Top "New Year's Eve" Movies

In celebration of 2007, here are our top 5 movies for new year's eve.

#5 - 200 Cigarettes (1999)

Set in 1981 in New York's Lower East Village during one very loooong New Year's Eve night out, a bunch of post-slacker hipsters head out seeking a good time. Cast includes Paul Rudd, Courtney Love, Ben Affleck, Cassey Affleck, Jay Mohr, Kate Hudson, Janeane Garofalo, Martha Plimpton, Gaby Hoffmann, and Christina Ricci. Dave Chappelle has a recurring cameo as a disco cab driver that alone makes this worth watching.

#4 - The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

At midnight on New Years Eve the S.S. Poseidon is struck by a 90' tidal wave and is capsized. A great cast make up this movie. The Rev. Frank Scott (Gene Hackman) leads 9 Survivors; an elderly couple, Manny and Belle Rosen (Jack Albertson and Shelley Winters); A N.Y. detective and his wife, Mike and Linda Rogo (Ernest Borgnine and Stella Stevens); A young brother and sister, Robin and Susan Shelby (Eroc Shea and Pamela Sue Martin); A haberdasher James Martin (Red Buttons); a pop singer Nonnie Parry (Carol Lynley), and a waiter from the ship Acres (Roddy McDowall). They travel from the grand ballroom struggling through steam, fire and rising water in the up-side-down ship to reach the bottom (the propeller shaft), now the top.

#3 - Bridget Jone's Diary (2001)

Bridget Jones makes a New year's resolution to keep a diary and her life starts to change. Starring Renee Zellweger, Hugh Grant, and Colin Firth.

#2 -When Harry Met Sally (1989)

(Spoiler) This movie's memorable ending takes place New Year's Eve finally bringing together 2 friends afraid to admit they're realy in love (played convincingly by Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan). Way funny lines. Also starring Carrie Fisher and Bruno Kirby who met and fell in love thanks to not falling for Harry and Sally.

#1 - Strange Days (1995)

Set in the year 1999 during the last days of the old millennium, ex-cop Ralph Fiennes receives a disc containing the memories of a murderer killing a prostitute. Lenny investigates and is pulled deeper and deeper in a swirling vortex of blackmail and murder. Also starring Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis and Tom Sizemore.

A Mouse- how quaint. Hello, Computer?

Here's a really funny article on Computers in Movies.

My favorite:

4. Integration is Easy, Data Interoperates
In movieland, users have no trouble connecting different computer systems. Macintosh users live in a world of PCs without ever noticing it (and there were disproportionally more Macs than PCs in films a decade ago, when Apple had the bigger product-placement budget).

In the show 24, Jack Bauer calls his office to get plans and schematics for various buildings. Once these files have been transferred from outside sources to the agency's mainframe, Jack asks to have them downloaded to his PDA. And -- miracle of miracles -- the files are readable without any workarounds. (And download is far faster than is currently possible on the U.S.'s miserable mobile networks.)

If only it were that easy!

Deja Vu

A good solid action movie. Plenty of twists and turns, though at one point the story totally breaks the laws of physics and turns the movie from semi-realistic to fantasy. Oh well. At least the car chases were cool.

If you liked The Island, The Rock, Armageddon, etc. you 'll love this one.

A tale of two animations

Hoodwinked is an example of movie studios trying to copy Pixar's success with Toy Story, etc. and failing miserably. Bad story, bad artwork. Somehow the movie studio thought

Over the Hedge also tried to jump on the animated animal bandwagon, but had just enough talent in artwork, story and voices to be decent. Pixar still reigns supreme though.

RIP VHS

After a long illness, the groundbreaking home-entertainment format VHS has died of natural causes in the United States. The format was 30 years old.

No services are planned.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117953955.html?categoryid=20&cs=1