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.

Yeah, my reading was more like yours, Robin. I mean, I'm a Creative Writing major, and I was all ready to take him home with me because he's adorable and sweet and funny and really needed a hug. It didn't even occur to me that he would make good story fodder. But the relationship between the two guys was really great.

Saw In Good Company this afternoon. It was a little different from what I had expected, based on the trailers (for instance, I expected Topher and Charlotte to end up together, and I didn't know that Topher would have the whole divorce thing going on -- and I really thought he was excellent in conveying the whole feeling lonely and needing some real connections -- he was just spot on), but I really liked it. It was just a lovely little thing.

Dennis Quaid is still hot -- when he grins, he actually leaves me breathless -- though he looks SO different than he did in Far From Heaven. And Charlotte Johannsen is so beautiful. She has a perfect face, I think, and the best eyebrows EVAH.

Just finished watching Untamed Heart, one of my all-time guilty pleasures.

I can't help loving Marissa Tomei and Christian Slater...Rosie Perez...the accents...Kyle Secor as a baddie. All of it.

When it came out (1993), I was going through one of the worst breakups of my life...I saw Untamed Heart in the theatre...six times in one week. Best crying, plus hopeful, sentimentality evah.

Sigh.

That is a great movie. I love it.

By all rights, Christian Slater should be a little creepy in it, and yet you just end up loving him to pieces, and everything is so good, and then there is the crying.

Good stuff.

And, I neglected to mention, one of the very best on-screen kisses EVAH!

Ta pieces. You said it Alibelle.

But, Christian Slater *is* creepy! Much as he was in "Bed of Roses". Or maybe I just have a problem buying him as a sensitive lost soul, 'cause being sorta-skeevy is, like, a part of his personality, ya know?

I do love "Pump Up the Volume" though. I wonder whatever happened to Samantha Mathis?

In a Kevin Bacon move, I can connect Samatha Mathis and Christian Slater in one move.

Broken Arrow. Full cheese, but I liked it for the crazy Travolta.

Slater: You're out of your mind. Travolta: Yeah. Ain't it cool?

Mathis was pretty wasted in it. In fact, can't think of anything I've really liked her in.