Mom and dad have left the house to me again this summer.
So, in keeping with my stupidly inefficient habit of not using my resources to their full potential when I'm in a down phase, I have been vacating the premises every other morning to go see a movie....Mostly because I realized that if you go to the first showing of the day they only charge you FIVE FREAKING BUCKS instead of ten. WIN.
So I saw Bruno and Public Enemies this weekend.

How many people would grill me if I said I was more entertained by Bruno? -_-

Let's put it this way...Public Enemies is an action movie, similar to Taken (or my average academic week) in it's OMG CONSTANT STRESS pacing. However, UNLIKE Taken, this movie has a more complicated plot and set of characters, so more time should have actually been given to developing these things. You're forced to assume a lot about the characters, or pick it up from their appearances and dialogue, but unfortunately the script doesn't give the two star actors (Christian Bale and Johnny Depp) an opportunity to act out these characters to their full potential. I felt like this movie could have easily starred any other two men. Also, the first hour of the movie was confusing and boring. It got pretty exciting later though, but I still feel like character development was lacking. Particularly those characters of Dillinger's girl and Christian Bale's character. We simply don't know enough about them, or what the director wants us to see is not getting across. As a result, they appear bland...in a sesame-seaweed-toenail rice cracker way....different to a degree, but still bland.
Overall, this looks like someone went OMG LET'S WRITE AN AWESOME MOVIE WHERE CHRISTIAN BALE AND JOHNNY DEPP FACE-OFF, but went from point A to point B without too much fretting in between. The movie is lacking because it really really wants to be character-driven, but ends up trying to be an action movie. It's like a schizophrenic child with ADD and well-meaning, but stupid parents.

Bruno on the other hand is witty once you get past the buttsex jokes. It does a great job of making fun about all the stupid crap celebrities do just to get publicity. And who understands that better than an actual celebrity....?
It may or may not be as raunchy as people have told you it is. It depends on what you can and can't stand. Me? I can't stand rape, incest, spiders, or jokes about God, but I'm not homophobic and I appreciate political humour that has nothing to do with presidents. So I'm fine with most of this movie (er...give or take a scene....lol). Nothing made me cringe too much. I mean, it's a rated R movie, but it doesn't have anything particularly out of the ordinary, like say, Zack and Miri Make a Porno. 0_0'''''. It's about kind of like if you took that movie with Jon Heder about ice skating and made it R rated and about a fashion reporter instead....and gave it kind of a point. Which it makes well, considering it's pretty lame.

But DON'T see it and I REPEAT A MILLION TIMES!!!!!
don't see it if you can't stand imagining what would happen if carson kresley starred in zoolander. Because that's kind of what it feels like.

Yeah anyway....

Oh yeah. And they carded me for bruno. TWICE. fuck my life. THEY THINK I LOOK 16?????? SERIOUSLYYYYYYY.

First person to say "no they think you look 15" dies.