Read the Marvel comics adaptation of Xanadu: [link]

Everything that's good about the movie, except for the music and dancing!

I used to have that! Along with my original Star Wars comics, long gone these many years. That's where I learned the word "galvanized."

And I think in that light, Tim represents the part of Bruce that he squashed down years and years ago -- the part that can choose what to make of his life.

Ooo, good point. Have you read the issues where Tim goes around the world and gets himself trained? It echos Bruce's training, but Tim's motivation is so very different. Tim wasn't, at least originally, a rescue, where the other three were (even, and I think sometimes especially, Steph), and that makes all the difference.

Are you kidding? I have the TPB of those issues!

On a totally different topic related to the movie, did you catch the size of the hands on LN?

Do you even have to ask?

I just saw "Rory O'Shea Was Here"...It was the best disability movie since X2.

I went and saw Fantastic Four this afternoon. Not great cinema, but it was enjoyable enough for matinee prices. As expected Chicklis and Evans were perfectly cast, and I thought Griffud did a good job as well. McMahon tried gamely, but the writers completely fouled up his character. Whereas Alba at no point convinced me that she was a scientist. Or a blonde .

I just saw "Rory O'Shea Was Here"...It was the best disability movie since X2.

Is that the one I put on your radar, or something else?

I've got the Josie soundtrack. I want the DVD because it has DuJour videos as extras.

Yeah, Hec, you did...I think I saw the trailer, too, not long after. Part of my 'tude is Irish, as I always suspected. Almost everything in that film related to my life in some way, except that I never fell deeply for an attendant...just passing dirty thoughts. The early scenes reminded me of the place I lived where I didn't cut my hair for a year as a protest. I hated it, but they hated it more. So I felt like I won. Even if my prize was looking like Cousin Itt.(You would've wanted to throw a telethon for me, sure you would. Sorry...couldn't resist one imitation.)

Also saw F4. Man, the stretches without Chris Evans were LONG. Ioan didn't play any Mr. Fantastic that I'm familiar with from the comics, but I guess he was fine in the movie microcosm. Alba was laughable, and isn't it terribly convenient that her nudity is played for laughs, and that Mr. Fantastic's street clothes stretch? Chris Evans was pretty funny, and very charismatic in a cocky way. Chiklis was good, but his lines and plot weren't. McMahon was even worse off in that sense.

It was a pretty dumb movie.

"March of the Penguins" was utterly wonderful, and had me welling up with tears at several points (including when they showed the National Geographic logo at the beginning, but let's not talk about that). The entire thing is freaking gorgeous from beginning to end. It's amazing how in one shot a line of waddling Emperor penguins can be hysterically funny in a Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin sort of way, but in another shot can be awe-inspiring, in a David Lean, "Lawrence of Arabia" sort of way.

Also, baby penguins are lethally cute.

Be sure to sit through the credits, since they show shots of how the thing was filmed as the credits are rolling.

Oooooo. Just found out that Mizayaki's Warriors of the Wind has just been re-released on DVD as Nausicaä of the Valley of the Winds. Not up to giving it the hours of rapt attention it deserves tonight, but I'm not making any plans for next weekend.