Funny People

The best movie I've seen all year. Adam Sandler is extraordinary. Everyone shits all over the last act--and, yes, it takes risks and it is long--but the only thing that keeps this movie from being Citizen Fucking Kane is Leslie Mann. Heartbreaking to think what Amy Adams (for example) could have done with that role. So good I had to stop the DVD multiple times and walk around my house punching the air going, "Holy shit! Holy shit! Holy shit!"

(Yes, it was an enhanced viewing, but I stand by my assessment.)

Avatar

So fucking stupid. I didn't really get all the raves about its spectacular beauty--it's about as beautiful as a Yes album cover. But the fantastical has never been put across with such fluidity, and I admit it effectively pounded me into submission. It was an astonishingly natural moment of romance when the big blue lady held the crippled marine in her arms and cried out in her Pandoran accent "My Jake!"