I've been doing pretty good on watching movies these last few days. One a day, on top of catching up on episodes of various shows like SCTV, Outer Limits, New Twilight Zone, and Digimon Tri.
The flicks have been... nothing on anyone's radar. You guys (probably) know that I enjoy a good mediocre movie, I don't know why. Laughably bad is good, but I'm talking 'fine." So the last few days I saw Plain Clothes, a flick about an undercover cop going back to high school to find out who murdered a teacher. It's got George Wendt, Abe Vigoda, and a couple other character actors (and Reginald velJohnson as the chief, that was an "in" for me!) and I think it's MEANT to be a comedy, but I don't really remember laughing. It wasn't even a parts movie. I don't know if i would watch it again, but I sat through the whole thing and I don't really have any complaints.
Another one was Moving Target, which I didn't realize was a TV movie. Teenage Jason Bateman is this musician whose parents send him to this really upscale snooty camp for professional musicians, but dude ain't up for that! He wants to chill with his own band, do some gigs, meet girls, right? So he skips out early, but when he arrives home, his parents, his dog, his whole life... is gone.
And finally, a more modern proper movie. Albeit one almost 20 years old. Netflix added all the Albert Brooks movies, so I checked out The In-Laws. I enjoyed it, funny and had a real nice pace to it, everything moves along at a nice clip, good cast (baby Ryan Reynolds is in it!), though the one thing I kept thinking was that it was this kind of role that made Pixar pick Brooks for the role of Marlin in Finding Nemo, it's very similar.
BTW, thinking of Pixar, I couldn't help but think of Toy Story 3 while watching Digimon Tri, there's sort of the same thing going on there with the human characters growing up but the digimon being stuck in that sweet, childish attitude and slowly discovering that it doesn't really conform to their current situation. The format is also really different, I think the "series" is actually a bunch of movies that were cut into pieces, so the pacing is off. The old show was very episodic and set in a magic world, for the most part... very quest-like, and this is much slower, strolls along, and the attitude is different. Of course, part of the attitude change is because it's in the original Japanese and not dubbed with gags and jokes. But the animation is smooth, lots of "magic hour" shots, detailed backgrounds... there's also only the first two "movies" up, so this is all leading to something but I don't know what yet (or when that will be available). At least now I can discuss it with my cousin Efe, who told me about it in the first place.