It is one of the few exceptions that it works. That and American Graffiti.

Animal House

"Whereabouts Unknown"

Yeah, but I like to pretend Animal House is a biopic. The world is a worse place for it not being one.

That Thing You Do.

I just had the bad timing to take the Universal tour on Babs' day off.

Legally Blonde.

Rented Shooter and Black Snake Moan yesterday. I was very Meh about Shooter - so much mumbling! - but really enjoyed Black Snake Moan. Timberlake surprised me, and the music was fantastic. The whole thing was very atmospheric, too - I think I need to watch it again in the dead of winter when I'm freezing my ass off.

Since my husband will be super high this coming weekend after getting all of his wisdom teeth removed; I think it will be a good time to watch action flicks. Die Hard 2 is on the list. What else? I was thinking Roadhouse. We have seen the Transporter movies. So the more ridiculous the better.

Crank is a terrific ridiculous action movie!

In the past 8 days I've watched (home sick for some of it):
Pulse with Joey & Matthew Lawrence
Mystery Men
Strangers with Candy
Stay Alive (hubby wanted to see Sophia Bush)
Pulse (the more recent one with Kristen Bell)

Will check out Black Snake Moan. It looked dreadful. There's a version of this with Robert Duvall, I think. It's OnDemand right now, but haven't watched.

Alpha Dog I had a hard time telling all the grungy tattooed boys apart. The last twenty minutes or so were good. Now I have an odd crush on Emile Hirsch.

The Last King, which I hated, hated, hated. Also Supernatural, which I'm still not feeling. I watched the first 4 or so episodes when they originally aired and kind of faded away from the show at that point. I figured I'd try again, because it has many of the ingredients I like in a tv show (creepy, genre, arc-y, good music), but it's just not working for me. Yet. I'll finish the first season, even though I already know how it ends.

The Fountain, which....uhhh...whatever. It's a pretty movie that covers really, really basic ideas in a way too complicated manner. The acting was good, the cinematography was amazing, but the story? Not so great. For me, at least.

And in the extras everyone was talking about it like it was the second coming of Citizen Kane or something. Odd. And wrong.

I had the same reaction to that movie. The ending was sort of abrupt. I was left going, "um...."

Last night we finally got to watch Hot Fuzz. (someday I will see a movie in a theater again) Mr. Jenner and I agreed that it is probably one of the grea-*test*-('") films in the history of cinema. By the power of grayskull that was awesome.
We may have to buy it.

Last night I rented Body Heat, and thanks to the gross Ontario heat and my supremely un-breezy apartment I felt like I was getting the same heatwave that the characters in the film experienced. It was like an Imax heat viewing or something. William Hurt is an up-and-down actor in my opinion ( I haven't quite forgiven him for The Village yet) but this was one of his good performances. Hot movie, too.