Be you one who enjoys my reviews or one who hates them, you may have noticed a lack of posts of recent. This is mainly because I've been bogged down by work. Then and I suppose this is a testament to the films out there that when I do find some time to write I discover I've forgotten everything about the movie I saw except the barest register that I either liked or disliked it. But this does not mean I have stopped watching movies or abandoned my annually renewed goal.
April wasn't really productive for my movie watching until a spurt at the end. Still I managed to see movies I actually wanted to see as opposed to going to something merely to get the number.
April 1 - Stop Loss: Acted well enough, story was decent but not quite as reflective as I felt it could have been. Joseph Gordon Levitt was good in his small role but he's been more effective in films like "Brick".
April 12 - The Band's Visit: Charming enough as a film. Not great though.
April 19 - Forbidden Kingdom: Sometimes you just want to see some guy kick the crap out of one hundred other guys (and by you I mean me). Fun to see Jet Li play a goofier role. Might have been more interesting to have a role reversal where Li was the slap stick man and Jackie Chan was the straight man.
April 21 - Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten: Kind of a mess of organization. Focuses a lot on the music early on when one wants to know more about the man. The interview plot device gets really tedious after about fifteen minutes.
April 22 - Forgetting Sarah Marshall: There was quite a bit in this one that made me laugh which is good because I was worried that I had forgotten what funny was.
April 23 - Zombie Strippers: Parts of it shear brilliance, parts horribly horribly bad.
April 25 - The Year My Parents Went On Vacation - Thought it was one of those feel good movies, turns out that isn't quite right. Still it had a fair amount of charm and decent story.
April 29 - Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay: After seeing two fantastic Springsteen concerts, how does one avoid the inevitable let down of whatever you see next? Go see a movie you know is going to be bad and get the inevitable let down out of the way. Just a horrendous let down especially since the first film kind of surprised me.
And now meaningless statistics!
Films remaining: 65
Days Remaining (as of May 1): 245
Average Number of Films per Day to achieve goal:0.27
Average Number of Films per Week to Achieve Goal: 1.86
Thursday, May 08, 2008
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