We recently watched Fall which turned out to be an Eric Schaeffer movie, the same guy who wrote and directed Mind the Gap, which I’ve previously reviewed. (I really did mentioned it in there, somewhere… says mysql.) We really liked Fall. Or, hrm… I liked Fall. “Joanna, did you like Fall?” I ask. “Yeah, I liked it very much,” she says. So, like I said, we liked Fall. A contributing factor is certainly that Amanda de Cadenet is astonishingly sexy. Probably the accent. (Which isn’t French.) Or maybe just that she’s supposed to be the sexiest girl in the world, I start to buy into it after awhile. I could call it a romantic comedy, but that wouldn’t be right. It’s probably closer to a sex drama. It’s not rated, Joanna thinks because the sex would have given it an NC-17 rating. I don’t think so, because the sex isn’t graphic, though the dialogue is certainly explicit. (For some reason my spell check doesn’t like extra letters, and insists that I should be typing “dialog” instead.) Anyway we liked Fall enough, that I got If Lucy Fell. Or maybe I got If Lucy Fell because it’s Scarlet Johansson’s third movie. She’s 12, and looks just like she does now, only little. We liked it as well, but Fall was definitely a much better movie. I’m not sure whether to try more Eric Schaeffer movies or not. He always writes himself as a cool dude the chicks all want, but he just looks dopey.

Let’s see, there’s Empire Records, which was awesome. Silly, but awesome.

Some movies that sucked:

The Prestige
Babel
The Book of Life: 2000 Seen By…
Brick
Slacker
Funny Ha Ha

Other movies.. I liked Casino Royale but was somewhat disappointed in it. I expected it to be totally unfaithful to the book, and thus be more a typical Bond movie. The sort of Bond movie I like. But, no, it was just enough faithful to the book that the movie isn’t much of a Bond movie at all, but it wasn’t faithful enough to the book to make the plot worth while. But, still, I have a hard time saying anything really bad about it. Except that he didn’t drive the car long enough to justify its destruction, but at least they destroyed it which is more than we can say for the Z3. There were no gadgets. And Daniel Craig, while he does a decent job of portraying Bond as written, isn’t the Bond that’s in my head.

Borat was very entertaining, though I really could have done without the naked wrestling scene. Really, I think we all could have done without it. Otherwise, as funny as it promises to be.

12:01 came out about the same time as one of my favorites, Groundhog Day, and has a similar thing going on, but they’re very different movies. I enjoyed this one a lot, even if it does seem a bit dated now.

If you’re into dystopia, V for Vendetta is well worth watching. It was well done, actually managed to keep in suspense, and it has Natalie Portman. Even if she does shave her head.

Mr. Jealousy entertained us as well, but it falls well short of Noah Baumbach’s other work. Worth watching, but only if you’ve already exhausted his other two movies.