I saw a kick ass movie last night.
We, along with the newly bikeless Sohns (their beautiful beachcruisers were stolen about a week ago- don't get me going on that) went to see Appaloosa last night. Now, I haven't seen a western in a theatre (obviously pronounced thee-a-tray) since Tombstone, and it's not really my genre. Actually, I wasn't sure which movie came out last- Tombstone or Young Guns II. Thanks to IMDB.com, we can all rest assured that Tombstone was the later movie, released in 1993, while YGII came out in 1990. Hmmmm. Moving on...
Anyway, Appaloosa was totally entertaining. And who knew Aragorn from Lord of the Rings could kills orcs AND cowboys?!? He can!!! Amazing. There is a low point, and that happened about 15 minutes or so into the movie when Renee Zellweger got off the train and ruined the token chick role. Her face usually looks excessively scrunched up and painful- in this it was even more so but also dried and tanned. Positively awful. In one scene, she asks Aragorn if he thinks she's pretty and there's a pause and I said out loud, "No." That elicited an elbow shove from the Tall One. It was like a cruel joke when she entered the movie, I felt sneak-attacked. I knew Aragorn and the Mission Control dude from Apollo 13 were in it, but I did NOT see RZ coming.
So go on out and see the movie. It's pretty stinking funny, we were laughing about half the movie- but we were the only ones laughing. There were some great one-liners, and it was like nobody was getting it! It felt like when I saw Pride & Prejuidice with my brainiac girlfriends and we were cracking up and nobody else was because they couldn't understand British humor and there's no such thing as British-American subtitles. Sigh.
It's funny, I promise.
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