was not as bad as I expected it to be. It’s always a love or hate thing for me with Cohen brother movies. LOVED Fargo (hon? prowler needs a jump) and The Hudsucker Proxy - didn’t like Blood Simple or The Big Lebowski much. Still haven’t seen Miller’s Crossing or Barton Fink in their entirety. O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Raising Arizona, well, they were genius in their own not quite true about the part of the world they’re set in but damn good nonetheless ways - guess the same could be said about Fargo but I’ve never been there.

So I was surprised that I enjoyed Intolerable Cruelty as much as I did. The plot was so-so but some of the dialogue was incredibly funny. Especially in the first 45 minutes. Love that 1930s comedy rattattat rhythm - think Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday - where you *really* have to listen to what they’re saying. And shockingly Clooney and Zeta-Jones pulled it off.

I’ve never been a big fan of George Clooney really. I don’t usually like my men that chiseled and tanned. I’d heard vague things about his politics that I liked but that was pretty much all the thought I’d given him. But he seems to *get* the Cohens’ humor and express it fairly well. They seem to like giving him a weird-ass narcissistic physical obsession though - his over fop-ed hair in Oh Brother and blinding pearly whites in this one. Kind of an oversimplified way to create a character but I like watching the man act like a goofball it makes him human. Dare I say like Cary Grant with his vaudeville background?

So turn me over and paint my ass blue, folks, I’m as shocked as you are but I kind of enjoyed it.

I’m thinking about rejoining netflix. We used it when it first started but canceled it because we usually only ended up watching about three dvds a month between my lazy ass and the postal service. But there have been some releases lately that I’ve wanted to see without buying them and I hate to bum a ride just to go rent a video.