That's an expensive baby

It’s pretty great, just terribly sad.

Collateral now

I love Collateral. Another great Tom Cruise performance.

But is he sexy?

Before Sunset

Watched Hustle. Formulaic but enjoyable. I thought the training montage was really well done

DL’d that to watch on my flight yesterday but I watched the Other Guys instead

Watched Copland again. Love this movie. So much to enjoy despite its flaws. Rewatchables said "is this the best three-star movie ever" and I think it's a fair question.

Very 70s in its filming, performances, storytelling. Some logic leaps in there for sure, but I really enjoy watching the plot fold back on itself several times over, and Liotta, Stallone, and DeNiro are all awesome; Keitel seems to be on autopilot.

Thus was my thoughts too.

The 40-Year Old Virgin

Funny People. Hadn’t seen it before. Odd. The first half is maybe the best movie Apatow ever made. The second half takes a hard dive once Sandler gets better and reunites with Leslie Mann and fights Eric Bana. Almost like two different movies squashed together.

i enjoyed that movie quite a bit, then saw it again and liked it half as much, and now i have no desire to see it again

I remember it being extremely long and depressing

you definitely feel the run time

I didn't find it very depressing at all, I just found the second half to be very pointless

It had a good point that made sense to me. When he had cancer, he realized what he actually wanted from his life (the lady), but it was too late. When he realized he was cancer free and it actually wasn't too late, he had a renewed zest, vigor, and he pursued the lady, only to realize it was actually too little, too late anyway. Kinda poetic and sad. But then he realized he still had people in his life he could have healthy relationships with, and began to pursue this actual reality. Happy ending.

I agree this is the story they tell, but everything in the back half just didn't land for me at all. Felt like a vague plot direction but there way way too much time spend with Eric Bana, Jason Schwartzman, Aubrey Plaza, the RZA, etc. All these characters providing some banter but very little actually happening, or no real depth. Sandler bangs a married mom while her husband's out of town and Rogan is like "Dude, that was crazy." Bana speaks Chinese for a minute. Then they tell dick and fart jokes for 90 minutes? Was the most Kevin Smith story arch not written by Kevin Smith.

Well, the movie is called "funny people", so I guess it had plenty intention to explore what it's like to be a comedian with comedian friends. I get why you weren't interested, but I also get why it's interesting to some, as it was interesting to me that one time.