Movies

Not much happening here in the dog days of August.  A friend gets married next week.

But there have been movies:

1. Tropic Thunder.  Really, really not funny, if you ask me.  But everyone loves it!  Maybe I'm just a square, or a prude, but when a real character steps on a land mine and blows up rather graphically on camera (the director) I'm put off and not laughing.

2. Frozen River -- great.  Very understated but very real.  Deep sense of place.  Compelling drama, with unpredictable characters.

3. Vicky Christina Barcelona.  Lots of fun.   Only occasionally funny, but never boring, very sensual, everybody's great in it.  The real star is Barcelona, to which I would like to travel very soon.

4. Space Chimps.  I went by myself.  Wish I had stuck wood slivers under my fingernails instead.