I saw "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" today. I thought it was very good. Kind of sad/bittersweet, though. I also liked all the period stuff since much of the movie was set between 1918 through the 1960s.

Last night, I saw "Hamlet 2" with Justin, Rich and John. It was quite funny. I just wish it was an actual play, I would totally go see it.

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I saw Tropic Thunder last night. It was really awesome. Funny as hell. I knew Tom Cruise had a small part in the movie, but I totally didn't recognize him until Justin pointed it out. Even though I hate Tom Cruise, he was good in this movie. And of course, Robert Downey Jr. was fantastic ( Read more... )

Yesterday me and Justin went to see "Hancock." It didn't get terribly good reviews, but we both thought it was pretty good. Not as good as, say, "Dark Knight," but good. It was somewhat marred by the fact that the people sitting behind us had a 3 or 4-year-old child with them who intermittantly screamed and cried throughout the movie. Fucking ( Read more... )

Yesterday I saw the new Indiana Jones movie. It was better than I expected, but my expectations were pretty low. It was entertaining, but the plot didn't make much sense. Even though Harrison Ford isn't as hot as he was back in the day, he still looks damn good for being 65. I also liked Cate Blanchett as Irina Spalko. Kickin' ass and takin' ( Read more... )

I saw Iron Man this afternoon with Barry, Nina, Leanne and Ben. It was very entertaining. Robert Downey Jr. was really good, too ( Read more... )

Oh my god, it's way too fucking cold today. The highest temperature I saw today was 5 degrees, the lowest was -4. And I don't even wanna think about the windchill.
If I had any sense, I'd have stayed in today. But I had things to do. I picked up a graphing calculator from uofirob (thanks!), then I drove up to the library for the Chicago SF book ( Read more... )

Last night I went to the dollar movie theater in Buffalo Grove with some folks from the sci-fi group. We saw 3:10 to Yuma. I'm not much for westerns, but I thought it was pretty good. I'm not sure I really believed the ending, though.
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This afternoon I went to see "The Golden Compass" with a bunch of folks from the SF group. Although some people in the group didn't like it, I thought it was pretty good. Visually it was stunning, the special effects/sets/props were all just beautiful. Actually, I wasn't entirely sure how much of the sets were real and how much was CG. The cars ( Read more... )

Me and Justin saw Beowulf today, at the Lake theater. I thought it was pretty good. If you're going to see it, it's definitely worth seeing it in digital 3D. It looked really cool. The CD effects were very good. Really, I think the only thing that can't be done 100% realistically at this point is humans. Well, maybe animals too. The problem ( Read more... )