Finally...

A weekend in movies I'm looking forward to. Clerks 2 and Lady in the Water are opening this weekend and I'm stoked. My plan is to hit up Clerks 2 Friday night...yep doing the opening night dork thing for my man K. Smith. And sometime over the weekend I plan on catching M. Night's new mindfuck movie.

Here's the thing, I'm very hopeful that these guys are going to get back on track after their recent missteps. Jersey Girl wasn't awful, but not exactly Smith's finest work. And a return to his Quik Stop roots might be just what he needs to put an end to an era and go do something other than find ways to incorporate Jay and dick jokes into a movie. I'm not saying I don't welcome more movies from him in the vein that he has perfected, but I am craving to see him put his mark on something that perhaps he didn't write.

Now Mr. Night is undoubtedly the most innovative filmmaker since Hitchcock, and is a cash cow to say the least. On Stern this morning he was saying he has made 2.5 billion for Disney over his first 4 studio films. Wow. And to be completely fair, I saw The Village only once while almost black out drunk in Chicago with my boy Myers, so I can't really give a solid opinion on the film. I just recall the public expecting more than what was on the screen. And although it too made lots of loot, I suspect critics, the public and of course Disney are all anxious to see if this new film is a return to his roots.

If nothing else, I'm hoping to just be entertained and cool in a movie theater and out of this baking sun.