Xander ,'Chosen'
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That's understandable. Movies hardly ever play where you live.
I *know*! What's up with that???
Oh, wait...
(I made a tangentially similar comment to my coworkers today. I came back from catching a bit of CNN in the cafeteria at lunch and said "Jeez, I really wish I was back in the Midwest today....
...Oh, wait. That's not what I meant to say at all. I *totally* meant to say I. Love. Los Angeles.")
Do not minimize the magnetic appeal of snow, especially if it's not too cold.
I do, on occasion, miss snow. If my car were running better, I would drive and go see some.
I also miss real thunderstorms.
We had THUNDERSNOW!
No, really.
I *know*! What's up with that???
But as I recall you still had time to see (a) Freddy vs. Jason and (b) Blade: Trinity Whatev.
I just saw the trailer for Sin City--looks great!
NYT review of Fat Albert: [link]
One of the truisms of contemporary pop culture is that just when you think it couldn't get any worse, its purveyors any more shameless, you are proved decisively wrong. Based on Bill Cosby's corpulent charmer and his band of brothers, the "Fat Albert" movie opens in theaters just days after the release of the DVD compilations of the original show. DVD's for the program are featured so prominently in the movie - characters repeatedly deliver their lines in front of promotional posters for such discs - and the movie feels so much like an extended-play sitcom, I half expected Mr. Cosby to pop up on-screen to sell me the discs along with a Coke.
Gawd, that review trashes it. Is it Teppy who's gonna see it? Should someone warn her?
I thought it was a "truism of contemporary pop culture" that any movie with Bill Cosby in it has to be a horrible, awful, avoid-at-any-cost disaster.
I just saw the trailer for Sin City--looks great!
It does. Unfortunately that trailer didn't get along with my PC. Here's the one at Quicktime.com. [link]
ETA context
Okay, I hate to interrupt the intelligent movie discussion with my blathering cheese, but: I just saw Phantom and freaking loved it.
It was everything I hoped it would be: huge, sweeping, over-the-top, craptacular melodrama. With songs! It's entirely possible that most of my love is due to nostalgia, but I'm okay with that.
Gerard Butler? Sex on wheels, baby. The "Point of No Return" scene was reeeeeeeeeally hot. Too bad his voice didn't quite measure up. Not enough oomph for my taste.
Emmy Rossum did a fine job as Christine (really, there's not much you can do with that role except sing, have curly hair, and act all entranced). Her voice is lovely; a bit too scoopy, but so much more pleasant than Sarah Brightman.
Oh, and Patrick Wilson is so pretty, but had a really bad wig.
Can I buy this on DVD yet?