The Departed. Tideland.

Went with Couplingchaos to see The Departed, it was really entertaining – Mark Wahlberg and Alec Baldwin are given enough over-the-top monologues to rival Jack Nicholson's antics. Leonardo DiCaprio is real good, makes me wanna see that Aviator thing he got Oscar nominated for. And in the goatee he totally looks like Featherbrain. There were plenty of distracting faults in the film: inconsistent accents and way too much reliance on cell phones to drive plot events – what is this, a Sprint commercial? And (this is not necessarily a bad thing) there's SO much head-shooty! Like George Lucas with his penchant for cutting off limbs with lightsabers, in this movie the blood and skullbits and chunky brain matter are spraying everywhere. Like, this movie is sponsored by both Sprint PCS and Formula 409. All that aside, the plot twisties are very cleverly written and fastpaced, which keeps the tension strung delightfully high all the way through. This movie is yummy, go see it.

Saw the new Terry Gilliam movie Tideland with MissDDP, my god the movie takes forEVER to tell not that much of a story. And the surreal dreamlands filled with dark fanciful playthings we adore and expect from Terry Gilliam movies? Nothing! We get wacky camera angles and a few fleeting hallucinations but other than that this is so less interesting than anything else he's done. Sigh. Feels terrible to say it about a man we all love so much. OK, Mr. Gilliam, you've found your inner child and she's a little girl, that's fine. Now please grow her up and send her somewhere interesting.