I know you've missed me, but I've been busy moving, travelling to Oklahoma to watch my favorite football team lose, and rooting for Georgia's own, and America's new tennis sweetheart, Melanie Oudin. But don't fret my friends, I have also found the time to watch more movies than a normal person probably really should in between all of this excitement. In fact, my new roommates are quite astonished at the amount of movie watching I've done. Though I haven't had a chance to make it to the theater lately, I am getting the most bang for my buck at Blockbuster. Thus, I am going to give you a run down of the movies I've watched recently.
Since I last graced you with my humble opinion on movie rentals, I tore COnfessions of A Shopaholic a new a** hole. But that's basically what I deserve for watching that not under duress from a female companion. Since then though, I've batted a better percentage. I have watched 10 movies in the last 2 weeks and of that 11 I would recommend that you watch 5, think about watching 3, and avoid 3 at all costs.
The first 2 are really one movie. Steven Soderberg, the director of the Oceans 11teen movies, recently shot a movie based on the life of Che Guevera played by Benicio del Toro. So we have Oceans 11 director + the dude that was so popular his face is on tons of hipster and anarchist t-shirts + Benicio del Toro (say what you want, the dude's a hell of an actor.) Sounds like a pretty good combo right? Wrong. This movie is like watching a boring ass documentary, in Spanish with subtitles, with some actors you may or may not recognize, that skips around in time, leaving you with a headache because you are trying to A) read the subititles B) trying to figure out how you got from the last scene to the current scene and C) doing you damndest to keep from either falling asleep or blowing your brains out from boredom. This movie does chronicle the life of one of history's most contorversial characters, but you'd think it would be a little more exciting than this!
Now I love foreign films, mainly because they are not watered down and made "user friendly" or "approved for all audiences (read made PG-13)" by the big Hollywood studios. This is similar to why I like a lot of small indie films too. BUt this is a film made by Hollywood to seem foreign. So basically the movie really sucked. This is 2 (or 1) movie to avoid at all costs.
Since I last graced you with my humble opinion on movie rentals, I tore COnfessions of A Shopaholic a new a** hole. But that's basically what I deserve for watching that not under duress from a female companion. Since then though, I've batted a better percentage. I have watched 10 movies in the last 2 weeks and of that 11 I would recommend that you watch 5, think about watching 3, and avoid 3 at all costs.
The first 2 are really one movie. Steven Soderberg, the director of the Oceans 11teen movies, recently shot a movie based on the life of Che Guevera played by Benicio del Toro. So we have Oceans 11 director + the dude that was so popular his face is on tons of hipster and anarchist t-shirts + Benicio del Toro (say what you want, the dude's a hell of an actor.) Sounds like a pretty good combo right? Wrong. This movie is like watching a boring ass documentary, in Spanish with subtitles, with some actors you may or may not recognize, that skips around in time, leaving you with a headache because you are trying to A) read the subititles B) trying to figure out how you got from the last scene to the current scene and C) doing you damndest to keep from either falling asleep or blowing your brains out from boredom. This movie does chronicle the life of one of history's most contorversial characters, but you'd think it would be a little more exciting than this!
Now I love foreign films, mainly because they are not watered down and made "user friendly" or "approved for all audiences (read made PG-13)" by the big Hollywood studios. This is similar to why I like a lot of small indie films too. BUt this is a film made by Hollywood to seem foreign. So basically the movie really sucked. This is 2 (or 1) movie to avoid at all costs.
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