Tonight was a Sideways, Finding Neverland double-header.

MY GOD.

Loved them both.

Both in top 10. Probably top 5. Of 2004.

MMMMM.

Froot Loops:

Temporary Top Ten of Two Thousand Tfour

• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• The Incredibles
• Sideways
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Finding Neverland
• Kill Bill, Volume II
• Saved!
• Mean Girls
• Closer
• Spider-Man 2

This list is subject to change when i remember what other movies have come out this year. Or see other movies that came out this year.

Exactly my thought. I laughed when I heard him distance himself on the commentary track.

Haven't listened to the commentary track on my copy of the Ultimate Edition but I read his criticism in an interview in a magazine. He was claiming at the time (circa 2002) that they were going to make sequels that would draw the original story back to where [t]he[y] wanted it to go originally. Dream on, monkey boy, that riverboat floated away a long time ago.

I went to see Ocean's Twelve today.

I walked out about 3/4 the way through it.

You are a smart man, Mr. S. Not even the inclusion of Eddie Izzard made it worth my matinee ticket price. The Julia Roberts as Julia Roberts meta bullshit was total watch-from-the-hall material. And, oh -- not funny. At all.

The Clooney/Damon Sox vs. Yankees thing helped redeem it for me. I will never say it was a great film, but for me, it was a watchable one, and the sort of mental cotton candy I needed at the end of a long day.

But the Julia Roberts thing? Criminally stupid.

Bummer. And I still wish I could've gotten the "Eternal Sunshine" love. Oh, well.

I saw The Aviator yesterday and dear god what a fantastic film. It's incredibly tight, the performances are dead-on, and the cinematography took my breath away, but not in a calling-attention-to-itself kind of way. (It's deliberately reminiscent of Citizen Kane, and the film is so riveting, and all of the elements are in such perfect balance that you never once think to yourself, "My, this is some find cinematograhpy I'm watching." But it is.)

I went to see Million Dollar Baby on Saturday.

You know, I wouldn't have chosen to go see it but a friend of mine had some bad news and I was visiting her to offer support and her friends were going to see this movie and invited her along.

Really not a good "cheering up" sort of movie.

I want to know what people who know something about boxing think of the idea that the world champion is also that world's dirtiest fighter -- I mean, how often can this woman clock somebody on the back of the head and get away with it?

My sister saw Million Dollar Baby on Friday, and she's not a boxing fan, and said it was fantastic.

Oh, it's not a bad movie -- just not the movie to see when you're trying to forget that you may have to have a beloved pet euthanized. . .what with the euthenasia at the end of the film.