Julia Roberts Double Feature?
It certainly wasn’t my intent, but Tha Playa and I were bored, so we did the Ocean’s Twelve-Closer double.

I dig the original Ocean’s Eleven, and I’ve probably seen the remake about a hundred times (for several months it was always on one of the HBOs). I’ll have to see it several more times on DVD or TV to make sure, but I think I like this new one the best of the three. It sums up the rat pack attitude perfectly. I knew I was being fucked with the entire time, so I didn’t try to figure out any sort of logical plot intricacies. The humor was my type of funny, all the camera trick homages were eye candy to my cinematic sweet tooth, and David Holmes killed it again with the soundtrack. Catherine Zeta-Jones is one classy dame, and if anyone in charge of the 007 franchise had any sense, they would make her the next James Bond. To all the womenses out there, if you have a haircut like Isabel’s, I am putty in your hands.

Since most everything else playing at the gigaplex was crap, and we had nothing else to do, we decided to stretch the $6.50 and watch Closer. Not really a date movie (unless you’re as jaded as some friends of mine are), but certainly the epitome of a ladder theory movie. I always enjoy seeing London on film (a bit homesick for it, to be honest), and Natalie Portman is fantastic as usual - good lord what a spectacular bottom. I agree with director Mike Nichols to cut her nudity, it would have totally distracted from what was the best-acted and most powerful scene in the film. Was it an enjoyable couple of hours, though? Not really. Interesting, more like it. But my theory is that most women will really like this movie, even though they’ll tell you that some drivel like Legally Blonde is their favorite flick. Most guys, they’ll be content with seeing Natalie Portman in thong knickers.
- posted by Liebs @ 9:33 PM