Interesting. I found the Constant Gardener to be a very good movie, with depth and fascinating characters, and great acting.
MI:3 was as awful as the other MIs. I mean, who needs another flick that is essentially one explosion after another with one-dimensional characters, and no real plot except "superhuman guy getting revenge and saving hot chicks etc..."
And Hitchhikers was a true dissapointment. Really quite awful as well. Gags not funny. Acting generally poor. Of all the books that would be hard to suck the humor out of, somehow they managed to make it boring.
I can only presume the Da Vinci Code will be as bad as the book.
Narnia was just a sad attempt to recreate the book and try to come up with something similiar to the Lord of the Rings.
Recent good ones: Match point, Brokeback mtn, and Capote were all very good, actually getting into real human emotional and other conflict and making one feel that these were real people with real problems (although I found Capote to be thoroughly unlikeable as a person, I felt the portrayal was quite excellent).
I highly reccomend the following series as entertainment at its absolute finest: Six feet under, The Sopranos, Weeds (very funny show), and Deadwood. The Wire is also inspired, but a bit typical (but not predictable).
For the best movie in the past few years, I nominate Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. If you haven't seen it, do yourself a favor and go rent it immediately.
And the classics cannot be ignored. Gone with the Wind, Casablanca, and Breakfast at Tiffany's are the ones I would put at the top of that list.
Just my two cents. Needed to get a break from work. Back to the grind.
