Now see, I could respect the thought and effort that went into Frailty -- one of the few movies I've seen that showed, e.g., how frightening it is to be delusional (even if that does turn out not to be the case, it allowed the dad not to be a villain from the get-go). But I still got to the end and thought to myself, "Self, you know how much you hate it when the cool people get away with shitty behavior just because they're cool? That goes double when the cool person is God."

I thought it sort of undercut itself, by casting a young Fenton who was so convincing, and then throwing him away as an adult. I guess the movie didn't persuade me that his adult outcome would actually happen, and by setting up that adult outcome, the movie invalidated all of that painful thinking and hard work that had gone into his youthful outcome.

Not to spoil things too terribly.

So, I guess, a well-made film, based on a script I hated. If such a thing is possible.

I saw part of They, but it failed to catch my interest sufficiently to watch til the end.

Can anyone recommend Something Wild to me, the one with Jeff Daniels? Netflix should have an annotation function, because I need to make notes on why I rent certain movies. This one must be because of something random I read on the internet. It doesn't have any of my favourite stars, and it features a free-spirit woman (with awful jewelry) liberating a stuffy man. Later on it will no doubt go to hell in a handbasket and everyone learn valuable life lessons (or maybe die -- that would be cool).

But for right now, I'm wondering if I should just send it back with all but 10 minutes unwatched. Melanie Griffiths, for christ's sake. What was I thinking?

Well, It's Jonathan Demme. Ray Liotta is terrific in it, and it has a great soundtrack. I think it's an odd, fun staisfying little movie, but if oyu ain't liking it, no need to keep watching.

If Melanie is going to get less Melanie (or die really soon), or it does something really interesting to the free-spirit woman cliché, it might be worth my while -- what are my odds?

Where are you in the story, ita? It switches gears once they get to the reunion and just keeps getting darker until the end.

She's just driven off with him. Not far at all.

I think I might just hate Melanie too much to make it through. Looks like they have a bit of roleplaying to go through before it gets really ugly.

I always had a soft spot for Something Wild because part of it was shot in the town I grew up in, but I don't think that's any help for you.

The Feelies playing at the reunion?

Sister Carol singing over the closing credits?

Well, I can ignore the Melanieness because of the other pleasures of the film, but I can see where that could be a deal-breaker. I'm very fond of it.

Plus there is a lot of fighting later.