Comments on: 2007 Movies: “Juno” and “Sweeney Todd”

By: bkdunn

bkdunn — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 05:45:32 +0000

Heckuva username! Sure, we’re all misfits, but I’m such an outsider, I don’t even relate to other outsiders. So, you know.

By: andrea, beth, brit

andrea, beth, brit — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 03:17:26 +0000

Brian, we all like the movie Juno. We’re all misfits, including you. Well, we’re just hanging out in Provo, and we came across your website. Its quite fascinating, caught our interest. Hope all is well.

By: bkdunn

bkdunn — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:15:02 +0000

So you read my comments about how *good* Sweeney Todd is and, as a result, remove it from your list…? Interesting.

BTW, can I just point out that that on 24 May I criticized Netflix for not being available on XBox Live, but that by 24 July they’d announced it would be?

By: telkontar

telkontar — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:35:42 +0000

You can watch old movies downloaded directly. I’m preferring B&W movies these days.

I did love both Narnia flix; never seen the 2 in the post and just deleted Sweeney from my queueueueu.

Now we wait for a comment by someone without the middle initial “K”.

By: bkdunn

bkdunn — Sun, 25 May 2008 07:49:40 +0000

I figured once I hit four months between watching movies, it was probably time to kill the ‘flix. Plus I’m mad they haven’t made a deal with Microsoft yet to offer their download service via XBox Live. And I’ve decided it’s time to start just saying “no!” to physical media.

I think Sweeney Todd is the best story ever for people who are pissed off at everything. Maybe you’re just too even-keeled to identify with it…?

bkd

By: Chris Bigelow

Chris Bigelow — Sat, 24 May 2008 22:56:50 +0000

Canceling Netflix?!?! Whyever for?

My experience was that I enjoyed watching Juno more than Sweeney, even though the Juno heroine’s dialogue was so unrealistic. Sweeney left me kind of cold, but I liked Helena about as well as anyone in the film, tell you the truth. My parents, you should know, loved Sweeney. I’m a little out of sync with them in other ways as well, such as that I slightly preferred “There Will Be Blood” to “No Country for Old Men,” while my mom was the reverse (can’t remember if my dad expressed his pref).

I have gorged on the new summer releases and have not come away with any home runs. Iron Man was OK, maybe better than Spider-Man or most any other comic book movie–but it’s still a comic book movie. I found the new Indiana Jones movie more palatable to watch than the atrocious Star Wars prequels, but it still has many missteps. I probably liked the new Narnia the best of the three recent ones I’ve seen, although it too was not a homerun, more like a second-baser. I like the Narnia movies because of the religious themes that come through yet it’s also pretty good D&D-style fantasy. I find myself really wanting to go back and watch Lord of the Rings, which I’ve seen only once in theaters.

I’ve been following your other manly man pursuits, your building projects and your war novel…