Let's go to the movies!

I did. This weekend gmskarka and I watched The Fourth Kind, and went to see Kick Ass.

I am not at all embarrassed to say it. The Fourth Kind scared me to bits. By the end of the film I was covered in goosebumps and felt like every hair on my body was standing on end. Not to mention the paranoia. We had managed to miss most of the advertising for this one, and watched it with only the vaguest notion of what it was about from the title. Which is definitely the way to go. It creeped me out so much that I even did some research into unsolved cases in the area. (Don't read that link if you want to avoid possible spoilers.)

And it earns four out of five tit monkeys for scaring the bejeebus out of me.


As for Kick Ass? It kicked ass, of course. I thought it was very sweet, in its own blood-thirsty, humorously violent kind of way. Rather like Zombieland. I've heard some criticism that the plot is a bit uneven, since the supposed main character is only marginally involved in someone else's story but really, what teenagers life isn't like that at one point or another, especially when the teen in question is trying to figure out his or her role in the great scheme of things?

This one also gets four tit monkeys, for being sweet, and funny, and bloodthirsty. And for having a gag with a bazooka.

Also, why doesn't anyone actually dress up in super hero costumes and fight crime? Oh wait - maybe they do... Ten Real Life Superheros, and a wikipedia entry.