First off, Blue's News pointed me to the Matrix Reloaded: The Abridged Script. I was laughing through just about the whole thing. Beware, all kinds of spoilers and there are some pretty geeky jokes (if you don't know what irc is you problably won't get a whole section.)

It turns out that I was dissapointed in 2 Fast 2 Furious. This was frustrating because I wasn't really expecting much. Anyway, after watching it I went back and watched the original and was reminded that it really is a good movie. It was fresh, had interesting characters, and perhaps most importantly didn't really have a villian. This last piece is key because it helped it with being fresh, with no villian it had to at least try to do stray away from standard formulas (although it didn't stray far.) Perhaps the coolest thing about it is the whole movie delved into the street racing world and it stayed there.

In the second installment there is a villian (who serves no purpose but to be the villian) and the movie only sort of kind of exists around street racing - but not really. They degraded it to a poor action movie with a couple of marginally interesting driving scenes. Bleh.

I rented a new DVD with six episodes of the British comedy Coupling. They were funny, and the weird thing is I felt like I'd seen some of them before. I think these episodes were running when I lived in London so that might have been it. Or it could just be that it was some of the jokes that seemed familiar and the good jokes had made it to me through other routes. NBC is actually remaking this show with American actors for this fall - they're hoping it will be a replacement for the ever-popular Friends. I think it has a chance to do that. I've heard some people complain/wonder why NBC has to remake them instead of just airing the originals. One easy answer is all the British slang. Either way, it's a good show and I hope the remakes hold up.

The Recruit is silly and escapist. It would be fun if you don't really care if movie characters do stupid things, don't know much about computers, and like staring at Colin Farrel. None of these things describe me.

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