This was a big movie watching weekend.

First, Scott dragged me to see Capote, a movie I had no plans to watch, ever. But I went, and within 5 minutes I was LOVING the movie, and by the end of the movie I wanted to do more research on Capote AND Harper Lee. I had actually not known anything about Truman Capote, and thought this was going to be a movie about a stuffy, boring old man. I had no idea that Capote was the exact opposite of a stuffy, boring old man. I actually didn't like him a whole lot, I found him very irritating and arrogant, but he was still interesting and I really really loved the movie. I definitely recommend this movie.

So then I came home to watch Coffee and Cigarettes. My god. No, really. Who liked this movie? I was bored to death in 20 seconds, when it was obvious these were neither scripted conversations, nor real interviews... what were they? Made up as the actors went along? Adlibbing by actors who were not skilled in adlibbing? After five minutes I started fast forwarding to other conversations to see if there was anything better.... there wasn't. I shut it off. Possibly the worst movie I have ever seen and would have been the biggest waste of time ever if I hadn't just shut it off before ten minutes were over.

So then I put in Broken Flowers. This is where I hopefully make up some points with Catie, because I absolutely loved Bill Murray in this movie. However...
*** SPOILER AHEAD ***
So I watched the movie, and honestly, I LOVED the movie, just adored it, all the way until the very en- ...
Oh wait, there WAS NO ending. It didn't end, it just... stopped.
And I am taking a stand here and saying - this is a cop out. This is writer's laziness, this is not art, this is not good writing, this is laziness. I really, really hate when they do this in movies and it seems to be turning into a fad lately. The only movie I have ever seen this work in is 25th Hour with Edward Norton. By stopping 25th Hour when they did it forced you to not only make up your own ending, but also wonder what you yourself would do, what decision would you make? It forced you to take up a moral and ethical discussion in your mind and with the people who watched the movie with you. In Broken Flowers it just... left you. With no answers. The entire movie is about him looking for the mother of his son and his son too, and to leave off without any answers at all is just.... laziness.
So I am left in a quandary here, because up until the credits rolled I was ready to whole heartedly recommend this movie. I really loved every minute of it... but that non-ending pissed me off. I just can't recommend it like that because it left a sour taste in my mouth.

So all, what did you see? Any of those three movies? I would definitely love to hear what you think about any of those three movies.

And now, we dance: "I LIKE TO MOVE IT MOVE IT! SHE LIKE TO MOVE IT MOVE IT! HE LIKE TO..."

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