So, last night I left work at a reasonable hour and hied me to the movies. Three movie-related entries in a row, sorry about that, movie-haters!

I decided to see Snatch. There are a couple reasons that I wanted to see Snatch, one was Benicio Del Toro, and the other was the fact that I loved Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Both of these reasons turned out to be wrong.

I had heard that this film was basically Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels all over again, and I didn't think that that was a bad thing--hey, I liked the first movie, why not do it again? Because it doesn't work that way, that's why.

Lock Stock was joyful and wild and loose and all came together beautifully in a way that no-one had ever seen before. Snatch is all planned and plotted and pretending to be loose, but following a map exactly, without really fitting. Like when you were a kid and you would lie down on a big piece of paper and the teacher would draw an outline around you, making a you-shaped drawing. It was the most natural thing in the world to lie down in your own shape, and the most unnatural to lie down in somebody else's.

Not to mention the fact that, Sam Raimi not withstanding, it's usually a hideous disaster to try to make the same film twice.

So, instead of being freewheeling and wild it was stiff and mannered, but what about Benicio Del Toro? Un, kinda yuck. I mean, he looked real pretty, but he was doing this appalling accent, and whenever he opened his mouth it was a disaster.

Are there any reasons to see the movie? Well, yes, actually. The first is Brad Pitt as the gypsy bare-knuckle fighter, who is, surprisingly, exactly as wild and loose and free and joyful as the movie wants to be, but doesn't accomplish. And the other was one of the best bits in Lock Stock as well, but I had forgotten, the wonderful Vinnie Jones as Bullet Tooth Tony.

As far as sports stars turning to acting, he is certainly one of the best that I have ever seen, he is tremendously sexy in a violent, yet controlled way (one of my favourites), and when it comes right down to it, I have rarely seen anything so hot as that scene in the pub when he faces down the three guys with just his words and his attitude. That scene actually made the $9.50 I spent worth spending.

Were Vinnie Jones the lead, I'd watch the movie over and over again. I'd watch a movie about him brushing his teeth.

Today's horoscope:
Focus, concentration, organization, and handling details is emphasized today. Business matters flourish.

One year ago today:
"If I has known that you guys would improve so much by not rehearsing, I wouldn't have bothered having any rehearsals at all! It certainly would have been easier for me"

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