Last movie you watched......

Saw it today, and holy shit am I glad I didn't bring my wife. She'd have had nightmares for a year.

I thought it was very well done, and was amazed at how much suspense they managed to create out of so little actual action. I wish I'd seen it at night and in a full theater instead of a near-empty matinee.

Hopefully Hollywood takes note that while they're spending hundreds of millions to make crap like Transformers 2, someone with $11,000 and some actual creativity can make a legitimately original and successful movie.

 

Where the Wild Things Are.
Cute, sweet, ultimately sad. Still very good.
Spike Jonze is the man.

 

Am watching Away We Go. It's pretty random at times, goes a little slow but the stroller scene with Maggie Gyllenhal is hilarious.

 

When I saw The Terminal the first time it demolished me. I don't know if I was in a rough patch of my life or whether my brain chemistry was off, but it fucking killed me, and I don't think I should hazard watching it again.

 

I had a similar reaction to "American Beauty," LJB. No movie unsettled me nearly as much as that one did.

 

American Beauty, so layered, such a richness. That was on HBO every other day right around the time my brother died. I'd study it and every time there was something new to gather from it. There have been days I've felt like every one of the characters in that movie.

"I'm just an ordinary guy, with nothing to lose."

 

Hell yeah, LBJ. "American Beauty" also has, in my view, one of the best endings of any movie I've seen in the past 20 years.

Only "Trainspotting" comes close, in terms of "killer" endings.

 

-- Do you have a minute?
-- For you, Brad? I've got five.

Use that one all the time.

 

LJB: I've been doing the exact same thing, only with "Life As a House," which I (somehow) only recently discovered.

Loved "American Beauty," too.

 

at a movie now ... the preview for "date night" with carell and fey looks really funny.

 

couples resort ...


there were some funny lines, and it had some good moments. other times it was blah. i'm liking vince vaughn more and more.

the guy who played sctanley "with a c" was very good, very funny without even trying, and his guitar hero showdown with vaughn to billy squier's "lonely is the night" was enjoyable. i also liked the visual montage opening the movie to bowie's "modern love." i didn't like bateman so much, and i usually do.

3 stars out of 5.

 

Saw 'Paranormal Activity' = thumbs down
Saw 'Stranger than Paradise' = thumbs down
Am I the only one who doesn't get Jim Jarmusch?