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Between Friday and today (well, yesterday actually) I caught up on some more of the movies I missed. It seems like a lot of movies but the two "kids" movies I watched while I did laundry and other in door chores with the youngest.

1408 wasn't very good and I'm not sure why. The actors/acting was pretty good, the plot wasn't bad for a horror movie, the look was decent. I think the movie wasn't sure what kind of horror movie it wanted to be, parts were surreal ala The Shinning but it just didn't deliver. I think this is something you lay at the director's feet.

Bee Movie is shite, pure unadulterated shite. Think about every negative you could tag an animated film with and it's here. The plot is stupid. The voice acting was bad, especially Seinfeld's. The dialog between Seinfeld and Zellweger, terrible. Even the animation is meh at best.

Dark Crystal is movie I remember loving as a child but the difference between being 7 when I saw it and my 5yo son is more than just a couple years. He was freaked out by the "puppets" and uninterested in the plot. It's still pretty impressive what they did with their puppetry but time has taken the "gee-wiz" away and the remaining movie is kind of lacking. It's a cardboard cut-out of a movie dressed up with great puppetry.

The Rocker was funny, I enjoyed it. It feels much like School of Rock but, since I'm not a big Jack Black fan, I though The Rocker was better. The bad guy band, Vesuvius, is definitely better/funnier and the sleaze from the record company has some great, over the top, lines. Not great cinema but entertaining.

And lastly, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People was pretty good too. The plot is mostly formula, what made the movie worth watching is Simon Pegg and the shenanigans he and his mouth inflict. The rest of the cast doesn't get in the way and Megan Fox is the sexy starlet much of the movie revolves around.