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Wow, was I ever disappointed with The Muppets. What did everyone else like about this lackluster film? I enjoyed the songs. And I liked the bit about Fozzie reduced to performing in Reno with a Muppet cover band (the Moopets, bwahaha) and being forced to change his song lyrics to shill for the casino he worked for. Everything about that segment was as funny as the rest of the film WAS NOT.
It was mildly cute at best.
Next - Sherlock Holmes was fun. Wow, is Sherlock ever even MORE gay for Watson in this one! I found them both enjoyable as a couple, but less so than in the first movie since the fun of being introduced to these characters and their interaction was now absent. The plot was ridiculous, and Sherlock came off a bit less brilliant this time. But it was all good fun and I liked it well enough.
But, um, enough. I don't think I'll be splurging for any further installments at the movies.
I've enjoyed screener season way more than holiday movie season this year. So glad I got to check out Hanna. I'd been misinformed about the subject when it was in release, and it turns out to be a film I really like - about a girl bio-engineered to be a perfect soldier - then hidden in a remote ice-country to grow up when the project is shelved and all the other engineered kids destroyed. Rather charming mayhem ensues. If and when it's out on DVD, I highly recommend it. Eric Bana and Cate Blanchett star. The fantastic Saoirse Ronan plays the title character. You may have seen her in The Lovely Bones or Atonement.. She's awesome.
Ides of March was decidedly not bad. A little overwrought perhaps, but good Liberal entertainment. Good presidential campaign crew drama with a great cast - Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Ryan Gosling and George Clooney (who also directed).
The Debt is a very fine film about Mossad agents in East Germany in the early 60's trying to nab a high-level Nazi and bring him to justice in Israel, and what happens in the present day as a result of that operation. Helen Mirren and Tom Wilkinson star. Seemed a little long because there's the full story of what happens in both time periods, but worth it.
I rather liked Anonymous. Quite the highbrow affair for the likes of director Roland Emmerich, and it's a fun take on the Shakespeare denialist theories. It actually makes me a bit curious to look into those a little more. Bookend bits by noted Shakespearean actor Derek Jacobi lend a bit of credence to the film's conceit that Shakespeare's plays were not written by him, and that the bard was actually (and to fun effect) a drunken, illiterate, blackmailing actor and charlatan. Much more romantic to have the works ghost written by a nobleman romantically involved with Queen Elizabeth who dare not reveal his authorship.
That's all for now. More as I watch more / remember which films I've seen.
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