Even though I am waaaay behind on movie reviews (which is odd considering I haven’t even seen very many this year, I’m going to tell you about last night’s flick anyway! I’ll get all caught up on Snip over my “winter break.” I’m sure you were concerned heh…

So last night I saw the new Clooney movie (I believe it’s set to come out 12/25 [per IMDB] but I have connections…)… It was a really good solid flick. My friend Steve is calling it, at this point, his #1 of the year. I don’t feel quite as strongly as him, but I did really enjoy it.

As Jason Reitman movies are (Juno, Thank You for Smoking), it’s chock full of dialogue and witty interplay. Clooney is really charming for a character with some very fucked up ideas about how to live life, and the interplay with Vera Farmiga is pretty great.

It’s quite bittersweet and the ending is either really sad or sorta hopeful depending on which members of our group you ask. We all enjoyed it. We also enjoyed that they credited someone as playing “Makeout Dave.” I plan to introduce myself as Makeout Carolyn in the future. Hahahaha.

I oddly happened to be with a group of people who mostly have not seen “The Departed”* and was really weirded out the whole movie by how different Farmiga’s face looked from her (awesome) performance in The Departed. Lo and behold, she was pregnant (or had just been pregnant?) during the filming. That must’ve been a body double in the one, fairly gratuitous, random look at her nekkidness.

*I didn’t think those people existed. Watch The Departed. It’s good!