I'm going to the Melbourne International Film Festival tonight. I'm pretty excited. It would be better if I can get somebody else to go with me, but the $16 ticket is a turn off for some. I'm going to watch a movie called a Eagle vs. Shark, and it's going to be my third film this weekend. I went to watch Sicko and Die Hard 4.0 on Friday and Saturday. And now this, which costs me like 20 bucks. So uh, I guess I'll be eating pop-mies for the rest of the week.

I just got back from Capitol Theatre. Turns out that 20 bucks was worth it. I get to watch two, not one, but two great films.One's a short movie called Run, and the other one is Shark vs. Eagle..often dubbed as New Zealand's Napoleon Dynamite. I watched Napoleon a couple of years ago, and I didn't find it to be funny. However, it was on tv a while back, and I realised how its quirkiness made the movie so damn hilarious.

It's the same thing with Eagle vs. Shark. This is an unconventional romantic comedy, and it breaks all stereotypes. Forget about a sexy lead actress and handsome, hunky, latin-american lead male.

This movie has a geeky shop assistant working in a videogame store as the lead male actor, and an inept, mumbling fast food restaurant cashier as his girlfriend.

The quirky characters turn this film from a stinking pile of crap to something actually worth watching.

I went to see Sicko on Friday, and it was great. Not as good as Fahrenheit 9/11, but it raises some important issues. It actually got me worried, because Australia uses the same system as the US. So what happens if, say, I had a car accident? It's gonna be shitty for me, but it benefits the medical insurance company by thousands of dollars for refusing to pay for my operations.

Die Hard 4.0 was pretty awesome. Certainly better than expected.

Die Hard 4.0 Checklist:
- One of the bad guys is a hot babe that can do kungfu and computer hacking, but remains the submissive China Doll of the primary bad guy. - check
- John McClane vs. a fighter jet (and wins) -check
- John McClane destroying a helicopter using a single car, and with the excuse "I've run out of bullets" -check
- Police coming to the final battle scene a few seconds after the bad guys are all dead. -check
- John McClane's daughter is a hottie -check
- Ridiculously epic pyrotechnics -check
- Professional hackers never uses a computer mouse, ever, because using a mouse is for the rest of us. -check
- Bruce Willis is 52 years old, yet he can still play the role of John McClane. -check
- No Paris Hilton in sight. -check
- It's a damn good action movie -check

I want to watch it again.