Whew, the holidays kept me busy and I forgot to do a December review! Not that it matters much, I didn't watch very much because of said holidays. But enough chit-chat, onwards.
Brian Regan: Standing up - Oh man, Brian Regan is one of the best comedians out there right now, and he manages to be funny without cursing or being overly crude. He's also the one that coined "Take luck!" and "You too!" Very funny.
A Bridge Too Far - Wow, this movie was epic, and had just about everybody in it. There are probably a dozen big stars, and hundreds of lesser knowns and extras. When it says "a cast of thousands," they aren't kidding. Good movie, World War II stuffs so I naturally enjoyed it.
The Best of Comedy Central Presents - This is a cool collection, because it has eight comedians (Lewis Black, Dane Cook, Jeff Dunham, Jim Gaffigan, Mitch Hedberg, Dimitri Martin, Carlos Mencia, and Brian Regan) and puts all of their half-hour bits together to form one conglomeration of funny. Really good, and since each one is so short, if you don't have much time you can watch one or two and not even use up an hour.
Tron - Yeah, yeah, I'd never seen this. Shocking for the CS major, right? I found it highly amusing and very... cute. Seeing all this old school CS stuff that actually made decent amounts of sense, in a Disney film. I think this movie got more computer stuff right than 95% of modern movies. I really enjoyed it.
Die Hard With a Vengeance - Had to finish out the original Die Hard trilogy. Now this one I remember seeing at some point, because I remember Sam Jackson and the riddles. I liked the riddles bit, but otherwise it was pretty standard action fare. Dump truck vs rushing water was hilarious, though.
Family Guy: Blue Harvest - I'm not much of a Family Guy fan, but this was hilarious. Their take on A New Hope was classic, and the way they fit their characters into the roles of the OT cast was pretty funny. Also the end bit, with Chris (Seth Green) talking to Peter (Seth MacFarlane) about how Robot Chicken beat them to the punch (Seth Green is one of the creators/producers/actors of Robot Chicken) was hilarious.
We Are Marshall - Right, so the whole "you've seen one football movie, you've seen them all," doesn't really apply here. This movie is intense emotionally. It's very well done, and you can feel the sorrow coming off the cast, but also the pure elation when the football team wins one. I'd definitely say check this one out.
Newsies - Hahahaha, oh Disney. So this is what Batman as a teamster boss would be like. Christian Bale dancing and singing was highly amusing. The movie itself... he, pure fluff. I suppose you can't fault it for that. Also funny to see supposed kids smoking blatantly multiple times. If you tried to do that now, everybody would jump down your throat.
Juno - Okay, this movie annoyed me greatly. One, I thought it was supposed to be more comedy than drama, but it was like 60/40 drama to comedy. And most of the comedy was just how many odd things Juno could find to say for shock value. Also it made all the guys (except Juno's dad) out to be jackasses. Jason Bateman's character leaves his wife at the worst possible time. Juno's boyfriend doesn't want to have anything with the kid. Blech.
21 - I really wanted to see this, because one of my professors said at any given time MIT has a team of students in Vegas using gambling as an educational film, and he said he was on one of them. It was a very good movie and I'm actually surprised by how much I enjoyed it. It has just enough of an edge to keep you engaged, but never stress you out, which is something most movies trying to pull this off fail at. I'd recommend.
Regarding Henry - Another good movie, but I'm fairly certain Harrison Ford doesn't make bad movies. Got this one on a recommendation and was glad I did. The degree to which he changes his acting between the beginning and the rest of the movie was interesting. It was also fun to see him discover who he used to be and how he reacted to it. I'd recommend it.
Coming attractions:
Big Bang Theory season 1
Eureka season 1
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