I had actually heard enough good things about this that I was convinced I would like it. Eh – not really. The boy has been on One Tree Hill (as Jake) so I’m a fan of his, but this movie never really showed Uma’s and his characters to have more than just a sexual connection and some of it was just downright dumb. Shocking that it didn’t really have a “Hollywood ending” though. It was Ok but I thought it had the potential to be a lot better, probably starting with a better script to begin with.
Daily Archives: June 7, 2006
Cable: Star Wars III Revenge of Sith.
George Lucas can’t write dialogue to save his life and there’s some horrifically stiff acting in these flicks (by otherwise talented actors even), but I enjoyed the last 1/2 hour or so where they actually made connections to the ’70s flicks, which is really the only reason for anyone my age to watch this garbage.
And Ewan McGregor, what’s up with the wack stiff accent? Eh?
Natalie Portman is so pretty, and (other than the pretty) this role is so unrepresentative of her talents (hello Garden State and Closer are damn fine performances, you Natalie haters).
KCRW’s Bookworm: Jorie Graham.
Maybe not the best choice for the El ride home: the soothing dulcet sounds of Michael Silverblatt and poet Jorie Graham, combined with the rhythm of the train…I could barely keep my eyes open!
That said, Graham did have a lot of interesting things to say about living in the NOW. About finding a way to get through it: life, the poem, etc. Not waiting for things to change, for it to be the perfect situation…
Either she said stuff about that or I dreamed it, who can say.
Wait, Wait…May 14th edition.
Tom Hanks was the celebrity guest and he was really hilarious (and I’m not even that big a Hanks’ fan!). They spent a bit more time on the introductory interview with him than they normally do, involving lots of sass about some of his less ‘intellectual’, shall we say, movies. Really funny. The bits about Marlon Brando were also pretty hilarious.
Also loved the drunk monkeys segment. Monkeys! Drinking! Toooooo funny. I think the female commentator was Paula Poundstone. “From the number of monkeys I’ve reached out to…” She was a riot.
Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
Was interested to see you could get this on iTunes as an “audible book” although frankly it’s a podcast.
Thought the first half was hilarious. Second half was hard to listen to b/c apparently he was showing a video he had made (which obviously I could not SEE) and it was harder to follow what was happening.
Really stuck it to Bush and Cheney. Good on ya, SC.