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I've always been a sucker for a good action movie. Can't remember the last time i've really seen one... wait for it... worth its "salt". While the reviewers can't seem to agree whether its a "good" or "bad" movie, all i really want to be is entertained. A busty babe blowing things up and jingling all over seems to fit the bill perfectly.

The winner of the Must-Watch-With-Your-Significant-Other Movie Award.

Chock full of contemporary stars, the movie is about love, marriage and relationships. It centers around 6 or 7 characters, and their relationships with each other. Just about every significant issue related to relationships is discussed: marriage, love, dating, boy meets girl, adultery, lust, communication. Its all there. One Movie to Rule Them All.

One story arc in particular caught my attention. Jennifer Aniston's character wants to get married. Ben Affleck's character doesn't see the point in marriage; they love each other, have a great life together, are loyal and committed and are generally happy as happy can be when two people who are just right for each other are together. So why get married?

Early on in the movie, she dumps him over the issue. He moves out, starts living on his boat.

Jennifer Aniston's/Ben Affleck's friends make up the other story arcs. The married ones are miserable, trapped in adulterous affairs, apathetic to each other, constantly finding faults with their partners and bickering over the smallest things.

By the end of the movie, Jennifer Aniston realizes that marriage is not a prerequisite for happiness. She was happy before, why spoil it by forcing her partner to marry for the sake of marriage.

She goes looking for him, they get back together, glad to be together again. Ben Affleck then proposes to her with one of the best lines of the movie, "I want you to be happy, because i know thats the only way i'll ever have a shot at happiness myself. If you're happy, i'm happy. Will you marry me?"

Classic. My thoughts exactly.

If there's one movie i'm eagerly anticipating this year, its GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra.

I grew up a tough little boy watching the cartoons on TV in the mid-1980s. Bought the comics too, and saved up my meager pocket money to buy the action figures, or went over to friends' who had rich parents who had bought them the whole set of the latest figures.

In my mind, i imagined myself as the computer hacker, the handsome devil with the sly sense of humour, a ladies man who had a way with the tongue and a way with the keyboard, able to dismantle the electronic defenses of Cobra machinery with a flick of my fingers. Back then, every boy i knew had a GI Joe persona, that was mine.

I'm shy to say it now that 20-odd years have past since, but... "YO JOE!" *GI Joe cartoon musical score in the background*

Watched Obsessed this afternoon, and i must admit, i found myself really enjoying it despite its obvious cliche and plot. The Sun in the UK called it, "...Obsessed is both a front runner for the worst movie of the year and a must-see stinker." Lol, that just about hits it right on the head, from a critic's point of view.

But screw the critics. Its a fun movie, i was screaming in frustration at how stupid the husband was, and giggling with glee how "obsessed" Ali Carter's character could be. Her performance, by the way, was right on the money.

Go watch it, for a good couple of hours of delightful entertainment.

Was at the cinemas yesterday, and as i saw the throng of people lining up to buy tickets, the googly mass in front of the popcorn counter, and the many other milling around waiting for their movie to start, i wondered why we were all there.

The obvious answer, to watch a movie.

The not-so-obvious, to escape the real world?

To laugh at the antic of imaginary characters on the screen, to cry with them, to feel their pain when they bled or fell from great heights, to fear, to be held in great suspense -- just a few moments of our lives when we can be somewhere else besides where we really are.

Its golden.