A Word On Movies

So I saw Black Swan last night and.... IT WAS FREAKING TERRIFYING! I had to keep shielding my eyes for fear that images of skin peeling off and legs turning into weird human-swan-hybrid-legs and psycadelic screaming paintings would be etched into my mind and I wouldn't be able to sleep. And what happened? These images were etched into my mind and I was unable to sleep. About halfway through I thought to myself, "Hey wait, this isn't that great. Or is it?" I really could not tell. But then it got better as it got to the end. I still haven't decided if overall I liked it or not. I think I did, but maybe I was too scared to fully appreciate it? I also kept thinking that Mila Kunis' character was going to end up not being real... which it sorta seemed like would have been more logical in the scheme of things but because it already happened in Fight Club they couldn't do that so she just had to be real. It was definitely visually striking. Enough so that I'm now scared of both ballerinas and classical music. One of the previews in our theatre was for that rom-com that's coming out with Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher and I totally understand why Natalie Portman would do that movie afterwards. She must've felt like she was going crazy. I'd wanna do something lighter too.

Today I rented Scott Pilgrim Versus The World from Redbox. It was really bad at first. And then it was sorta better. And then it was over. There was a funny part where he goes, "Bread makes you fat?!" Wow. That sounds really unfunny written down.

Machete. Sorry, Ma-che-TE, was marketed realllly weirdly. In all the ads before it came out it looked like a realllllllly horrible action movie (which, perhaps it is, I haven't seen it). But they didn't say it was Robert Rodriguez which I feel like would have been a good selling point for a movie that looks like a really horrible action movie but (maybe) isn't. Also, De Niro is in it, which just always is a selling point right? I didn't know this movie had either of these things until these commercials for the DVD came out. The commercial when it was in theaters was just Jessica Alba saying "Ma-che-TE" and so everyone just went around laughing about saying "Ma-che-TE" with a weird inflection like that and no one considered seeing it.