More RDJ

Another little RDJ marathon today. This one started out with watching Wonder Boys again. I really love this movie. Michael Douglas is fantastic and strange and wonderful. Tobey Maguire is delightedly disturbed in this one. I think it's amazing because I actually like Katie Holmes in this movie. And Robert Downey Jr hitting on Tobey Maguire is just hilarious to me. The movie is about a professor who is also an author and he's working on a book that ends up getting blown away. It's nearly 3000 pages at that point, so I guess it's all for the best. Robert is his editor and Tobey and Katie are two of his students. Other than the dead dog, the movie is pretty funny.

I let Kaitlynne pick the next movie so we then watched Heart and Souls. I love this movie and even with everything he's done I swear this is the best acting that Robert has ever done. Kyra Sedgewick, Alfre Woodard, Charles Grodin and Tom Sizemore play ghosts that are attached to Robert's character when he's born. The little boy that plays Young Thomas grew up to work in the Santa Clause movies. The best part of the movie is when the different people take over Thomas' body and Robert has to pretend to be taken over by various people. When the women take him over is the best, but it's all pretty awesome. It's very touching and cute and hilarious and everybody should see this movie if they haven't.


I capped off the evening with Good Night and Good Luck which is a movie about Edward R Murrow as played by David Strathairn. George Clooney is in it too and the movie is very good. It's completely in black and white which is fitting for the time. This is about the media during the McCarthy hearings. Alex Borestein is in it too which could explain Robert's connection to Family Guy but that's beside the point. The main reason I watched this movie is because very recently Mr Joe Werhsba, played by Robert Downey Jr in this movie, died. If you're not into biopics or dark, historical movies, don't watch this one. I do recommend it though, it's very good.

My favorite quote from this movie, which was quoted back in the early 50's:

"And if there are any historians about 50 or 100 years from now and there should be preserved the kinescopes of one week of all three networks, they will there find recorded in black and white and in color evidence of decedance, escapism and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live. We are currently wealthy, fat, comfortable and complacent. We have a built in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surplusses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, dilude, amuse and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who work at it and those who work in it may see a totally different picture too late." Edward R Murrow