  lotsa movies i mean, what else is there to do over christmas break in this blessed city?? here are the movies i have really recently watched: austin powers: goldmember - what's with the musical and dance sequences? what's with the part of the movie-in-a-movie? i don't have much recollection of the first two movies but i had to laugh in spite of myself in those because of the jokes being quite original. in this re-iteration, i couldn't stand the gross-out humour (goldmember's flaking skin, fat b. 's bathroom habits) polish wedding - i rented this movie because it stars lena olin (super spy mommy from "alias"), didn't care so much for gabriel byrne or claire danes. it was weird watching it... i didn't know what i was really expecting - okay, i was really expecting the polish version of "my big fat greek wedding," which sounds like a tailspin of fun.
alas, polish was not a tailspin in any way, especially not fast-going. there wasn't even a wedding shown. i call it "artsy" but it's not really as artsy-fartsy as i know others that exist to be. ("it's not like bbc-artsy-fartsy, definitely. ") it was... different. and then my mother sat down and watched it, ugh. "O" - i rented this because of julia stiles (slick chick from "save the last dance") and josh hartnett (ooh baby). and that's about the only reason why. oh, also though that a modern twist on othello could be interesting because i've never watched any sort of rendition of the play. say, when i took an english literature course, the professor showed a particular scene from the bbc version of "romeo and juliet," franco zeffirelli's version, "west side story," and the modern-day version with leonardo dicaprio.
it was the scene that appeared in all the versions: the one where romeo spots juliet at the masquerade party and how he falls in love in each of the versions. i wonder which scene(s) in "o" were really central to the original play? otherwise, it was a fun sorta movie to watch. my delicate eyes could not handle the love scene! ocean's eleven - okay, this is a small cheat: i saw this movie in the theaters but i think it was really great!
it has a kick-ass cast consisting of george clooney, andy garcia, brad pitt (i think that's the only brad pitt movie i've ever seen.... "no, you saw seven, didn't you?".... oh crap), julia roberts, matt damon, bernie mac (whoever he is), etc. it was really slick a movie! :) what i didn't know is that it was directed by steven soderburgh who directed "solaris" and other good movies i can't remember. i want to watch all sort of other "stuffy" english movies: "the ideal husband," "gosford park," "mansfield park," "far from the madding crowd," "vanity fair" (except i can't find it) and really classic sci-fi movies :) : "2001," "solaris," "zardoz," maybe even old star trek movies like "wrath of khan" urlLink read more.... 
