I loved Match Point. Also, I've been out of love with Scarlett since I read some interviews with her and she seems kind of arrogant and uninteresting. I don't think I'd want to hang out with her, really. I think Natalie Portman would probably be a better conversationalist.

I did think Scarlett's acting in Match Point was good - I have no less respect for her acting ability now than before. But then, I saw her in The Perfect Score so maybe that helped lower my expectations below those of somebody who's only seen, say, Lost in Translation.

Match Point is coming up shortly on my Netflix queue, and I'm looking forward to watching it, finally. What I've read of it made it sound like something cold, nasty, slick and compelling, sort of like Talented Mr. Ripley (which I adore.)

What I've read of Johansson--her 'tude, her sense of entitlement--did little to endear her to me as a person, but I don't really care about the personal lives of actors when I watch them on movies anyway. (When I swoon over Errol Flynn swashbuckling, I don't want to think about his statutory rape charges; ditto Jason Dohring and Scientology.) She's been uniformly good in every movie I've seen her in so far, so I'm keen to see how she fares in this one.

Just watched Good Night and Good Luck. My Clooney love continues.

A friend IM'd me at work yesterday to inform me that Keira Knightley has been voted World's Sexist Woman. Other sources tell me it was Angelina Jolie.

Anyway.

Watched The Frighteners last night (10th Anniversary DVD). It was actually a pretty good movie. One or two "but how...?" points, but some good writing and some good performances. Awesome work by Michael J. Fox. And R. Lee Ermey!

As usual with Wingnut, the art direction was awesome. Nothing scary about the movie at all, but the "creepy house" was perfect, and the "scary evil thing" was also well-designed.

PJ (half the man he used to be) introduced the movie, and talked a little on the extras, and it's so odd...the result of my 9-year LOTR obsession is that when I see Richard Taylor or Grant Major in the credits, or PJ says "I had Christian Rivers do up the storyboards" I feel like they are my friends, or at least people I know.

the result of my 9-year LOTR obsession is that when I see Richard Taylor or Grant Major in the credits, or PJ says "I had Christian Rivers do up the storyboards" I feel like they are my friends, or at least people I know.

I totally get this. When Richard Taylor was up getting the Oscar for effects for King Kong, I was all "Gumby's back!" Then wondered why I hadn't been invited for the afterparty with the fans like LOTR.

Of course, how old was Christian Rivers when The Frighteners came out? Seventeen? It's not a corporation; it's a fraternity. Once you've joined, you're in for life.

On the downside, imagine if you were a Kiwi and had a falling-out with Wingnut/Weta/Jackson/his posse. You'd have to move to a different country to work again!

I love The Frighteners. Totally underrated movie, I think. It's got that fun tonal shift from horror comedy to regular horror halfway through the movie. Few people have even heard about it, but I'll bet more people now because of the Peter Jackson connection.

Having just been subjected to (okay, I did occasionally laugh like a drain) Meet The Feebles, I'm thinking I need to reciprocate with The Frighteners. I was gonna go with Heavenly Creatures, but that I've seen before.

This is devastating. Jennifer Dawson, whom some of y'all might remember as a TT poster and others might know as Matt Zoller Seitz's wife, died suddenly yesterday of unknown causes.

How horrible and how sad.