Saturday, March 28, 2009

Counting down the best three things about Duplicity...

3. Julia Roberts only did the Julia Roberts is-it-charming-or-is-it-disturbing-that-she-can-unhinge-her-jaw-to-laugh-like-that laugh once. She didn't fall down or stumble at all. While that might not be a good thing to those who would like nothing more than to see her remake My Best Friend's Wedding for the rest of her life, it suited us at Pop Culture A.D.D. just fine.

What in God's name was Lyle Lovett thinking?

2. The ending came as a genuine surprise. Leading into the final act, there were five or six plausible endings I could see happening. After I discounted the endings I subconsciously yearned for -- involving monkey butlers, monkey hobos, ghost pirates, pirate ghosts and Colin Ferrell making an appearance to bonk a midget over the head, ala In Bruges -- I figured I had the possible endings narrowed down to two. Thankfully, I was proven the fool and the ending was unexpected. Sadly, there wasn't a monkey, hobo, ghost, pirate or Irishman to be seen.

In Bruges Mini Review: Like a Rick Steve travel video, but with midget bonking.

1. The trailer for Public Enemies. Duplicity was a good-but-not-great movie. Clive Owen was Clive Owen. It was novel to see espionage based in the world of saving the world from baldness, as opposed to saving the world from mutually-assured destruction. That being said, the best thing about the movie was seeing the trailer for Public Enemies. Christian Bale? Johnny Depp? Michael Mann? Feds vs. old-school gangsters? Sign. Me. The. Fuck. Up.

Proof that God exists. Suck it, athiests.

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