Movies!

OK, I confess.

I went to see GI Joe. Even though its premise is... weak, to say the least.

(Admittedly, the only reason I was interested is because of CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON, who controls a good-sized part of my soul. Yep.)

I have a problem, though. Because the movie... didn't suck. I was expecting the stereotypical Dumb Action Movie with explosions and cool CGI and a mediocre-verging-on-just-plain-bad script.

( That's not what I got. )

Tl;dr: it's not as bad as you might think. Really. I promise. Just don't go in with massively high expectations and you'll be fine.

ALSO:

I have a rental DVD of "In The Loop" (about as far from GI Joe as it's possible to get, really).

IT IS WONDERFUL. WONDERFUL AND SARCASTIC AND FOULMOUTHED (FREQUENTLY) AND YOU SHOULD SEE IT RIGHT NOW.

Also, I think I now have a crush on Peter Capaldi. And Chris Addison. Maybe Tom Hollander too.

(James Gandolfini is in it too, adding to the RANDOM today.)

Other rental DVDs I now (temporarily) possess are: Push, The Oxford Murders and something called War, Inc that I've never heard of but that looked funny.