So, I'm caught up with the filmed version of the Twilight series although I have yet to read the books.

Watched Twilight on bluray Thursday night: yeah, it didn't get me. I wasn't that taken with either Bella or Edward and I found both the bad vampire makeup and the weird color/lighting v. distracting. I mean, was it necessary for the whites of Bella's eyes and her teeth to appear blue/green? Shouldn't there have been more contrast between her normal living friends and the vampires? I also felt like the move from attraction to being desperately in love wasn't shown very well. But I liked Charlie and was interested in Carlisle's back story. The special effects kind of sucked too - the sparkliness was particularly bad and I thought that there was pacing or possibly blocking issues that made the whole film seem very static. Edward in particular seemed more like a series of photo stills than you know, a moving, undead creature.

On New Moon Loved Jacob and the werewolves, still don't get the Edward attraction. I'm told that when Bella went into her depression that in the book you know that her family tried all sorts of things to get her out of the funk but the movie (for some reason) chose to not show that. Liked the little glimpse of Carlisle's backstory we saw - want more. Thought that the Italian law vamps were fun, enjoyed Edward's sister. I think that the makeup and special effects were much, much better. It does seem very weird to me that Carlisle and family would go along with something that would break their centuries - possibly millenia old treaty with the Native American people in the area. I guess everything really is about Bella and Edward.

We saw an afternoon show on Friday and my 40-something friends and myself were the youngest people in the theatre. Hilarious.

I liked Grindhouse as well, and I saw Catwoman on a plane, and, yes, it really was that bad. And remember that I'm the guy who likes everything. Oh wait! I also saw Battlefield Earth, and...I didn't think it was that bad! So that just goes to show how bad Catwoman is.

So what are your least favorite movie viewing experience ever?

Mine are:

Funny Car Summer (horribly, horribly boring 70s documentary we saw in a theater)
The Goonies
Last Tango in Paris

I saw parts of Catwoman on late night TV. Yeah it really was that bad. Trying to think how the heck you would make a good Catwoman movie. I mean the concept so invites cheese.

I saw The Road last night. It was incredibly, unendingly bleak, but well and passionately made, which goes along way in my book. Viggo was amazing as always, and the actor who played the little boy was impressive.

Trying to think how the heck you would make a good Catwoman movie.

Step 1: Don't cast Halle Berry...

There are good Catwoman stories in the comics. The Batman concept is hella cheesy and it provided good fodder.

I have purged most of my negative moviegoing experiences. I walked out on Scanners because I could think of somewhere else to be. I watched all of Borat and Transformers merely because I was with company. I especially would have walked out on Borat. It just bored me.

I disliked What Lies Beneath a lot. Hated Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans.

Pearl Harbor was pretty awful.

Catwoman was a disaster but Halle Berry and Benjamin Bratt were very nice to look at the whole time.

I loved Grindhouse, saw it 2 1/2 times in the theatre and we own both films ( Death Proof is mine, D owns Planet Terror )

I'm not sure why I saw Town & Country. I might have been waiting for a ride. It was forgettable.

I've seen Gigli on cable. I can't figure out how it was ever released. It's just horrible on every level, from the script to the editing with plenty of terrible acting in between.

I just watched Land of the Lost. I laughed. I thought the writer was going for Kevin Smith style humor but ended up with Beavis & Butthead.