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Hello All!

I have been utterly inspired by the comment we had on our site from somebody named Andrew. Andrew thanks you and congradulations, you are the first person we did’t know who posted on our site. You are a crazy genius and have accomplished the considerable feat of getting me to post before Bob has to threaten my life and limbs. You are truly a man among men Andrew.

Well as you can probably gather from my title, I watched some movies recently… and it was at night. Last night to be exact. I started off with “The Royal Tennenbaums” at 9:55 and let me tell you, I thoroughly enjoyed that movie. Not as much of Bill Murray in the show as I would have liked, but Gene Hackman was as outstanding as usual. For those of you who may not be aware, this show starred Gene Hackman, Bill Murray, Angelica Houston, Ben Stiller, Gwenyth Paltrow, Owen Wilson, and Kevin Wilson. Overall a very remarkable cast. Aside from Hackman’s performance as Royal I would have to say that my favorite performers were Paltrow as Margot Tennenbaum and one of the Wilson boys as her brother (I have trouble remembering the characters name and I can never keep the names to faces straight with the Owen brothers.. I am talking about the one without the screwed up nose) quite a delightfully mixed up comedy. I give it a 8.5 out of 10.

After this movie got over I wasn’t yet very tired, and as coincidence would have it I am also a loser who had nothing to do at midnight on Saturday, and the Reel was also playing several movies at that time. The additional incentive of watching another movie for the price of one was just to great and I decided to stay over for “The Queen of the Damned”. It started off not so good, not the movie itself, but the waiting-in-the-theatre-for-the-movie-to-start experience. First of all these two obnoxious teenagers came in (I’m starting to sound like an old man) who sat several rows in front of me and had the courtesy to blast their crappy music on their headphones loud enough that I could hear it quite clearly. Sure it was an inconvenience for me (and the others who came in after), but it had the benefit of not making the lazy little jerks actually put the headphones ON. This quickly became the tone for the audience, loud and obnoxious teenagers, most of whom seemed to be already acquanted (sp?) with each other. I guess if I had brushed up on my powers of deduction I would have realized that this would be the key audience to a midnight viewing for a movie entitled “Queen of the Damned” but Sherlock Holmes I’m not.

Anyway, the movie eventually started and by some miracle of nature the sacks of skin in front of me decided to turn off their cd player and the rest of the crowd was reasonably quiet for the duration of the movie, which by the way turned out to be remarkably better than I had anticipated. The premise of the movie sounds stupid enough. A vampire wakes from a long sleep and starts a hard rock band which in turn awakes Akasha queen of the vampires… ect, ect. But I guess there is something to Ann Rice’s popularity afterall. Stuart Townsend played the lead role of the vampire Lestat, and was in my opinion quite convincing. He hasn’t starred in to many movies to date, but I predict big things in his future. Also, the late Aaliyah played Akasha quite seductively and once again proved what a great actress she was. The soundtrack was excellent. I generally more or less abhor hard-rock, but this was different, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Overall I give this movie a 8 out of 10.

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