Oh yeah, there's definitely a contingent for whom the horrible In Living Color insults aren't over-the-top behavior.

I think Alma may invite some hostility later on if they filmed that kitchen scene where she's taking shots at Ennis after building her own life away from him, but when she first runs across Jack Twist she should be a completely sympathetic character who's being wronged .

The Chicago Tribune movie writers have their top-10 lists up, and one of them has Serenity at #10!

OK, so I'm letting my freak flag fly here. But Joss Whedon's sublime sci-fi mini-epic gives his groundbreaking "Firefly" television series a proper sendoff.

Whedon ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer") marshals his cast of outlaws to take on an intergalactic government tinkering with human DNA. The end result is a shocking (not everyone makes it out alive), pulse-pounding space thriller that puts a brick on the gas pedal, then dares you to jump out the airlock.

Mr. Whedon, sir, may we have another?

I agree, Matt.

Alma lost ALL of my sympathy in the kitchen scene. When they were married, that's one thing -- not only was he cheating on her, but she had to live with the fact that he'd probably never loved her at all. But bringing it up again once enough time had passed for her to be pregnant by her new husband was purely petty and mean-spirited. I felt great pity for her, but no sympathy.

Matt, the scene in question was filmed, but IMO it had enough buildup to give you a deeply uncomfortable sympathy for both of them. He was tormented, lonely without the daily presence of his daughters (though still unable to respond to their please for affection and attention), and no more free than he'd been when he was married. She had cobbled together a new life, but it wasn't the one she had expected, and it was made clear in a couple of brief but vivid scenes that the marriage had been extremely miserable for her, and that the divorce had happened without any real talk between them. The reason why the marriage died was never named until that moment at the kitchen sink, and the screenwriters, Lee, and Michelle Williams all made you feel how suffocating those years of silence had been. She attacked with cruelty and venom, but there was truth behind it -- it'd just been festering and turning poisonous in all that unspoken time. The scene showed her ugliness and cruelty, but it was damn effective at making you understand where it came from.

Or, er, in light of Jessica's post, clearly YMuddledUnwillingSympathyMV.

Have I mentioned that this film totally wrecked me in every good way?

Maybe an inappropriate time to inject some levity, but the Chronic of Narnia rap (from SNL of all places) is amusing me. [link]

They had me at "You can call us Aaron Burr from the way we're dropping Hamiltons."

They had me at the Magnolia Bakery verse.

Thanks for transcribing that, Raq. I'm amused by the video but I can't crank it at work so I'm missing most of the lyrics.

Here's a whole transcription: [link]

I'm feeling the Jesse-love.

Somehow being the only person in the theater appalled or saddened by the violence or tragedy onscreen is worse than being the only person in the theater who is laughing at the joke.

This. Individual humans = mostly loveable. Crowd behavior = frequently unnerving.

This was completely my experience of Crash in the theatre. So much so, that I left halfway through and havn't yet rented the dvd.