSWER, truthfully.

Are you with who you want to be with or are you not?

Waging Beauty & Wonder

2007-06-21T09:13:00.000-06:00

Waging Beauty & Wonder
by
Robin Hall, and a friend

Maybe we make up even this notion, a transcendental experience. What if children were allowed to develop completely apart from gods, religions and Jung? Would this sort of experience not then fall to them as well BUT they would have knowledge to integrate it?

As they are growing they are introduced to all the best the world offers from, say, 4 languages to be fluent in, to maths, musics, all the arts and not just in viewing, but participating, creating.

Then as time passes, the children are introduced to the past and to the present.

They are introduced to the range of human behaviors and emotions, shown that what they are learning is completely unique and they will be forever unable to discuss their background with OTHERS but they will be introduced to the skills needed to interact with virtually any others.

They learn many games of chance, sports, a serious martial art like tai chi from early youth. Acting as well so they can hide what they know from anyone.

They learn to survive on their own in any situation over time.

Then what would they be? New humans with a different chance in the world at large. Maybe they would have a chance to change the world, maybe to make it through any disaster we might face.

Stories might be written about them or they might go un-noticed ever and just wage BEAUTY and WONDER within society.

Maybe its already happening in ways that don't seem like beauty and wonder. Maybe the carpenter down the street, working 10 hour days to feed his family AND make nice houses is part of the beauty. Maybe the janitor working for his or her family is the wonder.

Plain folks doing the right thing, taking care of business. There may be hope for us yet.

Bestiality, Its Not New

2007-06-19T09:24:00.000-06:00

Bestiality, Its Not New
by
Robin Hall

For the most part, I think bestiality is wrong. This is not some silly religionist view or moral issue.

Humans need some standards and this should be one. Don't fuck animals. Its almost always rape. Period. Especially when its a man and animal.

Sometimes an animal might have fun with a woman, sometimes but NO human could ever know, EVER.

Now the Internet lets us view humans communing with animals. I checked out pictures at one point in my life.

One was actually funny. It was a woman being fucked by a VERY large dog from behind.

Dog and woman were going at it, seemed to be having fun AND both were looking to their right into the camera's lens. Neither were embarrassed. We all need to ponder such behavior.

I hesitate to mention this but there was another instance that seemed OK. A VERY sick looking woman was having it off with a dog. Likely her illness was terminal AND contagious.

I am sure there is little research here but IF she was a decent person, had determined the dog would not be harmed by the human / dog illness, well, why not? This congress would be better than infecting a human and IF each had fun, again, why not?

Is this more than we should be chatting about?

Incest 4 U

2007-06-19T08:54:00.000-06:00

Incest 4 U
by
Robin Hall

Incest is another human problem.

This never seemed troubling to me until I realized most of it was forced rather than explored naturally or even more, simply part of the life of any family where sex was there from an early age and ones participation was chosen by each person on their own terms in their own time and ONLY IF it is interesting. In many families it would not be.

I read an interesting sci-fi story that explored this and it seemed very natural.

I expect a fatwah at any moment.

Hey, blogging is hard work and honesty is needed.

I recall my younger days. I lived in a small town. Two blocks away was a family and even 50 years ago, there were suggestions of brother and sister being intimate. It seemed shocking but why? If you cannot love your family, who CAN you love?

Cannibalism and Suicide 101

2007-06-19T08:34:00.000-06:00

Cannibalism and Suicide 101
by
Robin Hall

Read the blurb for this flick, Delicatessen (1991) . Just google the movie and click the link with IMDB, the Internet Movie Data Base.

Oh so many years ago there was an Alfred Hitchcock offering on TV about the same subject. There was a REALLY exclusive dining club and the entrée could be a you...

Now this is not a suitable topic but for some reason its come to mind recently. A Modest Proposal http://art-bin.com/art/omodest.html is my earliest recollection of Cannibalism and schools did not ban this reading.

Cannibalism has many benefits like lowering the population AND feeding the rest of us. Nicely prepared muscle cuts could be served to most anyone. I would refuse brain dishes. Human chittlins / chitterlings is not going to happen for me but many problems could be solved: Suicide by butcher knives would help many a person leave their own intolerable life for instance and I suspect many people would opt for this.

