In case you were wondering what we have been doing all week, here is a list of the films we have watched since last time.

The Cinesthete:

1. Orphan - Predictable, cheap-scare horror. The only saving graces are Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard
2. Brick - Film noir set in a highschool. Unique and engaging.
   
3. Adventures of Baron Munchausen - Michael Bay should watch this film and bow. It’s amazing that this film was made without computers, and that it is still so fantastical and fantastic.
   
4. Eddie Murphy: Raw - He does some great stand-up, even if it is a bit blue.
   

The Lowest Common Denominator:

1. A Haunting in Connecticut - this actually should have been in last week’s log, but I had forgotten about it.  That should tell you all you need to know.  The acting was surprisingly good for a horror flick, but the scares were all cheap and the story is absolutely nothing like what truly happened.
   
2. The Bourne Supremacy - The Bourne Identity is about as faithful an adaptation as if someone had only read the plot synopsis online and was hired to write the movie based only on that information. The Bourne Supremacy takes this faithlessness to an entirely new low.  Paul Greengrass has a name like a failed porn director and he makes feature films like it too.  What’s the point of having awesomely choreographed fight and/or action scenes if you can’t tell what the fuck is going on because the camera is shaking like the DP is having an intense seizure?  Still, Supremacy manages to be a fun action movie despite Greengrass’s ineptitude, even if it is one of the worst book adaptations I’ve ever heard of.
   
3. The Bourne Ultimatum - Basically the same as above.  Fun action movie, nothing else to report on.  Would have been much better if Greengrass had invested in a steadycam but, whatever.
   
4. National Lampoons Vacation - I felt the need to watch a John Hughes masterpiece after hearing of his shocking death.  Vacation was everything filmgoers of the 80s would eventually come to expect from a film written by John Hughes.  It’s hilarious, geniune, surprisingly poignant without being too sappy and manages to have a message without being overbearing.
   
5. The Goonies - another 80s classic.  This is the movie that should have given pirates their position of glory rather than those terrible Johnny Depp movies nearly 20 years later.  Listen, if I really have to tell you how great this movie is you should probably just crawl back under the rock you’ve been living under for the past 25 or so years.