Starter For 10

11:10 -- The Cure and Yaz songs in the first 10 minutes? Hell yeah.
11:19 -- More Cure....
11:22 -- OK. I can't take it -- In Between Days? This movie is a sign -- I will buy my Cure tix tomorrow.
11:34 -- Pictures of You -- "Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your heart to be near" -- heavenly. Technically not released until 1990 -- but it's such a great song I will forgive.
12:35 -- Love Song.

I really need to watch more movies that are set in 1985. Even if you don't like the Cure... this is a good one.

UPDATE: The Cure concert has been sold out for months, but miraculously they opened up some additional tix this morning so I got mine at face value. Fate?

Young@Heart -- round two

I took my sister to see this movie tonight. First -- she was thoroughly impressed that half the people at Regal Arbor know me -- although they probably had trouble recognizing me since I was actually with another person :) But I did have my movie socks which are a dead giveaway. At least one of you will understand the importance of the movie socks.

The first time I saw this movie I started crying about an hour into it -- this time within about 20 minutes I was losing it. Knowing what was coming up made some of the beginning parts harder to handle the second time around. I figure by the next time I see it I will just bawl from beginning to end.

I am watching Lars and the Real Girl on DVD right now -- it is off to a VERY slow start, I'll let y'all know how it ends up.

Helvetica

Yes it's a documentary about a font. It's actually a really great 80 minutes and proves that you can make a movie about anything.

"You will do what the typeface wants you to do."
"If you are not a good designer just use Helvetica Bold in one size. It looks good."
"All that hunting for the next typeface is so exhausting."
" Growing up in the netherlands, Helvetica is like our natural mother toungue, it is almost in our blood."
The "typeface of socialism", "the perfume of the city".
"How to choose a typeface use 'ABH' -- Anything but Helvetica."
"Reminded me of cleaning up my room."
"I was morally opposed to Helvetica."
"If you used Helvetica you were in favor of the Vietnam war." "Then what is the typeface of the Iraq war?" "Helvetica."
"It says: Do not read me because I will bore the shit out of you."

I love the section about grunge typography. David Carson printing what he felt litle was a really shitty article about Bryan Ferry in Raygun magazine in a font he felt suited the quality of the article -- Dingbat. Awesome.

Son of Rambow

Very cute. Two unlikely friends create their own sequel to Rambo -- First Blood. Lots of great 80s music and a funny, sweet story line. Go see it. It's not the best movie ever, but it will make you smile and laugh - what more could you want on a Saturday afternoon?

Candy

This movie does for heroin what Fast Food Nation does for ground beef. If you are even thinking about shooting up, watch this movie and you'll change your mind.

Heath Ledger (Dan) was a little too realistic as a greasy-haired junkie. Abby Cornish was really good as well as as Dan's girlfriend Candy. I was really hoping she would suck -- haven't forgiven her for breaking up Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe.

Couple of scenes I wish I'd known to fast forward through:

-- Candy laying on a matress going through withdrawls while she's six months pregnant.
-- Dan getting f'd up at his own wedding -- one of those uncomfortable scenes where you feel embarrassed for the character

High Fidelity

Top 5 Best Things About High Fidelity

5) "So you've got a list here of 5 things you'd do if qualifications and time and history and salary were no object."
4) Sonic Death Monkey
3) "I will now sell four copies of "The Three EPs" by The Beta Band."
2) John Cusak in general -- love him.
1) Jack Black

Space Balls -- The Quote Along at the Drafthouse

You know you're doing something right as a parent when you realize that your kids know 90% of the lines to Spaceballs. Hearing Noah screaming out "I'm surrounded by assholes" and "We ain't found shit" was priceless -- nearly brought tears to my eyes.

The Visitor

OK. In case you don't know this, I like almost every movie I see.

But this one was really good. Kind of started out slow, but once it got going I was hooked.

Walter is an uptight, guarded, connecticut-living guy. The premise is just far-fetched enough that it seems real without being silly. Basically he meets a few people that have a huge impact on his life. A syrian man and his mom and a sengalese woman bring him back to life through a series of moving, funny, and sad events.

I kind of stumbled on this movie and it kind of snuck up on me.