Last movie you watched......

I thought Holmes was pretty good in 'Pieces of April.' I've pretty much hated her in everything else.

 

I wanna say "Go" was 1999. It was Doug Liman's follow-up to "Swingers."

Don't remember much else about the movie, but Holmes does have a pretty good nude scene in "The Gift" (which was 2001, I think).

 

If you don't count Batman Begins, I'll go with Thank You for Smoking. Clever in its own way.

(BTW, watch that movie, Juno and Up In the Air and see how Reitman has a lworship complex/latent distrust for women.)

 

Made on a small budget, to boot.

Not my fave. But it has its charms and defenders.

 

Expendables. Not exactly Oscar material, obviously, but it was pretty entertaining. Lots of blowing shit up and killing the bad guys. Big fan.

Transformers 2. Again, very entertaining. Love the Transformers series. Pumped for this summer, when the third one comes out. TONS of eye candy in 2, as well.

 

Saw The Social Network over the weekend. It was very intense, very well done, awesome story. It kind of followed the Spy Game model (deposition/interrogation) laced with flashbacks.

I've seen True Grit, Inception and The Social Network. If forced to rank them I'd put Inception first and flip a coin between the other two. My sense, though, is that The Social Network will be the big winner on Oscar night.

 

I would watch True Grit 10 times while getting punched in the face before I'd watch Inception again.

 

Actually, CI, I don't think it sounds crazy. I met my fiance on a message board online (not this one!) and after eight weeks of talking on the phone, we were in love. After meeting, it only reinforced the notion. We got engaged about a year later. And we both laughed at this movie thinking about what could have happened between us. But we both have very good judgment.

 

Rented this last night. Didn't make it all the way through because my On Demand feature sucks and freezes up every 7 or 8 minutes. I have to stop, restart, pain in the ass. I may or may not finish. Huge disappointment. And the Doug-Claire relationship, good grief. You just got kidnapped, these psychos tell you they're gonna come back and rape and kill you if you talk to the feds, you go an talk to the feds, some mysterious guy chats you up in the laundromat and you're not the least bit suspicious? I could forgive all that. Until that freaking A-Team car chase. Affleck's character doesn't wanna do another job because 'we got too much heat on us.' Really? You just shot up half of fucking Boston with machine guns ... yeah, I'd say you got some heat. Everyone from the Weblos to the ATF would be hunting your ass down. Had high hopes because I loved Affleck's 'Gone Baby Gone.'

 

I saw "Blue Valentine" over the weekend. Amazing acting by Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling, but just a bleak, bleak movie. Which is not to say I didn't like it. I did.

 

Just saw this last night and that about sums it up for me. I really liked it, but there aren't any redeemable relationships in it.

 

Saw "The King's Speech." It's one of the most enjoyable movies I've seen in quite some time. I thought Colin Firth was superb. He will win the Oscar and deserve it. But I still think "The Social Network" is a better film with more scope. I think it may take the Oscar.