Last movie you watched......

No, god bless the movie for glorifying what catty bitches we really are.

It was just a horrible movie, and I liked NO ONE in it.

 

Rant on Black Swan (with spoilers):

The director can go blow himself with that interpretive ending crap. Just tell me what happened and stand by it. Any "artist" can play around with hallucinations and dream sequences. Nothing has to make any sense and no one has to take any responsibility for the nonsense when half the scenes don't actually mean anything. I don't care about the symbols or the transformations or the color schemes. I just want to know if the hot chick got stabbed and whether or not that skeleton named Natalie Portman died. If so, I would have asked for more painful expressions and screams of agony from her because it would at least reflect my own moviegoing experience.

And the thing is, this movie had promise. Ballerinas are creepy, creepy Golum
descendants that oftentimes end up in dripping catacombs smoking opium and exchanging ribs for sex. They are fascinating subject matters, and I hoped this movie would take advantage of all the ickiness and moral and anatomical skinniness that could have been explored. Instead, the only truly interesting character, Beth (Winona Ryder), makes just the briefest of appearances.

Plus, Natalie Portman is annoying. She has enjoyed a smart, deliberate rise but Portman is on her way to becoming Helen Hunt, the most humorless, pinched-face woman to ever luck her way into a couple of decent movies. I just can't see that blonde scarecrow truly guffawing at anything, and I sort of feel the same way about Portman. Natalie, enjoy a fucking laugh. Unbutton your pea coat. Buy a sex toy. Christ. I'll believe she's a great actress when she delivers a believable funny line.

Bottom line, everyone involved in that movie, from Aronofsky to Portman to the caterer is full of shit. I hated it.

 

Care Bear: Realize it was a while ago, but see Beautiful Girls if you haven't. Hell, I'd have become a lesbo pedo for Natalie in that movie.

 

I saw Beautiful Girls years ago, and I remember really enjoying it. Especially Portman. It's just the recent stuff with her that really, really irks me. But I'll put BGs in my "remember to rent" queue. It's been too long.

 

Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius.

I've seen it a couple times, and watched it again last night. Still love it, $12 million under the budget and all.

 

Just watched Easy A. Very enjoyable. I really like Emma Stone a lot, even if I do feel she pretty much plays herself.

 

Late to the party but just watched M. Night's "Devil." I found it fairly suspenseful and worth a Netflix rental.

 

That's sig worthy right there.

 

While you are at it, watch The Professional, too. (IMDB has it as Leon: The Professional). Jean Reno and Danny Aiello were good in it. Gary Oldman was outstanding. But Portman really carries that movie. It was her first full film and she was 12 or 13 when they shot it.

Can't say she has quite lived up to what you would think she would be after those two movies, but I don't think she is as bad as you make her out to be. It's not like she has never made a silly film, whether intentionally so (No Strings Attatched) or unintentionally (all three Star Wars prequels).

 

Kick-Ass. loads of fun

 

Don't forget that flaming pile of dog crap she just starred in alongside Danny McBride and the stoner from the Oscars.

 

Oh, and I really loved Garden State.