Movies I rented over the past week at the ShittyBuster impersonator

City of God: Nobody warned me enough that this movie is grisly, yet beautiful. Sad, yet hopeful. It's a big bundle of contradictions. I really loved the colors and the way the director edited the film. Lots of cool angles. Also, lots of angry young kids. Scary, angry young kids. Watch it but be warned that it's in portuguese and it's very violent.

Big Fish: I liked this film. It was full of tall tales, great stories, and a moderately sappy ending. The whole father-son distance touched me probably because I have issues with my own father. It touched a nerve and I bawled like a baby whose diaper is soiled at the end of the movie.

Cold Mountain: I love this film. I truly love the southern accent, I love Ruby, and I love a dirty, bearded, drawling Jude Law. It was sad and poignant, and all about falling in love with a relative stranger. I loved the scenery and I loved the characters. Some of the scenes really made an impact on me (the Home Guard really got on my nerves, fuckers). In the end, I think it's a chick flick. I got a little bit moist eyed, but it could be because I'm feeling hormonal lately and a butterfly getting caught in my windshield wipers is bound to make me breakdown and cry.

Starsky and Hutch: See, the methodology behind me and renting movies is this: get two, one really good movie and one funny kind of stupid movie. Starsky and Hutch was just that. I also was hoping that maybe Starsky and Hutch would be as good as Zoolander (the answer is no) or Dodgeball (again, no). It was more of a spoof on the original Starsky and Hutch (which I was too young to ever watch). It's a movie best seen while getting smashed on beer; something you could keep going in the background while you cook or take a shit, whatever. Watch it if someone else is paying for it. P.s. Huggy Bear totally stole all the scenes. He was awesome. P.p.s. Iguanas? Yeah, that whole thing about their tails falling off in self defense? Pure and total crap. Only certain gecko's and lizard's actually do that.

I had wanted to rent Shaun of the Dead, but the ShittyBuster impersonator didn't have it. They also didn't have Amores Perros, Y Tu Mama Tambien, and a slew of other shit that they really should have. What Panama really needs is a good DVD rental store. All we get down here is really mainstream stuff, and sometimes not even then. Did I also mention that all the dvd's get here like many many many months later? You can grow old as a biddy waiting for certain DVD's to get here.

I rented some other movies, I think, but either I am getting early Alszheimer's or I never rented other movies and I just thought I did. Kind of like when I thought I lost those $20 dollars, but then couldn't be sure if I just took a $5 and thought I took a $20, or what. What? Yeah, I'm an idiot.