Went to see Juno last night at AFI. Definitely a good movie - funny, but also touching, and Ellen Page does a really good job. I'm sure she'll be in some other movies soon. Also, I love Allison Janney and she was hilarious in this movie. I highly recommend going to see it if you haven't already. Oh - it also had a fabulous soundtrack with Belle and Sebastian on it.
After the movie we went to McGinty's and had a few beers. We started talking about politics since CNN was on covering the Super Tuesday returns. I told Keenan that I thought a McCain/Huckabee ticket was all but unstoppable...and that HRC probably has the best chance against them, but it would still be an uphill battle. Somehow after that we all started talking about religion and our personal views on it...even Billy got in on the conversation after being largely quiet. It's been a long time since I've had a real talk about religion with people and it was nice.
When I got home it was still pretty early - around midnight, so I decided to pop in one of the dvds I currently have from Netflix: Waitress. This movie got really good reviews and I was looking forward to it, but in the end I didn't think it was that good of a movie. Basically, Keri Russell plays a waitress who makes pies who is in an unhappy marriage and gets pregnant. She starts having an affair with her doctor, and she has all kinds of inane conversations with the other waitresses at work. Anyways, I thought it was overrated. I wonder if I would have liked it more if I hadn't seen it immediately after Juno. Whereas Juno was a movie that was about strong and empowered women, Waitress seemed to me to have a lot of codependent female characters...even the ending which I think is supposed to be the strong female ending did not seem to be that way to me.
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