Be Cool, man. Be Cool

Speaking of movies, I recently had the opportunity to sit down and watch some movies. I saw Judge Dredd, Be Cool and The Matador.
First, The Matador, with Pierce Brosnan and Greg Kinnear. I thought we were renting a different Brosnan movie, one where he is a jewel thief that gets brought back to do another heist on behalf of the corrupt part of the FBI (or something like that). Instead, it is about Brosnan being a hitman who is experiencing burn out and befriending a hard-luck businessman (namely Greg Kinnear). Frankly, I was impressed by Brosnan. He can play a slightly neurotic crazy man pretty well. The best scene was when he walks through the lobby of the hotel in his undies (tighty whities that were black) and cowboy boots (the kind that are only half as tall as normal cowboy boots and have a zipper on the side. They probably aren't even cowboy boots, but that is what they look like). And then he goes outside to the pool and jumps in, still holding a can of beer. And then he sees a shark in the pool. I think the shark isn't really there, it's just a symptom of his crazy, but he still sees it. All in all, it was a pretty good movie.
And then we saw Judge Dredd. Speaking of good movies, this was not one of them. It was one of those action movies that is so bad it is fun to watch. Sylvester Stallone plays Judge Dredd. It is set in the future when law is kept by the ubercops called Judges, they have the ability to sentence people as soon as they catch them, there is no trial, no jury, just the judges. And of course there is an evil plot to overthrow the leaders and destroy the judges and take over with new cloned judges and...well, it is the type of movie that you really just have to let play and not think about too much because it will only hurt your brain. And Stallone has a repeated line ("I knew you were going to say that", or "...he was going..." depending on the circumstance) that was a little clever the first time he said it and just laughable every other time. And he says it five or six times at least during the movie. I watched much of the movie just stunned at how ridiculous it was. That being said, I had fun with it. It was a silly movie. Also, Rob Schneider was in it.
Finally, we watched Be Cool with John Travolta and Uma Thurman, not to mention the Rock, Vince Vaughn, and Cedric the Entertainer. This is a very funny movie. I was laughing out loud for most of the movie. It's one of those movies where the protagonist (Travolta) never loses his cool. He is always in control and one step ahead of the others, even when he unexpectedly finds himself face to face with a gun (which happens about four times during the movie). Every time it happens he talks his way out of it and escapes unharmed. Andre 3000 (of Outkast fame) plays a gun happy thug who is absolutely hilarious. The Rock is a gay bodyguard who just wants to act. He sings a country song (You Ain't Woman Enough To Take My Man) and they made a video that is almost painfully bad, but manages to be hilariously funny, which is the best kind of funny. Vince Vaughn is a music manager who dresses and talks like a pimp, but deep down inside he's a loser. All the characters were well cast and the situations that occur are hilarious. At one point Travolta wakes up to find that Cedric and his group of thugs (including Andre 3000) have broken into the house. He goes down and instead of getting shot because he doesn't have their money he ends up negotiating a record deal that leaves everybody happy. At the end Andre 3000 is sipping on a small cup of tea and resting it on his gun. He also accidentally shoots his gun. It's funnier than I'm describing it, but trust me, it is rather funny.
So those were my three movies in one day. It was a good day.
Over the next two days I then watched Season Three of Alias. All of it. Including special features. I like that show, though I am curious if they had to use slow motion every episode, or if they just liked to.