Last movie you watched......

Cool, Lisa. That movie is top of my list.

 

Saw MI IV and Contraband last week. Liked both a LOT more than I thought I would. I enjoy Wahlberg and thought it cute he even put his dad in a movie!

 

I think Ebert captured it pretty well as usual -- I also lack a feel for high-level espionage.

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20111214/REVIEWS/111219994

It was very well-acted.

 

"The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo."

Very, very good in spots, but almost disastrously uneven.

MILD SPOILERS AHEAD

For one thing, way too many underdeveloped secondary characters. After it was over, my wife, a devotee of the books, excitedly asked me, "So did you figure out who did it!?" I said, "Honestly, I didn't much care." And that's the truth. No one was developed enough for me to invest in the whodunit.

There were also some severely underdeveloped plot strands. In particular, the subplot about Mikhail's libel lawsuit and the guy he's battling against. After the real climax of the movie, they spend about 20-30 minutes more of screen time tying up this loose end that no one cared about to begin with. I thought it was just a way to get him to the house - his redemption, to me, was just solving the mystery and proving he could be a good investigator again. All the rest is tediously extraneous.

Also, we had to wait a ridiculously long time for he and Elizabeth to actually begin working together. I bet it was an hour or more into the movie before she finally went to work for him on the case. Too long to get your two leads together. Way too long.

So all in all, an entertaining movie that could have used a script doctor very badly.

 

If it makes you feel any better, the book is no better in this regard.

 

Caught "Monster's Ball" on IFC last night.

The way I figure it, about 10 minutes after the movie ends, Halle Berry cuts Billy Bob Thornton's throat.

 

Friends with benefits.

Funny. Enjoyed it greatly.

Mila Kunis is not someone I find particularly attractive, but it was a fun flick. A couple of good layers to the story I didn't expect.

 

I saw that movie with my parents. I wanted to swallow my own tongue.

 

What.

The.

Fuck.

 

She's very hit or miss for me. She didn't do it for me in Black Swan, but she was beautiful in Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

 

Wow. Yeah, that would turn the discomfort meter all the way up to 11. Again, wow.

 

I never thought she was hot when I saw her on That 70s show and she was very forgettable, IMO, in Forgetting Sarah Marshall but she was hot as hell in Friends with Benefits.

Could be that she spent the first half of the movie half naked.