It's 7a. I've been up since 6.30a. I should have been up since 6a, but I reset the alarm to get an extra half hour. This means that I cannot linger, that I must write like the wind, 'cause I have to get the hell out of here at 7.30a, 7.45a at the absolute latest.

This may be a little perfunctory.

So, on Sunday I went to the AMC on 42nd St, the easiest theatre in the world to sneak into other theatres, and saw two movies.

The first, the reason that I went, was Unbreakable.

I have been dying to see this movie since I first saw the trailer, which I think is a great example of the dying art of making people really want to see the movie without giving away the entire plot, beginning, middle and end, like, say, Castaway, or What Lies Beneath.

I have also been interested because I heard such wildly disparate reviews from Patrick, who loved it and Diane, who loathed it. She loathed it in an email to her notify list, though, so I'm afraid that there is no link for you.

I was somewhat inbetween. I really loved it while it was playing, but less so afterwards. I think that the ending was a little bit of a letdown, if made sense, but it wasn't really good enough. I was hoping that maybe he had been dead the entire movie, but I figured that was unlikely.

The performances were good, especially Bruce Willis, who was terrific. Samuel L. Jackson was pretty weird, but he was always true to the character, so I accepted his strange style.

All in all, I both loved it and was weirdly disappointed in it.

Then, because when it's this easy and when movies are this expensive, you really must do it, I snuck into Charlie's Angels.

Let's see, what did I say about this before?

First trailer:

"Immensely stupid trailer involving lots of hair-swinging and lame-ass martial arts moves (Cynthia, the martial artist that I was sitting next to, said "They're doing the kind of moves that disguises the fact that they can't actually fight."), though Bill Murray looks a hoot. Not worth paying $9.50 to see, though. Maybe worth catching on HBO sometime next year."

And then:

"I am really over this Feria commercial disguised as a trailer. I can't wait until it opens and immediately closes so that we can all get on with our lives. Can somebody send me a cut with just Bill Murray's scenes so that I don't have to see the rest of it?"

I never reviewed the second trailer, but I remember saying that it actually looked like it was kind of fun, that maybe it wasn't as bad as it looked at first, but since I never officially wrote it down here, that doesn't really count.

No matter what, though, it never occurred to me that I would love it as much as I did! In fact, had anyone told me that I would like Charlie's Angels better than Unbreakable, I would have said that you were completely mental. But it is true!

It was charming and hilarious and sweet-natured and really fun, it never took itself seriously for a second, the performances were absolutely swell all around, and the people who are complaining about the plot need to get kicked in the head, as it was exactly the sort of plot that they had on the series, and it was perfect for the style.

I don't think that Tom Green, though, realized the laughs he would get by referring to himself as "The Chad".

Then, last night, was State and Main.

This is absolutely, positively the funniest film about Hollywood ever ever made. Of course, seeing in an all-industry screening meant that it got absolute howls where perhaps it won't elsewhere, but I don't think that it's too inside to play.

Anyone reading this, though, who has anything to do with show business (Diane, Stee, Pamie, Anne, Jennifer) really seriously has to run don't walk. This film is basically perfect. Perfect, I say!

I have more to say about it, but I have to go.

Happy 57th birthday Randy Newman!

Today's horoscope:
A change in routines is likely. You may alter the tasks, sequences of duties, travel routes, or other "predictable" parts of your day.

One year ago today:
I mean, how stupid do they think I am, not to notice a rip that big!

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