I've just been reading up, and apparently the US release has a different ending.

Yeah, it's a "happier ending." But not exactly sunshine and roses. Just a slightly lower body count.

I'm intrigued by The Descent. Frankly I don't think they needed any supernatural elements. The teeny tiny spaces they were crawling through were scary enough! I don't enjoy gore, so I'm not sure I can see it. I wish it were more Blair Witch-y so I could enjoy the scare with out the blood...

Jars, they were both impaled.

I wonder how the ending was changed. I found the original ending needlessly grim; trashy horror films are meant to leave you exhilarated, y'know?

Anyway, I was contemplating leaving the theatre at one point early on because it was getting too hard to take. I'm pretty darn claustrophobic though.

Rogue's Gallery a collection of piratey music released companionly with PotC. (Well, kind of -- it comes out on August 21st.)

Finally got around to watching Kill Bill v2. All in all, I think this movie was Uma Thurman's best performance - at least of her movies I've seen. While the second volume didn't have the hysterical-laughter-inducing fight scenes, I did enjoy how there were no actual swordfights, even with all the dialogue about the sword.

I guess my final take on the movie (vols 1 and 2) is that I liked a lot of the genre-mashing and the homage and the style, but I don't think the story was good or interesting enough to support that long a movie...or any movie, really.

I love both of them, but volume 1 much moreso. I was pretty convinced that she was going to kill the child to spite Bill, and was kind of diappointed when she didn't. It would have been a modern Medea, but I guess the audience was meant to sympathise with her too much.

I guess. I wasn't all that comfortable with her killing the only caretaker the kid had ever known and then kidnapping the girl. I think killing the child would have been interesting...since she didn't know he had the child, it wasn't like she was on a quest to reclaim the child.

I admit I skipped and skimmed, but I also searched the thread before posting this and saw only one post about it, so sorry if I zipped right past discussion of it:

If I see one more commercial for the World Trade Center movie, I'm going to vomit in a box and mail it to Oliver Stone.

I think the entire idea of making a movie about it is exploitive and tacky and crass and in the poorest taste possible.

I swear to you that I thought it was a joke the first time I saw the commercial.

Step right up and begin flaming me. Have at it.

t edit I see, from looking at Rotten Tomatoes, that the movie is getting rather good pre-release reviews. Of course, many of them use phrases like "triumph of hope" and "the undefeatable American spirit," and those don't really ring forth with credibility for me.

I am, however, looking forward to hearing what people here think about it, if they see it.

What did you think about United 93 ?