I don't care about the conundrum, really. Assuming I'm in a mental place where that movie is appealing to me, I just want cute Mark Ruffalo to be happy!!

Why is this? Seriously. I've been thinking about this for the last two days, as the result of watching the Mark Ruffalo episode of Due South, and I *really* wanted the Mark Ruffalo character to be happy, but I should have been rooting for the bad guys, because the Mark Ruffalo character really sucked, and was a bad daddy, and I should have hated him, except he was played by Mark Ruffalo.

Umm. When I've had coffee, I might be able to translate that into English beyond, "DAMN YOU MARK RUFFALO! DAMN YOUR SAD EYES!"

Because it's really getting on my nerves that Mark Ruffalo has this effect on me.

I thought the Ben Grimm stuff once he'd transformed was compelling, especially that first meeting with his fiance after the change. And the day-in-the-life sequence of all of them getting used to staying at the Baxter Building.

Watching Jessica Alba try to convince people she was a scientist was entertaining, but not in the way the filmmakers intended...

I thought that the whole Chiklis thing was woefully underwritten, because his wife seemed so stank I couldn't work out if she'd always been that...hard and incommunicative, or this was a change. I wondered why he'd loved her in the first place, whether she'd been replaced by a pod person, what was with the dumb putting the ring down on the floor thing, saying five words to him ... I felt sorry for Chiklis for not having something I could stomach to watch him do, since I think he's a great actor.

Umm. When I've had coffee, I might be able to translate that into English beyond, "DAMN YOU MARK RUFFALO! DAMN YOUR SAD EYES!"

Hee! I liked him a LOT in You Can Count On Me, but then he almost died, and that made me want him to be fictionally happy even more.

That's how I usually feel about Ewan McGregor's characters -- I just want them to get a second chance, because he totally won't waste it this time.

Jessica Alba:scientist::Denise Richards:physicist

Discuss.

The scary part is, I saw exactly one of the top mumblemany movies of this year, and hated it.

Yes, thank you, I have demographicked myself out of the movie theatre.

I saw 6, and really enjoyed 4. I'm doing okay.

Of the 2 I didn't enjoy -- fuck, was Monster In Law crap.

Now, you don't have to sell me hard on why the female lead falls for the Vartan character. It's not like I expect him to (be able to) play something other than a slightly quiet, likeable and good looking guy.

The rationale for him falling for J-Lo's character? So non-existent, and exacerbated by them skipping ahead three months between first date and moving in together. My friend suggests there was supposed to be a video montage but they couldn't make it work, so they just jumped in time.

Horrible. J-Lo totally unlikeable. At least the Fonda character made you want to look at her.

I'd add traffic/parking to the list of things that discourage movie-going. There are three movie theaters that are pretty convenient to me. One I won't go to at all, because just getting out of the parking lot afterwards will destroy any pleasure I might get from a movie. The other two are slightly better, mainly because I can park at the extreme edge of the lot and walk the last bit. This is also a big part of why, when I do see movies, I go to matinees.

Yeah, this last year my criteria for selecting a movie theater is, "Can I walk to it? If not, can I take a train to it?"

I draw the line at taking a bus, though.

Skinny Angelina. I don't think she was that slim in Mr & Mrs Smith, but she wasn't big.