Last movie you watched......

I will.
I also noticed the Heigl was Executive Producer (along with somebody else). I had no idea she was anything more than an actress for this movie.

 

I watched Tom Shadyac's (director of Ace Ventura, Bruce Almighty) documentary called "I Am" last night, and it was quite insightful. It makes you appreciate the little things and that means a lot to me. I recommend it, and it's only 1 hour, 17 minutes.

 

Watched "The Artist." Cute little movie. Not the year's Best Picture.

 

Of course. If you're favorably-inclined towards Woody, you'll love it, as did I -- but it's not his best work, though the idea remains a great one.

 

Because Moddy asked me to weigh in ...

Saw One for the Money. It looked so bad in the previews, and I expected the worst, so I did the Groupon thing and paid $6 for my ticket. Went after work today and ... meh. It didn't suck QUITE as badly as I had feared, though the casting was so very very wrong. Ranger wasn't mysterious, just was there in coffee shops. Morelli with blue eyes, Stephanie ... oh don't get me started on Stephanie. 1:46 wasn't enough to really get into the characters, so Lula had no good lines, Stephanie was COMPLETELY inept instead of inept but capable underneath ... the whole thing was a hodgepodge.

I think if they had played this as camp, as the very early part of it seemed to want to be, I think it had a chance. But it tried to become an actual action movie, and that's no good. It seemed like a movie with identity issues, and it couldn't zero in on just one aspect to focus on.

Also, god do I hate hate hate hate hate Katherine Heigl. Hate.

And I always picture Grandma Mazur as Maxine from Hallmark mixed with Yetta from The Nanny.

Overall, I give it a D. It WAS better than I thought it would be (though that's damning with faint praise) but I think if it had just been "here's a random movie with Katherine Heigl as a bumbling bounty hunter and an Irish guy playing an Italian cop and there are hijinks" it could have been passable. But this wasn't Evanovich, it wasn't Stephanie Plum and it wasn't passable.

 

So apparently perpetual 8-year-old jackass Adam Sandler is making a movie adaptation of the board game "Candy Land." I wish I was fucking kidding.

Lemme guess: Despite the fact that it takes place in a magical land with a Lollipop Garden and Gum Drop Mountains, somebody's going to get 1. punched in the face; 2. kicked in the gonads; 3. screamed at. At some point, some pastel confection will be defiled by urine.

But in the end, deep down, Adam Sandler's character has a heart of gold.

 

You prefer this version?

 

It is hard to believe someone that beautiful could be that unlikeable.
But she pulls it off.

 

into the Wild: Sean Penn's skillful homage to a dumb man.

 

That's a great summation of a movie that had me alternately wondering if I should do something more with my life and being thankful I wasn't such a complete fucking moron.

 

"Drive."

I'm speechless. I think I might have just watched the best movie of the year. But I'm also in shock over the level of brutality. Gonna have to collect some thoughts on this one for a day or so.

 

I still love the movie. The scenery is great and Hirsch does a fantastic job as McCandless.