Wednesday Afternoon
Apr. 8th, 2009 12:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
offbalanceMy throat is itchy. I do not know why it is, but either way, I do not approve.
It snowed. Which while is kind of either amusing or annoying (depending on your perspective), it's nothing new. If I remember 1993 accurately, there were some really bad snows that year in April. So, there you go. None of it stuck, so I don't see the BFD.
I also may wind up going to get the new Echo at FP on Friday, only because I can, and because I'm getting annoyed by the fact that Midtown charges for bags and boards.
Last night![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
j_bkl and I saw Adventureland. I was expecting a kind of dumb, slapstick-y, gross out sort of comedy, with a lot of mugging, and Jesse Eisenberg trying to do his best Michael Cera impression. It was none of the above. The movie had moments that were really funny, but also a lot of sad ones, too. There were no histrionics, either, which impressed me. Every time I thought the movie would take a painfully predictable route, it didn't. And, as I was surprised to discover, Kristin Stewart is a pretty good actress. I don't know how many notes she has, but as Em, she made her pain palpable,and her angst understandable. I found myself rooting for her to be happy. I was also impressed by a nicely understated performance by Ryan Reynolds. He nicely sidestepped cliche and gave his character a wistful edge (you could believe that even he was aware that he was kind of a slimeball). I also liked how you were very aware of when it was set, but they didn't beat you over the head with the OMG IT'S THE EIGHTIES feeling of some other movies. It's more mumblecore than Apatow, but if this had been made when it was set, I almost wonder if Cameron Crowe would have helmed it. See it.
It snowed. Which while is kind of either amusing or annoying (depending on your perspective), it's nothing new. If I remember 1993 accurately, there were some really bad snows that year in April. So, there you go. None of it stuck, so I don't see the BFD.
I also may wind up going to get the new Echo at FP on Friday, only because I can, and because I'm getting annoyed by the fact that Midtown charges for bags and boards.
Last night
j_bkl and I saw Adventureland. I was expecting a kind of dumb, slapstick-y, gross out sort of comedy, with a lot of mugging, and Jesse Eisenberg trying to do his best Michael Cera impression. It was none of the above. The movie had moments that were really funny, but also a lot of sad ones, too. There were no histrionics, either, which impressed me. Every time I thought the movie would take a painfully predictable route, it didn't. And, as I was surprised to discover, Kristin Stewart is a pretty good actress. I don't know how many notes she has, but as Em, she made her pain palpable,and her angst understandable. I found myself rooting for her to be happy. I was also impressed by a nicely understated performance by Ryan Reynolds. He nicely sidestepped cliche and gave his character a wistful edge (you could believe that even he was aware that he was kind of a slimeball). I also liked how you were very aware of when it was set, but they didn't beat you over the head with the OMG IT'S THE EIGHTIES feeling of some other movies. It's more mumblecore than Apatow, but if this had been made when it was set, I almost wonder if Cameron Crowe would have helmed it. See it.
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Date: 2009-04-08 05:47 pm (UTC)