Dammit, Sometimes the Internet Ruins Things

Last night I decided to look through the incredibly sparse catalog of movies that Xbox Live offers and landed on War, Inc and started the HD download. After about three hours I realized that it'd be the next day before I could actually watch the damn thing so I killed several hours watching Youtube clips from Clerks II and Chasing Amy before finally falling asleep in a depressed state because it became crystal clear to me that if I had a decent video camera when I was about 21 I could have easily made movies as good as Kevin Smith did - but that's a whole different story.

So, anyhow, I fired up War, Inc this evening and was kinda transfixed by the story of how American corporations could, conceivably, dictate U.S. foreign policy - militarily in particular.

It was fascinating - they did everything they possibly could to reference Halliburton and the potential for corruption in such a system. For the first 45 minutes. It kinda went downhill from there. I'll get back to that shortly.

I have to admit that I have a bit of a man-crush on John Cusack (even though most of what I have read about the guy indicates that he is a colossally self-important ahole) because he has made a ton of movies that I really liked such as Better Off Dead, One Crazy Summer, Say Anything, and (best one ever) Grosse Point Blank.

Additionally, this movie turned me on to Marisa Tomei. She was incredibly sexy in this flick and I can't help but wonder why I never saw her that way before. She looked almost exactly like the last girl that I dated with any regularity (who, by the way, stopped taking my phone calls when I mentioned to her that we were "dating" - grr). I honestly didn't know who played that role and watched the ending credits just to see if the "almost" ex-girlfriends name showed up.

Anyhow, as the movie wound down it got more and more schmaltzy - kinda like they just stopped trying - like, they escape from a war-torn middle eastern nation in an airplane that has a "Just Married" banner on the side of the plane and about 400 aluminum cans dragging off of the back of the plane. That's just lazy.

Having said that, though, it seems to have taken a darker turn at the very end - it appeared that a missile was locked onto the aircraft right before the credits started to roll. I like that kind of ending for some reason but wish it had been a little more fleshed out - there was no way to know whether or not they got shot down.

So, I looked on the internet. I found several hundred reviews that explained why this was the worst movie ever made and none explaining whether or not the plane exploded in a fiery crash. The internet pretty much tried to tell me that my instincts towards this movie are all wrong and that I am culturally challenged.

Well excuse ME, Judge Reinhold, but I actually enjoyed the majority of the movie.

Also, I understand that Marisa is naked a lot in the new movie The Wrestler. I will be renting that. Maybe even buying it.