I can’t wait!
Movie of the Week: Role Models
November 19, 2008
Probably the most consistently funny movie of the year (although Tropic Thunder had more Oh-My-God-I-Can’t-Breathe! moments)
It’s great to see Paul Rudd, who is always hilarious as a second string player in all of Judd Apatow’s hits, finally get to be a the lead (he co-wrote the movie with ex-State members Ken Marino and David Wain, who directed)
I’m glad Seann William Scott finally went back to playing another variety of Stifler. It’s okay, buddy. I know you want to be more than the asshole from the American Pie series. But that’s who you are. Embrace it. You too, McLovin’!
Usually what happens in a movie like this is it’s starts out really funny, then falls apart in the end with the sappy and/or lessons learned scenes. It did that a little but not so much as with Knocked Up and Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
Now when is Jane Lynch going to star in her own movie?
Who Wants to Play Paper-Rock-Scissors-Lizard-Spock?
November 18, 2008
Scissors cuts paper.- Paper covers rock.
- Rock crushes lizard.
- Lizard poisons Spock.
- Spock smashes scissors.
- Scissors decapitates lizard.
- Lizard eats paper.
- Paper disproves Spock.
- Spock vaporizes rock.
- And as it always has, rock crushes scissors.
P.S. I love The Big Bang Theory
My Embarrassment Is Now Public…and Increased
November 13, 2008I was on Twitter yesterday and Whitney Matheson of Pop Candy (Pop culture blog on USA Today.com) twittered that she was surprised so many people hadn’t seen Heathers. Well, I’ve seen Heathers but I sent her my “100 Movies I’m Embarrassed to Admit I Haven’t Seen Yet” list.
Today I noticed that I was receiving a lot of random comments on that post. I went to Popcandy and surer than shit, Talk back: What movies are you ashamed you haven’t seen?
At first, I was like “Awesome!“
Then I noticed she listed me as a “she.”
Bleurgh!
Update: She fixed it. I got my e-manhood back!
Movie of the Week: RocknRolla
November 12, 2008
More Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch than Revolver and Swept Away. Thank God!
Guy Ritchie wasn’t even trying to do anything new or different.
He basically repeated the formula from his first two films…
…Witty but bumbling theives with a tough leader? Check
…Nasty villain? Check
….Wildcard character? Check
…Well planned heist that gets screwed up? Check
….Everything tying together in the end? Check
Actually, I thought the ending was too abrupt. We never find out the final fate of Stella (Thandie Newton).
All the actors were great (I love hearing actors using their actual accents) except Chris Bridges (a.k.a Ludacris). He was too stiff especially considering he was paired up with Jeremy Piven.
My Blog Is An Open Book
November 11, 2008I moved my defunct (it’s only active in my mind) writing blog to WordPress.
Hopefully I’ll add something new before New Year’s Day.
I need to mentally prepared for National Novel Writing Month 2009 (it’s too late for this year)
100 Movies I’m Embarrassed To Admit I Haven’t Seen Yet
November 10, 2008Now, I’ve been highly judgmental about movies I think everyone should see. But sadly, there are a lot of bonafide classics (Oscar winners, AFI’s Top 100, IMDB Top 250) that I haven’t seen at all.
This list would have been much longer if it wasn’t for Netflix.
- 12 Angry Men
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- 4 Little Girls
- The Accidental Tourist
- An Affair to Remember
- The Age of Innocence
- Alien
- All The President’s Men
- American Graffiti
- Angels in America
- The Apartment
- Apocalypse Now*
- Babe
- Back To The Future III
- The Battle of Algiers
- A Beautiful Mind
- Ben-Hur
- The Big Chill
- Blazing Saddles
- Bonnie and Clyde
- Born on the Fourth of July
- Brazil
- Citizen Kane
- A Clockwork Orange
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- The Crying Game
- Dances with Wolves
- The Deer Hunter
- Doctor Zhivago
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
- Ed Wood
- Fargo
- Field of Dreams
- A Fistful of Dollars
- The Five Heartbeats
- Fletch
- Four Weddings and a Funeral
- The French Connection
- Funny Girl
- The Godfather Part III
- Gone With The Wind
- The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
- The Grapes of Wrath
- The Green Mile**
- Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
- Hamlet (1948)
- Hannah and Her Sisters
- Harold and Maude
- An Inconvenient Truth
- It’s A Wonderful Life
- JFK
- The King of Comedy
- King of New York
- L.A. Story
- The Last of the Mohicans
- The Last Temptation of Christ
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Life Is Beautiful
- The Maltese Falcon
- The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
- Manhattan
- Marathon Man
- MASH
- Midnight Cowboy
- Mississippi Burning
- Moonstruck
- Moulin Rouge!*
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- My Left Foot
- Network
- The Neverending Story
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
- North by Northwest
- Once Upon A Time In The West
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- Ordinary People
- Rashomon
- A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
- Rear Window
- Rebel Without a Cause
- Saving Private Ryan**
- Scent of a Woman
- Schindler’s List
- Sense and Sensibility
- The Seven Samurai
- Sid & Nancy
- Singin’ in the Rain
- Slacker
- Some Like It Hot
- The Sound of Music
- The Sting
- A Streetcar Named Desire
- Taxi Driver
- Terms of Endearment
- The Thin Red Line
- Tootsie
- Waking Life***
- The Way We Were**
- West Side Story
- Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
Feel free to judge me
