Wizardnews has a story from Contact Music that they will be filming two sequels to PotC at the time, effectively taking Orlando Bloom out of the movie-making market for a year. (I would imagine that the same could be said of Keira Knightley and Johnny Depp -- but this was a story about Orlando.)

When does a mistakenly held belief become a delusion? What's the official definition?

I don't have it to hand, but basically a delusion is an unreasonable belief (within cultural context, so religiousness e.g. doesn't count unless it's really wacko). It's possible to know one's belief is unreasonable, and try to combat the belief by asserting the unreasonableness (thought stopping), which is one kind of therapy for psychotic disorders.

The classic line of this type I read by a doctor a couple of years ago: his patient called him up and said, "Doctor, someone's going to blow up LaGuardia Airport!" The doctor asked, "Why are you calling me, instead of the police?" and the patient replied, "Because I'm crazy!"

He couldn't bear not to tell anybody, the delusion was so overwhelming and frightening, but he was aware that it was a delusion and was trying to act accordingly.

When does a mistakenly held belief become a delusion? What's the official definition?

When one clings to it despite being exposed to much evidence to the contrary? (Just a guess.)

Roger Ebert's conclusion on his review of The Village:

Eventually the secret of Those, etc., is revealed. To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one step up the ladder of narrative originality from It Was All a Dream. It's so witless, in fact, that when we do discover the secret, we want to rewind the film so we don't know the secret anymore.

And then keep on rewinding, and rewinding, until we're back at the beginning, and can get up from our seats and walk backward out of the theater and go down the up escalator and watch the money spring from the cash register into our pockets.

Heh. Is it so wrong that this is making me want to see the movie even more?

You know, I really wanna see it now. I just don't wanna pay $9.50. Or even $4.50 matinee prices. I just hope it comes to a cheapo theater.

To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes.

Cute. And funny.

The preview they showed on the news this morning made we wanna see it too. Poor Sigourney.

edit: I just went to imdb. A big red slash appeared across my screen. Stupid ad for the movie.

You know, I really wanna see it now. I just don't wanna pay $9.50. Or even $4.50 matinee prices. I just hope it comes to a cheapo theater.

The way the reviews are going, it would be a good shot for a revived MST3K.

I checked out reviews on Google News---and some people are giving really positive reviews.

Obviously they are suffering from Insane Troll Logic.

The Insane Troll Logic that escapes me is: If you live in a forest with potential hunters (lawn mowers) in the vicinity, wouldn't wearing red be a good thing?

I can see "never wear the ancient camouflage color. it equals danger."

Rotten Tomatoes is currently at 44%.

Oooh, one of those reviews used the phrase "high-camp." It also used the phrase "may be the year's worst film."