the shrewdness of apes

two movies actually exceeded my expectations over the weekend. Dawn of the Dead allowed me to suspend disbelief long enough to ignore Great Basin-sized plot holes and cringe in my seat for 100 minutes. the audience was into it without being obnoxious which helped. a little advice - if you go see it, make sure you stay in your seat through the credits. Starsky and Hutch, meanwhile, succeeded simply by not making me cringe in my seat. it wasn't great, but it could have been much worse. i wish i had had some popcorn though - i am completely incapable of managing my candy intake well enough to make it last more than 15 minutes into any movie, especially when i'm waiting for zombies to start biting people's faces off.

still undecided about The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. it's pitting my uncorruptible hatred of Jim Carrey against my slightly waning admiration for Charlie Kaufman. it's a tossup.