Is it just me or is that Life Aquatic movie just Royal Tenenbaums with a few different actors (and not even that many different actors)? I could barely stay awake through Royal Tenenbaums, despite it being so highly recommended by so many college kids who were probably much more indie than me. Someone forgot to tell the director that you can't just throw a bunch of crazy characters on the screen and film them saying strange things to each other. There needs to be other aspects like story, plot development, and extreme sports.

Speaking of extreme sports, I finally saw the movie XXX the other day, in which Vin Diesel does a lot of unnecessary extreme sports presumably to save the world or something. It was basically Apartment 12: The Movie without the engaging characters and with an even more ridiculous series of random scenes, such as one where Mr. Diesel jumps out of a plane with a snowboard on, lands on a mountain, causes an avalanche, and snowboards down ahead of the avalanche. It has to be seen to be believed, I can't adequately do the ridiculousness justice.