Since I never want to date again after reading Lucky's post, I'll be going to the movies this weekend and replacing the sensation of an orgasm with chocolate. Do you think I can talk the clerk into replacing the popcorn in an extra large tub with M&Ms?
1) Shaun of the Dead
2) The Motorcycle Diaries
3) The Forgotten
The Forgotten
This is just pain freaky. Parents loose their children and are then told that their offspring had never existed. All evidence of these kids ever being around disappears. Very Big Brother turns kidnapper. Julianne Moore stars and I think she's fantastic, so this could be worthwhile.
Shaun of the Dean
A British slacker and his friends go out drinking at the pub and sober up in a world full of Zombies. Screw the world, save yourselves!
I have been waiting for the movie to come out for over a month. It's about time someone parodied the zombie movies and thank god it's a Brit! Think splatter comedy. Think Monty Python's the Garden Party. Laughter doesn't get much bloodier.
First Daughter
I'm not even going to bother. Go watch something on the WB instead. Too bad, Marc Blucas is hot. Maybe one day he'll find a role worthy of my $10.
A Dirty Shame
Tracy Ullman plays a sexually repressed housewife who gets hit on the head and becomes the sluttiest woman in town. It may not be Divine eating dog crap, but it is a John Waters movie.
The Last Shot
An FBI agent recruits an unwitting director to make a fake movie as a sting operation to bust the local mob boss. I heard the true version of the story on This American Life and found it hysterical, but I hear it didn't translate well onto film. Too bad.
Lesson to be learned - Don't hire movie people to make fun of movie people. They aren't all that into self-depreciating humor.
Motorcycle Diaries
The young man who will later be known as communist revolutionary Che Guevara goes on a motorcycle journey all over South America and has experiences that will shape him into the man he will become.
See the movie, get the t-shirt.
The Yes Men
Who knew global activism could be so funny or so boring? Rent it on DVD so that you can fast forward through all the talking and get straight to the pranks.
Infernal Affairs
Two crooked cops are assigned the task of looking for the traitor among them.
I'll wait for Scorsese to make his version in English and lament about how I should have seen it in Japanese. That way I appear to be an intellectual movie snob without having to read subtitles. Clever me.