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Aimless:
"This is the End" was all right but way too much yelling about cumming on things. Some aspects were great while others were just disappointing. I really didn't like Seth Rogen in this one :o

"The World's End" was better and pretty enjoyable. It didn't hook me like its predecessors and, despite the common theme, it felt like a different beast altogether... but in a good way. Perhaps it was because Frost played the straight man for once. Perhaps it was because it was a more serious and pessimistic movie. Perhaps it was because Pegg portrayed an entirely new and unexpectedly tragic kind of character. I dunno, but it was a nice experience more or less from beginning to end (apart from the dialogue during the showdown between the Network and Gary/Pegg).

Saw "Tower Heist" tonight. I wasn't sure what I should (or dared to) expect :o but it was a fun caper and made the time pass. The ensemble didn't work all that well as a group, but Stiller and Alda, Stiller and Affleck and even Stiller and Leoni worked well. I'd forgotten how much I like Ben Stiller :)

Thrillho:
My girlfriend has been busy lately so I've been watching lots of movies and then immediately afterwards watching their commentaries. I recently seemingly had a Ben Stiller day.

Tropic Thunder is still a highly flawed movie, but with some magnificently biting satire - it suffers from Up syndrome, namely that the film cannot live up to its incredible opening sequence. Also, the 'you never go full retard' speech is still magnificently accurate. The commentary, on the other hand, is possibly more fun - Ben Stiller, Jack Black and a still-in-character Robert Downey Jnr., as referenced in a throwaway line from the final cut ('I don't break character until after the DVD commentary.') This even includes him putting on an Australian accent when his character stops pretending to be a black guy. It's actually probably funnier than the movie.

I saw Zoolander, although I didn't watch the commentary. The film is still a solid three out of five, funny but not especially diverting. David Bowie is hilarious. Could use more Bowie in comedies. His weird delivery makes funny lines even funnier. I also love that Fred Durst is in it briefly. The guy has more capacity for self parody than I think people realise.

Dodgeball is a very funny movie, and I still love it. The commentary, however, is amazing - it's half an hour of Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughan, the director and some sound engineers arguing, before those three walk out and the engineers put on the commentary for There's Something About Mary. This continues for the remainder of the film. So funny.

Welu:
I saw this film a little while ago and forgot to mention it.

The Heat was great. Really good laughs but I was worried its best jokes were in the trailer and this was not totally the case. Great jokes in the trailer but plenty of the same level throughout the film. Melissa McCarthy is brilliant.

Grognard:
The Heat is a movie that my wife and I want to watch together.

Thrillho:
Not to be confused with Heat, which is probably the greatest action movie ever made.

So this weekend, after embarrassingly not realising I had to pay to do so, I rented four films from the library. I watched three of them yesterday (I WAS BORED, OKAY?).

First watch was The Campaign, which for those who don't know is a political satire starring Will Ferrell and Zack Galfiankf... Galipoli... Galifanfkae... the guy from The Hangover. It's just not very funny, there's not much to it, it's not especially well written and there's no legitimately skewering satirical moments in it, which is bizarre because the cast is INSANELY good, Brian Cox, John Lithgow, Dan Ackroyd and more.

Second watch was Ted, which is just... well, a Seth Macfarlane movie, as much as can be expected. 80s references, lots of stuff we've seen before... it's quite funny in a few places, but it's just not that good, really. It has an interesting concept and could've been so much better than it is.

Final watch was Looper, which despite a plot hole or two, is pretty awesome. The kid in this movie is scary as fuck. I don't know how they got such an adult performance out of such a little kid but it's brilliant to the point of unsettling. Also, there is an incompetent, borderline comic relief character who serves virtually no plot purpose, or at least logically shouldn't exist. Plus the awkward shift in pace at the midway point is kind of ridiculous.

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