I watched “Garden State” last night. I’d heard about it since it came out, and thought it just didn’t seem like my kind of movie. I was wrong. I really liked it. I thought it was some pretty good writing. Plus it’s got some awesome acting in it. Natalie Portman plays a character that is so likable and so unlike any character I’ve seen her play before, that I just got a sense of amazement at her performance. Knowing that she also speaks Hebrew (being a native of Israel) I decided to go check out YouTube to see if I could find any footage of her speaking Hebrew, since I’ve only seen her in movies speaking English. I found a few.
As part of revising the sci-fi action movie script I’ve been working on with Betsy Dornbusch, I bought a few DVDs recently. I guess it kinda ties in with the new “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” TV series that I’ve been watching religiously, too. In the past 10 days, I’ve watched 2 episodes of Sarah Connor, plus the original “The Terminator” and “Terminator 2” on DVD. I had forgotten just how good both of the first two films are. You may not know this about me, but for 2 or 3 years after “Terminator 2” was released, I wrote movie reviews for the company newsletter of the software company where I worked. My movie ratings were always on a scale of 1 to 100 with 100 being as good as “Terminator 2”.
A couple days ago, the “Aliens” DVD arrived by mail, but I haven’t watched it yet. Maybe I’ll do that today, but I’ve got a lot of chores to do around the house, since I spent all day yesterday goofing off.
Finally, you may already know that I saw “Juno” over Christmas break and was impressed with Ellen Page, the leading actress. I was rooting for her to win the Academy Award last week, but she didn’t. Now that she didn’t win, I think she can safely come out of the closet. She was the host of “Saturday Night Live” yesterday and they even wrote a skit with a nod at how she’s such a big fan with the lesbian community. My prediction: she’ll be in People magazine within 2 years, along with her lesbian partner.
