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Yesterday we saw Steve Carell’s new movie, Dan in Real Life. First off, it’s a great movie – happy, funny, sad, touching – it pulls on all the right heart-strings. Secondly, Steve Carell has perfected the sad-luck character that everyone roots for; from Andy Stitzer to Michael Scott to Dan Burns, you can’t help but like the characters he portrays.The movie also presents such a wonderful image of family life that I couldn’t help but start imagining what it will be like for Leah and I to have a lake front home, and have all of our family over, playing in the yard, etc…
…comes Drillbit Taylor starring everybody’s favourite sad clown, Owen Wilson.
Last night we watched “Stranger Than Fiction” and despite its short run at the box office (or what seemed like a short run) it’s actually a pretty good film. The premise of the story is a neat one in that the life of the protagonist is being narrated. But only he can hear it. And the narrator is also the antagonist.
When I saw commercials for this film, I thought that is was simply a flick about what I just described, but it’s actually a sweet love story with a cool twist.
Go see it. It’s good from from the first minute…
We saw it tonight and thoroughly enjoyed it.
When I was younger I used to love playing video games – old-style arcade games were my original addiction, specifically Pac Man. But like most, I also enjoyed Donkey Kong. But I was never very good at it. Billy and Steve were. Check out the upcoming documentary about them: Billy vs. Steve
Today we went and saw “Knocked Up” and thoroughly enjoyed it. There seems to be a group of actors that are all making movies together… and for now, the movies have all been funny. It’s strange to see the same actors in the previews that are in the movie you are seeing – that happened today with Superbad. Many of the actors in Knocked Up were in The 40 Year Old Virgin – Steve Carrell even has a cameo as himself.
A highlight of the movie for me was Ryan Seacrest’s rant about “stars” today and how they are morons with a bunch of yes-men suckling from the money teats they offer. His rant centred around Jessica Simpson – who makes an uncredited cameo – and what he was going to talk to her about in an interview. Not her breasts, not her fathers comments about her breasts, not her sisters nose, not plastic surgery. He suggested that he discuss the war with her, and discuss her ideas on an exit strategy for the US Army! Awesome!
It was a fun couple of hours at the movies on a rainy Saturday afternoon.
If you liked Ocean’s 11 and Ocean’s 12, you will not be disappointed in Ocean’s 13! We saw it on opening weekend and thoroughly enjoyed it.