"The Proposal" didn't give me a "Hangover" like "The Informant" did.

Being unemployed as given me ample time to go to movies.  This week I've seen "The Proposal" with Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, "The Hangover" with a bunch of male stars, and the "Informant," with Matt Damon.

"The Proposal" is all Reynolds.  Bullock is good as a tough woman but Reynolds is it. If you like him, you'll like this until the movie descends into predictable cheese to wrap the movie up into a little bow.  You can leave during that part, it's only the last ten minutes and you won't miss thing.  It's not like they aren't going to get together.  We're not going to this movie because there's a mystery to be solved nor are we going because either one is a great actor (They aren't and you know it.) Reynolds is funny as hell but he plays himself in every movie and Bullock has a little more skill but just a little, and when they hook up, well it isn't "Ghost" romantic.

"The Hangover."  Four guys get drunk, wake up minus one friend and spend the film recounting their blacked out night.  Way more funny than one would think.  They avoid cliches (not a single gay joke and apparently using the word 'gay' isn't meant to ridicule gays, so no gay jokes) Ed Helms is awsome, Vegas has never looked like so much fun, Mike Tyson cameos as himself, the movie is an accomplishment to take a stale idea like bachlor party in Las Vegas and make it work.  Kudos to them.

Finally, "The Informant."  Matt Damon is great, everyone loves him.  He has that 'it' quality that makes him watchable without any effort on his part.  That being said, this movie bored me.  Damon's charecter is supposed to be a whistle blower and we slowly realize that the guy has major problems.  Throughout the unfolding the charecter makes mundane observations like the killer from "American Pyscho."  Through all the drama that's he's apart of, he apparently doesn't feel it, which is fine, but because it made me think of "American Pyscho," I couldn't buy what Damon and the director were selling.  If wasn't as dead as I was thinking nor do I think he's as dead as they were selling him to be.  The director was going for cute and quirky but got lost somewhere.  One observation I'd like to make, I've noticed in movies, as of late, that bit roles are now being filled recognizable faces, bit roles for bit actors with a face we know.  Interesting idea, like taking celebs and having them do cartoon work instead of the unknown charecter actors who they replaced.  Purposeful strategy, agents getting smarter?  What's the deal?  If you insert people I know into bit parts, I smile, by smiling I associate it with the movie and am more likely to think favorably of the movie---is that the gist? The plan?  Whatever.