Movie #349 - Knowing

Knowing
2009 - Rated PG-13 - 2 hr 1 min
Director: Alex Proyas
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Chandler Canterbury, Rose Byrne, Lara Robinson

Last K movie... yay! Another letter down, always a good thing!

And this one's pretty interesting.  A young girl predicts all the world's major disasters for the next 50 years, including the end of the world in 2008.  The movie loses a little bit of its potential shock value since it's in the past already, but if you're invested in the story line, it works.  Lots of good suspense-building going on here and even Nic Cage is stomachable. (A small triumph as of late).

I don't want to give anything away, but the overall premise about the guys who keep following the kids is kind of odd.  And the end scene? Is it cool or a bit corny?  I like things that tell a story full circle and this does so, in a pretty grandiose kind of way.  I have mixed feelings about this one, but overall, it's a fun mystery to solve the first time around. And at least everything resolves in a satisfactory way.

Movie #222 - Get Him to the Greek

Get Him to the Greek
2010 - Rated R - 1 hr 59 min
Director: Nicholas Stoller
Starring: Russell Brand, Jonah Hill, Rose Byrne, Colm Meaney, Elizabeth Moss, Sean Combs, Meredith Vieira, Carla Gallo

This movie was created just because Aldous Snow is the best rockstar that never was.  Thanks to Jason Segel, this "sequel" that's not really a sequel at all, goes more in depth with a character from Forgetting Sarah Marshall. More songs, more insanity, more weirdness.

Jonah Hill comes back as well, but as a different character.  Still a worshipper of Infant Sorrow, Hill's character Aaron Greene works for a music production company and needs to escort lead singer Aldous Snow from London to the Greek Theater in LA.  His boss (the hillarious Puff Daddy...yes, he's hillarious) gives him the once-in-a-lifetime chance and stays on him all 72 hours. Death threats and "smiley faces" ensue.  Good times.

Honestly, I love this movie more every time I watch it.  And it still makes me laugh out loud. I love it.