Last movie you watched......

"Milk" - and fortunaye to be at a free public screening followed by a Q and A with the screenwriter. Impressed by the attention to detail enough to catch the doc on which it's based, "The Life and Times of Harvey Milk," on Hulu. I liked that both showed Dan White more as a deeply troubled man than as a Twinkie caricature. I remember when this story broke.

 

Up! -- A fine flick, but when in the hell did every Disney cartoon have to have these really depressing undertones? I first remember it in Lilo and Stitch, which I couldn't even enjoy because the entire movie was about her parents dying when she was like 5. It was all I could think of. In this one, an old man (crazy as shit) floats off somewhere with a kid no one likes because of his dead wife. Just....depressing on all counts.

The Proposal -- Loved it. Not surprised...it's in my wheelhouse. But I loved it.

Bride Wars -- Complete crap. And I love Anne Hathaway. Still crap.

 

Loved the Proposal as well. Saw it again this weekend with the fiancee. Good god is Sandra Bullock hot in that flick.

I wish they would have spent more time building up the actual attraction between the two but, other than that, I've got no complaints.

"We can do this, but that would require you to stop snacking on children while they dream."

 

Watched "Holiday Inn" and "White Christmas" back-to-back. "White Christmas" is kind of a yawner. Still love "Holiday Inn" but Fred Astaire is a real ass in that one.

 

See, I actually liked how they did it. A lot of movies, it's full of google-eyes and missed connections, where it beats you over the head. This one was more "if they get out of their own ways, they'd really connect" and it was great, to me.

 

I love Anne Hathaway, and she's doing a WORLD of sheer crap. Get
a script, woman.

 

I liked it the first time I saw it but on replay, it just seemed like they went an hour and a half with hating each other and then, all of a sudden, it was like "Wait, let's hook up."

Still a damn good movie though. WAY better than I expected.

 

Hollywood would ruin it. Really interesting and fun movie.
I was trying to recommend it to a couple people in the office, and they asked me what it was about.
They looked at me like I was crazy.

Of course, one of them was my boss, and he thought I was crazy when I told him about 'Lars and the Real Girl,' which he loved once he eventually saw it.

 

I LOVE Lars and the Real Girl. So much.

 

Transporter 2. Another decent -- not great -- movie. A fun movie, like the first one.

I definitely enjoy Jason Statham (sp) movies.

 

500 Days of Summer - I understand that the whole point of this movie is make the female love interest seem like shallow, wooden, cold-hearted bitch, but at least it could have tried to inject some level of chemistry in the "relationship." This is Zooey Deschanel's worst work to date. She was more lively in her bit part in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford than the entirety of this film.

It did have some funny moments, but the film tried way too hard to be hipster cool and that in turn made me want to kill everybody involved in the movie.

 

Oh, he did Jesse James?

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