I have this quirk, even when watching a bad or stupid movie (or at least one I think is so...) once invested, I stick with it until the end.

I don't particularly enjoy these introspective movies that have little or no resolution. I prefer my characters to either have a realization or not.

I watched "The WeatherMan" last night. I guess I just didn't get it.

Plus, watching a chubby pre-teenager is really painful. Hello, that was me. Sometimes it still is.

This guy's life just seemed rather f-ed up, if you know what I mean. I didn't see any great realization or movement, a subtle one, perhaps, and that was supposed to make me hope, I suppose.

I guess we don't usually make dramatic extreme makeover types of changes in our lives, not really. It is the small movements and attempts and challenges that we rise to that form us.

Still, perhaps it was a little too much like life, and I was hoping for a little more of an escape.

Nicholas Cage is pretty diverse, though. He's done a lot of things, and I always enjoy seeing what he's gotten up to this time.

Still puzzling on that movie...Maybe it wasn't a total waste of time.