So there are a lot of movies coming out over the next few weeks, and oh boy I can’t wait!  It looks like there should be a few of them that have the potential to be pretty decent, or even (dare I say) good.  Lets count the number of remakes, shall we?  Sigh.

Then you’ve got all the releases coming on the home front for the holidays, can anyone say The Dark Knight? There is always a minimum of, at the very least, ten DVDs I would really like to purchase at any given time.  Maybe someday I will get them all, maybe not, who knows.

But that’s all to come, and this is now, and right now we have a great many movies that have come out over the last year that we can talk shit about, so lets do that, right?  Right!  Well then lets get started…

I’ve seen a great many films this year so I doubt I will be able to hit them all equally, but I will do my best to get as many as I can.  Also from now on I will attempt to do a more monthly coverage of these things we call “entertaining cinema” as well as TV rap-ups as well… Maybe… Yeah.

I’ll start from latest and go backwards, I feel that will be the best way to go about this.  So to start off we have Quantum of Solace, the follow-up to Casino Royale in the newly revamped James Bond 007 franchise.  This movie picks up, literally, within minutes of the end of the last film, and it starts quickly.  The film wastes no time jumping right into the action, and for the most part keeps it going pretty well throughout the film.  I enjoyed this, as it all seemed to be very well done, it was very entertaining and drew me into it as a result.  With that said, I did find myself missing some of the more subtle and cerebral moments from the earlier films in the franchise.  It was always fun watching Bond get the upper had on his enemies by merely out-witting them.  Not to say that there is none of that in this film, as there are some moments that are just fun, but they have clearly decided to go with a more action-oriented style of story telling for these new films.

Personally I wasn’t very excited about the casting of Olga Kurylenko as the female lead, or “Bond Girl” if you must, as I just wasn’t that fond of her.  Don’t get me wrong, she is a gorgeous woman, I just didn’t think she was a good choice for the film, but I will admit when I am wrong, and I was.  Olga did a great job in this part and her interaction with Daniel Craig as Bond was, in my opinion, great as well.  I still feel Daniel Craig is a good, if not a traditional, Bond.  I understand the direction these last two films are going with, and he plays the part well with that.  All in all, I enjoyed Quantum of Solace, even though it was only a mere 106 minutes running time.  For those who are fans of the Bond films, this one is a definite go and see, especially in theaters, but I am always an avid “go to the theaters” guy, it’s just the best way to enjoy bigger movies.

Alright, that was longer than I was expecting so I’m only going to do one other movie right now, and to mix it up a bit, that movie will be Role Models.  To make it short, I really loved this film.  It was just great.  Seann William Scott and Paul Rudd are amazing in this movie.  They work perfectly together and separately, as well as with the kids.  The chemistry between the actors in this film is very good, they all really feel like they’ve known each other for a long time and get along great, or horribly, depending on what is called for.  I would recommend this movie to anyone who really enjoys a good, dirty and at times, blue comedy.  Though it is definitely not for a younger audience.

I feel as though I should throw something in about a movie I saw that I didn’t really care for, since I basically just made mad-love to the two films I just wrote about, but I think this post has gone on long enough, and I will try and throw something negative in about something else, in the weeks to come.

That’s it for now.

Out.

I was wrong about you.