Shane Life

I was fortunate enough to see two pretty good movies this weekend. It’s been a while since I’ve seen more than one so I was really excited for a multiple movie extravaganza.

Saturday morning, I woke up and caught the early Lucky Number Slevin with Brad and Scott. Alli mentioned AMC’s $4 before noon deal that they have going on…I was too glad to oblige as we arrived for our 10:30 movie at 10:25.

Lucky Number Slevin is a terrific suspense/thriller/crime movie featuring a stellar cast (2 Oscar winners - Sir Ben Kingsley and Morgan Freeman, Bruce Willis, Stanley Tucci, Lucy Liu, and the surprisingly good Josh Hartnett). I would compare it a little to The Usual Suspects, but with the flair and style of a Guy Ritchie movie like Snatch. To tell anything about it would be to ruin it so I’m going to just suggest it if you like movies like I described above.

Yesterday, Alli, Jake, mom and I went to see the box-office disappointment, American Dreamz. A lot of people predicted that it would do well, but surprisingly it didn’t, losing out to yet another generic horror flick, Silent Hill. I thought that American Dreamz was pretty good. It was a satire…trying to take on American Idol, the President, and the conflict in the Middle East all at once. It was pretty good…the acting was funny and I will see just about any movie that Chris and Paul Weitz put out (American Pie, About a Boy). Hugh Grant is genius as the Simon Cowell-ish character. But as far a satires go, I thought that Thank You for Smoking was a better movie. It just seemed a little bit smarter of a movie. American Dreamz just seemed to take on too much…I think that the show might have been better just as a parody of American Idol. Just my opinion though.