上帝的母親

I'm just having fun with the Chinese titles, now.
Let's see. Catch up. Obviously, I'm back to my old format of blogging. The other method was just too weird, too beat-poetish. Just plain weird, huh?
Saw Wedding Crashers last weekend and I should have put up something about it earlier. It was pretty funny, but the part that had me laughing so hard I almost cried was a scene with Christopher Walken talking to Vince Vaughn in the middle of the night. Oh. My. God. Walken was underused through most of the film, but he was great in every scene. That scene, though, I can't say anything about it without taking some of the humor out of it, for those of you who I am sure will watch it eventually, you Walken-fanatics. Overall, it was a pretty good movie. It did go on for about 30 minutes too long, a point that I agree with most critics over. I'm fairly certain that I'll buy it on DVD, but I'll probably wait for a few months to find out if they'll put out an unrated version (like they did with Dodgeball, the bastards).
What else? Um, well, I rented three movies last night just to keep me occupied while I cleaned around the house. The first, Swingers, is one of those cult hits you always hear about, and it started the Vince-Vaughn-as-an-over-the-top-hyper-character trend that still runs eight years later. It was funny at times, but I found that, most of the time, I didn't really care. In the end, though, I found that, surprisingly, I felt sorry for the main character and actually cared about what happened to him. The next film, Rambo: First Blood Part 2, I expected to hate. See, I watched First Blood a few months back and found it to be a good film. Not the shoot-em-up sort of thing that's always associated with Rambo, but a film that looked at how America treated returning Vietnam vets and what the military did to these soldiers when they trained them. Of course, on the cover of Rambo II, there's Sly with his (I'm probably wrong on this, but I don't feel like researching it) M-60, blasting away. Here's where the films took a dive, I'd always heard. So, I popped it in, and over fifty deaths later, I found that I enjoyed it. I found that it also continued that trend of America mistreating its soldiers. Color me amazed. I think I might rent Rambo III tonight just to see if it tries to be smart and bloody, or just bloody. Finally, I watched All the President's Men, which was about the Washington Post's coverage of Watergate. It was an extremely good film, storywise and technically. It also makes me want to go back in time and do something cool so Robert Redford would play me in a movie. I mean, have you ever seen Bob Woodward? Not even close to Redford, but the man pulled it off. Hoffman looks a lot like Bernstein, so that was okay. Redford, though, wow, not even close in looks. The story was good, but the ending felt a bit abrupt. I kind of want to know what happened to Woodward and Bernstein afterwards, and see a bit more of the fallout of Watergate. Oh, well, I guess I'll just have to wait for Mark Felt's movie to come out.
Well, I've got to go, so no SotP today.