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.

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

yay! she was the first little kid i saw that inspired me to say that if i was to ever have a kid, i'd want one like her. for me, that's saying a lot.

The Chow Yun Fat quote--at least what I could find from looking around:

"I can't stand talking English every day or the lifestyle there ... not to mention the food," the Hong Kong-born film star was quoted as saying in Friday's editions of Chinese-language newspaper The Sun.

"I only go to America for work," he said. "When I finish work, I leave immediately. I won't stay one day longer."

This sounds like he defintely hates it here, but not that he hates Westerners. So, cranky but not racist. Still a curmudgeonly thing to say, but no worse than, for example, a friend who moved to London five years ago to direct, saying he couldn't stand living in New York or the politics of the theater scene.

I saw "A Series of Unfortunate Events." OK, I guess, but Jim Carrey was too much "Ace Ventura." Count Olaf has to be really menacing for the story to work. I thought Jim Carrey was too over-the-top in parts.

Also, the We Are Family Anvil was distracting.

Liked the kids, Sunny in particular. However, if they are putting everyone else in Victorian-era-type clothing, they should have done that with Klaus as well. Maybe they were afraid that the boys in the audience wouldn't have related to to him dressed that way, but sweater and slacks was just too out of place. He should have been wearing a vest at least.

Just finished The 25th Hour. I made the mistake of reading reviews of it, that promised some shocking ending (to spare those from my error). Never really happened. And I just despise the idea of an apparently god-fearing man espousing avoiding the responsibility of going to jail for a crime of which is son is patently guilty, and it's not even a crime you'd think Pops would argue wasn't actually one.

So I felt all judgy towards the end, and broke away from any emotion Spike had earned.

totally agree with you about the ending, ita. i really like the movie, but the ending made the whole movie seem kind of pointless to me.

Just watched Chronicles of Riddick.

Wow, that pretty much didn't make any sense at all, did it?

I couldn't even finish it, Consuela. so you're doing better than me.

Thanks for finding that, Robin. I agree that it doesn't necessarily mean he dislikes Americans or westeners. It just strikes me that he's proud of his heritage and country and prefers it to any where else, so good on him.