The only enjoyable thing about Forest Gump to me was when Jenny was going to jump from her balcony while "Freebird" played in the background. Though the thought occurred to me that between her platform heels reducing the distance and her bell bottoms acting as parachutes, she'd probably survive the fall.

Janet Leigh at the motel. Yeeks. Yeah, on one level, it's cheese. On another, it's the most nightmarish part of a nightmarish movie.

You'd think she'd have learned to avoid cheap, out-of-the-way motels after this, but noooooo....

Alicia, I haven't seen Spider-Man 2 yet. I just last night saw Spidey 1. So.

And it didn't wow me, can't decide if it's worth the effort to see the sequel.

Now that made me laugh, Matt!

eta: I'm having a whole sciency, flying squirrel thing going on.

plus? I can't type for beens.

Spiderman 2 is better than the first, people say, and even though I didn't like it, I have to agree.

Suela, I found Spidey 1 enjoyable enough, but Spidey 2 wrecked me in a very, very good way. If you decide to see it, it may possibly ping you in all your Farscape-loving dark, sad, cathartic, watching-deeply-loveable-characters-suffer-horribly places. At least, that's where it pinged me

I liked 'em both, and I liked Spider-Man 2 (which we saw on Sunday) better than the first, which would have been better if we'd only been able to see more of Willem Defoe's own goblin-like face. I can't remember if it was said here or at PF, but someone said that the first one had too many shots of the unmoving Spider-Man mask talking with the unmoving Goblin mask, and it played like some sort of new kubuki theater.

watching-deeply-loveable-characters-suffer-horribly places

See, if you don't find Spidey deeply lovable, this won't help you.

Last week I had a friend go off (and on, and on) about MJ. What a horrible person! he kept exclaiming, but he has this long drawl, so it kept sounding like he was calling her a whore. His points were sound, I felt -- her character was flawed enough to take her into Marissa territory and beyond -- I could not care about the men that want her.

I've not seen Touch Of Evil, but I'd like to. I love Citizen Kane on such a immediate visual level that it's hard for me to expound on it past how freakin' gorgeous it is to me. It almost looks like a painting, it's so damn beautiful. I don't mean in a Moulin Rouge visual crack way, I mean the interplay of the shadow and the film and the... Oh. So pretty.

Speaking of the pretty - of the list of pretty men, my boys are, in order: Matt Damon, Johnny Depp, Colin Firth, Orlando Bloom, and Hugh Jackman. Most of the younger James Franco-type actors I've not seen enough to make a judgement, and the other ones I'm rather meh on.

I thought the first Spidey was sloppy and foolish; I thought the second Spidey was sloppy and goofy. There is a fine distinction between the two, and I vastly prefer goofy given the choices.

Okay, there are people who enjoy Touch of Evil on a gut level, but they are in the tiny minority. When I think about trying to introduce my flatmate (who avowedly never watches B&W films) to old movies, I never, ever think of TOE. I mean, this is the woman who has no desire to see Casablanca or The Maltese Falcon, not even for the cultural competence factor, so it's an uphill battle no matter how you slice it, but yeah. NSM with the obvious appeal, at least not to most of its audience. I think its trashiness wasn't fun enough for me. When I feel complicit in the trashy, I can get hooked, but I found TOE's trashiness mostly just off-putting and annoying.