I ment to do this a few days ago but I got distracted. It happens, but now I’m watching 24 and decided to start up again and see if i cant knock this out. Movie reviews at some point in here might contain spoilers but I’ll try to keep them out or at least tag them.
But first, the events of Christmas and New Years! Pretty laid back christmas went up to the parents on the eve, had one of the best christmas eves ever at gmas house. No family fights lots of drinking and fun, was a good time with family. Xmas day got up opened gifts at the parents then jetted back to the apt and grabbed everything and took off to Tims house in KY! Had my TV/computer/clothes for a week and stayed with him and his pup Doug. We had a blast, lots of drinking and food fun and watched a ton of movies/TopGear on his 120inch screen projector of awesomeness! Really, it’s quite nice 1080 movies from 10 feet away on a 10 foot screen is pretty nice. All and all it was a good week, a nice relaxing time off from work which I desperately needed.
As for movies, off the top of my head the ones I watched and enjoyed were: The Producers, Pirate Radio, (500) Days of Summer, No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Inside Man, and a bunch others but those left a good taste in my mouth. I’m just going to hit on a few here since I don’t feel like writing for hours. At least about this stuff. So to start, (500) Days of Summer, a sarcastic love story that is just amazingly well done and acted. And I don’t say that just because I may or may not be in love with Zooey Deschanel. It really was a fun movie to watch, the two main characters play off each other so well.
Next up, The Producers, this came out forever ago and I was 98% sure it was a gay movie that was going to be about gays and be stupid. Boy was I wrong! It was an awesome movie that had gays in it about Hitler! But really, such a funny movie, and quite a good musical all in all. I should have expected it since It was directed and written by the great Mel Brooks. The entire reason we watched this was because he was getting an award at the Kennedy Center and we were watching the backstory about him while making steaks. One thing lead to another and Tim said it was amazing so we watched it.
The only other one that I’ll hit on is No Country For Old Men. This movie was a huge success as far as money and awards go, alas I refused to watch it at the time it came out. I’ve done that quite a bit recently with big movies, maybe because the hype is so crazy these days that its overwhelming to go into a movie and take it as serious or unbias when everyone says its the best thing ever or the worst etc. No Country for Old Men was an amazingly well acted, written, and directed movie. It did one thing that I really like about movies these days and that’s just tell a story without having it be the normal happy ending or expected finale that you see in almost every movie. Most writers and directors are afraid I think to kill someone off in a movie or have something not play out with the normal storybook ending. The Cohen brothers are not those writers at all. Really I do suggest you watch this and enjoy it.
That’s about all for now, RDJ just won best actor in a comedy movie for Sherlock Holmes and gave a hilarious speech. I watched the new show on FOX “Human Target” and it was awesome, a lot of really good actors in it and looks to be something to continue to watch. Oh then 24, I’ve not watched much of 24 but I do enjoy the show, and it has Starbuck on it now so more reason to watch. Now I’ve just put (500) Days of Summer on, I’m going to finish this orange and head to bed! Alot of people get tomorrow off for MLKJR day, alas I am not one of them.
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