40 Guilt Trips on Jack Reacher's Unexpected Journey
Sunday, December 23, 2012 at 4:30PM 
(Why do I like stringing movie titles together in blog post titles? I know not!) The box office charts were exceptionally boring this weekend so I shan't regurgitate them. Let it suffice to say that moviegoers weren't enthused. The weekend was weak for all of the new releases from Tom Cruise's Jack Reacher, to Babs & Seth's The Guilt Trip and the one where Paul Rudd stands in for Judd Apatow in his plotless interminably long home movies. This is 40 is not without laughs but good lord it is indulgent... the 134 minute comedy has so many continuous subplots and so little in the way of a central plot that it plays exactly like a tv series marathon with the credits removed. TV is free to watch and Apatow was better at it (Freaks & Geeks > than all Apatow movies combined. Discuss) so one wishes he'd return.
The most exciting titles are waiting for Christmas Day openings (Django, Les Miz) or have opened in less than 20 theaters (Amour, The Impossible, Zero Dark Thirty, On the Road) to taunt you with their elusivity.
I'd ask you what you went to this weekend but you probably rented a movie, right?
But never mind all that.
Look at this cute teaser poster for Pedro Almodóvar's airplane-set comedy I'm So Excited! (thx to Txus for showing me). Makes me want to fly right to 2013 and skip all this Oscar crap.
Time for an impromptu pol!