Sometimes bad things happen and darkness descends.

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adaptation.
cast: nicholas cage, meryl streep, chris cooper
what imdb says: A lovelorn screenwriter turns to his less talented twin brother for help when his efforts to adapt a non-fiction book go nowhere.

1. Yeah, that's right. Another Meryl movie. But screw that, it was like 50% off at borders and I heard it was good and I wanted to see it because it's a movie with punctuation in its title and generally those movies have style. AND I wasn't disappointed.
2. It was really, really weird besides the whole being good parts. It's basically about an author writing a story about he can't finish a story about this book that Meryl's character wrote. But as the movie goes along it follows the plot of the failing story. SO STRANGE. Very metafictional.
3. Orchids play a large part in the movie, the book that's getting adapted is about a guy that Meryl wrote about who searches for orchids and then gets high off of some of them... but anyway. orchids are beautiful -- I almost bought one the other day at Wal-Mart but I hear that they don't travel well and I'm moving out of this hole in a week anyway.... sorry, I'm off topic.
4. Meryl gets high in this movie! HIGH. it's hilarious!
5. Anyway, Nicholas cage plays two twin brothers, and that alone provides enough weirdness to the whole story line. There's also a lot of fantasy sequences... things that happen in the head of the adapter (Cage) that don't actually happen in real life. Strange movie, but good movie.
6. Also I saw this movie over spring break, and it's been a while so I can't really remember a lot about it, I do remember that it was good though :)

up next: a series of unfortunate events, ghosts of girlfriends past, slumdog millionaire, p.s. i love you, i'm not there