Huh. I don't doubt there will be sequels, but the box office was much lower than predicted.

I bet it has legs though.

Caught bits of two documentaries on Sundance over the weekend and they were both very interesting.

I've Tivoed To Be And To Have to watch all the way through. We saw the second half of it. It's a documentary about a one-room schoolhouse in Auvergne France, and the teacher who handles a class that ranges in age from 4-11. It's very moving and sweet and beautifully shot and I'd recommend it to just about anybody, but particularly all the teachers here.

Also watched parts of Yank Tanks which is about the odd and beautiful phenomenon that Havana, Cuba is filled with classic American cars from the fifties which are constantly being rebuilt against the rust and decay. It's gorgeously shot in Havana which is a fascinating city.

However, I mostly thought that Trudy, ita and Laura would particularly like the long scene of bare chested Cuban teens and young men playing street soccer in the rain. Barefoot. In slow motion. All these handsome, young, lean Carribean guys in various shades of multiethnicity wet and frolicking. Kat Perez would probably like it too.

a good story well-told

I think I need to see the dubbed version, because the subtitled version had DH and I both walking out of the theatre scratching our heads. There were at least 5 major things left totally unexplained.

Chinese translations of everyone's favorite dialogue exchange in Episode III.

PADME: "Something wonderful has happened. Annie, I'm pregnant"

("Waiting for the happy event condescends to come. Dear, I was pregnant")

ANAKIN: "That's... that's wonderful"

("This...... This is really too stick")

I saw Batman over the weekend. Twice! I won't go into the gushing but I was grinning like an idiot on the way home from the theater. Loved Christian Bale, loved Liam Neeson, and I absolutely lurved Cillian Murphy.

Katie Holmes was alright. Her character annoyed me a bit but that might have been due to TomKat media overdose.

We got a lot of movie trailers before BB. It was almost as long as the movie. We got War of the Worlds (no thanks), Stealth (killer aircraft,WTF), Dukes of Hazzard, Serenity (huzzah), the Island (hell yeah), Charley and the Chocolate Factory, Fantastic Four, and some Pocahontas movie with Colin Farrel and Christian Bale that looks pretty interesting.

I think I'll drag my brother or sister with me to see BB this weekend. I really need to see it again.

I may take the lovely wife out on a date this weekend to go see it.

Michael Caine about Alfred, and stuff.

I'm waiting for Christopher Nolan to do Alfred: The Beginning," Caine jokes.

Heh.

I put my foot down and refused to watch any more European award-winners, so we watched Seabiscuit last night. Chris Cooper was awesome, as usual, but I've got a pounding headache from so many large anvils being dropped right on my noggin. We played the Anvil Drinking Game - starting with the scene of the racing cars being rolled into the stable, we raced each other to predict the anvils. And the movie never let us down - they never missed a chance at an anvil.

Gah.

Pretty horses though.

I completely agree with:

"My view is that you should always do remakes of failures. Then you've got nowhere to go but up, you know? They can't say, 'Well, it's not as good as the original, you made a piece of crap. They'd just say, 'What a piece of crap that was,' anyway."