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"I'm gonna peace you in the side of the fuckin' head if you don't give us the dog."

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After having been negligent in the movie-watching department for the last several months, we’ve been on a tear the past week:

  • The Lincoln Lawyer wasn’t quite as rubbish as the preview suggested, but it wasn’t anything to write home about either. Strong supporting cast though.
  • Red State was disappointing. It just never seemed to get anywhere with what it was trying to say, despite having scads of material to work with given its Sex/Religion/Politics themes. A miss for Kevin Smith.
  • Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol was surprisingly impressive. From the second it began it never let up with all the action, gadgetry and crazy ass stunts you’d imagine. See it in IMAX if you have the option. Paula Patton: new girlfriend du jour. Oh, and a six-minute Batman preview!
  • The American remake of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo was excellent. David Fincher made the story even darker, Trent Reznor’s score was all technology and foreboding, Daniel Craig played Blomqvist more like a real reporter and (ironically) less like James Bond, and Rooney Mara might have even been a better Lisbeth Salander than Noomi Rapace. Definitely worth seeing.
  • The Debt was one we hadn’t heard much about but decided to see based on the cast. Not mind-blowing, but a solid enough movie about spycraft and revenge.
  • Your Highness was one of the shittiest movies I’ve seen in yonks. What in the blazing Hibernian Jesus has happened to David Gordon Green?!?
  • Last Night (surely the most common movie title ever) was something Nellie watched and I kind of paid attention to for all the Keira Knightley. It didn’t seem terrible, but I’ve already forgotten pretty much the whole movie except how great it (the cast, the shots, New York) looked.
  • If you’ve seen the preview for Our Idiot Brother you’ve seen most of the funniest parts, but it was still amusing enough. Paul Rudd’s Paul Rudd, and the supporting cast is good, but it choked a little on its own adorableness. Interesting trivia: director Jesse Peretz was the original bass player for The Lemonheads. OK, well, interesting to me anyway.

"I slappa da bass."

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On Saturday Nellie wanted to see I Love You, Man (imdb | rotten tomatoes) and I needed a laugh after a long day at work, so to the AMC at Yonge & Dundas we went. Nellie has an alarming affection for both Paul Rudd and Jason Segel, and I like them both (in a pretty different way though) and love Rashida Jones. Besides, it just looked funny in the trailers, and funny was what I wanted.

Happily, we both really liked it. It was kind of in the vein of Knocked Up, I guess, except that it never lapsed into relationship cliche. The relationship between Rudd and Jones didn’t feel Hollywood, it felt pretty real. Other characters, like Segel’s and the hilarious asshole played by Jon Favreau, were sillier, but always funny. Rudd actually played it pretty straight, except for one scene (from which this post takes its title) that had me almost crying and I’m pretty sure was just Paul Rudd being Paul Rudd. Lots of other laughs through the whole movie too.

Side note: Rush featured very prominently in this film (they were actually in it). We also saw the trailer for Adventureland (imdb) and a character in the trailer has a funny bit involving “Spirit Of The Radio”…is Rush the official band of 2009? Does Geddy Lee have incriminating video of one or more studio heads? Weird.