I wanted to start posting all the movies I've watched and whether I liked them or not just for the hell of it.
Between having good cable and Netflicks both, I'm getting to watch more movies than ever.
The last three I watched were Melvin Goes To Dinner, Sherrybaby, and XX/XY.
Melvin Goes to Dinner is not for everyone. It's a very indie film, lots of flashbacks and odd shooting styles and jumpy editing. But it was pretty enjoyable. Nothing too heavy, but entertaining. It had this girl who played Frasier's female deejay on Frasier and there was a special appearance by Jack Black.
Sherrybaby was heartbreaking but it was so good. It had
Maggie Gyllenhaal in it and was about a woman from a broken home who was back in her hometown after getting out of prison. Her daughter has been taken in by her brother and his family and no one really wants to help her get back on her feet. It was really sad.
XX/XY was just a waste of two hours. Mark Ruffalo was ugly as all hell and even though it had this actress named Kathleen Robertson who was incredibly sexy, it was just boring and .......well boring! It was awful and seemed to go nowhere.
We rented the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Movie which was worth the price just for the first five minutes alone. It was hysterical but you had to have watched a lot of the series (which I haven't) to get most of it. But hey! You can't go wrong with a guest appearance by Neil Peart.
Lastly, on Netflicks we finally saw Old Boy. I had read a lot about this in Entertainment Weekly and had been dying to see it. It was EXCELLENT but extremely uncomfortable and twisted in parts. I thought it was going to be violent but I think I was getting it mixed up with Ichi The Killer. An innocent man is imprisoned in what appears to be a mental institution for fifteen years and then just as myseteriously he is let go after he has lost his wife and daughter. He has five days to find out who killed his wife, imprisoned him and why.
It was very good but like most hong kong/asian flicks, don't exepect even a remotely happy ending!
