We are tired! But back in good spirits.
It was a rollercoaster of a day! We saw two movies, and then got turned away from three, which put us in a shit mood. We didn't get into Yes Men Fix The World, An Education or The World's Greatest Dad. Huge let-down! It's the PITS looking for tickets for hours in the cold and snow to no avail. Especially since for one of them, we actually WERE able to find hard tickets but they turned us away at the door because too many people from the cast/crew entourage showed up and they couldn't accommodate all the ticket holders. We were able to get two free tickets apiece for the inconvenience, though, so that's something I guess.
A few things made everything turn around, though, and the first one was how fast we got tickets for I Love You Phillip Morris. Whew!
Now I'll review the movies I haven't reviewed yet.
Cold Souls - A weird existential movie that was not unlike Being John Malkovitch. It starred Paul Giamatti as himself, a tortured actor trying to cope with an internal crisis who turns to a new service called soul storage where they extract your soul and keep it safe for you. of course his goes missing and it all goes on from there.... Eh, it was fine. Had a few funny moments but mostly not something I'll remember for the rest of my life.
Endgame - a dramatic retelling of the informal talks in South Africa that lead up to the abolition of apartheid. Very, very dry. Interesting and good, especially at the end when the pace finally picked up, but there just simply wasn't enough heart in this. Plus in the epilogue they had an improperly placed apostrophe - not cool!
I Love You Phillip Morris - the gay prison comedy starring Jim Carrey and Ewan Macgregor. This was an interesting one. Too long, first of all. Weird tone, second of all. I really couldn't figure out who the target audience would be for this film. There were simply a few too many Chuck & Larry level jokes (even though it really was just a few) to cater to an exclusive indie or GBLT audience, but it was a little too much for the multiplexes. Performance-wise, I have to say that I forgot almost immediately that I was watching Ewan, he just disappeared in to the role. Jim Carrey, not so much. He was always Jim Carrey. That said, I definitely laughed, and several times.
We have no idea what we're seeing yet tomorrow - time to figure it out!!
