THE INCREDIBLES!!!!

We picked ours up at Target after baseball practice. Emmett deems this the greatest Tuesday in recent history. Btw, it's on sale at Target through Saturday. Got the two disc set, widescreen for $15.98. That's a good price around here.

Best Buy is having a sale also.

There's another Boys From Brazil, I'm guessing. This wasn't Hitler -- just a doc. It was more about the sport onscreen than anything else.

THE INCREDIBLES!!!!

I met a woman Saturday night who really truly is a human Edna Mode. The hair, the glasses (well the human Edna's glasses were clear frames, not black, but just as huge and thick), the 'tude -- it was uncanny. The people I was with had to forcibly stifle their laughter until human!Edna walked away.

You know Edna Mode is an homage to Edith Head, right?

Edited to add link: [link] (It plays music, beware.)

Heh. I do. t edit This woman had a totally different face shape -- much more like the Edna character and much less like the actual Edith.

The Natural is an eccentric reworking of the Fisher King story.

A friend of mine told me that in college, and I thought he was being silly. Then I watched it again. It really is, and I liked it a lot more after that. I think all the mythologcial references offset the anvils somehow. I mean, legends aren't supposed to be subtle.

Yeah, I saw The Cup when it was playing at Sundance, whenever it was. Not bad, but I just wanted something to happen in it, anything.

Watched The Hunger and Legend (director's cut) tonight.

We just had another one of those movie experiences like with Secretary. (That one went: DH: How about a comedy?
Me: OK
DH: Secretary?
Me: Not a comedy.
DH: Yeah it is - the online reviews say it's funny. Look, here on the cover it says "One of the funniest movies of the year."
Me: I thought it was a psycho-sexual personal development movie.
DH: Doesn't mean it's not a comedy.
---After movie---
DH: That was so not a comedy.)

This one went:
DH: How about something light...Three Kings?
Me: I don't remember that as being particularly light.
DH: Really?
Me: Really. I thought it was pretty laden with MESSAGE. Also some gross stuff.
DH: But it's not really a war movie, right?
Me: Well, it's not like Saving Private Ryan. It's lightER, but not, you know, light.
DH: I thought it was supposed to be quote an irreverant look at Desert Storm endquote.
Me: It is. Depending on whose side you're on.
----After movie--- DH: That was so not "light." Also, really depressing after Bush the Sequel.

Seriously, very very depressing to watch Three Kings these days. When I originally saw it I was living in Yemen and no one thought we'd be militarily occupying any MidEast country again.

Edited to remove mystery question marks and end-bold tags.

It may not be light, but Three Kings is a pretty great movie. I haven't watched it since the reinvasion, though. Must remedy that.