Dr. Kevorkian actually improved the quality of life in my view. When our quality of life is lower than what we want, suicide seems logical.

Suicide by dining experience is one way to make our lives count.

Another great suicide value is a full medical harvest of everything that is us. Lots benefit and isn't that a fine way to leave the world?

Even for folks who felt their life was worthless, going out as a full harvest or suicide by feeding others, well you finally have a fully useful life.

Of course the men who designed some religion or other have these as some of their main strictures but folks need to think for themselves in this and all things. Removing religionists from office on all levels will go far in helping USA citizens to really live the free life they are promised.

Religionists have always made this sort of promise and never delivered. They never tried to UNLESS one believed in their particular higher being / god etc.

Its a false promise they give and is based on MEN making the rules so SOME people could advance at the cost of others NOT advancing. ALL religious promises are based on this. We need a change or these religionists will finally have their way.

The problem here is that each brand of religion has a view to promote and these views are very often at odds. NO current grouping of religionists, getting their way, would allow the world to survive.

Think about this.

Still, religionists should be counting their days and are not. I want to live long enough to see them in fast retreat due to the pain they cause the world with these ridiculous MALE-made fantasies of some brand of god or other who is all seeing, all knowing BUT go across the street to another brand of religion and the goals could be to kill others who believe differently and aren't we all at risk FROM religions?

Remember Soylent Green? This is not an original thought, dining on ourselves.

Humans DO have problem areas and eating cousin Sam or the like is one of them. Maybe its time for a change.

End of rant.

Progress? Corporate Greed 1

2007-06-19T08:30:00.000-06:00

Progress? Corporate Greed 1
by
Robin Hall

Take NiMH batteries for instance, please. Daily I use rechargeables, have for two decades, in flashlights, timers and mostly remotes.

I have used the same remotes through the change from NiCad to NiMH and my view is the newer NiMH last about 1/4th as long as the older technology. Imagine. Progress at its best, for BIG business.

Surprise. Consumers get fucked when big business MANDATES a paradigm change and guess what, the product is worse than what it replaces.

Its even worse than this. I have two devices that simply won't take the newer NiMHs. No, the newer, better batteries are slightly too large. I wonder if this is a mistake?

Duh. NO. Another chance to fuck the consumer. Not only do the newer batteries NOT last as long per charge, they don't even fit some older primary products, making the buying of a new primary device a must.

Isn't big business just too much fun? Wouldn't you like to be bigger than big business and TRASH them when they do this sort of thing?

I am guessing the cost of that good a lawyer would be more than simply going along when big businesses REQUIRE us to, but wouldn't it be nice to be able to afford that good a lawyer and sue the fuck out of big businesses aimed at greed, not at helping us live better lives?

Dragonfly Ballet

2007-06-09T02:50:00.000-06:00

Dragonfly Ballet
by
Robin Hall

Butterfly Ballet sounded like a nice title too but what I saw was dragonflies. I was taking my daily walk and was on the way home, when I saw this marvel. I saw it before I imagine but missed it completely.

There is a small park downtown with running water pools. The dragonflies were in the grassy area near the pools but not in the next grassy section. They stayed within the boundaries of the sidewalks, an area not 400 square feet.

I don't see quickly enough perhaps and a high speed camera would help but it certainly looked like a ballet to me. A group of 6 seemed to stay together much of the time while others soared out towards the boundaries, the sidewalks, only sometimes actually going over them. The outriders would then fly back to the group and sail round and round.

I was "in a hurry", on my walk, taking my exercise and didn't stay for this aerial ballet but I knew I should have stayed. Why are we so busy that we miss what we are really looking for, beauty?

You could pay lots of money, dress up, sit in a fine theatre and not see anything so wonderful, yet I passed up my chance for observing natural splendor just to finish my exercise. I knew I would write about it, try to remember all the moves I did see but that is not the same is it?

When is the "right time" for beauty? When do we slow ourselves and have what we want rather than feeling lonely and left out? I think I let myself down today, lost an opportunity.

