I bit the bullet and saw Valentine's Day today since I was desperate to get out and see an upbeat movie after an 85 hour workweek and catching part of a Queen latifah movie last night made me choose it over that Percy Jackson movie. To my surprise it was mostly enjoyable, Ashton Kutcher and Jamie Foxx didn't make me want to kill them for most of their screentime and Julia Roberts was watchable.

I had thought that the review slamming Taylor Swift had to be hyperbole, but HMOG she was by far the worst actor in a movie that featured Kutcher, Jessica Alba, numerous gradeschool kids, and Eric Dane.

WTF is John Cusak doing in Hot Tub Time Machine?!?

I just saw Moon. It was pretty good, but not as completely amazing as I expected from the hype. Sam Rockwell, however, is awesome. It wasn't for a long while that I consciously realized that he was giving two completely different, believable, and ultimately sympathetic performances for the same character in the same movie. That's something.

We just watched Forgetting Sarah Marshall last night. It was cute, but my favorite part was by far the Dracula puppet musical.

I went to see Shutter Island today. Not Scorcese's best effort ever, but still enjoyable, even though I guessed at the big twist about 10 minutes in.

Plus, the locations were gorgeous, in a decayed gothic-industrial sort of way.

WTF is John Cusak doing in Hot Tub Time Machine?!?

It's his baby. He's a producer, plus they went forward with very little script so there's a lot of improvising.

Yeah, it's pretty much all his fault.

Oh John, what have you become?

Ugh. I saw the trailer for that and just blinked.

Anne, I guessed the twist in the book, although I couldn't figure out all the details. And Lehane sold me on it by the very end, so I'm hoping the movie does the same.

I thought msbelle was joking when she mentioned that in Natter. WTF?

I loved Forgetting Sarah Marshall. I've seen it three times and it gets funnier every time, maybe because I know now that Jason Segel really did have a girl break up with him when he was naked, and he started working on the Dracula musical a while ago.

Boy were you guys right about The Haunting. I was annoyed by some of the sound choices and I found Eleanor's narration a bit heavy handed at times but that's the scariest movie we've watched since we started this ghost kick. When the door started breathing I had to go get the cat for comfort. I do wonder- are we supposed to think Theo is a lesbian? edit... after reading imdb I guess it's supposed to be obvious Theo is coming on to Eleanor. I wonder why I wasn't sure.