Much like A Life Less Ordinary, I find that that movie is gold when Holly Hunter is on screen and very questionable when she's not.

Actually, I found her character pretty shrill and annoying most of the time. I tire of the Woman Whose Sole Purpose in Life Is to Have a Baby.

I'm sorry, how can you not love a chase scene involving stolen Huggies and a random old man in a pickup truck telling Nicolas Cage, "Son, you got a panty on your head." while the hilbilly soundtrack wails and a pack of suburban dogs invades a household --?

It did occur to me that that was one of the weirdest chase scenes I had ever seen.

It never occured to me that My Name is Earl has quite a bit of the ambience of Raising Arizona, with very little explicitly in common. No wonder I like them both.

But I love MNIE, however.

I couldn't tell most of the actors in The Covenant apart, which made the plot really hard to follow in places. I mean, the basic premise wasn't difficult to get, but I couldn't keep track of which cloned Abercrombie & Fitch model was supposed to be the evil one.

Just watching the trailers (which were not at all cool, IMO) I was baffled as to why anyone would make this movie.

I mean, there is no point or reason to having a car hit a semi head on, explode into flames, and then reassemble on the other side of the semi, other than doing it for its own sake. Once you've put the one instance of that in your film, there's no reason to bother giving a point to anything. You're movie is going to just be a string of really spectacular stupid looking events that exist only for their own sake. Why would anyone want to see a movie like that?

Sean is me, re: The Covenant. "Cool" was the furthest thing from my mind when I saw the trailer.

I'd love to see some urban fantasy done right on the big screen, but so far it's been limited to the small screen and mixed with horror.

I mean, there is no point or reason to having a car hit a semi head on, explode into flames, and then reassemble on the other side of the semi, other than doing it for its own sake....Why would anyone want to see a movie like that?

I thought it looked cool! Sometimes I have shallow tastes.

Disney released a still image from Wall-E, the next movie from Pixar after Ratatouille.

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Have you seen The Silver Surfer's package?

Well...it makes sense in a way. What, Galactus is going to permabond swim trunks to him while coating him in silvery metal?

I saw The Good Shepherd today with a couple of friends. It took a 15 minute confab afterwards to figure out just how the plotlines intersected. At the end we all agreed that we wanted Angelina Jolie's character's wardrobe.

just finished Brick. the dialogue tried way too hard to be noir, but it was an okay movie. JGL has really come a long way.

I am so perverse in my movie tastes that immediately upon reading P-C's posts, I bolted to our DVD shelf and started watching Raising Arizona for the umpteenth time. At first I tried to remember particular lines to quote back at P-C to say, "See? How can you not love this? How can you not see how utterly fucking hilarious this is?", but then I realized that I would just end up quoting the entire damn movie line for line, so I gave up on conversion and just wallowed in it.

I would advise going back again in a year or so. Like many Coen Brothers movies, it gets richer with each rewatch.

Also, Hec informs me that I now *am* Holly Hunter as Ed, with the sudden crumply face and the gushes of tears and the howling "I just love her so mu-u-uch!" I don't think the baby-having is Ed's only purpose in life, but if it's something you want it can be (a) devastating to not be able to do it, and (b) ridiculously overwhelming when you do, whether naturally or via quint-kidnapping out the upstairs bedroom window.