Yet, there are other beautiful things out there. Beauty on beauty awaits us if we take time to notice. Will I stop and watch the ballet next time? Will you join me? We shall see...

Culture, Counterculture, Society

2007-06-08T06:37:00.000-06:00

Culture, Counterculture, Society
by
Robin Hall

This note is mostly a set of questions. So many questions, so small a brain. : ^(

I looked the words up and there are problems so the following will definitely reflect some of these problems. I use several fine dictionaries OFTEN. Yet, the interactions of words is not as simple as many think.

Most just don't think and serious problems happen in the name of righteousness, self sanctification, familiarity or fear of the future and the real world, of others.

The main question is this: what sort of stresses, per se, does trying to live in more than one culture at a time produce? Each culture and or society [ Please look these words up no matter how smart you are. Use 1-Click Answers , google, a dictionary or the like but do look up the words, they are trickier than I thought to pin down. ] has its own stresses for most folks IN the culture.

Few cultures are simple and uniform.

Historical cultures were not as simple as we thought.

Most cultures today have external cultures coming into their culture and upsetting or challenging the culture and at such a fast pace that conflict is inevitable.

Change today is rapid often rabid.

People in rapid flux often depend on previous cultural influences that fail the standards of today. Tragedy is inevitable.

Religions of the past clash with their own present day version/s AND the values of present day society.

Essentially or an example. Say you live in a muslim society / culture. Some of the world despises the way your women are "treated." Most of the world won't tolerate your extremists mandating, "Convert or we will kill you."

You live in a time of so many different cultural influences that confusion reigns and rains and reins.

What to do? Some will embrace the new. Many of these will suffer or have to migrate and start over.

Some will not embrace the new and will break off. Some of these will become very radical, some moderate.

All are confused but is the best way to deal with other cultures to kill them? Pervert your children into believing the very oldest parts of YOUR culture is the ONLY way to live in the modern world? Build so called schools, madrassas that teach NOTHING but your koran, your bible, holy book AS INTERPRETED BY SCARED MEN, oops, should the letters be interchanged? for you; and also teach a level of hate toward others unheard of in the world today?

I think not.

Getting back to the main question. Well, that is what I tried to do.

The stresses of modern changing cultures, the intense pressures of integrating into a real world that you don't care for, well a proper response is not to kill folks who don't embrace the older versions of your culture or modern versions either.

Simply not falling for YOUR version of the world should not place anyone at risk. Sure, do as you wish but when you wish to kill me in this. If I don't believe YOU, hey, lock and load motherfucker. I NEVER did anything to you. YOU did this. Lock and load and understand that in America, WE can own arms. Drat. I just spoke out for the NRA. Well, I could have been wrong but Charlton Heston was never MY president and you NRA members should check your bumper stickers for this.

Our Constitution did not state the NRA's president was the country's president and you are under the microscope for this ridiculous bumper sticker and NO one of your cohorts will admit to being wrong or criticizing any NRA member and something stinks and your rhetoric is HURTING the USA in this.

Some folks today just ignore culture and try to live like previous generations did, but peacefully. No one suffers in this social experiment.

Some adapt to the new influences and their past is diluted or forgotten.

Some flourish in the changes, BUT, many cultural / human aspects of life get set aside or worse.

Life IS changing and always has. The range of reality is broader than we, personally, might wish, but its going on. We cannot kill others who don't believe as we do.

The range of what makes us human is greater than we might wish to understand and includes more than these items:

-Culture

-Society

-Biology

-Emotion

-Intelligence and intellection / thinking. Hmm. Thinking does not require much intelligence and many forget this.

-Spiritual leanings. Well this is troubling since many have NO such leanings and are often criticized, killed or worse by those who do. Another problem is others with different spiritual leanings. They, too, are often criticized, killed or worse by those who have one belief.

-Greed. How many wars, bombings, murders and the myriad of human tragedies haven't have been caused, at least in great part, by greed of the wealthy and those wishing for more than they earned?

-The ability to completely misunderstand others due to language, social and cultural differences and hasn't this been a problem over the eons?

Yeow.

Now with all these problems. Is there anything that can be done to lessen the problems of cultural and social differences, the changing times, etc.?

