If I don't think about it too hard, Captain America was a lot of fun. The idealized 40s look is perfect eye candy, and there are funny lines, with Chris Evans looking pretty, a cool heroine played by someone I'd never seen before and Tommy Lee Jones being Tommy Lee Jones ( Read more... )

That was a good example of going in to a movie with low expectations and coming out thinking it wasn't bad. That's the best I can say about this movie, eventhough for a while last year I was hopeful it would be good or even very good. But nah, it's too long and the dialog is predictable. OTOH, Daniel Craig being a quite believable man-with-no-name ( Read more... )

I'm confused but how much I enjoyed this movie. It gets stranger when I think how it was originally meant to have Tom Cruise as the lead. It also reminded me why Angelina Jolie is a movie star, something I specially needed after watchin the godawful Wanted.

Rented the Mission Impossible movie that came out a couple of years ago, right about the time Tom Cruise went from funny-weird to scary-obnoxious. The trailers for Knight & Day kind of reminded me that I used to enjoy Tom Cruise movies, but didn't see MI3 before because it got *meh* reviews and at the time I'd overdosed on those teeth and intense ( Read more... )

Went by myself to see Iron Man 2, not in the mood to coordinate with other people, and just let the movie be it's own thing to me. I used to do this all the time and I kind of miss it. Although, this time, it had a layer of -um- really being on my own. It's the reading of this fic that did it, Concession. I was in the middle of reading that great ( Read more... )