The Cinekin Blog

I spent the last few days recovering from an illness, which translates into watching a lot of football and movies. What made it less relaxing than most lazy weekends is that, as part of my job here with Cinekin, I am forced to watch movies I haven’t seen before. If I had my druthers, I’d list watch Goodfellas and Casino over and over again. Now, if I could just watch movies that Cinekin recommended to me, no worries. The dudes who put together the algorithm did a damn fine job on the recommendation engine, and I’m not just saying that because they work in the cubicle next to mine and are much, much bigger than me. I mean it. Of course, am I allowed to take advantage of that and just movies it gives four stars? Nooooo. I have to watch movies that the recommendation engine tell me I’d give one star, or one and a half stars. Why is that? Because, as my boss says, “we have to have you write about the other end of the spectrum, too; the movies that you don’t like are just as important in building your taste profile as the movies you like.” Whatever. All I know is that I had to freakin’ watch “13 Going on 30” and now my soul wants to vomit. Or maybe that’s the the stomach flu. Or maybe it’s the fact that I ended up watching “Ladybugs” soon after. The point is, my boss wants me to suffer, and mostly succeeds.

As part of my long standing desire to do something both detrimental to my emotional health and socially irrelevant, I had a long standing goal of watching 10 movies starring Sandra Bullock. I finished the twentieth this weekend; combined with the two movies mentioned above, I think the movies I watched have now gotten me out of about one thousand years of purgatory.

Here are the Sandra Bullock movies I’ve seen:

1) Speed
2) Demolition Man
3) Hope Floats (An ex-girlfirend made me. I caused our breakup. That, and her other boyfriend.)
4) 28 Days. (I thought she was in 28 Days Later and got really excited. I turned out to be very wrong.)
5) Speed 2: Speed Harder
6) Miss Congeniality
7) Miss Congeniality 2 (I was drunk)
8 ) Two Weeks Notice (I wish I was drunk)
9) Infamous (It’s about Truman Capote’s book In Cold Blood)

and the 10th movie, seen this past weekend:

10) The Prince of Egypt.

It’s animated, but screw you, it counts. I’m working on my “Best SNL movies” post, so if you want reviews of these movies you’re gonna have to clamor for them.