I have no answers. I have suggestions. Maybe you do. That's too easy isn't it? We all think about the future and try to do better.

Now add all of society's or culture's "others." People in their own country, culture, society who don't fit average society in one way or other:

-gays / lesbians are in all societies. They don't call for the destruction of society yet they "challenge" some status quo or other AND are still in danger in most parts of the world. Wouldn't love and acceptance help here when some societies, cultures say NO to their own members?

-people who are damaged. What to do with them? Love and respect them or try to ignore or hurt them? Look within. You might be next.

-people who are different, and this includes artists, recluses and more varieties of humans than anyone wants to feature and what to do with them? Love and respect them or try to ignore or hurt them?

Well, more than a few questions. No answers or solutions here other than embrace differences, add love and advance into the facts of the future the best you can without killing others.

No fatwas required.

The Basis of Religion: Magic, Control, Ritual and Comfort

2007-06-06T12:06:00.000-06:00

The Basis of Religion: Magic, Control, Ritual and Comfort
by
Robin Hall

I was just thinking I really want to see magic. Not illusion. Magic.

My brain wrangled with that a bit and I came up with this note.

Its my view that religion is completely fabricated, usually by men, not women, and that it is based on these 4 things: Magic, Control, Ritual and Comfort. We want these four things to explain life and help us live it.

1. Magic. Two simple examples: the popularity of magic shows throughout the ages and today, Transcendental Meditation, TM. In the mid to late 1970s Maharishi began to promote the siddhis, the eight occult yogic powers, though he seemed to focus on levitation but google siddhis and you can read all you want.

He might have been coerced into this. Osho®, aka Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, had his Sheela, so who really knows? Getting laid is a powerful form of almost magic and maybe its the closest we ever get.

Anyway, I think we want magic for some reason and many people exploit this, especially the religious.

The Prestige film has a good explanation of the three parts of illusions or "magic." The setup, the turn in which an ordinary object does something extraordinary, such as disappear and the prestige when the ordinary object is restored through extraordinary means.

What does this mean for us? We WANT the prestige to be real to be magic. We really want there to be things we cannot explain at our level of development and magic fills the bill but its mostly illusion so don't take the bait.

And how many of you EVER saw one of the siddhis? There was supposed to be one, walking through walls. Yes, that one.

One TM instructor STATED that their center at Lake Lucerne had skylights that opened so the Siddhas could levitate over Lake Lucerne. Hmm. Show me that one too.

2. Control. Many want to control others AND many others want give up some parts of themselves to others, like a vacation from responsibility, hence the popularity of in the catholic church for confession, forgiveness and the like, so control is important in these manmade religions.

Don't forget sadism and masochism either. Some want to control, some want to give up control but in doing so, actually control others. YIKES, isn't that complicated?

3. Ritual. I have written about this before. Just read that, but more importantly, think for yourself about all of this.

There is a very powerful longing to be connected to others in an ongoing way. Rituals become important, then twisted and "sanctified", then perverted and we are left today with football, churches and The Survivor.

4. Comfort. We like to be comfortable. Its often comforting to visit a church, sing songs, listen to someone else tell us how to live, eat ice cream with other believers, have picnics with them and get revived from time to time in a tent.

I would rather have a nice reclining chair, turn up the AC in summer and have beer. That is comfort too. There is karaoke for the singing part even in a small town. I can watch the news, shopping or travel channels to find someone to tell me how to live. I don't own a tent but I can visit them at WalMart.

Picnics and icecream? In the South, these are no-brainers.

I think a religious experience is just around the corner.

Isn't this fun?

And another part of this religious bull shit. Ask yourself one question. There are many TO ask but just this one should do.

IF there is such a thing as an over being, a god, many gods etc., and forget ALL your counters to this question for once in your life, that is free will and whatever else comes to mind. Just ask this one question of YOURSELF. How can you pray for forgiveness, justice etc. from some over being which allows child abuse?

The range of this abuse is immense. Children in madrassas grow up and become suicide bombers. Children molested sexually who grow up and molest.

Just this one question. How can some all powerful being allow child abuse? How do you expect YOUR prayers to be answered?

