Last movie you watched......

The Brad Renfro running joke was a classic...

 

You'd be right...if Newman and Redford had tits instead of moobs, and had their kids tagging along.

 

Ghost World is pretty good.

 

I always thought it was interesting that the two most important female characters in that movie --- Billie (Newman's girlfriend) and Loretta (the coffeeshop waitress/hitwoman) --- were so damned homely. I've always figured it was because the producers didn't want anyone to cast better looking the Newman and Redford (though a young, pre-implant Sally Kirkland has a bit part early in the film).

 

Well, they at least slept in the same bed. That's what prompts him to break up with the blonde woman.

 

Just saw A Serious Man, the latest from the Coen brothers. Not my favorite movie of all time, or even the last month.

Average age of people in the theater: about 78. A lady two seats down from me was breathing with the help of an oxygen machine. Seemed like it was appropriate given the film noir motif.

 

Rumor Has It ...

Love the premise of it, which is "based on a rumor."

They take The Graduate 39 years later and try to play out the "Robinsons" and real "Benjamin Braddock" in real life. Jennifer Aniston is led to believe that the guy off of whom Braddock is based is her father. Kevin Costner plays Beau Burroughs (Braddock), who went to high school with Charles Webb (author of The Graduate). They were friends in high school with Aniston's mom (who would've been Elaine Robinson, but who is dead in this movie). Rumor has it that *Elaine Robinson* went to Cabo the weekend before she got married and had a fling with Beau Burroughs.

Aniston, a newspaper obits/wedding writer who is engaged to Mark Ruffalo in this movie, starts to believe Beau knocked up her mom in Cabo, so she tracks him down in San Fran and asks him about that weekend. He admits to the tryst but says he can't father kids because of a junior high soccer *injury*. Aniston buys into his explanation, and even though she's engaged, she sleeps with Costner; the funny implication being that *Braddock* slept with Mrs. Robinson, Mrs. Robinson's daughter AND Mrs. Robinson's granddaughter. And that possibility presents itself briefly when Costner's son makes an appearance. Turns out, it's not his biological son, so Aniston stops freaking out about sleeping with her dad.

Anyway, there are some very funny lines in the movie. Other parts are cheese and cliche. Mark Ruffalo stinks, Jen Aniston is, by and large, pretty good, and Shirley MacLaine as *Mrs. Robinson* 39 years later is great.

3 stars out of 5.

BTW, Aniston got a serious nose job. In this she's still got her original. Her nose in "Love Happens" is much smaller.

 

Saw that a few years ago and enjoyed it. It's a Rob Reiner film, and his movies are usually pretty clever (except for North).

 

"New York, I Love You." It's a series of short films, some intertwined, about, duh, New York. I liked it, but not as much as "Paris, Je t'aime" about, duh, Paris. I also want to put in a plug for the excellent documentary "Black Magic," which I watched over the weekend. Really well done, interesting and moving.

 

I absolutely loved Paris, Je t'aime. I didn't know they made a similar one about New York. I'll have to check that out.

 

It's got the Shia in it though. That's the only thing holding me back.

 

He does a nice job, actually. And he's only in it for about 5 minutes.