Movie Geeks Club -- Voting for the January Screening

Movie Geeks Club will not meet in December. We'll pick back up in the new year with a renewed vigor for watching movies and sipping beer.

Here are the movie selections for the January screening. Be sure to vote tonight. If you're not going to make it tonight, feel free to send me an e-mail and vote electronically. Or leave a comment here on the blog. At Just Two Guys, we make a solemn promise: "Your vote might be counted."

Donnie Darko (The Director's Cut): Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a disturbed adolescent from a semi-functional upper-middle-class family. After nearly escaping from death because he hears the voice of a 6-foot-tall bunny, Donnie is led by the bunny to create havoc that is both destructive and creative.

Memento: Memento is a neo-noir–psychological thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, adapted from his brother Jonathan's short story "Memento Mori." It stars Guy Pearce as Leonard Shelby, a former insurance fraud investigator searching for the man he believes raped and killed his wife during a burglary. Leonard suffers from anterograde amnesia, which he contracted from severe head trauma during the attack on his wife. This renders his brain unable to store new memories. To cope with his condition, he maintains a system of notes, photographs, and tattoos to record information about himself and others, including his wife's killer. He is aided in his investigation by "Teddy" (Joe Pantoliano) and Natalie (Carrie-Anne Moss), neither of whom he can trust.

The film's events unfold in two separate, alternating narratives—one in color, and the other in black and white. Leonard's investigation is depicted in five-minute color sequences that are in reverse chronological order. As each scene begins, Leonard has just lost his recent memories, leaving him unaware of where he is or what he was doing. The scene ends just after its events fade from his memory. The black and white sections are told in chronological order, showing Leonard conversing with an anonymous phone caller in a motel room. By the film's end, the two narratives converge into a single color sequence.

Corndog Man: A foul-mouthed (one of his favorite sales pitches is, "I'll sell you a boat quicker 'n a cat can lick his ass!") and bigoted boat salesman (Noble Willingham) in rural South Carolina is targeted for ruthless and never-ending telephone terrorism by a mysterious man claiming to be his son. A powerful story of vindication.

Be sure to vote.