Last movie you watched......

Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer - New HBO doc on the "group". Not really all that insightful if you read any mainstream media reports on the three women. Attempts to explain Russia's feelings toward Western cultural being used as protest tools but gets mired in too much personal drama regarding Pussy Riot family members.

 

Have you seen 'A Band Called Death' yet?
Released last year, but I haven't watched it yet.

 

This Is the End

Really fucking funny. One rant between James Franco and Danny McBride will go to in the history books; and it features the cameo of the year.

 

Yes, in person. I was at a show where they were filming for the documentary. I had no idea they had finished and released the film yet, but I'll seek it out.

 

Since it's in heavy rotation now on HBO I watched "Trouble With the Curve" again. Amy Adams looks so different from when she was in "Catch Me if You Can." At some points, with the way her hair is and from certain angles, she strongly resembles Jenna Fischer.

Also, no way that fat fuck Bo Gentry beats out the infield single they show.

 

I watched The Internship on Friday. I loved it! I think too many of the RT critics are too old to appreciate the Google-ness.

Like people have said, it was predictable, but you're not expecting it to be a Best Picture nominee. It's what you want, for the most part, when you go see a comedy. Have some solid laughs and leave the theater smiling. It wasn't over the top, but it was really good.

My wife said she thought it was OK, but Wedding Crashers was better.

Well, of course it was. It was also different. It bothers me when people go to a movie, expecting it to be something else. I still argue Watchmen's biggest downfall was that people were expecting it to be The Dark Knight.

 

Looks like a two-hour ad for Google. Pass.

 

I just watched the Pussy Riot doc.
I liked it, but I didn't follow the story when it was happening.

 

Just like Funny People was a veiled 2-hour commercial for MySpace.

 

Saw Broken City on DVD last night and was pleasantly surprised by how good it was.

 

Hmmm ....

 

A Band Called Death - Thanks for the head's up Buck. Got it on a rental on Amazon. The film is basically a hybrid of Anvil and Searching for Sugarman, but leaves a lot more questions than those films. I really wanted to know what the band was like back in the mid-70s. The film mentioned no gigs (did they play them?) or people other than family members or neighbors who saw them perform in that era. Band leader David Hackney is an interesting case. On one hand, he was a rock 'n' roll genius who might have changed the entire history of the punk era if the band got any traction. On the other, he was a stubborn fool enslaved to "spirituality" who made the biggest blunder of his life when he turned down a deal with Arista Records because Clive Davis wanted the band to change its name. The other two brothers are merely placeholders and I never got the feeling throughout the film that they were particularly proud of Death. For instance, they waited until 2008 to tell their sons that the band existed. That was after they were confronted about it.