A Wedding: I think our mistake here was assuming that this would be the kind of movie Christopher Guest might make about a wedding, rather than remembering that this was late '70s Robert Altman (or, as one IMDBer put it, "What he did to the military in M*A*S*H he does to marriage."). Julia grew to hate it more and more (despite having Carol Burnett and Desi Arnaz Jr.), while I settled for the "it is what it is" cliche.
Wordplay (wow, the IMDB "Plot" line for this is hideously misleading!): Speaking of Christopher Guest, if you watch enough mockumentaries about hardcore activity people, it's refreshing to the kind of documentary that inspired Guest, yet about genuinely likable people. Julia was deeply impressed to learn that Jason Z. has been teammates with Will Shortz at the world Sudoku championship. Anyway this is exactly the sort of movie that will one day be made about quiz-bowl.
Undeclared: The Complete Series. Very nicely done! (What else is there to say?)
Posted by Matt Bruce at September 2, 2008 11:14 AM