Same here.

Sweet Land was a sad, moving, quiet movie. I didn't like Jane Doe much on Grey's Anatomy, but I really enjoyed her performance here. And Tim Guinee was somehow very fine even with the Depression era bowlcut of horror. He turned in some nice work, too, I think.

My Hot Fuzz DVD came yesterday and watched it today. Totally LOVE it and dare I say, is better than Shaun of the Dead. Simon & Nick are awesome and the shoutouts to all the cheesy American cop movies (Point Break and Bad Boys II?). The plot was funny, too!

Bill Nighy!!!

I demand they make another movie.

So we finally watched Snakes on a Plane last night. Most of the movie was genuinely meh. The ending was pretty entertaining and of course Samuel L. Jackson was pretty cool. The marketing campaign was better.
I kept thinking, "I'd rather be watching Hot Fuzz."

I watched The Astronaut's Wife today and enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would. Everything I'd heard about it was that it was terrible. It wasn't the best movie I've ever seen, but it was pretty suspensful, and OMG the pretty blond Johnny Depp!! (I'd rather not discuss the southern accent)

But why did Charlize Theron make almost the same movie twice? The wife who knows shady things are going on surrounding her husband but no one believes her. Everyone thinks she's crazy. And the husband with the horrible accent? Check.

Did I mention the pretty pretty Johnny Depp? Mmmm...

I love BJD in Blow. Wow. Was Billy Bob in that, too?

Yeah, "The Devil's Advocate" was better. But I like "The Astronaut's Wife" if only because its so bad its good. And it has pretty people. And the hilarious line "You know what I though of up there? Your cunt."....Calm down, Johnny.

I think someone dropped Donnie Brasco, glued them into two separate pieces using aliens and Satan, resptively, in ended up with those two movies.

I think someone thought they cast Ashely Judd in one of them. She might have thought so too.

Finally saw The Good Shepard and pretty much liked it. I was fine with the pacing and the toned down acting (I know many hated this aspect in particular), and I thought the story was pretty tense and exciting. Matt Damon was really great, and it's too bad this film and his performance was totally ignored. Was it too long? Probably. But I enjoyed it nevertheless.

I saw Road House over the weekend. I was expecting the movie to be hilariously bad, but I was not expecting so much nudity and violence! It was ridiculous. I want to know what hair products Sam Elliott was using while making this movie because his hair was spectacularly wavy with some nice bounce.

It was the 80s! An action movie had action back then, dammit.

And boobies!

Man, I can't remember the last time I saw what I could call gratuitous nudity. There's the artful sex scene in some drama or the other from time to time, but a gunfight in a mall that destroys a changing room, leaving some poor topless woman fleeing for her life, or the endless parade of strip clubs that every bad guy ever in the '80s seemed to own... where's that gone?

My point?

Oh... not a rental, per se, but last night I watched Strictly Ballroom again, with my 3 year old who really should have been in bed. She actually sat and watched it for a good portion of the time, and at the end, as Scott and Fran are striking their starting poses, she did that, and then when Doug starts the slow clap, she joined in with that. That was a lot of fun. Another reason to love the movie.

This afternoon I watched The King which was quite good. Even when he's being all twisted and creepy, Gael Garcia Bernal is seriously hot.

I've been renting this documentary Animated Soviet Propaganda

The aesthetics are all gorgeous. They have that Soviet Constructivist art running through them yet at the same time some of the cartoons would be indistinguishable from Warner Brothers based on sight (in fact one appropriates Disney characters).

The messages run from the dubious, the overemphasised to the "They've got us there". It's interesting seeing our adversary's perspective on America and capitalism.

Speaking of which: I haven't had much time to rent lately, but my TiVo found an old uncut airing of the Rob Lowe/Andrew McCarthy "classic" Class on cable the other night, and I watched it into the wee hours. Gratuitous nudity comes courtesy of future Oscar nominee Virginia Madsen, whose character apparently thought serving high tea in her per-school headmistress' parlor would be best accomplished while wearing an easily torn blouse and no a bra.

Huge cast of future stars (or at least famliar faces) in that movie: besides Madsen, there's John Cusack, Alan Ruck, Casey Siemaszko, and even blink-and-you'll-miss-them turns from Joan Cusack and Lolita Davidovitch.

Oh, and the movie? Pretty bad, just as I remembered. But it was fun to watch Lowe at his peak Teen Beat weeniness.