I want to see Pandorum, if only for Dennis Quaid.

Anyway, I got the [sarcasm]delightful pleasure[/sarcasm] of sitting through Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs yesterday. Autumn seemed to get a kick out of food falling from the sky, but I found the movie to be rather boring. It isn't like some of its other animated contemporaries that make for good all-around family entertainment, CWaCoM is purely for the kids, and I really wish I had waited for it to come to DVD. The best part of the movie (for me) was Bruce Campbell and Mr. T doing voices for the mayor and the town police chief.

Yeah Mamamack, when I first saw a trailer for that I couldn't think of any way the idea could stretch out for a full length movie.  I can see how it would be cute for a children's book but a movie?  Food fell from the sky, WELP.  That's the plot.

On the other hand, it's not much longer before Where the Wild Things are comes out, and I'm very very excited.

I saw The Informant! today. Really good movie. Funny thing (and kinda sad too), the movie was shown in the smallest room of the cinema, and there was only three people in the room. Me, a fat guy and a fat girl. The girl left at around 2/3 of the movie.

I did, however, go into the movie expecting a sort of steve martin type bumbling character movie though.

I would definitely recommend it, though maybe not the kind of movie you watch with a room full of friends.

I was probably thinking the same thing when I first saw the trailers a while back but because of that post, I guess my expectations were changed. Everything in this movie is very subtle and the full extend of the comedy really comes in at the end when some revelations are made about the character of Whitacre. After I got out of the movie, I started thinking about what made that movie so special, and I think it is the two level of events happening in the movie. You follow Whitacre through all the movie but at the end, you understand that you did not see all of what that character was doing and that you are, to some extend, as knowing as the FBI inspector.

Also, remember how pissed I was at Ebert for giving Jennifer's Body 3/4. Well that bastard gave The Informant! 4/4 and when I read is review when I came back home, he is saying the same thing that I was thinking on my way back in my car. I totally disagree with the man one day and 3 days after, we think alike. Shocking.

I'll probably do like my last post on this topic and just edit it back when my ideas are clearer.

Magnolia

Tame the cunt!

i saw 9 last night. it was kind of terrible!

trailer park boys: countdown to liquor day

hahah the ending made me laugh, jrock doing big tingz.

yeah I watched it too before I left. I don't think it was terrible but it wasn't good and it didn't meet my expectations and fell pretty short.

Just watched Ginger Snaps. I heard it was a better version of Jennifer's Body and it pretty much is. It's scary when it needs to be, funny when it needs to be and touching when it needs to be. Fuck Diablo Cody with her "exploration of BFF relationships", sister's relationship is where it's at.

I saw Ginger Snaps years ago, but I don't remember much about it.

wait did people actually expect surrogates to be anything other than shit?

Still going with silent (well......mostly silent at this point) films, saw Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times last night.  I enjoyed it, the feeding machine at the beginning was the highlight of the film as far as comedy is concerned, I also like that he eats a ridiculous amount of cocaine and it just sort of makes him walk around in circles for a while.  His relationship with the gamin (don't remember her name, just the word GAMIN because i had never heard it before) was kind of weird, I guess I thought of her as much younger than she is and Charlie Chaplin looks much older, so it felt really really strange.  But then again this is Hollywood, love at first sight and all that.  It was a good movie overall.

I just gotta say, Modern Times is odd. The first like 40 minutes of it are really really great, but then it kinda drags around and shit. Well I thought so initially but then afterwards I kinda got it's playfullness about being outside of the factory job being a slave to the man who takes your rights, and then you're free and entering a new world of different rules and opportunities (after all, Chaplin's a great groovy left-wing guy), so the dumb love makes sense and stuff.  and it became one of my fave films on it's second watch(though Great Dictator is indeed his best though)

Considering going to see Zombieland despite it looking really stupid.

Well what else is it supposed to look dude

i gotta be honest it looks hella retarded, and this is coming from someone who loved shaun of the dead

I just gotta say, Modern Times is odd. The first like 40 minutes of it are really really great, but then it kinda drags around and shit. Well I thought so initially but then afterwards I kinda got it's playfullness about being outside of the factory job being a slave to the man who takes your rights, and then you're free and entering a new world of different rules and opportunities (after all, Chaplin's a great groovy left-wing guy), so the dumb love makes sense and stuff.  and it became one of my fave films on it's second watch(though Great Dictator is indeed his best though)

Yeah, I get the idea and enjoy it, but I still consider the very beginning parts plus the song at the end to be the best parts of it.  The middle bit is good, just not AS good as the beginning and song (which frankly are hard to top).

Last night I got to watch some Marx Bros. movies, Horsefeathers and Duck Soup.  I liked Horsefeathers more I think, but Duck Soup had the fantastic mirror bit (which I had kind of seen before when Harpo was on I Love Lucy).  I prefer Chaplin to this still, but I definitely enjoyed these films (and sometimes you just gotta watch something with talking in it).

Considering going to see Zombieland despite it looking really stupid.

I'm really burned out on zombies right now. Between the huge amount of games with zombies and movies with zombies(or zombieish creatures), the only zombie movie I am still looking for is the new Romero one.