Accept and Love Your Friends and Family

2007-06-06T04:52:00.000-06:00

Accept and Love Your Friends and Family
by
Robin Hall

Many of us have IT; and here that means any illness, mine is the entire depression syndrome and alcoholism. Yours could be ___.

Many of us have other things going on or are different from society's average, norm.

We might be addicted to ??? alcohol, various drugs, various...

Maybe we are creative and this gets in the way of acceptance. We are different, we are the same people even so.

Maybe we are gay or lesbian. Hardly personal preferences, just us as we really are. We are the same person BEFORE you knew and we are the same AFTER you found out. We are different and who gets to pick who they love? We are the same.

Maybe we are tall.

Maybe we are short, really short, a little person. Different, but the same. Do we not think as others, behave, love?

A muslim? A christian? A jew?

Shakespeare was telling us about acceptance when he wrote, in The Merchant of Venice, "I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die?"

Just put your family member's or friend's OTHERNESS in place of jew. ARE we that different? Doesn't acceptance and love of our favorite people begin the way we define OUR core self?

If you accept and love us us do you not gain? If you do not accept and love your own family, your own friends for some "reason," who is to blame but YOU?

Seek within. Look in the mirror of life that you know this is about and judge yourself. Then realize we ARE you and if that mirror cracks, its not US that cracked it.

The RAGE

2007-06-05T03:41:00.000-06:00

The RAGE
by
Robin Hall, aka Fucked

When the RAGE comes, what do YOU do?

Now I don't care about what you do anymore than you care what I do of course.

The RAGE is more than care, beyond words, "sharing," love, choice, wishes, intent.

Its more than we are capable of handling. Its more than anyone can tolerate, "deal with" or other horse shit.

The RAGE consumes us, friends, family, others.

It knows no bounds.

It has no end.

It is us, and not us.

We are burned by its fires from within.

Burned but not cleansed. Nothing is accomplished, no one gains, no one wins. It burns all, produces nothing, is spent and we are scarred by its coming and going just like the others are, but we are still here while the others usually are not.

They were burned too and left.

Relationships, the good ones, suffer from it. Family and friends suffer. Sometimes the law is involved and we are drowned in a system that cannot help stop it. This system is the cause for some, the end for others.

The RAGE is seemingly demonic. It will eat you, your loved ones, society.

Terrorists living in perpetual RAGE, cause untold pain to decent societies.

Many criminals live in fluctuating RAGE that consumes much of their lives but is not theirs by choice or design.

Insane folks like me live in the same fluctuating RAGE that we barely keep in check when it hits IF, IF, IF we are lucky and live alone, separated from others specifically TO give the others freedom from the RAGE.

We break things in the RAGE. We break others, damage most, piss on what is good in our lives and WHILE IN THE RAGE, don't give a shit.

None of us want it.

No one deserves it.

Its part of many of us; we try to ignore it and it EATS US ALIVE.

We turn to a wide variety of drugs for relief. NONE help or stop the RAGE. None CAN stop the rage.

Alcohol, one of the scourges of mankind, is a two way sword. For some, it stops everything, even the RAGE, but at the cost of our livers, kidneys, lives, "souls". For some, booze makes the RAGE worse, is part of the cause. Its dangerous to palliate with this legal liquid, yet none of the prescriptions do more.

HEY, FUCK YOU IF YOU ARE SO STUPID TO IGNORE THIS, BELIEVE DIFFERENTLY, CALL IT A CHOICE. YOU are the ones who are going to get hurt IF you encounter someone in the middle of the RAGE and you better the fuck well HOPE they have found a way TO palliate whether its fucking crack, alcohol, heroin, pot etc.

Further, the fucking morons who KEEP drugs illegal, you are the ones I am chatting with in this. Legalize all of the drugs, monitor the results like which of them calm the RAGE, then change your inane laws.

Start with pot. Does a single one of you religious fanatics who keep the laws so restrictive KNOW a pot user who has committed a violent crime while in the RAGE?

OK, enough said? Add your own notes if you like.

