Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Snowflake

I'm not happy

Trailer here

Just wait until Guy Ritchie gets a hold of Peter Rabbit. Actually, I'm kind of intrigued since it is a such an odd genre choice.

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Other movies I"ve watched recently:

Born Yesterday - The original with Holden/Holliday/Crawford rather than Don Johnson/Melanie Griffith/John Goodman. Took a while but quite liked it by the end.

Nobody's Fool - Doesn't really go anywhere but a pleasant movie with fine performances.

Superbad - Saw it in theaters and still find it mostly hilarious. Michael Cera is wearing out his welcome though so I hope he finds range (Year 1 trailer provides no evidence of it though).

Noise - More an exploration of an interesting idea than a coherent movie. The sex scene was either unnecessary or had a purpose I couldn't divine.

Penelope - Amusing fairy tale. Only problem is that the movie had people running fright at the sight of Penelope (Christina Ricci) with her pig nose. Yet she was still completely adorable. Still looked relatively normal here (ignoring the nose) but sad to see she's apparently gone to the anorexic side based on her recent gig on "Saving Grace."

Krull - When I was a kid the spinning blade thing was the coolest thing ever and we all wanted one. And yet none of us had actually seen the movie. Should have left it that way.

Half Nelson - Ryan Gosling is going to be our next national treasure in the realm of acting. And he gives a great performance here as a history teacher struggling to function through drug addiction. Shareeka Epps also provides some great natural child acting. The only drawback is the movie is beyond deadly boring. I had to watch it over five sessions since I kept falling asleep or getting distracted by anything else.