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I've been really tired lately. I don't know what is wrong with me, but I have a sneaking suspicion that something is not what it should be. Anyway it's given me the time to spend a little time on the sofa watching movies. The first two are from the mailing service, which I'm still very much appreciating as I don't have to go somewhere by a certain time to deliver them back. I can drop them off in a mailbox whenever. Just whenever.

The first movie is Miss Potter starring Renée Zellweger, Ewan McGregor and Emily Watson. This is one of those movies I couldn't find anyone to watch it with. "But it looks so dull!" and other such rubbish excuses but their loss isn't it? Well that's actually not entirely true. At sometime I was in London with a friend and they were showing it but we decided we'd wait until we got back because we'd already spent a fortune that day.

Well the movie is about Beatrix Potter (I had no idea this was based on a real story and had never heard the name before) who is slightly eccentric (she had money) and makes drawings of Peter Rabbit and such. Then one day she gets published and her life changes forever.
I liked it a lot. It was sweet and sad and a really enjoyable film. Still it isn't exactly a hardcore action movie. I'd compare the pace to that of Ladies in Lavender.


The next movie was Southland Tales starring Dwayne Johnson, Sean William Scott, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Christopher Lambert (I call him Christopher Slambert, I don't know why) Jeaneane Garofalo, Jon Lovitz, Bai Ling, Miranda Richardson, Wallace Shaw (you remember him from Clueless - As if!), Justin Timberlake and Kevin Smith.

I was warned about this. My friend said I wouldn't like it, he said it was odd and not very good. Of course I took it as a dare. Plus with a lineup like that how could there not be something good about it? (I had forgotten the valuable lesson I had made about 10 years ago watching Very Bad Things) So I had to watch it. It was a must. Sarah Michelle Gellar is always good and I have to say I totally digged the Teen Hornieness song and could remember it for a long time. Alas it has faded away.

After what I thought was a good hour of watching I made the mistake of checking how long there was left of it. Only half an hour had passed and there was still a good 1 hour and 45 minutes left. It was going to be a long one. Even though it was bad, and by bad I mean really really really bad. And weird. I still felt I needed to watch it to the end but once it finished I was very happy. I can now say I have successfully watched Southland Tales and I didn't fall asleep at all. Which is quite a feat.


A long time ago I bought a magazine, you know one of those awful weekly womens magazines. Just a Danish varitety. They had different movies with it every week and I didn't even look when I took it off the shelves because £3 including a DVD was pretty cheap by our standards. To my horror it was The Family Stone starring one of my least favorite actors Sarah Jessica Parker. Well I'd seen it before, although I can't remember why or when. I decided to watch it because it's been a while and I think I'm in a Diane Keaton phase. Please help me!

Still I ended up really liking it. The cast, well apart from the worlds most unsexy woman (or horse - Camilla watch out!) is pretty good. The story is good, it was just too bad that it was hyped as a sort of happy holiday movie with a few laughs. I mean anyone with any sense of taste, loves to watch people being mean to Sarah Jessica Parker, not just around Christmas. But actually it's a quite sad movie. Despite the rolling around the floor in egg and such.

I can't believe I like a movie with Sarah Jessica Parker. Bugger.