Monster House? Is adorable. I wish it had won the Globe over Cars, which I liked, but didn't loooooove.

I completely agree with you there. I adored Monster House. It was so adorable and funny and creepy and just generally good. I don't think it found much of an audience either, which is a shame.

And, yeah, better than Cars.

The Big White was filmed where I live (My friend even ran into Robin Williams), but I havent gotten around to seeing it yet.

I couldn't decide where to post this, but since it has to do with potentially renting a movie... here I am!

A friend positively insists that I see Constantine, but I've never heard anyone say anything but bad things about it until now. Is it worth watching? (Laughably bad and not-great-but-has-good-elements make a movie worth watching to me; it doesn't have to be amazing cinema to be worth a couple of hours of my time.)

Monster House I liked the first half more than the second, but overall thought it was good. I think I appreciated it more after watching the making of featurettes. The fact that all the voice actors physically acted out the scenes was pretty cool.

The Lake House I liked it enough but kept thinking of The Butterfly Effect and wondered why 2004 Keanu wasn't screwing up 2006 Sandra's life by changing things.

John Tucker Must Die Average teen comedy. Bonus points for the adorableness of Brittany Snow and Arielle Kebbel. Minus points for Jesse Metcalfe and the ugly dude who played his brother.

You, Me, and Dupree Eh. Not funny. It's all Owen Wilson doing Owen Wilson stuff.

Must Love Dogs Boring.

Accepted Mildly entertaining.

I liked it, but the movie sure did go back and forth between "What Keanu does changes history" and "What Keanu does was always part of the history", depending on what they wanted for any particular plot point.

It's kind of...both of those? Some of the dialogue runs straight past laughably and right into stunningly bad. If you're a comic purist, the movie's laconic demon hunter version of Constantine will probably launch you into a fit of nerd rage, but even if you don't care about that, there's still the fact of Keanu. He tries, you can tell, but it's not good. At all. On the plus side: the story is fairly coherent, most of the casting is total genius, enjoyably creepy things happen, and the two leads are very very very very pretty.


I saw Thank You for Smoking the other day. I don't know, mostly it just seemed like a big waste of people I usually find really entertaining. I think I laughed twice during the whole thing. Of course, that might have been because I was overcome with fear of Aaron Eckhart and his giant, giant head.

Sounds good to me! Heh. (Rachel Weisz, yes? *too lazy to look it up*)

In re: Thank You for Smoking, I am still afraid of that creeee-peeee kid from Running Scared. Good Lord.

I didn't like Thank you for Smoking, either. Which surprised me, because it's the type of tongue-in-cheek humor I usually appreciate. I was in a foul mood because of some other things going on, so that might have been part of the problem.

Eckhardt really has a ginormous chin, doesn't he?

Rachel Weisz. Wet.

I have no affection or attachment to the source material, so I found it quite enjoyable. But, really, Angel & Demon war, and wet Rachel Weisz? Pretty much hits all my buttons.

I am a major comic book nerd and I really, really wanted to hate Constantine. Turns out, I liked it so much I saw it twice in the theater! It's not like the comic and it's never going to be mistaken for classic cinema, but it's fun. It's stylish, creepy, and the two leads are (as has been mentioned) very very pretty!

So, yeah, I'd recommend seeing it. It's worth a watch.

I rented a couple of Kiefer Sutherland films last night, I Trust You to Kill me and Freeway. The DVD kept freezing on the last part of Freeway and it was the stores only copy! Now I don't know how it ended!

The Last Kiss was horrible. Simply horrible. If it's one thing I can't stand is melodramatic navel-gazing and this movie is chock full of it. I just wanted everybody to shut the hell up, get over themselves and stop being so damn pathetic. And the ending was just as pointless and eyeroll inducing as the rest of it.

I did finally see Zach Braff as sexy instead of a reasonably attractive if dorky guy. And Rachel Bilson was incredibly hot playing a complete sham of a character.

I just saw Layer Cake; I thought it was enjoyable, but very much like every other film of that sort I'd ever seen (Snatch, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels). It didn't actually even seen to have moved that far on from the original Get Carter, except that now the criminals have nicer suits and bigger flats.

The acting all round was pretty good, though.

Huh I think Layer Cake has got a more thoughtful, dark, elegiac mood than that hack Ritchie has ever been able to carry off, it had humor but I never felt bludgeoned by quirk. I did feel annoyed that I liked a movie featuring Sienna Miller (I'd hate to say acting because she never really rises above shady blonde archetype).

I watched A Scanner Darkly and I thought it was really good, and not nearly as complicated a plot as some people made it out to be. Keanu was great, Winona was pretty even all rotoscoped and they had great chemistry though it wasn't really her finest acting hour, Woody Harrelson was very very funny, RDJ was such a dead on amphetamine junkie that I was grinding my teeth just watching him, and I thought Rory Cochran while sort of half way between hilarious and sad was distractingly reminiscent of Bencio Del Toro. Oh and Keanu was all insightful and smart and stuff on the commentary, he's excessively dreamy that boy.