Saw In Good Company Last night. I really enjoyed it--Topher Grace was terrific and Dennis Quaid was the hottest 50-year-old ever. Lovely script--light without being insubstantial and also had some really strong moments. The women were underwritten, but it was the men's story, and their story covers a lot of ground, so the women lose out. They weren't badly written, we just didn't spend a lot of time with them.

Robin, have you seen Sidewards? I've decided to hit a matinee today, and I can't figure out if I should see that, or In Good Company.

Sideways, Lee? It's a more intimate, more melancholy, and less glossy film, but will probably stay with you longer, so it depends what you are in the mood for.

That's the one I mean, Robin.

Thanks.

Hey, the Godzilla remake had cool French commandos in it.

Yeah, but most of them ended up as redshirts for the lil' baby Godzillas (coughripoffofraptorsfromJurassicParkcough), and Jean Reno (who kicks ass in anything he's in) didn't have enough to do.

Considering that most of what he did do was act superior and annoying, I think it's just as well he didn't get more screen time. Vicki Lewis, Doug Savant, and the CGI Godzilla were the only performers that I found watchable in that movie.

The coffee scene was funny.

(Head Frenchguy bitches about the coffee, the underling who's doing the cooking holds up a can of coffee marked "French roast" and shrugs.)

Well, sure, as Dirty Dancing. However, Dirty Dancing as our imagined Cuban Missile Crisis AU where Baby and what's his butt save the universe or die trying? Totally had to be Milius.

Oh, that's okay then. So long as Emile's gets to stay, too. And DD2 was all, like, in Cuba and stuff. And also was not good. Maybe Milius should have made that one. And maybe he would have hired people that could dance, too, on their deadly foxtrot to save the universe.

Alibelle's whitefonted review of Elektra cracked me up. I have to see this movie now. Provided I don't have to pay for the experience.

You're welcome.

I agree with you about "In Good Company," Robin. Although, when Paul Weitz was talking to us, he said that Scarlett's character was interested in Topher because he was so messed up, and she was a writer cursed with a functional family, and so he was at his most attractive to her when he had revealed something about how screwed up his own family life has been . Which I didn't get. But it might be because I prefer not to see it that way. Did you pick up on that?

Watched 3 new (to me) movies this weekend:

Anchorman - Silly fun. Not as much as, say, Dodgeball, but still quite good.
The Village - Who cares about the suprise ending (which I figured out pretty damn early)? It was a cinematographer's movie, and the DP did a fine job.
Shaun of the Dead - Why is it that the British are the only ones making good, or at least original, zombie movies?

Interesting, Alibelle. I thought that he was an adventure for her, rather than a destination, so his fucked-upness could be part of what made him different from her life (along with the age thing and the Boss thing) and so made him attractive.