As you may have gathered from my previous entry, I didn't see any movies this weekend. I haven't spoken to my brother so I don't know what his intentions are, or if he's into seeing more than one. I still want to see Young Triffie, although the reviews now out are less than promising.

On the other hand, I had a gleeful good time at Ghost Rider, so really, what do I care whether a movie is any good or not? (Or at least well-reviewed. I have been known to just love a movie whose reviews were bad, often for idiosyncratic reasons of my own. And I admit there are "great" movies I can't stand. One of these days I should watch Heat again and see if I still hate it as much as I did the first time I saw it.)

The other one on the slate is Grindhouse, which I understand opened to disappointing numbers over the weekend. At three hours it's a considerably larger investment of time than Young Triffie, so I expect that'll have to wait for the weekend. As noted I do like Robert Rodriguez (I laughed myself sick over Once Upon A Time In Mexico and just the idea of Spy Kids makes me happy) and the Tarantino part features a Challenger. Although, frankly, I have a copy of Vanishing Point if I feel the need to look at a great car for two hours. Tarantino is just not quite as clever as he thinks he is, or else I am impatient. (I saw a couple of interviews about the film last week, with both directors, in which Quentin was chattering and Robert looked patient. I received the irresistible impression that if they were in high school together Robert and Quentin's mothers would be friends, and Robert would look out for Quentin because his mother asked him to. And spend a lot of time fishing him out of trash cans and the like.)

Anyway, my brother likes Tarantino better than I do, partly because he knows an awful lot more about movies than I do so he gets a lot of things I don't. And I find, for some reason, that I have developed a soft spot for Kurt Russell, so there you go.

I'm actually looking forward to seeing it. I just have to remember to get the large popcorn. I keep threatening to get popcorn but this is a movie experience that would be pretty much ruined without it. Although I may have to close my eyes a lot to keep from losing my appetite...