Don't Throw Your Family Away if they are Damaged, Different or Drugged

2007-06-04T09:32:00.000-06:00

Don't Throw Your Family Away if they are Damaged, Different or Drugged
by
Robin Hall, with IT and an Addiction

To refresh, IT as I use the word, is some health/biological or physical problem, YOURS. If you read my blog, just substitute your IT for my IT which is the depression syndrome: major depression, OCD and physiological anxiety.

So many families find it more convenient to ignore their own members than to deal with them. For those of us with IT, how many family members really even try?

Sure, some throw a few buck$ at the problem then, satisfied THEY did all they could, continue to ignore. Isn't that cute behavior? Smug rat fuckers need a smack down.

This is not to say anyone SHOULD try to be damaged or addicted etc. to understand, but rather that love, sympathy and empathy can be invoked and in some way the family stays together.

And for the others in the family, DO NOT "tolerate" your damaged or different family member. WTF is that, tolerating?

IF the phrase, Blood is thicker than water, has value NEVER "tolerate" a damaged, different or addicted family member. This is your family and part of being in a family IS or should be love, empathy and sympathy and isn't that a part of what a family needs and so rarely has?

No one wants to be tolerated. We want and deserve love, otherwise the notion of a family is a sham, a lie.

Maybe one day you will be damaged or old or different. Do you really want the family to treat you as you so willingly treated them when you were so haughty? Wouldn't that be a pretty picture? I see it developing even now.

This sounds like, Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. A golden rule in fact.

Add love. Do lovingly unto others as you would have them lovingly do unto you as families are supposed to if they are first conceived, well you have a gold and platinum rule for families.

Now think about YOUR family. Any so-called black sheep? Damaged, ill or different members?

Maybe they are only outsiders because they were forgotten or ignored by YOU. Maybe you need to look a little deeper into the mirror of life and collect the family regularly, help it heal and remember what it means to BE a group worthy to call itself a decent family.

Don't "Test" Yourself If You Are An Addict

2007-06-02T13:40:00.000-06:00

Don't "Test" Yourself If You Are An Addict
by
Robin Hall, an alcohol addict

Most of us addicts probably do this sort of thing, try this bullshit. We are in remission / recovering / going to meetings etc. Smokers; alcoholics; heroin addicts; food addicts; pill addicts etc. The meetings are SA; AA; NA; FA or whateverthefuck12stepprogram.

We lie to ourselves or are just dumber than we ever thought was possible. "Well, I am over this shit and to PROVE it, I will have a hit or two," and a week later we know we lied to ourselves. We are hanging over the toilet with mucus dripping out of our nose and mouth almost choking to death. Maybe we peed on ourselves or worse. HEY we tried but now we are fucking alcoholics again and that simple experiment was certainly worth it, eh?

Duh, NOFUCKINGWAY.

Don't test yourself if you are an addict. Tests lie and you are not a good judge of character are you?

Go to the meetings if they help.

Stay away from YOUR drug of choice for the rest of your life.

Believe this particular addict, me, in this one thing: Don't test yourself if you are an addict. I have done the testing. Shit, I have an MA in Community College Teaching so I SHOULD know a bit about testing and I do.

Guess what? I have failed several testings of two drugs. Tobacco has kicked my ass 3 times. I am walking the line for it just now.

Alcohol has continued to kick my ass and the Dean of the Department of Alcohol FUCKING FAILS ME regularly if I take that particular test.

I take it, the Dean kicks my ass, fails me and I am gone till I have been in some hospital or other and am stupid enough to take the test again. And I am that stupid.

Take a fucking hint, NEVER ever do this sort of test. NEVER. NEVER. Trust me once in your life, NEVER test yourself in this.

Later, maybe some other things I suggest might seem useful or interesting but in this one thing, NEVER test yourself.

Three Strikes and Everyone Loses, Plus the Death Penalty

2007-06-01T10:08:00.000-06:00

Three Strikes and Everyone Loses, Plus the Death Penalty
by
Robin Hall

Now before this moronic legal maneuver got popular, was there a SINGLE test to see IF it worked? Lots of studies suggest states with the death penalty don't have lower crime rates for instance.

