toby likes movies

so i went and saw three movies in the past three days

twilight: pretty, and pretty damn similar to the book. i was pleased. bella was understated, but i liked her. i mean, come on guys, bella doesn't have much of a personality to begin with, it grows as the books progress. also i realized that none of the other six people in the theatre were fangirls because no one shared my one laugh, at edward's line (obviously in reference to jacob, SPOILER ALERT) about throwing bella to the wolves. obviously rob pattinson was super hot but i thought both jasper and alice were hotter. that's one vampire sandwich i'd love to be the meat in.

the spirit: it was visually arresting but the rest of it found me leaving to go to the bathroom like five times. there are like two plot points, the characters are one dimensional, and scarlett johannson was fucking terrible. and i usually like her.

the curious case of benjamin button: this movie started at 4:25 and i had to leave it at 7 to get to work. i didn't want to because i really liked it, but the damn framing plot with old cate blanchett about to die just reeked of lame. there's some storm coming and her daughter is reading her benjamin's journal or something (as per usual i was about five minutes late) and i just didn't care. after benjamin left the story i bounced (like i said i had to, i don't like missing the end of movies). not like i don't love cate blanchett and she was spectacular in this (i think she's the best actress of her generation. i'd put tilda swinton soon behind and she was a great surprise in this film as well) but it just seemed super out of place. but maybe i missed the establishing shots of it that might have made it seem a better frame for this great story. david fincher, who is great at creepy and weird (se7en, fight club), made a beautiful, touching, longass film that, what else, makes me wish i'd find my next great love.

anyway that's that, the other movies/shows i watched this week were a night at the opera (hilarious, marx brothers classic), raising arizona (superb, coen brothers classic) , three seasons of law and order:svu (i eventually had a dream that i was boning chris meloni and then i had to find him because he disappeared. when i realized that my svu related dreams weren't nightmares, i realized i'd watched too much), metalocalypse season 2 (fucking hilarious obviously), and the first season of twin peaks (i think i already established that i love this. i can't watch it too late at night though after kyle maclachlan's dream with the midget talking backwards in the red room. david lynch throws that fucking midget in everything he does and he terrifies me every time.)

ok now i have to poop