Are those the sorts of thoughts you want?

Sorta. I'll be going with friends, so it's not my first choice. But the reviews make it sound more interesting than the previews (kinda' a dark comedy).

that awful film where john travolta played an angel takes place in chicago, too.

I'm glad I don't know what you're talking about.

It was well made and well acted and easy to sit through, but it didn't really leave me with anything afterwards.

Yeah. Kinda felt like they were trying to make a point of the ridiculous and inane, but only managed to really do the jackassery well. And I was bored with the whole bootcamp stuff. BTDT.

Much preferred Three Kings. That rocked.

The ads before Jarhead were...interesting. There was a marine corps recruitment ad(!), some first person shooter game, a trailer for Munich (which I guess is about the creation of an israeli assasin in the wake of Munich,) Syriana and then one for the Aniston relationship movie-not the tense one.

Which one of these things is not like the other?

I think instead of the last, they should have had a trailer for that movie about palestinian suicide bombers that I saw a few weeks ago. Then it wouold have even had a regional theme!

He's probably just lashing out because he's all confused about being a G-A-Y.

I think if that were it he would've been smacking Heath Ledger around, and I heard it was the other way around on that movie set. Seems it's screen violence he freaks out about, whereas being humped into a wall by someone with stubble is no problemo.

I think I got that from Allyson, but I keep forgetting it's not the actual name of the movie. Oops.

If it's any consolation, I've heard a lot of people jokingly refer to it by that title. It's going to have the most effortless porn parody ever made.

Just got back from The Weather Man, which I liked more than I thought I would. It was also a little darker than I thought it would be. It was cool to see all the Chicago scenery, and a little freaky in that there were several scenes shot in the mall where we saw the movie (like, "hey, we were just there... 20 minutes ago.").

Cage's character was rather clueless to what the other characters were going through, which struck me as kinda' Aspergers-ish. Michael Caine was really good in an understated performance.

eta: From IMDB:

There were many instances where I was the only person laughing in the theater.

That happened to me. Now I want to find someone who found it as funny as me. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that there were many cringe-worthy scenes too.

Shot of Thomas Haden Church from Spidey 3 filming, which is only spoilery if you read all the constant back-and-forth as regard to which villain he was playing and aren't sure which was true:

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Geek out... now.

Shit, I...can't tell who that's supposed to be.

I read over at Oscarwatch (I think--somewhere on line) that Alexander Siddig is supposed to be really good in Syriana. Like, potential for Best Supporting Actor good (if the film hits big and takes off beyond expectations, which is a big if). I hope so--always had a Big Love for Dr. Bashir!

Me too, enough to sit through Reign of Fire, which then ended up being worth the rent just for the sheer laughability of it. Man, that movie was great/awful.

Funniest thing I've ever read in a Slashdot comment (this is clearly only vaguely an actual quote):

"I can't imagine the process that must have led to "Reign of Fire." Okay, actually, I can:

First Studio Idiot: Man. You know what's awesome?
Second Studio Idiot: Helicopters!
FSI: Um, well, yes. But I was thinking of dragons!
SSI: Yeah... Those are cool too.
*long pause*
FSI: What... what if we made a movie... that had both dragons AND helicopters?
SSI: Is that... possible?
FSI: Dude... this is gonna be the best movie ever!"