In an attempt to spend a weekend doing truly nothing I think I succeeded reasonably well. I did manage to get my car serviced and…well…that was about it in terms of productiveness. In order to spend the rest of the blissful two days of doing nothing I watched movies back to back. Here’s a breakdown:

Fearless – Jet Li’s last epic martial art, whatever the hell that means. It was quite entertaining and I enjoy martial arts epics just as much as the next person. It was quite well done, the action was lavish and actually made me miss my martial arts days a bit…oh well…there simply isn’t any time anymore.

Passage to India – This movie had Alec Guinness (err…I guess that’s Sir Alec) as an Indian professor, some other chap as a bloody annoyingly subservient Indian and, well a bunch of horrendously snooty English twats. I’m not sure what the whole plot was about, something about a mistaken case of rape, etc, etc. I was a bit disappointed by David Lean’s film (he directed Bridge over the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia) mainly because it didn’t seem to have any point. Oh well…

Equilibrium – P’s recommendation was an absolute trip. Quality matrix like fight scenes, Christian Bale putting in a stellar performance and for some reason Emily Watson’s magnetic eyes made for a very enjoyable watch.

Eragon – hmm, now I’m a big fantasy addict both reading and watching. This was the first time though that I watched a fantasy movie without reading the book first. The technical stuff was amazing, but a dragon with Rachel Weisz’s voice? Eh…Also the movie seemed to lack any substance, despite Sienna Guillory looking, well looking absolutely fabulous. These elvish genes I tell you, if I didn’t like Sri Lankan girls so much I would definitely go for an elf (well maybe after Persian).

Last King of Scotland – Wow! Just wow! Along the lines of Hotel Rwanda it was a brilliant movie! Just don’t eat a buryiani while watching it, as I discovered much to my dismay. It brought back vague memories of a book I had read a long time ago about the craziness that was Idi Amin and boy was he crazy. I highly recommend the movie as a watch. Oh yeah and Kerry Washington is all kinds of hotness (well when she’s in one piece anyways).

When Harry Met Sally – ok, ok I know…it’s a chick flick, but I like it! For one thing Meg Ryan is very,very cute (anybody see a common thread in these bite sized reviews?). And I really, really needed a funny, cute movie to watch after the Last King. You know, just to cheer myself up.

And that was it, a random series of movie reviews. And it’s back to work tomorrow…sob…