Last movie you watched......

I just watched this last night.

I thought it was pretty funny.

Anyone who loves guessing who's a sock puppet on this site will get a kick out of it.

 

I saw Catfish last week.

I didn't hate it or love it. It was interesting to a point. Ultimately, I thought it was kinda sad. Oh, I figured out the twist immediately. Took the guys forever to get to the twist when you see it a mile away.

Biggest mystery of the movie for me, why the fuck did the main character (the guy) have a tramp stamp tattoo?

 

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps: Up until the motorcycle chase it was tolerable and even engaging. But then after all the dire warnings about bubbles and our country's descent into economic madness, it ends with unicorns, sunshine, fairies and rainbows.

 

Ditto on the tramp stamp. Huh?

I really enjoyed the film, especially the last 45 minutes. It was thrilling and sad and funny and made you feel all those great emotions that great films do.

Speaking as someone who fell in love with a voice on the phone, infatuation will lock logic in chains and leave it in the basement to rot.

I met a woman through an online dating service. We communicated for a couple of weeks via e-mail and then for a month or so via phone. Although I never let her on to my feelings, I had fallen in love with her before I had met her in the flesh.

Sounds crazy, I know.

We met for a date, and when she opened the door, she appeared exactly as I had envisioned her, exactly as I had thought. We had a few more dates. We spent time at her house, etc. Within a year, we were engaged; 18 months after that, we were married.

I was lucky and felt for the protagonist in 'Catfish' in ways all too personal.

 

Watched "The Town" as the second part of a Sunday night double dip ... I liked it. It wasn't the best movie of the year, I don't think. Some of the early dialogue was way too forced, and you have to have a pretty good level of suspension of disbelief to truly buy into the Doug-Claire relationship.

 

Worst movie I've seen in ages.

 

Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave (Kluge, 1973) and L'Eclisse (Antonioni, 1962)

I can't recommend the first to anyone who's squeamish. The title character is an abortionist, and the movie shows one right at the beginning. The movie's more of a political statement - the story shifting from female "empowerment" (the classical leftist view of it, anyhow) to lack thereof, even when the politics du jour is female empowerment - than a visual experience.

The second is a visual feast, comprised of the kind of black-and-white images for which cinema was made. Typical Antonioni. Watch it on a nice screen and be patient.

 

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (Stone, 09)

Boring as a sack of dog shit. Stone hacks his way through this thing, cuts up the first big Gekko speech with fucking wipes, stock shots of the crowd, maybe even a dissolve, I dunno. You got Michael Douglas - the only reason anybody's at the movie - giving a big speech and the camera won't even let the man act.

The kid, Mulligan, doesn't how to act yet. Boy does she stink. Stone hires her for acting chops, I'm guessing, and she proceeds to create a bitter, unlikable, emotionally inert waif in arm stockings and high-necked coats. She's like a headmaster in training. It's an awful performance.

Ol Shia sure as hell thinks he can, but he can't. That second big showdown scene between him and Brolin...notice how Brolin pulls away from the confrontation and goes on autopilot. He probably gave that take 18 times. If you don't have a good sparring partner, what's the use?

Charlie Sheen makes a cameo. Looked like my perpetually half-loaded cousin in the scene. Probably was.

Just a mess of a movie. There's a Gekko montage 105 minutes in. Just a Gekko montage of him doing shit - buying stuff, making deals, assembling some team he apparently had in the wings - after he's stabbed two characters in the back.

Favorite scene: The "Rudy" Scene. I love it when people talk about a key character who died at an indistinct moment at least 7 years before - probably more like 10 - yet isn't important enough for the audience to meet. They just say his name 19 times. Can you imagine rehearsing that scene beforehand?

 

In my opinion the worst A-list male and female actors are Shia LaBeouf and Jessica Alba. Both have been in good movies but movies are never good because of them.

Carey Mulligan is usually great. I haven't seen Wall Street 2, and I trust Alma's judgment so I'll just assume this time she was not.

 

Watched Get Him to the Greek the other night. Fun movie. My most relevant takeaway is this:

Jonah Hill = Tim Tebow + 100 pounds. Discuss.

 

Mulligan is pretty much a Katie Holmes clone at this point. Her facial expressions and mannerisms remind me of stuff Holmes was doing on Dawson's Creek.

Another thing that irked me about the movie was The Good, The Bad and The Ugly ringtone. We get it, Stone. Eli Wallach, who played Tuco in that Spaghetti Western, is in your movie. It was also a bit weird to hear Wallach deliver lines like he was in character as Tuco. The weird bird noises were straight Spaghetti Western.

 

What was Katie Holmes' last good movie? I loved Go, but that was more because of Sarah Polley. That was at least a decade ago.