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OK, I'm sorry, I have to go on a rant about this movie. Not that I didn't enjoy it, on the contrary I thought it was a great film. It's more that I'm ranting about the audience that I saw it with. It was at some theater in New Jersey, so let's say there was a pretty broad cross-section of "America" represented here. I'd say about 80% of the audience didn't get the movie. When I mean "didn't get the movie", I mean that there were people complaining about the fact that there were subtitles and they wouldn't have gone to see it if they had known, and saying that it was a "complete waste of time" as they were walking out of the theatre.

If you want to see blood and guts, go see Terminator. If you're looking for a lyrical movie with a deeply moving theme (and subtitles), that might actually provoke some thought processes in your head, then go see Hero.

I saw this documentary on Friday night at the Boston Independent Film Festival. I had heard about it vaguely a couple of months ago, probably off of someone else's blog. It was an amazing film, considering that the director didn't even have any clue that he was going to make a documentary in the first place (he was just going to take photos of the restaurant's interior, but rented a video camera on a whim). And he got the film into Sundance!

Anyway, the basic premise of the movie is centered around a restaurant owner in Greenwich Village in NYC. Kenny Shopsin's owned this restaurant for 20-plus years, and he found out that he lost his lease.

I saw this movie a couple of nights ago...basically a Japanese horror/thriller flick (the american version was called "The Ring"). It was so CREEPY. I still can't stop thinking about it and it freaks me out. Especially the scene where the scary lady crawls out of the TV...isn't it weird how creepy movies will stay with you for days, even weeks after you've seen it? Why can't I have the nice fuzzy feeling that I had at the end of "Finding Nemo" stay with me instead? No, of course not, I have to have this paranoid feeling that some creepy lady's going to crawl out of the closet or something!