Friday's movies today
A bunch of movies come out this weekend and I have seen an unusual number of them already. The one I like best is Away We Go (review!), a new Sam Mendes movie just six months or so after Revolutionary Road, and a very different relationship story than that one, with John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph as an expecting thirtysomething couple looking for someplace to settle down.
I'm expecting more pans to come for Land of the Lost, but I rather enjoyed it -- it's a goofy, consistently amusing fantasy-comedy. If you ever find yourself going, "hey, Evolution was somewhat underrated in some ways!" then this is a good movie for you.
Finally, the worst of the lot is a movie most of you will probably never see, and that's fine because Downloading Nancy is wretched, one of the worst movies I've seen this year.
That only leaves The Hangover, so I guess I have to see it now despite my general aversion to Todd Phillips, Bradley Cooper, and Las Vegas (with exceptions granted for Starsky & Hutch, Wet Hot American Summer, and Con Air, respectively).
I'm expecting more pans to come for Land of the Lost, but I rather enjoyed it -- it's a goofy, consistently amusing fantasy-comedy. If you ever find yourself going, "hey, Evolution was somewhat underrated in some ways!" then this is a good movie for you.
Finally, the worst of the lot is a movie most of you will probably never see, and that's fine because Downloading Nancy is wretched, one of the worst movies I've seen this year.
That only leaves The Hangover, so I guess I have to see it now despite my general aversion to Todd Phillips, Bradley Cooper, and Las Vegas (with exceptions granted for Starsky & Hutch, Wet Hot American Summer, and Con Air, respectively).