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Nanalan' (1999)
Wicked to the 10th degree
The most entertaining kids' show I've ever seen. Arthur? Blah. Art Attack?
Psht. PMK? Who likes repeats?
Nanalan is where it's at. I'm a semi-mature 19 year-old University student and I find Nanalan to be the best kids show ever, and definitely one of the most entertaining things on television.
Nanalan will blow your mind. Trust me. If you're looking for Nanalan, I know it's on DVD in a few stores (for buy at HMV, for rent at Roger's Video (maybe)), but I think these are older ones. You can catch Nanalan on the CBC at 10:00am EST for the Toronto and southern Ontario area. I've also read that it's on YTV, but I have no way to confirm this.
Watch Nanalan; the worst thing that could happen is your demise.
The Virgin Suicides (1999)
I nearly followed suit after watching this trite film with mildly redeeming visuals. (May contain spoilers.)
I just watched this movie after my girlfriend bought it for 12$CAN at MusicWorld. And I must say, YOWZA!, what a pointless movie. Nothing happened in it except for what was expected from the title. None of the characters evoked the least amount of interest for me except James Woods' one (and that was simply on the virtue that it was James Woods). This was certainly meant to be a character-based movie, and Dunst's and Hartnett's characters were vacuous and I found I didn't care one iota for them, both apparently promiscuous just because they are teens. Personally, I'm sick of the teen sexpot stereotype, and I thought that maybe an independent film would provide a little freedom from it. Suicides certainly doesn't, and it doesn't in a conniving way. The story is equivalent to that of a teen sex romp or a bad softcore porn, minus the porn, minus 3 years from the main character's ages (so that it's outright wrong to be turned on by it, despite the absence of nudity), plus some suicides tacked onto the beginning and end of the film to make it seem like a clever drama. Not that I like teen sex romps or softcore porns per se, it's just that I like movies to be what they are. Also, I found myself pretty bored for most of the thing even though I usually like slower movies and it was only 1:37 long.
In it's defence, I was drunk, tired, and uncomfortable whilst I watched the movie, but I've done that before and enjoyed movies that were like this. And there was one good aspect about the film, and that was its presentation. The visuals were crisp and artistic and the music was good when it was present.
In summary, the flick gets a 6/10 - 3 points for an almost decent story, 4 points for presentation (mentioned above), and -1 for that awful wig Josh Hartnett wore (or -2 if was -- God help us -- real).