As someone who has been to Scotland (and experienced it to the fullest), I can tell you with complete and utmost honesty: no he’s not.
So anyway, the roomies and I finally watched Kiss Kiss Bang Bang today and I’m still in shock. Let’s add one more awesome point to the tally of how much Robert Downey Jr. kicks ass. I heard really great things about it before. That “oh it’s so underrated” jazz. It really, truly is. I’m just disappointed that it took me five years to actually watch it in its entirety.
The dialogue is fantastic and witty and lightning fast. So fast that actors talk all over each other (which adds to the hilarity) though, to be fair, it’s probably just Robert ad-libbing like usual. I don’t care. We laughed so hard for minutes at a time. Val Kilmer plays a totally atypical role, he won me back after years of just “bleh”. But then again, I’d probably be the person saying Willow was his best film (it was). It’s an updated film noir (without being campy), it’s too hilarious to even fathom, it’s completely unexpected at times, and it breaks the fourth wall within the first fifteen minutes. Rent it. If that doesn’t spark an interest…go watch Willow and then read this entry again.
-Estherocket
I’m not going to lie. I’m scared of aliens. I can watch any horror movie with any amount of gore or hauntings or ghosts or monsters or anything. But the minute you put some sort of alien abduction story in it, I’m out. Mind you, I have no problem with “nice” non-terrifying aliens (Doctor Who, Star Wars). My friends once strapped me down to a couch in Middle School and forced me to watch Signs. I do believe that I walked around my room for three months, spraying water in the air and praying for my life that nothing fizzled. I can’t take it. I’ll have nightmares for years. I even had to change the channel every time the trailer for The Fourth Kind came on the telly. But I was recently presented with an invaluable piece of information that will let me rest easy from now on.
“Australian wallabies are eating opium poppies and creating crop circles as they hop around “as high as a kite”, a government official has said. Lara Giddings, the attorney general for the island state of Tasmania, said the kangaroo-like marsupials were getting into poppy fields grown for medicine…”
Thank you Wallabies, for your cuteness and ability to get high and crash into each other. Nature rocks. I am safe. Full article here.
-Estherocket
