I’ve seen a lot of movies in the past two weeks. I’ve probably seen more movies in the past two weeks than I’ve seen in the past year. I’ll start with the ones I’ve seen this weekend.

Clerks II

Okay, it wasn’t really my choice. I like Kevin Smith, but I thought Clerks was kinda overrated, and I thought a sequel wasn’t the world’s greatest idea.

It wasn’t bad. It was extremely uneven, though. The funny moments were really funny. Some other stuff…not so funny. (Most of the stuff I thought wasn’t so funny involved a donkey. I believe Kevin Smith put these things in the movie to disguise the fact that he’d written a romantic comedy.)

Jason Mewes was great…probably the best thing about the movie. Also, Rosario Dawson was adorable. Kevin Smith seems to know how to get “adorable” out of the women he casts in his movies.

Oh! And I almost forgot…Marshall! Squee! Okay, he was only in it for one scene, but still. Marshall!

There was a lengthy acknowledgement section at the end of the credits…the last one:

And to Jersey Girl, for taking it so hard up the a**, and never complaining.

That made me laugh. 😉

And for a complete change of direction:

An Inconvenient Truth

This was incredibly powerful stuff. Al Gore was so engaging, compelling and passionate that it made me wonder where the heck THAT guy was during the campaign.

And finally, courtesy of Netflix:

Jaws

And so I end my reign of being the last human being on Earth who hasn’t seen Jaws. I loved it. Killer suspense. I gasped audibly the first time we saw the shark. And it ended at the perfect moment…so many movies made now just keep going and going and going so that you have 15 epilogues instead of just ENDING THE MOVIE ALREADY.

Good stuff. 🙂