I saw it the day after watching Chicago, the day after watching The Hours. So my reaction was tainted by 3 consecutive nights of John C Reilly the whining cuckold. Aniston was good, Gyllenhall was Darko (has he ever not been Darko? Darko in a flood! Darko in a supermarket!)

I really enjoyed it. Loved Aniston. After 10 years of tv and movie roles that bordered on the same, it was nice to see her conflicted and sad and pathetic.

I think she was all those in Object of My Affection too, though it was at least billed as a comedy. But her performance was much better in The Good Girl.

See, IMHO, her performance in Object of my Affection rang too close to the period of "Josh-U-AH" on the show.

I loved the Good Girl. "I'm named after Catcher in The Rye"

"So your name's what, Catcher?"

And I think the season with that Joshua thing was a high point for Friends. But then, "Yemen," still makes me giggle, so...

I just joined Netflix. I couldn't take it anymore. And the first movies arrived in the mail today. It's all so very exciting. Not that I can really afford it, but whatever. We'll see how this free two week thing goes. Or at least I will. And you guys might, if I decide to share.

Whatcha get?! Whatcha get?!

Well, I got "Mean Girls," because I saw the first three quarters of it on the flight home from London, but then they turned off our tv's, and I really needed to know the end. And I got "Ella Enchanted" because I like that sort of movie. And then I got "The Punisher" because I remembered that the trailer I saw made me cry.

Of course, a Campbell's soup commercial made me cry (well, it was the foster children one! How do you NOT cry?). And laughing makes me cry. And strong breezes make me cry. So that is perhaps not the vote of authority it could be, but whatever.

I have seen none of those movies, but I've heard good things about Mean Girls, and Nova likes Ella Enchanted (but mostly for the Anne Hathaway), and I think ita saw The Punisher. I don't recall hearing much good about it.

Have you seen the Lindsay Lohan Freaky Friday and Parent Trap movies? They're both really good, far better than I'd expected.

The first three quarters of "Mean Girls" is really good. I can vouch for that much. I like Anne Hathaway, though I thought that "Princess Diaries 2" was vastly superior to the first one, which I believe puts me in the minority.

I did see "Parent Trap," and it was better than I expected. I did not watch "Freaky Friday" because the promos drove me crazy, and I don't much like that story anyway. From the trailers I saw, Lindsay did seem to be better at playing an adult than Jamie Lee was at playing a teen, which was kind of interesting.

And I don't really expect "The Punisher" to be good. But it's a free rental, so it's ok.

Just turn the sound off and look at Thomas Jane in it.