The Tourist (Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie) - Interesting film. It has a few nice twists in it. It's a little slow and not what you expect given the movie previews. It's not as much of an action-adventure as you'd think. It's somewhere between a drama, action, and rom-com. It has a slightly odd feel to it, to say the least. Out of them all, it'd fit best underneath an action film. It's not cheesy like Knight & Day (Cameron Diaz and Tom Cruise), though. Makes you want to go to Italy too. I definitely enjoyed Depp's character and Jolie fit well next to him too. The best part of the film is probably the last 30 minutes. The beginning, as I said, is slow. At the moment, I'm going to give it this grade because the ending kind of made up for the rest of the film. Grade: B/B-
Due Date (Robert Downey Jr, Zach Galifianakis) - What a disappointment! I was expecting this to be somewhere along Knocked Up or The Hangover, which are both comedies that are actually funny and they're not super stupid like most Adam Sandler movies. Considering RDJ is in this, I expected it to be better. It was a disappointment and it was long. Galifianakis's character you just wanted to smack throughout the whole thing and RDJ had his funny moments and you like his character (who is just trying to get home to his wife who is having a c-section). The beginning of the film you want to slap RDJ's character, but it doesn't surpass the other one. It was just stupid decisions one after another and it wasn't really funny. It was just annoying. I think the characters were simply too dissimilar that they simply never had that "connection" moment you typically see in rom-coms where they ground each other from their polarities. If they had a better connection or something, I think it would have been better. The film just lacked that and was poor in trying to make it happen. Disappointment, but I liked RDJ and Galifianakis could work in other movies better. If it had that connection and actual laughs, it might have been a C to B- movie. Grade: D
In other news, will rent How Do You Know later this week and next week will be Love & Other Drugs and maybe Fair Game (the one about that female CIA operative and being exposed). By principle, I will not see 127 Hours. I am perma-scarred from selling the book (Between a Rock and Hard Place) at Borders.
Got an A in GP for fall and winter quarter! I got an A- in international law too. Funny enough, it means I get the same GPA for this winter quarter and last winter quarter. Weird. Stupid B+ ruins it all, though! My cumulative GPA went down again. So annoying. Oh well. I've never gotten a grade less than a B+, but those GPA point drops do hurt. Anyway, with that...I've ordered some business cards (just Master's candidate cards) for whenever I meet someone and will print out resumes for the public presentation on April 15th. Never know if I might click with someone randomly I meet. I also bought a really gorgeous portfolio for interviews (will be a life long thing I'll keep). So...I'm starting to get myself into the job hunting stage. I've been looking for jobs and nothing has come up that is anywhere near where I'd like to be living. In other words, I don't really want to move to Washington DC at this stage and that's where a lot of the interesting jobs have come up. I'll keep looking and start networking soon.
With that...Back to watching Wanted on TV. FX has been showing a lot of good movies this week. Sunday was Fantastic 4: The Rise of the Silver Surfer, Iron Man, Incredible Hulk, and X-Men: Last Stand. Monday evening was Tropic Thunder. Tonight is Wanted. Tomorrow is Mummy: The Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. Friday is Eagle Eye. Eagle Eye wasn't THAT great of a movie, but it makes for a good TV movie.
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