Today I watched three movies in class, of which three one was good. In Debate, we watched Rainmaker, a 1997 Matt Damon lawyer movie that was decently interesting and occasionally realistic. Matt Damon is kind of muscle-y for a lawyer. In Economics, Blaine put on National Treasure, which really has no redeeming value. Nicolas Cage is insufficiently aesthetic to resurrect the anti-historical crap that goes on. There are not enough explosions. There is not enough funny. There is no kung-fu whatsoever. (Somehow, I recall enjoying this movie when watching it in a theater when it first came out, though even then acknowledging its complete lack of logic. I think I actually like movies a lot more in theater, for some reason. However, I did hate What the Bleep Do We Know, which is such a horrible movie oh my god.) The only good movie I watched today was La Grande Illusion, in World Area Studies (of course) — a 1937 movie about WWI and the “grand illusion” thereof. Verily, it was good. Definitely I do not watch enough old/good/classic movies, preferring instead to shamefully default to the explosion-y modern sorts.