Team America: World Police and South Park the Movie: Bigger, Longer and Uncut.

Ahh. Thanks.

I liked Tom Arnold in True Lies, and I laughed for about 5 minutes at the scene of the terrorist leader ranting and raging for the video camera, and then the battery dies. The timing in that scene was just perfect.

But on the whole, it's an appallingly sexist repugnant movie.

Team America sounded like it might be funny at first, but now I've read more about the movie's sense of humor, and I suspect it would just piss me off.

Look, people who shape their political views solely by listening to Janeane Garofalo or Sean Penn are idiots, I won't argue that. But the problem is that those people are idiots, not that performers who have the spare time, money and fame to make their views known go around talking about politics. I mean, no one gets mad at their neighbor the accountant for participating in a pro-choice rally, but Susan Sarandon does the same thing, only with much higher visibility, and it's ridiculous? I don't get it.

If I'm completely understanding the main joke in Team America, please let me know, 'cause it sounds like it would be funny if I wouldn't spend the entire movie arguing with the screen.

The "panthers" in TA:WP were so. damn. cute.

Saw Napoleon Dynamite this weekend - I'd heard that it was overrated, so I went in with pretty low expectations. I actually really enjoyed it. The narrative structure was pretty loose, I didn't know when the movie was wrapping up till I got a music cue, the story was pretty limp, but I really loved the characters, especially Napoleon's friends Pedro and Deb.

So, not a "great" movie, but I enjoyed myself the approximately hour and a half I was in there watching it.

Also, I was really convinced that La Fonda was a man, until she spoke - it may have been because Kip was so tiny in comparison.

And, WTF? regarding Uncle Rico's happy ending. I liked his ending getting the crap beat out of him. I was annoyed by that.

True Lies

With everyone who thinks that "sense of humor" is actually an incredibly mean streak. Recall that the "hero" deceives his wife into doing a striptease for a man she thinks is a total stranger, on pain of death. It was a needlessly cruel fantasy.

The day my husband thinks that my performing a striptease empowers me is the day my husband dies of suffocation from a feather boa being stuffed down his throat.

I watched some of Hart's War on Fx last night while waiting for the baseball game. From what little I watched, I can see there's a reason it disappeared without a trace. It not only sucked, it pandered, and implied that its audience has never seen Stalag 17.

Most I remember about True Lies is that it had wee Eliza Dushku as Arny & JLC's daughter. She was cute and the usual movie-kid-spunky.

I Netflixed The Mother over the weekend. I thought it was going to be about gentle exploration of the sexuality of an older woman. I mean, OK, exploration of sexuality part is there, but it is anything but gentle. There are parts of it that are downright savage, with the kind of emotional violence that makes it really tough to watch. Hella good movie though. Ann Reid is frighteningly good. Plus, Daniel Craig? Is a sexy bitch.

I watched Ladykillers over the weekend.

why?

Lexine, we are again, the same person.

We saw it, too and, well, aside from a couple of funny bits that I can't remember now, it was a totaly waste of the Cohen brothers time.