Last movie you watched......

Charlie Bartlett is a VERY pleasant surprise.

Excellent premise and execution.

And markedly-funnier than, say, Juno.

 

Watched Chuck & Buck last night. It's a "comedy" from '99 or 2000. Man, it was weird. Not what I was expecting. I think I had it confused with American Movie, which came out around the same time, a year earlier.

 

Mulan is my favorite Disney animated film of my lifetime.

 

I saw REVOLUTIONARY ROAD last night.

Fine movie. Wanted to like it a lot more than I did.

 

Not going to see it anytime soon, because the broad effect has been too-broadly telegraphed, already . . .
while you might admire the craft, the overall effect would seem to be too overwhelmingly depressing.

 

Interestingly enough, it comes off like a play, particularly with the shot-making (classic Mendes). My initial reaction walking out was that I thought it would be a much better play. There are flaws aplenty. Certainly didn't even crack my top-10 of the year. Top twenty...good question.

Mendes did a much, much better job of capturing the "urban dilemma" with AMERICAN BEAUTY. Even though every character in that movie had their share of flaws, at least there was some resonance and empathy in the eyes of the viewer.

 

Watched "The Prestige" and "No Country for Old Men" this weekend. "The Prestige" is a damn fine movie. NCFOM covered the same thematic territory as just about every other Coen movie, but was a really good film and didn't disappoint.

 

Mamma Mia ... and that, friends, is 90 minutes of my life which should have been spent staring at a wall and picking my nose.

 

It'll be Who Framed Roger Rabbit in an hour or so. I love this movie.

 

Watched the beginning of "Blow Dry" which was utterly hideous for being full of people I'd heard of and about a hair-styling competition. Alan Rickman, Natasha Richardson, the guy who played the washed-up pop star in Love Actually, Josh Hartnett, Rachel Leigh Cook...it should have been good.

I'll watch the rest tomorrow to see if it gets better.

 

Almost done of Chronicles of Narnia. I loved the story when I was a kid.

 

Watched "College" today.

It came out August 29, 2008, which may have been the worst opening Friday in modern history: College, Disaster Movie, and Babylon A.D.

College is the worst film I've seen this year. It's a ripoff of Superbad and it's just terrible. You had the same three main characters, basically: an enormously fat kid who just cheaply copied the way Jonah Hill talked and acted in the movie (except 100x more annoying), his ordinary best friend played by Drake Bell from that Nickelodeon show (without Cera's charm or awkwardness), and a mopey version of McLovin named Morris (played by American Idol retread Kevin Covais in the worst acting performance of 2008), the sidekick nerd who everyone picks on, especially the fat main character.

Probably the best part of the film is when Verne Troyer shows up and pisses on the chunky one. It's abysmal all the way through, containing more fart jokes than I thought possible.