It's been a while since I really had a chance to watch movies with my busy schedule, but today, with a nice day off, we plowed through three movies that could not be more diverse. Picking up where we left off with "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King", we decided to follow Bruce Phillips to one of my newer DVDs, the comedy, "Without a Paddle" - it was an interesting way to start the day, but it's a fun movie and some of the comedy in it is great. After "Without a Paddle", I noticed that we could then make the transition to "Rain Man" via Ray Baker. Back when we started the movie game, I wanted to somehow get to "Rain Man" so we could then transition to "Straw Dogs" via Dustin Hoffman and today, we finally did it. Following up "Rain Man," we watched "Straw Dogs" - a very interesting film - and then we finished the day with the latest episode of "24" sans commercials thanks to the DVR. All in all, it was a long, but very productive (depending on how you view productivity) day. We made great progress in the movie game, though, with "Straw Dogs" we kind of backed ourselves into a corner and there are very few movies to follow up with - the four I own that we can use are: "Spider-Man," "American History X," "Time Bandits," and another Criterion Collection film (like "Straw Dogs"), "Brazil." We might take the easy route to "Spider-Man" though personally, I haven't seen "American History X" in a while and it is a great film.

Films watched to date (in reverse order):

Straw Dogs (Dustin Hoffman and T.B.D.)
Rain Man (Ray Baker and Dustin Hoffman)
Without a Paddle (Bruce Phillips and Ray Baker)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Stephen Ure and Bruce Phillips)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Katie Jackson and Stephen Ure)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Viggo Mortensen and Katie Jackson)
Crimson Tide (Gene Hackman and Viggo Mortensen)
Superman IV (Christopher Reeve and Gene Hackman)
Superman III (Jackie Cooper and Christopher Reeve)
Superman II (Ned Beatty and Jackie Cooper)
Superman (Robert O'Neill and Ned Beatty)
Twelve Monkeys (Bruce Willis and Robert O'Neill)
Mercury Rising (Chi McBride and Bruce Willis)
The Terminal (John Williams and Chi McBride)
Star Wars: Episode VI (Anthony Daniels and John Williams))
Star Wars: Episode V (Peter Mayhew and Anthony Daniels)
Star Wars: Episode IV (James Earl Jones and Peter Mayhew)
The Hunt For Red October (Stellan Skarsgård and James Earl Jones)
Ronin (Jean Reno and Stellan Skarsgård)
Godzilla (1998) (Ben Bode and Jean Reno)
Empire Records (Liv Tyler and Ben Bode)
Armageddon (Owen Wilson and Liv Tyler)
Permanent Midnight (Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson)
Keeping the Faith (Edward Norton and Ben Stiller)
Rounders (Edward Norton - Starting Film)

URL: Straw Dogs (1971)