The Good and the bad bad bad

I saw a number of movies last weekend, both in the theater and at home. It was the first time in quite a while that I'd gone to a movie - working too much, I guess - and the popcorn was great.

I went to see Night at the Museum last Sunday (was it really only 5 days ago?). It was a fun fun movie! Totally predictable, inane plot, yes. Clearly someone had an idea about everything in a museum coming to life and tried to put a story around it. Totally transparent. But it was fun anyway. No great acting, no great dialog, no great meaning, but it was entertaining. So good.

Soph and I also rented some dancing movie with Antonio Banderas - Take the Lead - which is based on a real life story. That movie was a lot of fun. It was also predictable, but the plot was at least meaningful, and it was entertaining. Also, the soundtrack was GREAT. Tons of fun, and it sounded fantastic on my stereo. Sooooo nice. I love my stereo.

And finally, when Soph when to see Dreamgirls with Ellie, Will and I went to see Eragon (mostly b/c neither of us wanted watch Dreamgirls). What a mistake. We should have played frisbee golf or something. While the book that Eragon is based on is a really fun read with decent characters and fast action, the movie was HORRIBLE! Like D-. Bad bad bad. The acting was bad. The dialog was worse. The sequencing was awful. If I hadn't read the book I would have had no idea what was going on. Have you ever seen a movie with a scene that's obviously intended to be "powerful" in some way? Like it was supposed to move you to tears, or was supposed to feel really ominous, or was a "soaring moment"? This movie had all of those, but instead of actually being powerful, they only felt like they were *trying* to be powerful. This is one of those things that if you're going to attempt, you need to succeed, because failing is worse than not trying. Unfortunately for Eragon, they tried over and over again, but failed every. single. time. It might have been laughably bad, but I sat through it for 2 hours, so even when I laugh at it, I'm sad. It was just bad. bad bad bad.

When does Transformers come out again?