I love relaxing Friday nights…just Nellie & I, some delivery and some movies. It’s too hot to do much else this weekend.

Proof (imdb | rotten tomatoes) was a little better than I expected. The previews made it look like little more than standard family drama, but it got a little deeper than that. It was obvious that the movie was adapted from a play — too obvious, actually, since the dialogue felt stilted at times. It started well and picked up steam through the middle, but just lost it in the final third. Still, pretty decent performances, especially by Gwyneth Palthrow, who I don’t normally like.

Wolf Creek (imdb | rotten tomatoes) was crap. I was hoping for something better than Hostel, but it was never tense, or scary, or even overly bloody (except for one or two unpleasant parts)…just shlocky. It’s too bad, the first half of the movie did a decent job of setting everything up, but it just went to waste. Maybe if it’d carried any of the authenticity the “based on actual events” tagline (which is a lie, by the way) tried to impart at the beginning, it would have been better.

[tags]proof, gwyneth paltrow, wolf creek[/tags]