Didn't the Eternal Sunshine director talk specifically somewhere (the DVD maybe, or an interview?) about spending a lot of time just wearing Carrey out and not actually doing any takes on film until he was too exhausted to be tooth-grindingly big?

Heh -- I was just about to post that, actually. (The interview is funny as hell, because it's both Carrey and Gondry talking about making the film, and how exhausting it was, and it's just blazingly obvious to anyone watching that this was done on purpose by Gondry to tone Carrey's performance down.)

Gondry is brilliant. Also, Joss is so right about "Legend of 1900".

(He maintains that I read too much into these things; I maintain that movies don't just happen by accident).

Go team you!

P.-C., I'll believe the Wolverine movie when I see it with my own popcorn!

Sail, yeah, I keep my expectations for fantasy/scifi/action movies low, so I'm usually entertained well enough by Pretty! and Big! and Boom!

Kalshane, re Jean getting out of the plane:

on re-watch the first scene where Jean is making all the TVs and such freak out made me realize that it was her powers that were screwing up the electronics in the Blackbird, which is why she had to get out of it.

Thank you! Now it makes sense! I should've realized that. So why the heck didn't Xavier Know-It-All just say that when he was (non)explaining it to Logan? Ah, never mind.

X3 tomorrow, I plan.

Excellent and long interview of Whedon by Bendis. Every time I see Bendis' name, I think Bender. For a while I wasn't convinced he was real.

I saw Toyko Drift tonight...I didn't see the first two Fast & Furious movies, so I can't say how it compares, but this was baaaaaaaad. When the characters weren't talking, the car stuff was pretty to look at, but everyone in this movie is just spectacularly stupid. I mean, these people are ALL too dumb to live, AND they're engaged in a sport which involves regularly driving your car off the side of a mountain, causing it to flip over and burst into flames. There is NO REASON that any of them should have lived long enough to be in this movie. None.

There is a cameo by Vin Diesel at the end, with a random bit of HoYay -- the main guy in this one whose name I forget says, "I didn't know [guy Vin Diesel says he used to know] was into American muscle" and Vin replies, "He was when he was with my crew." Oooh baby.

So I'm glad it was free.

Just saw the first episode of this season's Deadwood, and it's a (expletive deleted)ing (expletive deleted)er. Best show on TV (when The Wire is on hiatus, that is).

See, I almost want to see it just for the whitefont.

Watched Slap Shot tonight.

Have decided Michael Ontkean has aged freakishly well, as Twin Peaks era MO looked virtually identical to Slap Shot MO (causing disconcerting Sheriff Truman moments, esp. during the strip tease on ice) and the most recent pictures I've seen of him don't look much older. (And he's pushing or has pushed past 60. I think it's a fluke of that almost-handsome bone structure or something.)

Lindsay Crouse I only recognized by the credits. She looked so young and full-cheeked! A far cry from Maggie Walsh.

This had been on my to-watch list for, literally, years, and I'm glad it finally made its way to the top of the Netflix queue. It's very much a product of its time, but the moments that made me laugh (and there were many) had me fairly helpless.

Watched Slap Shot tonight.

Great movie! There's a Canadian punk band that named themselves The Hanson Brothers (....uh, after the characters in the move, before the band Hanson - which was comprised of brothers).

I keep my expectations for fantasy/scifi/action movies low, so I'm usually entertained well enough by Pretty! and Big! and Boom!

Worked for me on X3. (We took the day off yesterday. Thought we'd need it to recover from helping friends get their house ready to sell. Plans changed.)

Hmmm. The Brattle Theater (which got another year's lease on life in February) is going to be showing PANDORA'S BOX in July. I may have to check that out - it's not often a Louise Brooks film makes the rounds.

They are also showing GILDA, which I may have to check out as well, as I've seen selected clips from it for years.

The Brattle Theater (which got another year's lease on life in February) is going to be showing PANDORA'S BOX in July.

Oooh, ENVY. I've seen a bunch of Louise Brooks, but never on anything bigger than a television screen. Pandora's Box should be stunning.