Of course. I like Buffy.

t pictures a slumber party starring Xander, Angel, Riley, Spike, and the Immortal all giggling and doing their nails.

t seeks the brain bleach

Seriously, whenever I admit my teen girl interests (books, movies, I love all of it and admit it freely), my Buffy interest is ALWAYS included by the uninitiated. A large portion of the world, at least in my generation, sees Buffy as a chick flick show on par with Dawson's Creek, only stupider because it has vampires.

I have a hard time defending it because I'm all "Hey! Buffy's totally not a show that only appeals to teen girls!" and they're all "Um, look at your bookshelf. You have all of the Princess Diaries novels. They're next to the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants ones. You were saying?" and I say "Yes, okay, those are girly. But not Buffy!" and they're all like "Uh-huh. Sure. Go read your pink books and let the grownups talk about The Sopranos and Friends and other shows for big people."

It's very annoying.

In pretty much entirely unrelated info, and also (bonus!) on topic, Anne Hathaway has a role in that movie where Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal are lovers, which I'm certain will have major Buffista attendance.

Oh, and Batman is real good too, and I want to see it again. Also, the Brooklyn Academy of Music is showing most of Johnny Depp's movies over the next three weekends, and I'm gonna try to catch at least some of the ones I've not seen. Plus Ed Wood. So that's exciting.

seriously, girl has skills. She should go do theater for a while or something: fantastic comedic timing, and a very nice voice too.

Gris, if you're at all into anime, Anne Hathaway voices the lead character in "The Cat Returns." It's a fun bit of fluff from Miyazaki's Studio Ghibi (but not a Miyazaki film as such). She does a fantastic job.

Saw the trailer for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory last night and I've been pondering one question ever since.

Why if the Golden Ticket contest is "world wide" are all the winning children white?

Hmmmm....?

My question was "Why is Johnny Depp channelling Carol Channing?"

Why if the Golden Ticket contest is "world wide" are all the winning children white?

Because Roald Dahl only wrote about white protagonists.

Most of the characters are bland, but not Johnny. He's extreme. Whenever he comes onscreen, punk music blares, he does a Mountain Dew commercial stunt and starts making out with one or two chicks

So, they've turned Johnny Storm into Poochie? Go team Hollywood.

I had to read that post way too many times (considering the word "Storm" is in it) to make it about F4 and not Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.

My question was "Why is Johnny Depp channelling Carol Channing?"

BWAH!

So, Fantastic Four? Really not so good. It had its moments, but took sooooo looooong getting to them. Batman can take a while going through the how-he-got-there part. These guys? Went to space. And came back. There was no need for that to take an hour.

I wholeheartedly agree. I mean, yes, it could have sucked more than it did (it's no Catwoman), but dear LORD I don't think it could have been any more boring.

One of the people I saw it with liked it, but she (a) likes that sort of thing and (b) had never heard of the F4 before, so the 90 MINUTES OF EXPOSITION were less pointless than they were to the rest of us. Seriously, if you know even the broad strokes of these people's origin stories, there is no point in seeing this movie. (Unless maybe if you know and love them so well that just spending time with them is all you want. But if you want to see them do anything, this is not your film.)