I feel like this thread should get more attention. To catch up with my last couple of months or so, here's a list. Anything that seems excessively gay is due to Banana Tits pushing her will on the Netflix queue. Honest.
Gran Torino: Something about this movie made me absolutely love it. It was so terribly simple, yet badass at the same time. Clint was hilarious in an intentionally unintentional way. +++
Bride Wars: Awful, obv. ---
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans: I'm pretty sure I hadn't seen any of the other Underworlds, but this was a fine with me. About what you'd expect. Not in a shitty way. +
Felon: The general gist of this movie: A "normal" dude accidentally kills a robber as the robber is fleeing his house with his wallet. He's charged with manslaughter and ends up in prison. The guards are dicks and don't like him, so his stay keeps getting his stay extended. Obv he becomes a badass. I liked it a lot. I tend to like any movies that have a main setting in prison, though. And I like real fucking underdog stories (like all feel good sports movies). This is kinda a FGSM, just in a different package. +++
The Mist: Surprisingly good. I expected shit and received a pretty okay film. The ending was shyamalan-esque. Like...before he got shitty. ++
Notorious: These god damn rapper movies entertain me to no end. First 50's movie, and then this. Terrific. +++
Revolutionary Road: Tried watching this. It got terrible about 5 minutes in and never recovered. ---
Knowing: Nick Cage can see the future! Wait, haven't I see this movie before? Yes. Yes I have. Kind of. It was fine, though. +
Burn After Reading: Pretty solid. Like most movies with a cast like this (Clooney, Pitt, Malkovich), it has one of those jump-around, action-packed plots where you never know exactly where the shit is going. Like Snatch. Or Smokin' Aces. Or Luckly Never Slevin. Something like that. Solid movie, though. Love Malkovich's character. ++
He's Just Not That Into You: For being as shitty as it was, it had it's moments. -
Confessions of a Shopoholic: Surprisingly okay. Though that may be because the humor hits close to home as my very own Banana Tits is a reformed shopoholic. Almost as much as the main bitch in this film. +
The Hangover: It lived up to the hype. +++
Public Enemies: The first half hour was great. The last half hour was great. The 8.5 hours that separated the two were not. +
Bruno: Slightly disappointing. Though there were a few instances where I was laughing uncontrollably to the point that it hurt...the vast majority of the laughs were slight. On the whole, it was almost more interesting than funny. Almost. +
That'll do for now.
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