Me too. One of the quickest ways to get me to a movie is to indicate that it might hurt. Similar advisories have put me in front of Salo: The 120 Days of Sodom, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, Kids, Thriller: a Cruel Picture, Irreversible, Elephant and any number of other sad, nihilistic, disturbing, transgressive or shocking pictures. Mileage varies widely for those films just named, of course. But I sometimes ask myself, really dude, what the hell?!

Found this posted elsewhere under the heading "The World's Most Baffling Movie Trailer."

Apt.

We watched Molière tonight. Wonderful! The plot conceit uses various bits from his plays cobbled together to create a story of what may have happened in the missing months of his life. The acting is excellent. We were especially taken with the handsome Edouard Baer, who plays a roguish and scheming Count; and also by Fabrice Luchini, who plays Molière's naive and befuddled employer.

A delight!

Fun with Photoshop

Some of these are pretty good.
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I saw 3/4 of the Sara Marshall movie last night. I was better than expected. The advertising was really geared for a much younger audience than the movie seemed to appeal to. I had just read the Vanity Fair article about current comedians so I found it interesting to place them in a film context. Not sure if I want to explore the genre now, but it was good to have a taste.

I actually think that Apatow's work (especially the comedies he wrote and directed - he only produced Sarah Marshall) are absolutely not geared towards the younger generation (no matter how much we market the films to them.)

The Forty-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up are surprisingly funny AND surprisingly sweet. And definitely written with adults in mind.

I love Apatow's stuff. And Paul Rudd has been making some good choices lately and the films that he is in outside of the Apatow stuff are pretty danged good too.

Sarah Marshall wasn't as good as the others, too. You may want to check them out. 40 year old virgin was a fantastic film on all levels.

We finally saw Milk, and I have to say that I didn't like it nearly as much as the documentary. Way too much romantic storyline, meh. I dislike that in any doc style movie, regardless of sexual orientation. It was kind of cool that they put all that personal, seriously gay stuff in without worrying about backlash, but personally, I'm more interested in the politics. Some of my favorite details from the documentary were left out of the film.