Film: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)

DVD: Anamorphic


Review: While not as magical as The Royal Tenenbaums, Wes Anderson's next film grows on repeat viewings. Bill Murray is on fine form as Steve Zissou, a broke oceanographer/documentarian who is trying to finance his next voyage to track down the elusive Jaguar shark that killed his best friend, Esteban. Beside the eclectic crew of his research vessel, Zissou is joined on his quest by a man who thinks he is his son and a pregnant reporter.

Quotes:
"That's an endangered species at most. What would be the scientific purpose of killing it?"
"Revenge."

"Supposedly Cousteau and his cronies invented the idea of putting walkie-talkies into the helmet. But we made ours with a special rabbit ear on the top so we could pipe in some music."

"You must swear, legally swear, that you will not kill that shark, or whatever it is, if it actually exists."
"I'm going to fight it, but I'll let it live."

"Steve, one of the interns just fell down the stairs with the main tracking processor."
"All right, just make sure we steal the backup."

"Do you know that you just charted us on a course through unprotected waters?"
"Yeah, we're taking the shortcut."
"But it's outside I.M.U. jurisdiction. There isn't any protection."
"I know, honey. Look at the map. We go your way, that's about four inches. We go my way, it's an inch and a half. You wanna pay for the extra gas?"

"I'm going to have to start locking my effing door."
"It was locked, I kicked it in. Why don't you just curse like other people?"
"Because I'm trying to get out of the habit before I have my fucking baby!"

"Stevesy, what's going on? Are those hijackers?"
"Well, out here we call them 'pirates', Ned."

"You know I'm not big on apologizing. So I'll just skip it if it's all the same to you."
"Okay."
"Anyway, I'm sorry."

"We've never made great husbands, have we? Of course, I have a good excuse. I'm part gay."

"I think it's criminal that Steve allowed this to happen, by which I mean illegal. We're being led on an illegal suicide mission by a selfish maniac."
"I hear what you're saying, but I think you misjudge the guy."

"We're in the middle of a lightning-strike rescue-op, Klaus. What's the deal?"
"I'm sick of being on 'B' Squad."
"You might be on 'B' Squad, But you're the 'B' Squad leader."

"Oh, shit! Swamp leeches. Everybody, check for swamp leeches, and pull them off... Nobody else got hit? I'm the only one? What's the deal?"

"Are we, are we safe in here?"
"I doubt it."

"I wanted to give you a heads-up on what I thought of the piece..."
"You read it. What did you think?"
"Well, I was a little upset at first. I mean, obviously people are going to think I'm a showboat, and a little bit of a prick. But then I thought... that's me. I said those things, I did those things. I can live with that. You're a good writer, Jane."
"It's the effing cover."
"Thatta girl."

4 1/2 out of 5 Stars

Film: The Night We Never Met (1993)

DVD: Anamorphic


Review: Not as good as I remembered it, but still entertaining. This film is about an engaged Wall Street trader who decides to hold onto his bachelor pad as a place to party with his friends a couple nights a week and rent the place out for the remaining nights. The other two tenants are Annabella Sciorra, a married painter, and Matthew Broderick, an aspiring cook, who rent it on alternate nights as a place to escape their regular lives. The plot follows the three separate stories of the roommates who never meet until they cross paths at the end.

Quotes:
"Sam, Mr. McVeigh would like to offer you this place, two days a week, $92 dollars a month."
"Sold!"
"You mean you don't mind that it's just two days a week?"
"Oh, no. Actually, it's all I can afford right now. I am already renting a place... with roommates. Lots and lots of roommates."
"Oh, well then I'm sure you will enjoy some privacy two nights a week."

"Can you like hold me or something?"
"I thought we were done... You know, uh, you're really a great fuck."
"I can't believe you just said that."
"But it's true."

"It wasn't my idea. Her folks got us season tickets, every Wednesday."
"Aren't you here Wednesdays?"
"No. That's why I had to switch my nights with, uh..."
"Sam?"
"Yeah."
"Oh... Oh... Oh my God!"
"What?"
"Oh my God?"
"What?"
"I slept with the wrong guy. Oh my God. The one time in my life I cheat and I screw it up and sleep with the wrong guy. How could you?!! How could you sleep with me?!"
"You slept with me."
"Yeah, that's because I though you were someone else!"
"Boy, what a way to make a guy feel wanted."

"Oh Inga! Inga, you waited."
"You are welcome to me."
"Thank you God!"

3 1/2 out of 5 Stars

Film: Terminator Salvation (2009)

Blu-Ray


Review: This is the first Terminator film that takes place after Skynet takes over the world. I enjoyed the reverse concept of an executed criminal, experimented on by Cyberdyne Systems, waking up after Judgement Day and having to survive in the apocalyptic landscape. Taking place just before the T-800 Terminator is developed, the film cleverly explains away the absence of Schwarzenegger who only has to appear in a short CGI cameo at the end.

Quotes:
"That was a Hunter-Killer. Thanks to you, they know we're here."
"What's your name, kid?"
"Kyle Reese."

"Where is everybody?"
"They're gone."
"So why are you still here?"
"Because we're the Resistance, L.A. Branch. Welcome to the headquarters."
"Resisting what?"
"Machines. Skynet."
"Just the two of you?"
"Yeah."

"That thing, where'd it go?"
The transport? Skynet. Where the hell are you going?"
"After it."
"I hate to break it to you, but if you've got friends on that thing, they're as good as dead. And same for you, if you keep walking that direction."
"Yeah, I've been dead awhile and I'm getting used to it."

"Let me down."
"If I let you down, you'll kill everyone in this room."
"Just you, Connor. Because I don't give a shit about you. I didn't even know your name until two days ago."
"No. You and me... we've been at war since before either of us even existed. You tried killing my mother, Sarah Connor. You killed my father, Kyle Reese. You will not kill me."
"Kyle Reese is on a transporter heading for Skynet. If I wanted to kill him, I would have done it in L.A."

"That thing in there... I thought I knew our enemy. But that thing, that makes me feel like I know nothing. I looked into it's eye, and it believes, absolutely believes that it is human. It believes everything that it says."

"I can get you in."
"How?"
"Look at me."
"That's why I don't trust you."
"I'm the only hope you have. I need to find out who did this to me. So do you. Make your choice."

4 out of 5 Stars