On the Joys of Movie Hopping

Today, after getting done with work at noon (seriously, if you have to call into a bank at 7:45am on a Saturday, you have some really screwed up priorities) I decided to engage in a lively afternoon of movie hopping. For the uninitiated, movie hopping is paying to see one movie, then sneaking into another or series of other movies following the one you paid for. There were a bunch of movies that I wanted to see, and with very little coin in the old purse, it seemed that movie hopping was the answer. In order to assuage my guilty conscience (right!) the ticket I chose to pay for was for An Inconvenient Truth, where the proceeds go to support organizations dedicated to fighting Global Warming. This also happened to be the first movie that I went to see, and was actually really good. Most people think it's going to be an hour and half of Al Gore droning on and guilt tripping everyone about not taking your bike to work, but it's really nothing like that, and it's really nothing like the Al Gore we thought we knew. He's affable and charismatic, and sounds for all the world like a major statesman. If we had seen this Al Gore in the 2u000 election, he might have one more than just the majority of the popular vote (as apparently that wasn't quite enough). The movie is essentially the scientific support for idea of Global Warming, and it's pretty damn compelling. I actually cried at a couple of moments, but mostly that was in frustration upon seeing the face of G-Dub. Gore came across as a latter day Jimmy Carter, a truly decent man attempting to make his world a better place and therefore being politically hosed for it. Side note: there is a part of the movie where there is this sad little computer animated polar bear swimming in a vast sea without hope of support on dry land or ice. It's heartbreaking! For the love of God, stop Global Warming before it kills all the cute, cuddly polar bears. Or Sweet Jesus, think of the PENGUINS!!! That hadn't even occured to me yet..... *single tear*. Seriously, see the movie.

Next came the Lake House, which was lovely, despite the fact that Keanu Reeves has the oddest acting style ever recorded. I'm not going to say that he's a bad actor, because I don't think that's true, but he is odd. r. It's like he is just an awkward person in general, and so his awkwardness underscores all his characters. In Speed he played an awkward cop, in the Matix he played an awkward hacker, and in this movie he played an awkward time travelling architect. In this film he looked a little scruffy and kind of rough around the edges. He is not a good five o'clock shadow guy, it makes his face look pockmarked and patchy in a very non-hot way. Lovely is pretty much the word I would use for this movie, and I suggest you see it, if only for the house itself. It could be a rental. The last movie I saw was Click, which is a definite rental. It's like It's a Wonderful Life for the information age. Plus, all the women were like, inordinately wicked hot. The wife, played by Kate Beckinsale is like a size 0 with huge boobs, a full body tan and perfectly tousled hair right out of bed. This woman takes care of two children under the age of 5 everyday, all day. Take stock of the women in your life that you know with children under school age, and tell me if they look like this character. I'm betting not. And there's nothing wrong with that. What's wrong is that we have to have this conversation because women are made to feel like shit because they can't roll out of bed with a full face of makeup. Also there was this really rascist moment in the beginning involving "Arabian Sheiks"....anyway. Adam Sandler gives it the old college try, but he is lugging a safe in the script. See it, don't see it, I was disappointed- but hey, I didn't pay.