The holiday in movies

Well, got caught up on some movie-watching over the frighteningly-brief break:

-- Hot Fuzz: Very yes. Entirely fun, needs a second watching.
-- Stardust: Muchly enjoyed, even DeNiro.
-- The Simpsons Movie: ...Meh. I'd heard conflicting opinions as to its quality, and I found it to be...about equivalent to an overlong but good episode of its current run. Certainly not of the caliber of its mid-'90s seasons. Worth the rent, but not the new release cost.
-- Spider-Man 3: The completeness kicks in. Yes, I feel the need to complete the trilogy, and...maybe I should've fought that feeling. About 20 minutes in, all the characters are replaced with idiots, and I found myself watching the DVD player timer more intently than the movie. Fail.
-- Blade Runner: I first saw this movie in 1997 (shut up) and immediately thought it could be released in the theatres that moment. Ten years later, I'm sticking with that feeling. A lot of what it popularized (maybe not "invented") is now cliché, or at least familiar, and yet it's rarely done as well.
-- Ratatouille: Classic Pixar, of course -- excellent animation and timeless storytelling.
-- Bender's Big Score: This is how you do the TV-show-turned-movie trick, kids. It's not Shakespeare, and the time-traveling-causality gets a little woogy in spots, but the plots and characters are well-crafted enough to hold it together. And it's consistently funny. (And, in one sequence, adorable.) And it's got a heart to it. Pleasantly surprising.

At some point, I'm going to have to watch The Matrix: Revolutions as part of that completeness urge again. I'm not looking forward to it.