One thing that I’ve noticed lately is that the price of DVDs seems to be falling. I saw Mr & Mrs. Smith at CompUSA for 9.99 and there were a ton of recent movies at Target for 7.50-9.99. I was tempted to buy a few of them until I remembered that I have a ton on my shelf that I never watch. I can’t figure out if it’s a pending technology that’s pushing the prices down or a lack of market demand. Anyway…

House of Flying Daggers (kung fu): It’s ancient China, and a military officer needs to infiltrate a gang to take them down. He ends up pairing up with a girl from the gang who happens to be an amazing fighter. She happens to be able to defeat ten guys at once, despite the fact that she’s blind (we later find out that she was only pretending). I am not into the whole Crouching Tiger dramatic kung fu story. In fact, I hate them. If you’re going to recommend some kung fu, there had better be more kicking than kissing. And Crouching Tiger was boring enough: there was absolutely no need to make a more boring version. When I wasn’t sleeping (literally), I was 1. waiting for something to happen, or 2. Getting really irritated with all the really over-dramatic kissing. Fuck this movie. F.

Bad Santa (drama): Billy Bob Thornton plays a Santa who travels from town to town with his midget helper cracking safes during the Christmas season. Santa is a horrible drunk, who is three-quarters down his downward spiral. In his final safe-crack, he meets a fat kid who inadvertently starts to turn his life around. The plot on this was pretty slow, but there were a couple of good laughs and it is a unique plot. Maybe I would’ve enjoyed it more when the Christmas season was getting on my nerves. C+

40 Year Old Virgin (comedy): Steve Carell (the Office) is a 40 year old virgin living in a state of arrested development that seems to have halted around the age of 12. His co-workers invite him to a poker game one day when they are a man short, and realize that he is a virgin after he describes breasts as feeling like “big, bags of sand” while trying to bluff his way through telling a sex story. For the next 2 hours, we follow his coworkers giving him advice on how to get a woman into bed. I swear that I didn’t stop laughing at this one for the full two hours (I even watched the commentary). Despite the comedians playing their parts with awesome timing and doing some great ad-libbing, this might not be for everyone. If the words “pussy juice cocktail” or a 10 minute segment where characters taunt each other with, “Oh yea? You know how I know you’re gay?” causes more of a frown than a smirk, you may want to skip this one. I’m not sure that I can even talk about a majority of this movie at work, which is a damned shame. A

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