I haven’t caught up with movies over the last couple of weeks, and it seems like there’s a little lull at the box office. By that I mean that there hasn’t been anything I wanted to see come out lately.<\/p>\n
But in looking at the blog, I’ve neglected to mention some of the movies I have seen over the past month or two.<\/p>\n
My wife and I went to see Inception<\/span> opening night and Scott Pilgrim<\/span> opening night. Both were big hits in the Cox household.<\/p>\n I’m usually pretty knowledgable about movies before I see them, from reviews, or previews, so my litmus test is usually my wife who goes into movies with no prior knowledge, and a lot of courage due to that fact if you ask me.<\/p>\n We both really liked Inception<\/span>. For me, it was second only to Toy Story 3<\/span> as my favorite movie so far this year. It was a very cool movie that really had me hooked and suspending my disbelief as it crafted a convoluted but understandable story<\/a>. Actually, my only problem with the movie is that it wasn’t a little more intricate. I was very surprised that Christopher Nolan didn’t play with the idea of a collective unconscious as part of a plot point along the way. (Or did he?)<\/p>\n Now, I assumed we would both like Inception, but I did not expect us both to like Scott Pilgrim<\/span>.<\/p>\n I am of course a comic book fan. That is understood here at Film Strip. Due to that fact, I am familiar with the Scott Pilgrim<\/span> graphic novels and their creator Brian Lee O’Malley. I own and have read the first volume of Scott Pilgrim<\/span>, and I was somewhat impressed. I also listened to a lengthy podcast interviewing O’Malley, and he seemed like a cool guy. Part of my problem is that I read the first graphic novel in 2009, and it was originally published in 2004. If I had read it then at age 22, I might have appreciated the hipster-geek-indy nature of the story more than I did at age 27. I liked it, but not enough continue following the story.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, that may have been a mistake.<\/p>\n Leading up to the movie, meaning the week before, a local comic shop employee informed me that the story got way better in the later graphic novels. Really? I wish I had known that before.<\/p>\n So we went and saw the movie, and enjoyed it thoroughly, My wife loved the references to old 8-bit video games because that’s the last time she played a video game. Plus she loves Micahel Cera from Arrested Development<\/span>, so that was going for the movie. I loved the comic, music, and video game references too. Plus, it had that idea of the beta-male figure trying to get the un-reachable girl that most guys identify with. Including me.<\/p>\n Since seeing the movie, we bought the video game off the Playstation Network and have had a blast with the fun old-school beat-em-up style.<\/p>\n So if you’re looking at the showtimes this week wondering if anything is good and you haven’t seen Inception<\/span> or Scott Pilgrim<\/span>, forget about horrible looking movies like Takers<\/span> (#1 last weekend), and find a theater still playing something worth seeing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I haven’t caught up with movies over the last couple of weeks, and it seems like there’s a little lull at the box office. By that I mean that there hasn’t been anything I wanted to see come out lately.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","uentry","postonpage-1","odd","post-author-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}