So, I'm on summer vacation. And I love it! I've borrowed roughly 85 books from the library (okay, that includes the 614 books that I borrowed for the summer reading program) and about 25 movies. I highly recommend borrowing movies from the library. It's totally free and one can keep them for about the same length of time that one can borrow movies from Blockbuster. In the last two months I've seen the following: Blades of Glory, Knocked Up, The Darjeeling Limited, A History of Violence (eh, so-so), The Fountain (not recommended, it was pretty stupid), Love Story (a totally old movie that I'd never seen before and when I told my interpreting colleagues about it on our road trip down to Columbus for an interpreting workshop, they all waxed poetic about seeing it in the the theatre and crying over it, etc.), Match Point (another disappointing waste of time), Pride and Prejudice (the Keira Knightley version, not bad), Memoirs of a Geisha (pretty good, but did not do the book justice), The Invisible (really bad and nowhere near as intriguing as the book--translated from the Swedish!), There Will Be Blood (good, but a bit of a bizarre ending), To Catch a Thief (tres bien!), Gone Baby Gone (amazing, Casey Affleck's character was incredible and dealt very interestingly and compellingly with two dilemmas), Emma (the Gwyneth Paltrow version), and today 27 Dresses.
Anyone have some recommendations?
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If you haven't seen these "oldies", I would recommend, The Graduate, To Sir With Love and Camelot.
The PIC hasn't put his two cents in yet, but he would probably recommend No Country for Old Men and he really likes His Girl Friday (if you would like an oldie).
We've also been watching the first season of the HBO series, The Flight of the Conchords. It's about a New Zealand band (duo really) making a go of it in New York City. Pretty funny.
Oh, if you like Casey Affleck, you should check out his Oscar nominated performance for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Affleck portrays Ford. It's a bit long and slow in some parts, but overall pretty good.
I have picked up "No Country for Old Men" and "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford."
Oh, I have a few more suggestions for you:
3:10 to Yuma (I've only seen the new version, but it's really good--you know love of Westerns is in our genes, just like Elvis)
Hot Fuzz, Once, Stardust, Waitress, Dan in Real Life, Juno (even though it paints an unrealistic portrait of teen pregnancy), Lars & the Real Girl
OK, I think that's it for now. :o)
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