The snakeheads gave me a funny look at the drop. They did tell me they have never seen Health, but they hear it's underrated.

Yeah, I think the reaction to Gollum was so electric for The Two Towers, that I think Jackson and company decided to go a little overboard in movie three. Also, we kind of got a little saccharine towards the end of their arc--what I find a little sad is they didn't really get into the part where they're dressed as orcs until the extended addition, which I think was the wrong move, because that part was totally suspenseful, and made it feel like they were more in Hell than...Purgatory.

It's in the Patriot Act.

A friend and I rented Man of the Year tonight. Man, what a mess. It was trying to be ALL of the following
-comedy
-drama
-thriller
-politico
-romance
-conspiracy
- AND hip, relevant, insightful.

My god, if there weren't at least 4 writers, I'll be shocked. Total mess. And the direction was a sloppy, confusing mess, too. It wasn't bad. It was just a total mess.

I just saw This Film is not yet Rated and found it very interesting. I could have done without the parts with the private investigator, but the interviews with the directors and others were fascinating. It's amazing how secretive the MPAA is, and what can and cannot lead to an NC-17 rating.

I rented The 40-Year Old Virgin, and found it surprisingly sweet. I like Steve Carrell -there's something charismatic about him.

I actually have no idea what his professional origin is -someday I'll wikipedia him.

And I rented Talladega nights, oh what a silly movie, with some sort of a plot, I thought! It was alright.

My husband and I watched An Inconvenient Truth last night. I was surprised at how interested in it I was since it was basically Al Gore giving a seminar on global warming with some information on his life interspersed throughout. It's really shocking to see how bad things have gotten on the planet due to global warming, especially when he put those pictures of glaciers, mountains and ice caps on Antarctica from then and now side by side. My husband was a little annoyed at the political leanings at times, but I don't see how you can have a movie featuring someone like Al Gore and NOT reference politics in some way.

I also saw This Film is Not Yet Rated recently due to all of the comments in this thread and didn't love it as much as you all, but found it to be interesting how the MPAA works shrouded in so much secrecy. schwa, I agree with you about the private investigator scenes. At first I found them amusing, but then really could have done without them.

This afternoon I saw Rashomon since it's supposed to be a classic and the inspiration for all of these TV episodes that I've seen where an event is told from several different points of view. I found it to be kind of boring and confusing. I'm going to have to try to see if there's an explanation on Wikipedia or something.

That's not what I thought.

I have a completely different perspective than either of you on it.

I'm going to say the least about the actual movie in question, but about movies I saw before the movie, thus giving this topic an honest, if tangenial perspective.

I rented it last year and wanted to watch it with my parents who were visiting since they were intrigued that I had rented it, and they had heard about it's influence. After less than a half hour they were obviously bored and my dad asked me to stop it.

I finished it later on my own. I agree it wasn't as interesting as I thought it would be, but I still found it intriguing for its structure. And I read somewhere it was also the first film to shoot the sun directly, which surprises me.

The thing about infleuncial movies is--when they kind of have that wide effect on something, they always end up diminished by comparison. A victim of its own success. I've seen Rashomon parodies before I even knew what it was.

Picked up The Pursuit of Happyness last night. We really liked it a lot, especially for Jaden's performance. What a sweet little boy.

And obviously succeeding at none. I fell asleep to it in theater since I already guessed what was going to happen. If it had been intelligent and not insulting it might have worked. As it was, it had nothing new, relevant, nor thought provoking, but that is asking a lot of Robin Williams.

I tried to rent The Prestige when I had some girlfriends over for movie night, but the cable system wasn't working correctly so we ended up watching Big Business with Lily Tomlin & Bette Midler. Always fun and one of my favorite movies.

I think trailers making Man of the Year look too much like a sequel to that Chris Rock vehicle from a couple years ago pissed people off when they found out it had Manchurian Candidate elements.