Well, with my Easter movie marathon got me nearly caught up on my blog, but I'm still a few behind. Hopefully over the next two weekends, I will have the chance to get completely caught up. (Also, it is nice that I am watching a couple of movies with my classes in school as part of their curricula, so I can count those when we finish them!) Speaking of curricula: I found out officially today that next year, I will not be full time. Kind of like this time last year, when I was told that I would have a reduced schedule. This year, however, it is bleaker: for starters, my schedule is a .4, which means only two French classes each semester (hardly a livable schedule), and not the same prospect for getting full time as last year, since there's more people on layoff this year. Oh well, head held high.
This was my last movie of the four-day weekend, and I thought it started a little dumbly (Jesse Eisenberg's initial voice-over narration sounded a little forced and read, unlike the skill he brought to the beginning of The Social Network), and for the most part, Woody Harrelson (who I've always kind of quietly loved) seemed very much a single-point caricature. Emma Stone (who, if you recall, I absolutely loved in Easy A) and Abigail Breslin (good to see her in a movie that doesn't suck) were nice additions to the film, and Bill Murray is fantastic in his cameo. The film is a bit uneven, at times, but it was really very enjoyable. (And at a runtime of 88 minutes, it seems as though they knew that this was not a movie they felt should be drawn out any longer; they were right.)
Score: 8/10
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