You're so money.

I finally got around to watching two movies that've been on my to-watch list tonight: The Outlaw Josey Wales and Swingers.

Josey Wales is a western with Clint Eastwood where he gets betrayed multiple times and then becomes an outlaw, leaving a trail of bodies everywhere he goes. He was an ultimate badass. Gets his house burned down and cries vengeance on the Union--who then force the rest of his gang to surrender. The story's steeped in mutiny, and he takes care of it the only way Western Clint Eastwood can: with more bullets than words. Everyone wants him dead, and he's having none of it. Ultimate badass, I'm telling you.

Odd though, the problem that I had with this movie was the score. It felt way too melodramatic, as if it were for a good vs. evil western and not a vengeance western. It also sounded like the skeleton of all action-film-scores to come after it. Minor trifles. Clint Eastwood fucking rules.

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Swingers is the story about a guy getting over a girl who he was with for 6 years. She broke up with him, he moved to LA to become a comic even though his character's not very funny. This movie made me want to live in Los Angeles for the rest of my life in hopes of meeting a Heather-Graham-type-girl from across the bar who suffers from all the same woes. It was a great portrait of a guy who's absolutely crushed by a girl and coming to terms with the fact that she's never going to call and that he just needs to get over her. He tries and tries and tries. It's sad at points watching him struggle with the awkward moments of trying to meet a girl while still acting like he's talking to his ex-girlfriend as if he's trying to, through his words, transmute his ex into the girl at the bar. It's relatively sad and deprecated, but still a good movie. Ends well enough to make you leave feeling well.