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The family and I went to see Despicable Me the other day and I have to say we all enjoyed it. The film is a funny and quirky film about a villain. Yes that's right the main character is a villain, and his name is Gru. What's even better is that Gru has minions. (Doesn't every villain) These minions are the best thing in the film. They speak some gibberish that you almost understand, but laugh every time their on screen. My boys loved it, and I heard my oldest laughing along with his mom. I even found myself on the floor laughing at some of the jokes. (Yes it is that funny) But please don't make sense of the story. It's a fable, and a fun one at that. My 83 year old mom even liked it, and thought it was cute, so all ages seem to like it. The story is simple. Gru wants to be the number one villain of all time. So he sets out to steal the moon. Of course every villain has a nemesis, and Gru's is Vector. A younger more hip and a somewhat dead ringer for a youn

Over at David Lowery's blog he talks about Heaven's Gate , and its director Michael Cimino. There is a link to a documentary on the movie narrated by William Dafoe. It's a good documentary, and after seeing it I had to post some of it here. I remember when this came out. It was 1980, and I was still in high school. I was enmeshed in film making back then. I started watching movies differently. It was also the height of the VCR, and believe it or not movies on videotape was the coolest thing. Only thing was that there wasn't much product yet. So the movies was where you still went to to study them. Heck! I remember sitting in theaters from afternoon till evening watching movies over and over again. I do remeber seeing a re-release of this movie.  Not it's two and half hour version, but the original 219 minute version.   By the time they released this I was in college I believe.  I saw it somewhere in Manhattan, and seeing it blew me away.  It's ironic that for a