Short week... but got a Master Pancake show in with friends!

Been pretty busy with work the last week and a half and didn't get to see too many movies... but what I did see was great. Also had a bunch of friends in town for the holiday weekend... which was a blast. Did the standards: food, 6th st., food, shootin' some guns, food, and a visit to The Alamo Drafthouse Ritz for a Master Pancake show of Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan. I was a bit nervous not thinking some of my friends would like or get the Master Pancake setup... especially since it was Star Trek movie. Would have been for sure if was Jurassic Park or Forrest Gump. Luckily, they loved it (or at least that's what they said).





About two-thirds of the way through the show, the Master Pancake comedians stop the show for a skit, then finish out the movie. The photo is of the skit... Spock and Kirk's encounter with Man Boobs Khan... doing an Irish Jig.





Now for the new movies of the week. Only three movies, but all were great.

3.     Sweet Land

This had a "Sarah-Plain-And-Tall-esque" feel to it... A German woman comes to Minnesota to marry a man a she hasn't met. Simply, the story was good, the acting was good... it just made you feel good. The interesting thing about this was the foreign language dialog. One of the biggest aspects of the movie was how the characters all had to learn how to communicate, because they all basically spoke different languages. I'm not sure if this is why the director left out subtitles, but you got the same experience as the other characters in the scene... not really sure what the others were saying. You knew what they were trying to convey because of the situations/context clues... so you weren't anymore lost than what the other characters were.


2.     Charade

 "Do women find it feminine to be so illogical, or can't they help it?"

Charade definitely got the quote of the week here. I've had this movie in my Netflix queue for quite some time now, but never got around to watching it. I was looking over the Drafthouse's website one weekend and saw that it was going to be playing that night... it was "now or never". I chose now. I was glad I did. This was suck a great movie. It was a fun movie that never really felt dated 50 some years later. With Grant and Hepburn, it's a must see... Hepburn really was a hottie.   

1.     The Intouchables

I remember seeing previews for this one a while back and was itching to see it as soon as possible. Unfortunately I didn't get a chance to see it in theater when it came to Austin, so I had to wait sometime more until it came out on disc. Here is the Netflix's description:

Based on a true story, a quadriplegic aristocrat's world is turned 

upside down when he hires a young, good-humored ex-con as his 

caretaker. This unlikely duo overcomes adversity of every flavor 

as they shatter preconceptions of love, life and each other.

It stars François Cluze, who I think is the French Dustin Hoffman... look at the poster and tell me I'm wrong. I first saw him in my favorite French movie, Tell No One. He was great, Omar Sy was great, the story is great, nothing really gets lost in translation... all are a plus when looking at this one. It's not half way through the year yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if this is one of my top 10 favorite of this year. 

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Like I said, I'm behind. I actually started writing this one a while ago and have been sidetracked for the last handfull of days. My next entry will have...

The Hangover 3, After Earth, Epic, Now You See Me, Freeloaders, Parker, Stand Up Guys, Seven Psycopaths, and Why Stop Now?... there will probably be more coming but probably not until after vacation...

Speaking of which, picked up some books for the beach: Odd Interlude and Odd Apocalypse (Got through the first books real quick, then just stopped. Time to get back to it). Also both of Owen Egerton's books, The Book of Harold: The Illegitimate Son Of God and Everyone Says That At The End Of The World. Owen can be seen as Khan in the Star Trek picture up top... he's one of the members of Master Pancake. And also Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, an Austin arthor... a suggested read by people down here.

Has anyone read any of these... or have any FUN suggestions for beach reading?