Gung Ho

Watched this movie this past week at Movie Night.

Side note: Movie Night is this great thing we've been doing with 2 of our couple friends so they're 6 of us in total.  On a biweekly basis, we rotate from house to house each couple taking a turn a picking a movie.  We start after the kids are in bed.  I couldn't tell you the original criteria for the movies we watch and it really doesn't matter since it's now down to whatever the host wants to show.  Anyhoo... lots of fun and we've seen a number of movies we wouldn't normally see.  Additionally, it's allowed us (Jo and me) to watch more movies than we normally would have.  These days, we rarely see anything that isn't animated.

So, Gung Ho.  It's been a number of years since I had seen this show, and it's held up rather well I must say.  Funnier now that I'm old enough to get more of the adult humor, and still applicable for the times.  Keaton is great in it and Gedde Watanabe is great too.

Moneyball

Had a chance to see this over the weekend at the $1.25 theater.  Earliest movie time I've ever been to of 10:20am.  Nice quiet theater with all of 6 other people or so.  Yes, not the nicest theater, but it didn't change the film I'm sure.

A very good movie, and I'm certainly not a baseball fan.  Yes, I've seen a bunch of  baseball movies (The Natural, The Sand Lot, The Rookie, Major League, League of Their Own, For Love of the Game, Field of Dreams, The Fan, come to mind), but my wife too enjoyed it and she's no sports fan.  Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill were both very good in it.  Sorry, ladies... Brad kept his shirt on the entire movie (Jonah, too, remained fully clothed).  It was nice to see Jonah in a film where he isn't playing the same role he seems to.  Did you know BTW that Jonah Hill is the voice of one of the characters from How to Train Your Dragon?  Me either.  It was a surprise when I saw that on imdb.

Reservoir Dogs

This had been on my list of movies to see (again) for some time (Apr 2009).  Jo and I finally watched it about a month ago thanks to Netflix.  After watching it with Jo, I felt like I had to apologize.  I think the way the movie was filmed was cool and the plot is engaging, but it didn't live up to the spot on the pedestal I had placed it in my memory.  Maybe I'll have to talk to Jeff more about it's appeal.