Anybody familiar with You Can't Take It With You? I just saw it on TCM and came away far more annoyed than I should have.

It's a great film in many ways. Jimmy Stewart in his comfort zone as the straightforward young man. Lionel Barrymore as the lovable eccentric old coot. And so on.

But it felt like it went on about 20 minutes too long. It felt like the courtroom scene should have been the climax. Instead, the movie dragged on afterward.

Is the land deal subplot the problem? It takes up much of that 20 minutes, and it makes Edward Arnold the central character of the movie. And while Arnold plays a thankless role well (it's made painfully obvious in the first 2 minutes that, by '30s standards, he's the Economic Royalist bad guy), the film shouldn't focus on his character.

I haven't seen You Can't Take It With You in years, but I agree, it was a trifling fatiguing. I recall I had a violent urge to bitchslap the dancing sister. Don't even remember the land deal and a court scene. I'll take Mr. Smith Goes To Washington any day as my preferred Jean Arthur/Jimmy Stewart vehicle.

also? P-C, i wanted you to know that after i saw your constant mentions of Frou Frou that i finally ordered the cd off of amazon and since i got it, it has not left my cd player. Imogen and Guy are amazing. so, thank you.

Yay! That's so awesome. I hope their presence in Garden State brings them some much deserved recognition. And I want another CD. Now. Also, I should probably buy the CD at some point. My copy is burned.

Has anyone seen Michael Winterbottom's Code 46? It appears to have gotten a limited release somewhere, and the reviews are lukewarm to say the least, but I don't want to believe them because dude! Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton! And the premise sounds so cool and Michael Winterbottom is such a consistently interesting director. Surely it can't be that bad?

I didn't get to see Alien vs Predator. drugs make me sleepy.

I hope their presence in Garden State brings them some much deserved recognition.

I hope so too! i see a lot of people on eljay with them as their current music. so it seems word of mouth is getting around. i've turned at least one person on to them since i got the cd. i like catching bands/artists before they make it big.

I should probably buy the CD at some point. My copy is burned.

oh yes. you must. you have to support those lesser-known bands.

I finally saw Bourne Supremacy last night, and generally thought it was great. Only one thing bugs me. How could the CIA people POSSIBLY think that Bourne would leave a FINGERPRINT? He's surgically attached to his gloves! Nobody as good as him would leave a print anywhere.

I think they copped to their ignorance, which is why they brought in the ShePotatoe. The idea I think is that Bourne is so ahead of the operative curve that the plebes in the agency don't understand how brilliant he is. Nothing the Potatoe said was news to us, but they sure acted like it was valuable.

Which makes me worry about them, really. I hope it's more sensible in real life.

But SHE never said "A print? They don't leave prints."

And HE didn't say "A fucking print? You know I don't leave fucking prints!" TO her.

It just bothered me. Not a big deal, obviously.

But even she didn't harp on that. It just seemed so obvious to me as well. I mean, shit, even I would know better than that.

But even she didn't harp on that.

Oh, I totally agree they were all dumb. What should have been SOP is that if all signs point to Bourne, it wasn't him.

Period, end of story, don't call in the specialists.

However, I guess we were supposed to believe they didn't get the magnitude of the supremacy. Even though it was standard CSI-level guessing for us.