I just got back from Grindhouse. I definitely liked the Rodgriguez flick more - it took WAY too long for anything to happen, and even when it did it was anticlimactic in the Tarantino one. And my favorite trailer was actually Machete, though I loved them all.

Unfortunately, the excess hotness Bale added by working out was counterbalanced by McConnaghey's fugly beard and bald head, in some sort of weird attractiveness zero-sum game.

But...Gerard Butler! He totally contributes some hotness (to a really silly movie).

I just saw Grindhouse as well. I really liked it, especially Rodriguez's half. Tarantino's section was pretty good, although it really wasn't what I expected - way too much talking and not enough violence. I loved the Thanksgiving trailer! Lots of laughs from that one; also, I think it would've been an actually entertaining movie if it were real.

Unfortunately, the excess hotness Bale added by working out was counterbalanced by McConnaghey's fugly beard and bald head, in some sort of weird attractiveness zero-sum game.

But...Gerard Butler! He totally contributes some hotness (to a really silly movie).

Also Alexander Siddig. Rrrrrrowr. McConaughey's beard was counterbalanced for me by the tattoos and his complete OTTness as the cigar-chompin', crazy-ass, death-defying 'Murrican.

I heartily recommend Sunshine for a night at the kinotheque. Or I don't, really, because I have no idea if the anxieties it played on belong to people in general. It was mostly about stuff getting frazzled with the philosophy I couldn't make heads nor tails of kept to a minimum. Though, unfortunately, it fuels one of the twists so I couldn't go "You're silly, I discard you" to it. And a third act problem common to both Boyle and Garland pops up here again. And parts of the last twenty minutes are alternately wilfully and accidentally hard to follow. But generally it's tense and involving and pretty and well worth seeing.

Thanksgiving cracked us right up. Though the pervy guys in the group are sad that She Wolves of the SS isn't a real flick. One of them is going out to find Women in Cages though.

As for Reign of Fire I view it as a British movie (when the guy was riding to the rescue on the horse, he was a knight and not a cowboy. I don't know exactly how to explain that) with not very subtle commentary on the post-colonial age.

Loved McConnaughey. Adored. Not for the pretty, although he's sure brought that in his time.

She Wolves of the SS isn't a real flick.

But it's based on Ilsa The She-Wolf which is a real movie about an evil Nazi sex bomb.

it's based on Ilsa The She-Wolf which is a real movie about an evil Nazi sex bomb.

Without werewolves. So no happy.

Without werewolves. So no happy.

Just watch it in a double bill with Werewolves on Wheels.

If my main reaction to the first half hour or so of Mirrormask was a nagging irritation with the lead character, is there any point in watching the rest?

(moved from music)