So, since Monday, I have seen Kong, Narnia, Geisha, and re-watched Love, Actually and Pirates of the Caribbean. In order of David-Love (from least-loved to most-loved) these movies go:

5) Geisha
4) Pirates
3) Kong
2) Narnia
1) Love

But I do quite like all of them. Pirates and Kong may switch places after the novelty wears off.

Talk about retreading holy ground:

According to IGN.com, writer/director Peter Farrelly (The Perfect Catch) is making progress on his update of The Three Stooges. "It will be an old time matinee feeling," he explains, "And we're thinking of going with complete unknowns or whoever the best actors are - Benicio Del Toro has expressed interest in playing Moe. Jeff Daniels has expressed some interest in playing Larry."

The script is made up of four 20-minute episodes with all the action set in the present day. "The first episode is them growing up in an orphanage...[and] ends with them as adults," says Mr F. "We want to shoot it in March and we want it out a year from now."

Hmmmm. I could see Jack Black as Curly...

They should recreate the original actors using CGI.

(I just wanna see how bad it would turn out.)

I'd be really upset if it turned out to be crap. They already did a made for TV movie that was actually quite good, with Evan Handler as Larry Fine, Michael Chiklis as Curly, and John Kassir as Shemp.

Inspired; I could immediately picture Chiklis doing Curly's classic wide-eyed, slack-mouthed "Huh?" expression.

I still call the very idea of this film sacrilege, but I have to bow to you on this point.

From Scifi.com: Studios Unveil 2006 Slates

The major studios have begun announcing their slates of releases for 2006, and they are full of science fiction, fantasy, supernatural thrillers and computer-animated movies. A rundown follows.

Is that Ultraviolet related to the British TV series?

DH got a phone call about 3/4 through Brothers Grimm, so we've turned it off. I really want to like it, but...it makes no sense. Even in a Terry Gilliam universe, it makes no sense.

I saw Brokeback Mountain today, and now I hurt.

I'm reading through some of the discussion in cesperanza's LJ that ita linked to a few days back, and it's helping me to think more critically about the movie, which I think is important; but I'm also still in the phase of just wanting to lie down and cry every time I think about it. The scenes that I found most affecting were the scene where Ennis finds the shirts in Jack's closet, of course--I'd been primed for that one by the trailer--and also the scene in which Alma Jr. visits Ennis at his new trailer and tells him about her marriage to Kurt. There's a moment where Ennis asks her if Kurt loves her, and she says yes, and I almost thought for a moment that he was going to tell her about Jack. It wouldn't have worked narratively, and it wouldn't have been in character, but I so desperately wanted him to be able to talk to her about Jack and to tell her that someone had loved him too, that in that moment I would have accepted it without question.

The scenery on Brokeback Mountain was astonishing. I heard a few audience members catch their breath at one or another spectacular mountain vista. Someone on cesperanza's journal made the point (which I had felt, but not articulated myself) that the wide, sweeping open spaces of Brokeback Mountain contrasted neatly with the small and restricted spaces that Jack and Ennis occupied when they went back to their lives and their jobs and their wives.

I thought both Heath Ledger's and Jake Gyllenhaal's performances were excellent. And I was glad to see Linda Cardellini (Lindsay from Freaks and Geeks ) in there too. She's so pretty!

I did have some minor problems with the movie, mostly having to do with the aging of the characters, which never rang true to me, especially with Anne Hathaway. I found it distracting never to be sure what age anyone was supposed to be or how much time had passed. There were also several lines I couldn't hear very well because of the accents or because of Heath Ledger's delivery; now I want to know if Ennis mumbles that badly in the story.

I really want to see it again in a few days' or weeks' time, alone, and with some quiet time to reflect afterwards, which I did not have today.