This is a good one for DVD. It’s a very Blair Witch SCUBA dive….

To be honest, this is a silly “summer vacation” movie that knows what it is, but it also has a lot of smart moments, too. I was pleasantly surprised. Also, “Scotty doesn’t know” is the best song evar. And Lucy Lawless as a dominatrix is just well worth the price of admission.

I didn’t get it. I was horribly confused. About half of the story was amputated, and the movie was still too long. Seriously—there was no dramatic tension, and absolutely no love developed between the audience and the characters. They raped Draco’s character with the sniveling moment—it made absolutely no sense and would have been fine if he’d sneered at her and called her an ugly Mud-blood before she punched him. Would have made more sense and you wouldn’t have had to change any thing else in the scene.

Lost in La Mancha is a documentary, a “making-of” movie for The Man who Killed Don Quixote, a film by Terry Gilliam that was never finished (Acts of God basically swept in to destroy the set and one of the actors). Johnny Depp was cast in the movie, so there are some great scenes of him in rehearsal and a marvelous scene with him screaming at a fish.

That’s all. It was terrible.

Whenever my job gets to be too stressful and I can’t handle my bosses, or I get Yet Another Boss piled onto my org chart, I pull this baby out and watch it. At one point, I was watching it weekly….

I really enjoyed this movie. I thought it was one of those Great movies you see once in a while. You know, the kind that makes you sit up and say “hey! That’s a terrific movie!” It’s the kind of movie you want your 13 year old daughter or neice to see. The kind of movie you wish you’d seen when you were fifteen.

I saw Men In Black on Tuesday, and I have to agree with the professional reviewers out there—it was too much like the first one. I mean, on the one hand the first movie was really excellent, and the one addition to this one was something I really liked (the memory-loss thing, because we’re playing that in my RPG right now). But the overall movie was definitely lacking in anything new or “fresh,” even from the Fresh Prince, one of my favorite actors.

Grade: A+ One of the best books I’ve read in a long, long time.