A Prairie Home Companion & the finale of The City of Lost Souls

A Prairie Home Companion is great Altman. It's not a brilliant film, there's not too many cool film things in it. But it's full of hilarious lines. Almost everything Guy Noir (Kevin Kline) says is hilarious, mainly because he's such a horrible cliche. And Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly are also hilarious as well, especially their song titles and the Bad Joke song may have some of the best worst jokes ever. And, of course, what would the movie be without Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin? They're the most Altman-esque aspect of it, with them doing the overlapping dialogue telling crazy stories about their youth in the industry. But the best surprise in the film was just how good Maya Rudolph is. Vastly better than anything she's done on SNL. The movie is just fun. Pretty good music, as well, especially knowing that everyone in it is singing and playing their own instruments adds to the impressiveness.

I also finished off a different DVD of The City of Lost Souls. I think it should have ended when the last DVD stopped working. Maybe it was trying to tell me something. I didn't care for the epilogue. End with the blood in the alley.