Movies

Last night we found ourselves Neflix-less, which doesn't happen often but always serves to remind us what crap is on TV most of the time. This time we ended up watching "Along Came Polly," which was dumb and clichéd, but at least Ben Stiller is always fun to watch. The really unbearable part was the commercials! I watch almost no TV, so I'd forgotten about those long commercial breaks every 15 minutes. And the commercials were stunningly bad. A 90-minute movie ends up being three hours long. So, anyhow, if this movie is on and you're too lazy to get off the couch and go do something more interesting, you might as well watch it, but I can't say I'd encourage you to add it to your queue.

Last week and the week before, we watched the two installments of "Empire Falls" (remember I'd read and adored the book a few months ago?). Here's my review: What he said. Oh, plus my usual gripe about horrible faux New England accents (Helen Hunt's was particularly egregious.) All in all, certainly not a waste a time, but also certainly not anywhere near as good as it could have been.

Comments

[Margaret]

TV is horrible; I don't watch it much at all. I usually just pick up a book.

[Risottogirl]

I completely gave up YEARS ago on the horrible-Hollywood-reditions-of-Maine-accents-thing.Maybe because I grew up in Portland and I don't have an accent nor do many people I grew up with.

I did like Empire Falls though, maybe because of the cast - the book was better, of course.

[Debra Hamel]

I haven't yet read or seen Empire Falls, but I have Nobody's Fool. That book was great and I was also impressed by the movie, to my surprise.

[Tonya]

I just read Empire Falls a few weeks ago and loved it, and then I ordered the DVD, which I haven't watched yet. I figured with that cast it had to be really good -- I'm disappointed to hear that you were disappointed! (Yeah, the New England accent is hard to get right).