ita, you should see Ever After. Dougray Scott is hot.

Dougray Scott is hot.

He is that, but I'm still extremely glad that he was so busy filimg MI:2 that he couldn't take the part of Wolverine in X-Men that was offered to him.

I'm not sure this counts as a jilt, but what about My Best Friend's Wedding? Julia Roberts's character does not come off well at all.

The fact that Julia Roberts's character is portrayed as kind of a psycho is my very favorite thing about that movie.

He is that, but I'm still extremely glad that he was so busy filimg MI:2 that he couldn't take the part of Wolverine in X-Men that was offered to him.

Yes. I saw X2 again Friday and was just completely amazed by how well Hugh Jackman made that role his own.

The AFI theater here is having a Johnny Depp fest, so I went to see Dead Man last night. I don't know if Dead Man is one of my favorite movies, but I own it and I watch it periodically because it's interesting and half the movie (the Johnny Depp/Gary Farmer stuff) is incredible. (I actually think it may be JD's best performance, which is saying something.)

It was an interesting experience, because I've never gone to see something in the theater that I've only watched on DVD. I noticed a lot of things that I haven't before, simply because they were louder and much, much bigger on the screen. And, since DVDs make it so easy to skip past the scenes I don't like, being forced to watch the stuff that annoys me was actually a good thing, because I made a lot of connections between the scenes with the bounty hunters and the scenes of growing friendship between GF and JD. Also, watching something with an audience (consisting almost entirely of pretentious movie geeks and teenage JD fans) which I had only ever watched alone was really interesting because people kept laughing at things which I had never noticed were funny and some things which really aren't supposed to be funny. It was a kick.

Ever After totally sold me on Dougray, so I see everything he's in, but have never again felt that warm gooey feeling for him. He plays such nasty bad guys and such convincing crazies (Arabian Nights, for example) that I can't go all swooney any more.

The fact that Julia Roberts's character is portrayed as kind of a psycho is my very favorite thing about that movie.

I also like the risk they took because Dermot Mulroney and Cameron Diaz aren't exactly a prize-winning couple, either.

He is that, but I'm still extremely glad that he was so busy filimg MI:2 that he couldn't take the part of Wolverine in X-Men that was offered to him.

Dougray Scott in Ever After is equivalent to Judd Nelson in The Breakfast Club.

No, stick with me. In those movies, those guys are hot. They have never, never, ever been nearly as hot in anything else, for whatever reason.

Heh. I'll give you Judd Nelson, but Dougray's career is still kind of young, no? And while I didn't find him precisely hot in "Enigma", I didn't find him repulsive or anything. Well, I have to say that he was sadly outshined by Kate Winslet (despite the fact she was playing someone allegedly dowdy. As if!), Jeremy Northam, and then-unknown-to-me Matthew MacFadyen (who played the officer whose face was tragically disfigured during combat), on whom I developed a rather violent crush. I think it was that voice. Plus, the eye-patch.

No, no, not repulsive at all, and I quite liked him in Enigma. But did he have the magical level of hotness in Ever After? Nope.