It's been a bit on the heavy side for the past week here at The Weblog and it may be time for a shit and garbage post.

At work we have amazingly fast internet (I have no clue what kind) and I've taken advantage of this in order to watch movie trailers online. I've declared and held to a moratorium on depressing movies that looked rather good and were some what popular (i.e. 21 Grams, Mystic River, and many of the other Oscar worthy movies of last year) since watching Buffalo '66. The movie made me realize that ‘indie’ and ‘fim’ don't have to mean really God-damn sad. Luckily this year I won't have to avoid seeing all the good movies because few seem to have the soul-sucking sadness of Mystic River or 21 Grams.

There seems to be some good pictures coming out like Kinsley that may end up having some mass appeal. The trailer for Kinsley suggests it may be overly dramatic at times but, hell, it looks pretty decent. Along the same lines I think the Robin William's vehicle Final Cut also looks interesting.

I've also noticed some themes that are quite popular though the most prevalent is infidelity and sexual desire. Some of the ones I'm sure will be popular are We Don't Live Here Anymore (this one appears to be the most promising and intense and may be worth watching just for the talent of Naomi Watts), Alfie, Head in the Clouds but really the theme runs throughout a lot of the featuered movies as a sub-plot (like Undertaking Betty which looks really funny and has that guy fromSpider-Man II, Christopher Walken and Naomi Watts).

While most of these look like they can wait to video there are three I feel I have to see in thge theater, the Che Guevara memoir film The Motorcycle Diaries, the new Wes Anderson The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and I♥ Huckabees. The Che movie just looks like it has fantastic cinematography and the story should be rather interesting. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou has to be a hard movie to make since The Royal Tenenbaums has been so well recieved but I think Anderson has assembled a great cast, widened his tools to include interesting effects and, the most neccasary element, the story looks like it will be rather good. I♥ Huckabees, just go watch the trailer. It may be the only movie with Jude Law that won't suck this year (and there are three other Law movies). The cast actually rivals Anderson's choices by virtue of casting the French actress Isabelle Huppert of the really disturbing Piano Teacher (she was also the mother in the film version of Bataille's Ma Mere which came out in France this year but, due to the extremely graphic nature of the movie, I wouldn't expect that to ever come out in the states). It is billed as an "existential comedy" and looks to be joyfully irreverent of Continental philosophy.

It looks like a really good year for my kind of movies.

This is a shit and garbage post.