I love summer, more free time it seems and loads of movies I managed to catch up on.

Breaking and Entering - Starring Jude Law plays an Architect who's new office gets broken into. He follows the kid responsible for the break ins but doesn't realize what impact the entire situation will have on his life. Entertaining and worth a rental but not a purchase.

54 - I finally saw this movie. Not bad, especially for the ladies as Ryan Phillippe spends 80% of it with his shirt off. Based on the famous NYC nightclub in the 70's. Pretty fun, worth the rental if you haven't seen it either.

The Libertine - Johnny Depp stars as the Earl of Rochester, apparently a dirty Englishman in the 1700's that drank, had loads of sex and sometimes wrote poems. Pretty bad, I wouldn't recommend it.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - The story is about a robber who gets a role as a detective in a Hollywood movie by accident and follows him trying to solve a real crime. The story was way too far fetched but the comedy was good. Rental if you can't find anything else.

Black Snake Moan - Samuel L. Jackson and Christina Ricci . I don't know what to say. Mostly bad, the story I found was very lacking. No real point except for "try and be good". The music was great and the character interaction is awesome. Maybe a rental but don't get excited.

Idiocracy - Just how it sounds. An entire population of idiots. Based on a possible earth future where all the smart people have their careers and the idiots are doing is breeding. Eventually IQ's are lowered substantially over several hundred years and idiots roam the earth. Pretty funny I would definitely suggest it as a rental, you might want to join them and turn your brain off for a while though.

A Mind of Her Own - Inspired by a true story. Sophie, who is severely dyslexic goes from hardship to hardship while striving to become a Doctor. Again entertaining but quite slow, this girl never seems to get a break. Might make a better book than movie.

Shrek the Third - Shrek is back. My note here is that Mike Myers should only make movies that are in pairs (ie Wayne's World, cause yeah, a third one would have sucked). Following in the pairs theory, Shrek 3 was bad. Why couldn't they stop after 2? Not as funny, loads of filler and dragging out as many old jokes as they could. Wait till it comes out on DVD if you really want to see it.

Vanilla Sky - Messed up! Again another old one I finally got to see. Hard to explain but if you haven't seen it I would suggest watching it just to mess with your head for a couple hours. I wouldn't suggest it because of Penélope Cruz, terrible, terrible.

The Astronaut Farmer - Stars Billy Bob Thornton as Farmer, uh Charlie Farmer... who is a farmer... still with me? Who used to be a Fighter pilot and aerospace engineer, who is now a farmer? What ever. So he builds a rocket (yes a real rocket) in his barn so he can finally go into space. Wow, I am making this sound way worse than it is. It was very enjoyable, good story though really far out there. Plus it brings up questions like "If you launch a rocket in your barn, won't your barn burn down?" The first 3/4 of the movie are really good, then it kind of rushes to the end. Worth a rental on a night if you fall asleep on the couch you won't feel bad.

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