My National Treasure: Book of Secrets review.

I only had about 90 minutes to write it so I'm not really fond of the result. But short version shorter: I didn't like it.

Did you like the first one?

I found it surprisingly charming. Not that it means squat for a promising sequel.




ETA: Ah, I see you did not like the first one. I will read your review of II with the appropriate filter.

No, I didn't like the first one but I did admit that if you allowed for the underlying stupidity that things actually hung together and made sense. That's not even true this time around.

Well, I Netflixed the last one. I'm certainly not going to waste my precious out-of-house time and too-scarce funds on the sequel ... but I'll likely Netfllix it when it's out on DVD in March or so.

Who pays to see movies these days? These shiny gold tickets are so much fun!

We watched Myra Breckinridge tonight. I had forgotten how incredibly odd that movie is.....

OMG! I haven't seen that film in manymanymany years.

Neither had I.

We finally got around to watching Velvet Goldmine. Why did it take me so l long? I really need to own this film and watch it again carefully because there's a lot of references I missed that I KNOW I should have caught. The music was, of course, right up my alley. Not a film I think I'd recommend to everyone, but for the rockers amongst us, it's a good one.

Saw Walk Hard last night. Hilarious! Perhaps not a laugh-a-minute but plenty funny.

John C Reilly cracks me up so bad with just his expressions. Jenna Fisher (Pam from The Office) was fantastic in the "Reese Witherspoon" role. It was mostly a scene-by scene spoof of Walk the Line with some references to Ray, the Doors, and all other musician biopics. Cinematically it matches Walk the Line perfectly - they didn't cheap out on anything, from film quality to set design to costuming. The "we are in this decade now" style of costuming is a joke in itself, and I found myself laughing at that as much as any other gag.

The movie is riddled with familiar faces from the Apatow and SNL/30 Rock groupings, leading us to say "dude, it's him!" every time someone came on the screen. They must've had a blast making this thing.

Another great Apatow-related movie. From the previews we realized that he's been busy throwing his money around, and there are many more lined up to come. Yay. :)