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Workstation (Taken with Instagram at The Coffin Factory)
Dan Aykroyd Unplugged on UFOs (2005)
Rating: ★★☆☆☆
Screen: Bedroom TV
Terrible in every way that a documentary can be terrible, but Dan Aykroyd’s batshit insanity buys it an extra star. Highlights include Dan’s explanation of what he might do with the power to time travel, and speculation that his SyFy TV series Out There was cancelled due to interference by Men in Black.
Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your anti-piracy plan.
—Jonathan Coulton, definitively. (via merlin)
The Ides of March (2011)
Rating: ★★★★☆
Screen: Projector Wall
Just watched this. Man, that Ryan Gosling was all over the place last year. Good movie. The biggest leap of faith is that a guy as reasonable as George Clooney is in the first act could make it into a presidential primary race.
Fucking buffalo wings.
So my hypothesis is that if a certain side of an issue has very obvious points in support of it, and the other side of an issue relies on much more subtle points that the average person might not be expected to grasp, then adopting the second side of the issue will become a signal for intelligence, even if that side of the argument is wrong.
Butterbeer (Taken with Instagram at Three Broomsticks)
Hanna (2011)
Rating: ★★★★☆
Screen: Macbook Pro (in a hotel room in Orlando)
Fun and flashy revenge thriller. Way good. There was definitely a lot of Grimm Fairy Tales symbolism going on, and I probably picked up on half of it.
Disneyworld (Taken with Instagram at Mickey’s Magical Bathroom)
Last defense against the flying octopus invasion (Taken with Instagram at Treasure Island Kite Festival)
Inspector Gadget (1999)
Rating: ★☆☆☆☆
Screen: Jacki’s Mom’s TV (on a VHS copy that her boyfriend bought at a flea market for $1)
I would have preferred to watch the Italian version. If I had to pick a worst part, I’d choose any scene in which the DL Hughley black caricature car talks. Or maybe the scene where Gadget is at the dump and he has his shirt off. Something about a living creature made up of slinkys and toothpaste is very unsettling to me.
I clicked “translate” on this page, and the first comment begins with “Haha It’s true that Matthew Broderick is also a charismatic oyster.” Well said.
Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)
Rating: ★★★☆☆
Screen: Jacki’s Mom’s TV
Better than I expected. I’d never seen an Ice Age movie before (and I don’t intend to watch another), but this one was a perfectly acceptable children’s movie.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)
Rating: ★★★☆☆
Screen: Jacki’s Mom’s TV
First movie of the year that wasn’t amazing. Watchable, but it gets real weird and meandering in the second act. A lot of time is spent developing the relationship between John Cusack and the transgender cabaret lady for very little payoff. And the scene where they break into the morgue is way too kooky.
Kevin Spacy is good, though, and now I kind of want to visit Savannah.
12 Monkeys (1995)
Rating: ★★★★☆
Screen: Bedroom TV
First movie of the year not from 2011, and the first one I’d seen before (I’m counting anything I watched before 2000 as “new” for the purpose of this exercise). Definitely recognized more Philadelphia landmarks this time.
We tried to watch Time Bandits the day after this, but I fell asleep. One Terry Gilliam time travel movie per week is my limit, I guess.
Being Elmo (2011)
Rating: ★★★★☆
Screen: Project Wall
Fantastic documentary. Puppeteers seem like such nice guys.
