Her -- See Her!
Rather to my surprise, Her turns out to be a great science fiction film, every bit as worthy of your attention as Gravity. If you read my blog, there's an excellent chance that you have an interest in science fiction, and so you really really do need to go and see Her. Why a surprise? I like Spike Jonze's Weezer videos, but his previous feature films haven't been favorites of mine. Being John Malkovich was a nice concept but petered out, and Adaptation I thought was just plain bad. I've disliked these or thought these overrated enough that in my mind I've given Spike Jonze credit for other bad films by people he worked with on his own bad films. While the coming attraction for Her made it look interesting, I just thought of Adaptation of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind or other dreary critics darlings. Color me wrong! Take your Mac worship to the next level, and imagine that Siri has a crush on you, that you have a crush on Siri, and that your conver...