Sean is correct regarding the bear suit. Somehow, it's not a laugh-out-loud funny scene in the original the way it is here...

sj, I had the same issue with The Illusionist -- since offscreen death = not really dead, I spent the last hour of the film waiting for Paul Giamatti to figure it out and wondering what the hell Ed Norton was still doing in town, since if she's not dead, the prince didn't murder her, and he has no reason to want revenge! I guess we were supposed to think that he was also really opposed to him ever becoming emperor, but...meh. There just didn't seem to be any motivation for his actions after Sophie "died" that weren't directly tied to misleading the audience.

[Ironically, DH and I saw both the same day and were surprised to find that The Wicker Man was the one generating more conversation. The Illusionist, we both thought was fine, kind of disappointing, and very predictable, so not much to talk about. But The Wicker Man sucked in all sorts of fascinating ways.]

Jessica, I assumed he stuck around because the prince had it in for him and, therefore, it was better to do a big disappearing act. Plus it brought the story back around to the beginning.

sj, I had the same thing. I figured it was just me, since I almost always figure out a mystery before I'm supposed to. With The Illusionist, it was the items Norton packed into the suitcase, which we see him give to Biel. He packs a glass jar of something, and glass jars mean some kind of medicine, and I just automatically made the leap to Juliet faking her death with a potion that puts her into a coma. I saw the jar and immediately knew, and spent the rest of the movie half-wondering whether I was wrong.

P.S. Did you catch the modern panty line at the end? All movie long, mostly-respectable historicity, and then that panty line.

In the original Wicker Man, it's a Punch costume, which has all sorts of symbolism. Bear costume, NSM.

Too bad the director didn't have the cojones to put Cage in a Scream costume.

Just watched Crank. It's a piece of gratuitous glory, that's for sure. Main beef is tied between his cellphone working after the dip in the pool, and the fact that there were more butt shots than chest shots, and the butt? Not that special.

Nutty, I missed the liquid. For me, it was just the fact that she was so conviniently slumped over on that horse and there was no blood dripping. The doctor objecting to her being touched later sealed it for me. I did turn to Teacup Guy after the movie and say, "The pulled a Romeo and Juliet, only they succeeded!"

ETA: I missed the panty line, but I did think she was wearing too much obvious looking, modern looking make-up for the time period.

I'm not reading the white font since I want to see the movie, but sj mentions one of my pet peeves:

but I did think she was wearing too much obvious looking, modern looking make-up for the time period.

There are subtle ways of doing make-up that look like they aren't even there yet still enhance a person's looks. It's one of the things I like about the period pieces for the 17th and 18th centuries. The style of make-up was so different as to look bizarre to us now, but at least when they make those movies they're going for veracity.

Editted because sj is not Nutty.

We watched V for Vendetta and March of the Penguins this weekend.

I LOVED V for Vendetta. Loved loved loved. I need to finish reading the comic.

March of Penguins was great. I want a baby penguin more than anything now.

I want a baby penguin more than anything now.

More than a camel?

In our current living situation, I'd rather the baby penguin. However, when we actually have space for a camel, I'm totally getting one.