Even in a Terry Gilliam universe, it makes no sense.

It's not even PRETTY. That's what I was outraged by. I mean, I didn't expect sense, and I knew it had had problems in addition, but most Gilliam stuff, you look at it and there's a Gilliamesqueisnessitudeness... ism... Uh. I thought I'd like looking at it, is what I'm saying. But no. Every once in a while I could distract myself by thinking about what a scene was originally supposed to be like, but mostly I'd never have guessed he'd been anywhere near it.

Though that's why I was thinking of renting it. He does a commentary, doesn't he? I like when he rants.

Uh. I thought I'd like looking at it, is what I'm saying. But no.

Yeah, it was ugly in such a conventional way. There were, like, three wide-angle crane shots.

There is a commentary, but I doubt we'll get around to it because that would mean watching the movie again.

Heath's skin definitely aged. It's possible I couldn't take my eyes off him.

I didn't think about the soundtrack until I was catching up on podcasts and heard a review with it playing in the background. Then I needed it.

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.

Yeah, I had problems with that too.

I was transfixed by Kate Mara. If you're going with the stereotype of All American Pretty, she is so it.

Yeah, I was glad to see her. I knew her from Jack and Bobby.

I saw the first full length trailer for Brokeback Mountain yesterday. I've GOT to get to the theatre to see this. If the trailer can bring out that kind of reaction, I'm stocking up on Kleenex for the film.

I guess I clocked things by Alma Jr, and never really had a hard time with the time--if the hairstyles had changed, more time had passed, please refer to the children for details.

I remembered Kate from Nip/Tuck, but had a hard time placing her. So I stopped fighting it and just enjoyed her face.

I saw Harold and Kumar last night and absolutely loved it. I was laughing my ass off through the whole thing.

"Bullets. My only weakness..."

Tucker: The Man and His Dream

Beautiful, beautiful film. Martin Landau is fantastic. Pretty pretty cars, clothes and buildings. Wonderful cinematography and stylization. And a Joe Jackson soundtrack. Joe-Bob says check it out.

Last night I saw The Bloody Brood. A 1959 movie in which Peter Falk is a heroin dealer posing as a beatnik who discovers that killing people is the ultimate kick.

Best quote: "Did he die, or was he murdered by life?"

I watched The Public Enemy, where Jimmy Cagney invented modern acting. Everybody around him has those flat, weirdly intense faces of silent movies, and talks a little too slowly for reality, and there's Jimmy at a mile a minute, waggling his eyebrows and chattering away (in a New York accent, despite his character spending his whole life in Chicago). He's just the most magnetic thing, you can't help but adore him despite his being a crook and basically a sociopath.

Jean Harlow was in the movie too, but I think she had not taken her stardom pills yet. Or anyway, she did nothing for me.

I think I'm one of the 12 people who saw The Brothers Grimm, and I agree it doesn't make a lot of sense. Still, I enjoyed the harem-scarem of it, and liked the subtext of casting the two brothers as people famous for playing their opposites. After a career of dumb himbo movies, it was the first hint (since confirmed) I'd had that Heath Ledger was not actually a dumb himbo.

The whole thing with Anne Hathaway's hair in Brokeback Mountain is, I've decided, a symbol of the main story: you take a perfectly pretty brunette, and via the torturous whims of culture, turn her into a godawful platinum hairdo. Anne, you don't have to conform, honey!! Brunettes won't all go to hell, and the direction you're going, you know you will end up with eyeliner tattooed on and monthly bleachings of your extremely brunette eyebrows. And then? You'll turn into Cher.