That much? I'm surprised.

It looks like it is an unfulfilled hope but I did leave the door open for there to be some quality to Rambo. I was really surprised by how good Rocky Balboa was.

Just a head's up for anybody in the Bay Area. The Stanford Theater is working their way through Hitchcock's career with new double features every weekend through the end of March.

If it turns out they're showing a 3-D print of Dial "M" for Murder I'll definitely be there that weekend.

Just saw Juno last night (small theater almost sold out, the nod got it some attention). I really enjoyed it, lots of fun. They figured out the only way to get me to watch a movie about teen/unwanted pregnancy, and that's have the mother in question react in a hilariously blase fashion about it. Everyone was great, the writing was wonderfully witty...though I have to agree with some of you above, it's a pretty unrealistic portrayal. Again, to me, that's what makes it enjoyable. A real 16 year old's reaction to getting pregnant is not a fun thing to watch.

There were some great, wonderfully quotable lines, some amazing writing, and that much, I loved.

I was not thrilled with the music. Quirky and fun at first, but every song had the same feel to it, no matter what scene was unrolling in front of it, which just seemed lazy. Also, she kept mentioning her favorite punk bands, and they never play any of it, just these upbeat silly songs that I'm not so sure she would like. It didn't jive at all. I did love Mark's character of aging 90's rocker, but again, one 20 second clip of Sonic Youth covering the Carpenters? Where was the music that played such a large part of the interplay between them??

That said - Best Picture? I don't think so. Not that I've seen any other heavyweights this year, but still, I can't solidly root for this one.

^ They played Astrid Gilberto, which is what young 16-year-olds who are into punk enjoy once they reach their parents age. (ahem, yours truly a case-in-point). It was a musical comment on parenting, yeah, uh-huh.

I've been seeing these Rambo posters around town, and I thought they were advertising an anniversary re-release or something. I had no idea it was a new movie. Oy.

Such odd franchise numbering - First Blood, then Rambo: First Blood Part Two, then Rambo 3, followed, naturally, by Rambo - it's perfectly logical.

I'm always disapointed with the ending to "Kissing Jessica Stein", I've watched it a few times, hoping that I'll like the ending, I just can't seem to like it, she should end up with Helen
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Also, saw "Very Bad Things" under somewhat of a recommendation from Sub La Goon, wow what a piece of sh*t. The part with the prostitute dying and Cameron Diaz trying to get him to kill the dog are about the only funny parts. Other than that it seems to be just a bad dark comedy with Christian Slater playing a grown up version of his character from "Heathers" and the use of the word fuc abot a million times

Netflix Newsflash: Wow, I did not absolutely hate Pirates 3. It was (until the final battle) far less slapstick stupid silly than the middle one. It was far too long and drawn out and boring at too many times, but overall ... wow I was surprised I didn't hate it, and ultra surprised there was so much I liked about it.


2nd feature: Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Great songs. Stupid Movie. (I think I felt the same way about Once.)