JOSHUAJENKINSis unremarkable

Million Dollar Baby was on AMC^HD today. With nothing better to do, and despite seeing the movie a couple years ago, I hazarded another watch.

This film is perfect. Outstanding performances by everyone in the cast. Clint Eastwood and Hillary Swank don't need to be in any more films, they've set up a hard act to follow.

I don't have anything meaningful or intelligent to add to the plethora of reviews and opinions out there, I just recommend that you check out this film if you haven't seen it—or watch it again if you have. Just be prepared to feel depressed afterward.

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I'm a bit late to the game on this one, but I finally got around to seeing Pixar's Disney's WALL-E. I had high expectations because of the Pixar association and certainly was not let down. Pixar does an absolutely fantastic job of appealing to both younger audiences and older audiences, which is something I'm continually impressed with.

I think WALL-E is a successful film—despite being a Disney endeavor—for a number of reasons, the most powerful of these being the lack of dialogue. It's unbelievable how skilled Pixar has become at getting the emotion they want out of the audience, and it's exponentially more impressive without character's conversing.

WALL-E is cute, it's hilarious, and it's worthy of admiration. I appreciate that we have something truly artistic in the main stream that people actually enjoy, even if they can't speak to why it is art.

As a side note I really enjoyed the homages throughout the film: HAL, Jonathan Ives' design (though he actually consulted with Pixar), Johnny 5, Ben Burtt (R2-D2 "voice"), and I'm sure many more.

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I'm a little late to the game on this one. I just caught it the other night at The Laurelhurst Theater in Portland which plays second run movies and (!)serves beer(!).

I had pretty high expectations for this movie from the previews I'd seen a few months ago. I was happy to go see it and was completely satisfied with the movie. Without giving too much away the situation is basically two assassins get sent to Bruges, Belgium for a job. "A job" is what you say when you're sent to kill someone without saying "sent to kill someone." It's very hip.

The story is solid and the acting is fantastic. It's witty and fun, but also dark and deep when it needs to be. Colin Farrell does a great job, as well as the rest of the cast. I felt a little ashamed to be laughing at the midget (sorry, dwarf) jokes, but the film is roughly fifty percent based on midget jokes. So I went a long with it, but I am a little disappointed that in 2008 we still use little people as a basis for comedy. But the little guy was a big racist so it's okay to laugh at him.

I would definitely recommend this movie. Be prepared for a little gore, but it's not too grotesque. It may be too late to go see but I will buy it and you can come over and watch it.

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I saw Kevin Spacey on CNN a few days ago for about thirty seconds before he opened his mouth and I was forced to change the channel. He was plugging his new HBO movie Recount and telling us all how Al Gore won the election. Eight years ago. You remember, when about a billion people much smarter than him and vaguely qualified to have an opinion on the matter debated the situation?

Yeah, that time.

So anyway I was flipping through the channels and saw Kevin. I quickly noticed that he wasn't trying to kill superman or fuck high school cheerleaders and deduced that it was his dumbass HBO movie. It's bad.

If you are a die-hard Al Gore supporter you'll probably like this movie. If you think what happened sucked and or was debatable eight years ago you may not really see the point to this movie. If you are an idiot you may like this movie. If you don't want to see a complicated situation presented in extreme bias you will not like this movie.

If you think Al Gore shits trees you may like this movie. If you think Al Gore is a dipshit and you no longer have any faith in the Nobel Peace Prize then you should ignore this movie.

I wish I still liked Kevin Spacey.

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