So yesterday I left the house. It was raining, it wasn't going to stop raining, I knew that it was going to rain today, but if I didn't leave the house, then I'd spend the whole three day weekend sitting in my pyjamas. Besides, I have those movie passes to use up!

The Good Eats marathon was on, but that's what TiVo is for.

I decided to go to the Loews on 34th St and see My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Possession (Cynthia's capsule review of Possession: "You have to see it--Jeremy Northam takes off his clothes!"), but I had to wait for awhile for the van and didn't get there in time.

Which is exactly what happened on my birthday, the same movie, the same theatre. The world does not want me to see My Big Fat Greek Wedding at the Loews on 34th St. So instead I decided to see The Good Girl and Goldmember

You know, I probably would have let The Good Girl go by, I mean, I wanted to see it, I heard it was good, but it wouldn't have broken my heart had it left the theatres without my seeing it, and a couple years down the line I would have caught it on DVD and I would have just kicked myself.

It was so wonderful. It was so good that I just sat there with my jaw open afterwards, wondering how this simple movie could just be so incredible, but it was. The script was excellent, the acting was very deep and simple and clear, it was really funny but it wasn't a comedy, I can't explain. This is why I am not a movie reviewer.

Jennifer Aniston blended in with the rest of the cast, it wasn't a bunch of real actors and the TV star, they all belonged to the same place. I particularly enjoyed Tim Blake Nelson and John C. Reilly, but the whole cast was terrific. Mike White, the screenwriter, was hilarious as the Christian security guard. But the best thing in the movie was that store, that grim, dingy store, every tiny bit was so well art directed, it made me laugh every time.

I really must see Chuck and Buck, the last film from this writer and director, that I did let go from the theatre without seeing it. I'm glad I didn't make the same mistake twice.

Afterwards was Goldmember, which was not up to the level, but was relatively amusing. There were sections, particularly the opening, that made me laugh like a drain, and of course there were the sections that were pretty tiresome (does anyone not related to Mike Meyers find Fat Bastard funny?), but all in all I liked rather than disliked it.

I particularly liked Beyonce Knowles, who was absolutely adorable and charming as Foxy Cleopatra--she just threw herself into the role absolutely and seemed to be having a whale of a time. She was so much better than Heather Graham in the last one, there's no comparison.

The main thing, though, that I would have changed about the film was that I wold have made it Nigel Powers, International Man of Mystery, because Michael Caine as Austin's dad was just so wonderful you couldn't look at anything else when he was on the screen.

You talk about "it", having "it", well he has it, baby, to the nines.

Seeing Goldmember reminded me that I really wanted to get The Ipcress File on DVD, I hadn't been able to find it the last couple of times I had looked, but I thought I'd give it another go.

And at HMV, there it was! But also at HMV there were other things, things on sale. And I'm still pissed about some DVDs that were on sale when they first came out, but I didn't get them then and now they are $35 or $40, which is too much to pay for a DVD, I think, and I didn't want to make that mistake again.

Or maybe I just wanted to buy stuff.

Anyway, I got Lord of the Rings and Gosford Park and Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction and spent a good deal more than I meant to. Can I count them as birthday presents, do you think?

Today's horoscope:
A good friend offers assistance. Together, you can finish that nagging task.

One year ago today:
Good thing we didn't wait, as we all would have resorted to eating each other like the Donner Party.

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