I saw it! It was fantastic! It has the most wonderfully random sex scene, and Christian Slater seems to live in a lamp warehouse, and there's a security guard giving the performance of his life, and at the end the captions and the narration seem to be describing entirely different endings. It's also educational, like when Slater says, "Nowadays we can't remember why we valued gold in the first place." It's so true. My favorite character was the guy who was in charge of guarding the perimeter.

And the DVD has a trivia pop-up feature that will tell you all about H.P. Lovecraft. If you can make it out, because the text & background colors were both very dark. So it's a really nice feature if you're a masochist. But I suppose that's true of the entire movie.

Strega, you should start MoviesWithoutPity.com...

Plus, the opening credits have an explanation VO/text scroll that goes on for what seems like about 1/2 the movies total running time.

alienprayer, yeah, I noticed that one. Plus they don't seem to really have that much to do with the film.

I've only seen the first half hour so far. I keep falling asleep.

I reccomend investigating your DVD player, to see if it has a random track setting. When a movie begins to irritate me, I just put it on random.

This usually helps me tough it out, but I don't think I made it all the way through Alone in the Dark. I remember that the scroll/VO was even funnier the second time round, because it seemed like the movie was apologizing for giving Tara Reid expository dialog.

I find this all more rewarding than reading Burroughs.

I just saw Good Night and Good Luck. An excellent film, well told and wonderfully shot. I just realized that it was probably the most verbally intensive film I've seen in years (unrelieved by anything remotely physically active), but the intensity onscreen more than balanced all the talking. Highly recommended!

Wah! The Dakota Fanning Bot is going to be voicing Coraline in the animated movie. As if it wouldn't be freaky enough anyway.

Capote was very good. Not only was Philip Seymour Hoffman very good -- and not just as a flashy Oscar-bid role, but the supporting actors, particularly the guy who played Perry Smith, were just fabulous. Not to mention the mise en scene, which definitely portrayed the era so well.

So I was looking through some screencaps from horror movies, and there were a couple that gave me a frisson, reminded me of the fear reaction I had watching the movie. I didn't want to spend time looking at THOSE as the image still scares me.

(FTR, they were the girl crawling out of the TV from The Ring, and the little boy from The Grudge 2. )

I don't think those are the scariest image for me though - I think that award goes to the shadow-shape coming up to the surveillance camera in Ju-On.

I put to you, therefore, a Halloweeny quiz: What's the scariest image from a movie for you?

One that will stay with me to my deathbed: Dorothy looking into the Wicked Witch's crystal ball, when Aunt Em's face turns into the Witch's.