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Weekend movie watching:
Vicky Cristina Barcelona - One of the worst movie titles ever (especially now that I know just how mundane it is). Woody Allen has been somewhat resurgent since moving to Europe and this one is more good than bad. Good: Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz, and Rebecca Hall. Bad: Scarlett Johanssen and arch narration. The narration is not done by Allen, but it just felt like him overtly imposing himself on things since he isn't in the movie. Johanssen wan't bad bad, she just suffered in comparison and I think I would have preferred she and Hall switch roles.
Babylon A.D. - Finally went to check out the new-ish drive-in out in Concord, which is much closer than our regular trip to Sacramento. We kind of have a Vin Diesel thing going with drive-ins. We saw both The Fast and the Furious and XXX at the drive-in. This movie sucked, so a perfect drive-in experience. I don't know if this is based on a comic book or graphic novel or something but the movie seemed to assume, like the worst of the Harry Potter movies, that the audience would be coming in intimately aware of the story so it isn't necessary to make sense and everybody just fills in the blanks with their pre-knowledge.
Being Ron Jeremy - I have no idea how this ended up on my Netflix queue but I had an hour to kill yesterday so this 40-minute short killed (quite literally) that time. A Cinemax-after-dark level hard-R spoof of Being John Malkovich. Exactly the level of humor you'd expect to get if you had a bunch 13-year-olds make a porn-themed spoof. I was hoping it would be the stupid-immature fun of something like Orgazmo but it is not. Just stupid.
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