And they're hard to quote in public, though I did in a fancy restaurant in Sausalito not that long ago. Fuck it...I'm not from there. It might make a nice change, being the "Fuck.""Motherfucker" girl instead of the chick in the wheelchair, but even so....maybe a bit too much. But our waiters would have more likely recognized dirty language from The Sopranos, anyway.

I really loved The Constant Gardener, and the ending worked well for me. I don't remember the details, but I'm pretty sure it made sense to me how the murderers were going to find him. It was out in the middle of nowhere, sure, but it was also a place they'd been to before, so that didn't require any suspension of my disbelief. As for why he had to die, I agree with sarameg -- it was the end of his journey, and he couldn't go back to who he'd been before. Also, the people who'd been following him and threatening him to try to keep him silent gave every indication that they would keep their word and kill him once he exposed them, so it's not as though he had much chance for a happy, peaceful life at that point.

it was the end of his journey, and he couldn't go back to who he'd been before.

Also, once he'd completed her work, there was no further reason for him to go on any more.

Tilda Swinton is absolutely unrecognizable in Broken Flowers. For a moment, I thought she was Sigourney Weaver.

Well, I am assuming that any Joker that's part of the Batman Begins storyline would be very early Joker. The Killing Joke won't happen for another 20 years, right?

All the Constant Gardener talk meant that this weekend when I saw it for $10 at Target, I bought it. I never buy dvds.

Well, I am assuming that any Joker that's part of the Batman Begins storyline would be very early Joker. The Killing Joke won't happen for another 20 years, right?

Heh, that depends upon what part of the TKJ you're talking about (though I doubt they'll use that origin - I suspect it's one that works better in flashback).

That's true. I guess I was thinking of the NOT FLASHBACK part of the Killing Joke.

I guess I was thinking of the NOT FLASHBACK part of the Killing Joke.

Oh sure - I've never thought TKJ would be viable as an actual movie (to much history to so much of it). It's just the one I tend to like trying to cast in my head because you need an actor for the Joker that can do the origin part and sell you on it, and also do the present day Joker and sell you on that.

JZ and I watched Green Dolphin Street this morning. The only thing I knew about it is that it contributed a melody that Miles Davis played very beautifully.

As it turns out, the movie has nothing to do with jazz, but is rather a huge historical epic in the Gone With the Wind mode. Lana Turner, Donna Reed, Van Heflin plus an extremely well done earthquake and New Zealand and the Guernsey Islands (which I just wiki-ed to discover that they're not technically part of the UK). It had some rikokulous plot turns but also some very moving scenes.

I gather from the Amazon reviews that the novel was the sort of thing most girls discovered in their teens.

At Amoeba the other day I saw:

The Complete Series of the Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. on DVD

Sybil (the complete original miniseries - which had me completely riveted when I saw it as a kid during its first airing. Gah! The reveal on the buttonhook is still a searing image.)

Ren & Stimpy - The Lost Episodes (apparently the not-for-children ones done for Spike TV).