Happy Happy and Merry Merry

Rang in the New Year in the preferred fashion. In a warm basement with good friend, food and drink. And crappy movies.

Well... one crappy movie, one comfort movie and one...

Crank 2 is a hard movie to describe/explain. But an easy one for me to enjoy. Just whacked out craziness all over the god damn place. Full of unlikeable people doing unlikeable things to each other for near inexplicable reasons. Maybe the easiest way to explain the movie is to spoil it. Consider that your spoiler warning.

The movie ends with our hero on fire and flipping off the audience. And it is awesome. And awful. This movie inspires awe.

BeerFest is the comfort movie that we ended off the evening with. I imagine our gracious host put it on as background sound and fury, just something to stare at as sleep took us over. An easygoing, familiar comedy. I didn't fall asleep. Because I kept noticing things that were different from the version of the movie I had watched years ago. Jokes and subplots that were missing. Nothing major, but still I noticed their absence.

I noticed the many, many differences between the Twilight book and the movie. The movie is a lot less subtle and nuanced. Which is saying something if you've ever encountered the book. Just full of odd acting and poor directorial choices and laughable action. Enjoyable in an ironic way.

Also enjoyable: drinking beer out of shot glasses. Not doing retarded amounts of beer shots. That is lame. Just drinking beer out of very small glasses. It reminded me of Japan. And the beer you were drinking never really had a chance to warm up.