Revolver

So myManMacomber and I were talking about movies that employ some version of an unreliable narrator, and he asks me if I've seen Revolver. I wasn't sure, so I asked him to "hum a few bars"*... after a short description I said "Yeah I totally saw that, that was the one where they smeared it in your face that they hadn't ever said the name of the main character right?" he says "I can't remember, but yeah maybe, that sounds about right"... we traded bits like this back and forth for a while, and while each one seemed familiar neither he nor I was able to actually lock down any one piece or part that we both remembered. In the end he was talking about Revolver but I was thinking of Layer Cake, a film that really doesn't have THAT much in common with Revolver... that said I thought Revolver the better film.

I'd give it 3 out of 5 times I felt like an idiot for confusing it with Layer Cake.

* I love the original joke:
there's a noisy party with a guy playing the piano overly loud. Another guy walks up to him and says "Hey, do you know there's a little old lady upstairs trying to sleep?" And the piano player says "No, but hum a few bars and I'll fake it!"

Trailers for Em

Baby Mama (or: 1 down, 3 to go)

Despite Deb's assurances that she wouldn't actually hold me to 4 chick flix just for season one of Dexter I thought we'd better focus on the "Romantic Comedy" genre when searching for something at Blockbuster over the weekend. Unfortunately Deb had already seen 3 out of 5 of the romantic comedies we considered on this particular Blockbuster trip.

I haven't watched 30 Rock, but the recent slew of Tina Fey skits on SNL made this seem like a good choice. It's a good solid rental. I did have problems with the ending so if you haven't seen this, but plan to then STOP READING NOW... The movie established a "happy" ending by delivering what we had been informed had a "billion to one" chance of happening. I felt a little betrayed. At that point they might as well have had aliens show up and HAND Tina Fey's character a baby (it would have been more plausible and more entertaining!).

[update]I'm going to assume that this one was better than 3 out of the 5 romantic comedies that Deb watched without me.

NetFlix Baby Mama (2008) add to your queue

360 surprise

So last year I bought myself an xbox360 for my birthday. Little did I know that Microsoft was going to remember that and give me a completely unsolicited gift for my birthday one year later.

Thanks Microsoft, it's the little things like remembering a customer's birthday, that really set you apart.