Movies

Saw a couple of movies this weekend and thought I would bore you all with my opinion of them.

The first one was "White Noise", starring Michael Keaton. It's a movie about a guy whose wife dies, and then he's starting to get messages from her via the TV. Yes, it IS that stupid. A waste of time that was not made any better by the couple in front of me, who were talking and commenting throughout. For more on what should be done about such people, read my old piece on Movie Theatre Etiquette.

The other movie I saw was "Be Cool", starring...well... half of Hollywood. The main characters are played by John Travolta and Uma Thurman, but there are tons of other great names here - James Woods, Vince Vaughn, Harvey Keitel and Danny DeVito to mention just a few. The story is to a tiny degree a follow up on "Get Shorty", in that it follows Travolta's "Chili Palmer" character. In "Get Shorty" he was a loan shark from New York who made it big in the movies, in "Be Cool" he wants to go into the music business instead. He finds a young talented artist, played by Christina Milian, but then has to cope with competing studios, Russian mafia, gangstas, etc, etc. It's a movie well worth seeing, but I couldn't help thinking that with such a great cast, it ought to have been even better.