Last movie you watched......

ROWR.

 

Watched Super 8 with Mrs. Novelist and one of the Novelistas last night. Was just as good the second time around. Loved the part at the end where the kid with the braces -- who has been saying variations of phrases including the word "shit" throughout the movie -- is seen mouthing "holy shit" Just a really entertaining movie all the way around.

 

I also really enjoyed Bridesmaids (and I found The Hangover hugely disappointing). I like Kristen Wiig a lot and the dude from the IT Crowd was good as the cop.

 

Back in the days of VHS rentals, the local video store in 1995 or whatever year it came out, kept having "Embrace of the Vampire" stolen.

Blockbuster wouldn't carry it or didn't carry it.

 

Wow, saw the new Muppet movie. The 6-year-old in me was in pure joy.

 

Saw "Horrible Bosses" (along with White Fang and Big Fat Liar for the kids; both enjoyable) with the Missus and it was hilarious. Love the rapport between Justin Bateman and the other two guys. Oh yeah, Jennifer Aniston looking absolutely unbelievable helped as well.

 

Jason Bateman.

I still need to see that.

 

Just finished watched "Horrible Bosses" via Netflix and loved it. Like the earlier posts said, great rapport with the three leads, Spacey was a perfect psycho, and watching Jennifer Aniston act like a slutty nympho; yeah I enjoyed that -- immensely.

 

Did anybody check IJAG's closet?

 

One of my main problems with "Super 8" is that the parent-child relationships, to me, just don't build up to the payoff near the end. There are a few scenes-by-numbers with children and parents bickering, but not enough and not real enough for it to come together emotionally for me at the water tower scene.

And during the big action sequence in the second half of the movie, I just got the feeling the whole time that we were moving parts around to set up the ending. There was absolutely no tension, because you pretty much know that the kids are going to be all right. A lot of sound and fury. First half of the movie was good, though. I think there was infinitely more tension in the quiet scene between the boy and the girl, when he's putting zombie make-up on her, or the scene at the camera store when the director boy gets upset at his friend for stealing the girl, than there is in all the action sequences. Those scenes felt so real. Very Stephen King-ish.

 

I'm in the bag for Abrams and loved "Super 8."

I think my favorite scene was Joe and Alice in his bedroom as they talked about their relationships with their family, namely when Joe talked about his mom. Very well directed, written and acted scene. Joel Courtney was very good, but Elle Fanning is going to be a star.

 

I watched "There Will Be Blood" last night. God damn, Daniel Day Lewis is a fucking monster on the screen. I can't believe it took me like three years to see this film. Paul Thomas Anderson directed and wrote a helluva flick, and the score by the guitarist from Radiohead was AWESOME. What a movie.

"I drink your milkshake!"