I liked Final Destination because that last death was so damned funny. Just about all the deaths in the sequel are funny, yet they inspire no similar fondness. Still, nice to see a secret celebrity boyfriend working.

Just about everyone in this movie was also in Taken. Also Stargate and The Outer Limits and ... but still. Taken might just be the Kevin Bacon of Vancouver.

Final Destination 2 grossed me out. then again, i'm someone who couldn't finish watching Resident Evil until it was light outside. so take that for what you will.

did you like Taken, ita? it took me a few eps to get into it, but once it did i really liked it.

Everything felt kinda slapsticky -- sure it was gross, but I was too busy laughing at the complex machinations that lead up to each death, and didn't feel tense.

Taken didn't end up grabbing me, no. Despite my massive Eric Close love. I think that Dakota Fanning killed it for me. Yeah, let me blame it all on her.

BBC2 is doing an afternoon's programming just for me. A 2-hour Hitchcock doc, followed by The Lady Vanishes and The 39 Steps, possibly one of my favourite movies ever. Robert Donat, gnugh. The scene between Donat and Peggy Ashcroft as the frustrated crofter's wife? Pure sexual attraction, Hitchcock-style; and just wait until he handcuffs Donat to Madeleine Carroll....

Top 5 Frederic March movies: I Married a Witch, Nothing Sacred, The Best Years of our Lives, A Star is Born (despite James Mason being the One True Norman Maine) and Dr. Jekyll. I always preferred the Fred version to the Spence one, mainly because I couldn't buy Ingrid Bergmann as a cockney floozy. So, actually nothing to do with the leading man at all.

Huh. While I've never heard Chow Yun Fat be anything but gracious (and funnily dominated by his wife) in interviews, I'm not suprised by the 'get me away from the dirty round-eye' potential.

I wish I were a bigger person and could say that this revelation reduces the volume of drool he inspires in me but it just doesn't.

Tom Hanks' politics and personality? Took him right off my table. Fwip! But not Fat. I'm shallow that way.

Just ask him to put on those shades and that leather coat and be quiet. I'm happy!

Taken didn't end up grabbing me, no. Despite my massive Eric Close love. I think that Dakota Fanning killed it for me. Yeah, let me blame it all on her.

i've seen several buffistas express dislike for Dakota. i guess i'm alone in loving her. i think she's adorable and very talented.

There are very few precocious kid actors that I like. Preternatural gravitas and maturity in little kids makes me sad and uncomfortable, and she can act it in spades.

Pullman on the HDM adaptation:

As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy book and a priesthood and an apparatus of power that wields unchallengeable authority, in order to dominate and suppress human freedoms. In Lyra's world, that power is wielded by a mighty and corrupt church, which differs in some ways from the church in our world just as the everyday lives of the characters do. In our own world, that sort of power has been wielded at various times in the name of religion as well as in the name of 'scientific' atheism. It's wielded politically, and it's wielded culturally; sometimes it`s a religious police force that beats women who aren't wearing the correct dress, and sometimes it's a cowardly press, cringing in front of corporate power, that cackles and jeers whenever it sees something it thinks it's safe to criticise.

tiggy, you're not alone. I adore Dakota, and quite admire her talent.

Huh. While I've never heard Chow Yun Fat be anything but gracious (and funnily dominated by his wife) in interviews, I'm not suprised by the 'get me away from the dirty round-eye' potential.

I wish I were a bigger person and could say that this revelation reduces the volume of drool he inspires in me but it just doesn't.

I'll second that one, Beej.