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Stranger Than Fiction
I mentioned somewhere earlier (maybe even in this thread) that I saw most of STF on a bus but hadn't seen the end. About a week ago I saw the whole thing with my gf. Then a girl (just a friend) came over the other night while my gf was at work and I told her to pick out any movie in my very extensive collection and she picked STF so I have now seen it 2.75 times in the last month. It gets funnier each time.

The ending is a bit dissapointing but I'm not sure what else they could have done besides actually kill him and go totally dark. I think they should have ended with the bus drivers hugging each other though. The bits after that were redundant.

Interestingly my gf walked out about 30 minutes in. She thought it was terrible. The other girl's comment at the end was "I thought it was supposed to be a comedy".

My Own Private Idaho
Somehow I had heard about this movie without knowing anything about it. I knew Keauna Reeves and River Phoenix were the stars but other than that absolutely nothing.

I managed to watch 1:20 before I bailed. I will watch the final 20 min sometime today. I can't imagine those final 20 minutes changing my mind much though. Absolutely no idea what the director's intent is with this movie.

Beginning with the blonde guy with his hat on backwards in the cafe in Portland doing some psuedo interview on through the entire thing with Bob, where the acting got purposefully worse and worse, like they were parodying some really bad high school production of Shakespear, I was like 'what is the [censored] point of this?' It was painfull to watch and if it was supposed to be funny, it sure didn't resonate with me.

When the action switched to a back road in Idaho and then the campfire scene, I thought the movie was about to save itself, but then it quickly turned back into some kind of a parody.

Really I don't think the director even knew what he was after here. Just string a bunch of inside my own mind stuff together and make it as long as a normal movie and it will look like art.

Read a few reviews after the fact and it seems the critics either loved it or hated it. Mark me down for the not-having-a-clue-what-is-going-on department.

If the last 20 minutes pulls it all together in some brilliant fashion I will retract everything I said... Don't hold your breath.