Guy Pearce, Russell Crowe, and Kevin Spacey. Goddamn, that's a great movie.

Dana speaks the truth. L.A. Confidential is fantastic.

I remember being not all that impressed with Donnie Darko. I wonder if I should give it another try.

Jon, there's a whole lot of extrapolated material from the Philosophy of Time Travel book that I don't remember seeing on the DVD

I think that stuff is supposed to be from the website.

And L.A. Confidential does indeed rule.

What I don't remember about the Smurfs is where the kids came from. I know there was an origin story, but I have no idea.

See, I feel like I understood the movie, except for where the engine came from, as it seemed like it got sucked back in time, but if you don't tangent, then there's nowhere to get sucked back from, if that makes sense (about it not making sense). I don't know if that means it was over-clarified (on some or all points) or what.

I figured there was less book in the original.

except for where the engine came from, as it seemed like it got sucked back in time, but if you don't tangent

Donnie brought it from the tangent universe to the real universe, causing the possibility of the tangent to no longer exist.

Yeah but you're then left with a real universe is which a plane engine has appeared from nowhere, so that's still a rupture in the space-time whatever isn't it? Like, it's hard to see how what Donnie does actually resolves anything. So I prefer to think of the whole movie as ambiguous and unresolved.

If you've got some time, work your way through the Web site, [link] It goes into tangent universes, artifacts from them, et al.

Of course, it will still melt your brain.

There's a point in the movie where they explain that when a time loop is closed, there will always be an artifact of some kind, so even though the tangent universe gets closed, the engine is still left behind as the artfact, the sole piece of evidence that the tangent universe ever existed.

So, there I am, visiting my brother's place, and he's got a bitchin' new home theater system and we decide to rent something bombastic and over the top. We decide to rent "The Core".

The movie is the most unintentionally fucking funny thing ever. I mean... the birds! The sonic WTF now? And the ship's made of mumblemuble SHINY METAL with tweaky doo-dahs that makes it impervious to 9000 degree (fahrenheit or celsius or do I even care?) temperature and gazillion metric tons of pressure, and OMG it's like adamantium and kryptonite got shitfaced together one night and had wild monkey sex and had a freak metal baby! And there's a grand canyon and giant purple crystals! Inside the earth! After a while, I began wondering whether Roki from "Jose Chung's From Outer Space" was right after all and we were going to encounter the Lava Men.

Also, within 5 minutes of the team being assembled, both my brother and I were able to pick the ones who were going to bite the big one, and the order in which they were going to go. It's like they had shiny numbered red shirts.

One the plus side: Aaron Eckhart is awfully pretty. And it would make a grand double feature with "The Day After Tomorrow" for MST3.

Just saw "Garden State." Really liked it. It had a lovely blend of snark and sentiment and truth (Braff went to high school with my BF's cousins, and the feel of the place is exactly right). peter Saarsgard is my newest Sekrit Boyfriend due to him being so freaking AWESOME in both this film and "Shattered Glass."

I wanted to see The Core, just because Hillary Swank was in it. Was she good?

Tonight I watched Monkey Bone. It had its moments, but overall I was pretty meh.