3:11p.m. *Cinema — Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)

• Easily one of the best movies I’ve seen in a long while.

• So much better than I was expecting.

• The best romantic comedy I’ve seen since Knocked Up.

• Yes, I realize they both star Seth Rogen. He just works so well in romantic comedies.

• If we’re going to continue with the Knocked Up comparisons, I have to admit that I found Elizabeth Banks much more likable than Katherine Heigl.

• Craig Robinson. You are just awesome.

• Jason Mewes and Jeff Anderson. Best guys ever.

• A five minute cameo made me finally begin to like Justin Long.

• I definitely have a thing for romantic comedies that also involve a healthy dose of dirty humor.

3:30p.m. *Swag — Bowtie

My friend Laurent helped create a new Mac application called Bowtie. It’s easily the best app out there to accompany iTunes.

Its basically an iTunes remote app. The beauty of it is in its simplicity. It can display album artwork and let you control iTunes from the desktop. It will post what you’re listening to last.fm for you. It does these things without hogging your computer’s resources and while looking beautiful. Bowtie boasts an extremely easy to use theming system based on html+css+javascript. It already has tons of themes, and promises to have many more. Absolutely fantastic.

The best part though is… its free! So go get it! :D

1:31p.m. *Swag — MacBook Aluminum

When I first heard that Apple was going to hold a Laptop event in October, I had no plans on getting a new laptop. However once they came out, I couldn’t resist. This is mainly because it finally seemed like the perfect compromise in Apple laptops.

I had been wishing and waiting for a 13.3” MacBook Pro. The fact is that a 15” MacBook Pro was simply too large and too heavy. The MacBooks were underpowered and not quite as sexy. But then the new 2.4 Ghz Aluminum MacBook was announced, and I was smitten.

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9:36p.m. *Cinema — Ratatouille

Ratatouille (2007)

• I had heard good things, but I still wasn’t sure what to expect.

• Of course it was visually stunning. There is just no way around that.

• Cuter than you can possibly imagine.

• So much better than Cars.

• It had an actual plot.

• It had a clear message, but wasn’t totally overdone.

• It was fast-paced for a two hour movie.

• I will never get over Patton Oswalt playing Remy.

• I had no idea Will Arnett was in it! Crazy.

• I have to admit I’m really looking forward to watching it again.

2:08a.m. *Cinema — Transformers

Transformers (2007)

• Frigging awesome.

• We first went to go see this on Saturday July 14th for a 5:45 pm show, and it was way too crowded to sit down. So we went again Sunday July 15th for a 9:55 pm show and it was totally sold out. We waited online for the 10:25 pm show.

• Totally worth all that effort.

• The visuals were obviously amazing. But it was more than just the visuals for me.

• Yes it was cheesy. I loved it anyway.

• I really really want Bumblebee to be my own personal transformer. I loved him.

• Easily the best movie I’ve seen since… Knocked Up. Man. What good movies.

• I have no idea what to say about it. It just rocked.

6:02p.m. *Cinema — Knocked Up

Knocked Up (2006)

• I expected this to be good… but this was just plain awesome.

• The best date movie in a really, really long time.

• Fantastic sweet and cheesy romantic comedy that is also really funny.

• Both Katherine Heigl and Seth Rogan did a great job and are going to be doing lots of other things.

• I thought I wouldn’t be able to separate Heigl from her character Izzie, on Grey’s, who I find crazy annoying, but I actually loved her in this.

• Rogan was actually not all that annoying, was nothing like his character in 40 Year Old Virgin, and was even kind of charming at times.

• Just about as funny as the rest of Judd Apatow’s movies. Plenty of great lines to remember.

• “I think he’s using the dice move a bit too much.” “I think that’s pretty much all he’s got.”

• Same silly banter between Rogan and Paul Rudd as in 40 Year Old Virgin.

• I didn’t know that Apatow and Leslie Mann were married. Very cool.

• I’ve heard about this whole thing. I dunno… going to be interesting to see what happens…

• Edit: I can’t believe I forgot to mention B.J. Novak’s cameo! Definitely a major highlight. All movies with an Office cameo receive an automatic extra star. Oh, and of course also Craig Robinson! Man, I love movies with Office cameos.

6:07p.m. *Cinema — The Departed

The Departed (2006)

In honor of my favorite movie of the year winning the Oscar for best movie last night, I figured I’d start my cinema section by giving a quick review of it…

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