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I really enjoyed this movie! My taste in entertainment tends to lean Anglophilic so that should come as no surprise. I’m sure I’m not the first person to bring this up, but I found the film to be part-way between the Marx Brothers and Monty Python, which is to say it had its fair share of well constructed slapstick and absurdity. Michael Palin was brilliant as K-k-k-ken — I found the humor written for his character to be the best in the film. The old lady sequence had me in stitches…

We watched the 1960 film Ocean’s Eleven last night, and while the acting was a bit subpar the plot was actually quite decent. I found the ending, where the Rat Pack accidentally destroys all the money they stole, to be much more satisfying than the sappy ending to the 2001 remake. If the movie didn’t crawl at a snail’s pace I’d even suggest you go rent it…

After living near Davis Square for almost two years, I finally went to the Somerville Theater for a movie. Why now? Because I just found out about their $5 matinée tickets! That’s about half the going rate around Boston, so it’s quite a deal. Funky little place — similar to the Pleasant Street Theater in Northampton in many ways. Their claim to fame (which I did not partake in, this being mid-afternoon) is that they serve beer at the theater. Good play in a college town!

Two comic-book movies in one weekend is going to make me seem like quite the fanboy, but I assure you that it is mere coincidence. The movie itself was decent, but somebody tried to cram too many villains into one flick. Other than that my only comment is that it’s a crime Tobey Maguire wasn’t cast as a Hobbit for the Lord of the Rings — he’s the right height, has disproportionately large feet, and in this movie he proved his ability to weep for a significant portion of two and a half hours.

A tight schedule and an even tighter wallet make me the perfect Netflix customer. I didn’t read comic books growing up, so I’m not exactly sure where my interest in superheroes comes from (Star Wars, maybe?), but I usually enjoy Hollywood’s take. Perhaps it is simply because I never read the originals that I don’t have heightened expectations going in.

Anyway, “Superman Returns” was pretty good — Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor was fantastic, absolutely my favorite part. My one complaint: I didn’t know Superman’s tag-line was so lame:

Lois: “Will we see you around?”
Superman:  “I’m always around…”

Superman just became as creepy as Santa Claus!