No Food, Just Films

Rather than follow through with my intentions and relate my experiences with two other restaurants, I decided that I’d talk about a few films I saw recently.
The first two are Dan in Real Life and Juno. Obviously, if you’re up with Pop Culture you know a little bit about each. Dan in Real Life in one long summary is this: Steve Carrell plays a widowed father of three girls searching for the next love of his life that he finds in a woman brought to a family gathering whose love is already directed at Carrell’s brother. The movie is like Little Miss Sunshine in so many ways, but is not up on-par with the brilliance of Little Miss Sunshine. I would say that unless you’re a connoisseur of Carrell, or his supporting actor Dane Cook (LOL), then this is a film not worth serious attention. You could multitask- clip your fingernails, fix a snack, do your taxes, while watching the film and not be lost.
Juno is another film not really worth your time if you haven’t seen it yet. Granted, the story is intriguing, yet the film drags on and the contemporary abrevs and teenage slang become tiresome. Again, this is a film that aims at the same Indie-feel of previous films of the late 90s and early millennium. Ellen Page turns in a noteworthy appearance, but I felt the story should have included more on the relationship between her character and the father of her child played by Michael Cera. I read a short feature on him in GQ recently and I wonder too, how long can Cera play the nice-nerdy-fumbling-High School aged guy? Perhaps he will change my mind in the upcoming film Year One.
A film that I highly recommend is The Assassination of Richard Nixon starring Sean Penn and Don Cheadle. The film focuses on a would-be assassin fed up with the social and economic systems that normal American guys are subjected to in the early 70s. I think the only other Sean Penn film I’ve seen is Fast Times at Ridgemont High, but I’ve read reviews of his work wherein he is touted as one of the best current actors and I must agreed. Penn gets this role right, seriously. I found the film on Free HD Movies on In Demand, so if you’re HD-less I guess you could find it on Netflix or a comparable service.

If you follow this blog at all, you know I’m a little late on things. In the coming months I’m planning on staying on track/catching up on some things I want to talk about. I don’t get to the movies, or buy new albums, or buy new books, so most of what I’ll review has probably already been through major critical review. Hopefully anything I talk about you haven’t experienced though, so my criticism will be meaningful in some way to you.