The original Total Recall blew me away. It's sort of a landmark in special effects for my film memory.

I rented, for the hell of it, Room 237, the conspiracy movie about The Shining. Got twenty minutes or so in. There was a review of the film in either Skeptic Magazine or Skeptical Inquirer, which made the interesting observation that because the film covers ALL these different people with their different views on what the movie is saying, it manages to, in fact, disprove all of them, almost as if that was the intended goal of the film. I can't speak to that, as I don't think I'll be watching more of this. The movie takes the incredibly annoying tact, at least at the start, of using clips from many movies and inserting them where you would usually show the interview footage of the person talking. Thus, we see footage of Tom Cruise looking at a poster for The Shining and going into a theater while a guy talks about when he saw the film. I'm assuming neither Tom Cruise or Robert Redford actually endorse the beliefs in this movie.

This Is The End

It wasn't good enough for me to bother finding a poster, but it wasn't horribly bad either. Or particularly funny. The one part that struck me was a scene where Emma Watson and the six guys are in a house and one of the guys points out that they should agree to not rape her. The following discussion is not 'well duh, of course not', but about how they shouldn't even discuss the topic at all and how dare he even bring it up and make them uncomfortable. I'm not up on my feminist lingo, but it's a great demonstration of something that I'm sure there is a specific name for and fits somewhere between male privilege and rape culture.

No, it was complete and utter shit. I don't know what people see in it.

I can tell you this: it sure as shit surprised me that it was directed by Barry Levinson.