How about the 3 strikes and you are fucked rule? Do states with this pathetic excuse to lock people up with not enough proof for the extended sentences actually have lower crime rates?

Worse, what about the stats on that DEADLY third strike? Are there stats that PROVE the third strike crime is of lower magnitude or is it of greater magnitude, all things considered?

Say you are robbing a liquor store, your third strike if you are caught. What's worse, killing everyone involved so no ID is possible or trying to run away and hope no one recognized you? DUH.

Well, this should be enough for three strikes to end AND it should be food for thought for that stupid death penalty. NO FUCKING PERSON GAINS when there is a death penalty.

The taxpayer is going to lose, check the stats. The cost of PROVING a crime to the level of the death penalty is more than anyone wants to discuss. THEN keeping someone on death row is a tax burden very few know about and the number of years this goes on and on and on... Do the fucking math.

States with the death penalty don't have less crime, check the stats. No one gains. Everyone loses. How is this good for business or the taxpayer. Yes, George and Georgette, that is you and me.

Lets drop stupid MANDATORY laws in at least one state, revamp the system, make it tax efficient and let that serve us for a while. Keep statistics. See what happens. If someone wins, do it in the rest of the states.

Where IS Up and Where Does Smoke Go?

2007-06-01T05:15:00.000-06:00

Where IS Up and Where Does Smoke Go?
by
Robin Hall

Isn't this a silly topic? NOT silly? So, just where IS up? If one looks up, its there unless one is upside down then one knows up IS down or one misses the point and up is still up. Oooh. Tricky. Worse, what if one is upside down and the real up is still down? That sort of thing.

Things change all the time. I have spent the last week not smoking. I am not sure of the benefits. Its confusing. I like smoking but not the coughing in the middle of my sleep period which wakes me nightly.

Hmm. Time will tell about this addiction. I stopped smoking for 30+ years. I started again with one companion who smoked and I wanted in, if you catch my drift and her panties IS the right answer.

I quit after entering and leaving and but she had very nice panties if you catch the drift.

So those years passed and depression hit and I smoked four months while I was sober and this is what happened, I am trying to quit again.

Anyway.

Smoking is a very hard addiction to delete and I may start again. Its not quite as bad for me as alcohol but close and there are no panties in this version of being drunk. Well, likely there won't be more panties in my future, I am old.

No Insurance

2007-05-31T03:40:00.000-06:00

No Insurance
by
Robin Hall

For none of my adult life have I had insurance. Imagine living 42 years with a deadly illness, major depression syndrome for me, my IT, OCD and physiological anxiety AND not having insurance. That works out to: NO decent hospital ever. No doctor up to the task or one even trying to help. No place to stay that had a social worker.

That works out to a life alone because there was simply no help EVER that mattered. Sure, I got in to free clinics and had 23 hospitalizations but NOT a single one that was decent let alone good. That includes 4 state hospitals and you really don't want to be in one of them.

Then there were over 35 so-called doctors cum psychiatrists many of whom STATED they had just the thing for me whether it was the very latest drug or long term analysis which disappeared immediately when some sham of a doctor found out I had no insurance.

An interesting thing happened on the next visit to that particular so-called healer, doctor, scam artist. He had STATED in the first visit he could help me, about how many treatments a week it would take and suggested several years of analysis but the next visit, when he had found out I had no insurance, he did a 360 degree turn, yes, that's two 180s, and all of a sudden, there simply was NO treatment since I was not ill at all and my "sad sack" lifestyle was the only thing that needed mending and he wasn't going to treat me. Hmm. I smell a rat/fucker. That was in Buffalo, the fellow was asian. Beware.

With NO insurance what is one to do? Whatever your illness, no insurance means, here in the USA, low rent, IF ANY, treatment. Even going to the emergency room when you need a few stitches is not possible. A cough turns into the flu and you still have no treatment.

A torn meniscus takes almost a year to find someone who will tend to it.

No meds for anything without risking jail for unpaid bills when the deductible part comes calling.

Etc.

Well, that is only part of a life. I didn't mention being so poor that one month I bought 50 pound sacks of oats and wheat bran from the feed store so I could eat. No, and more, or less. Poverty does not pay.