Bruce Campbell, who has an ability to annoy me (no matter how much I like him in some stuff, he seems in love with his cool theses days) was freaking MAGIC. I did love him to pieces.

I think Bruce Campbell's performance was heavily influenced by John Cleese. And yeah, it WORKED. "You know, I am French."

We didn't get the HPV trailer, damn it. But we got the weird Jude one (which made The Boy say, "I used to have to DROP ACID to see things like that!"), the surfing penguins, Bourne, Pirates, and Shrek.

Was Julia Stiles in both of them, or just the second one?

She was in both.

I think Bruce Campbell's performance was heavily influenced by John Cleese. And yeah, it WORKED.

As I said in Bitches, my friend actually thought it was John Cleese.

I love Evan Rachel Wood in everything I've ever seen her in, but her current incarnation as Marilyn Manson's Creepy Girlfriend seriously freaks me out. Bad hair, bad makeup, bad boy-toy. I get that he's a pretty interesting cat, I guess, but seriously, he's twice her age. And not exactly handsome.

Still, I will likely see that movie.

If ERW were making herself over into a nice retro glam chick, that'd be one thing. But she's copying a previous girlfriend and that skeeves me, even more when the age difference comes into play.

which made The Boy say, "I used to have to DROP ACID to see things like that!"

Our conversation went like "Are they serious about that?" "I'd guess so." "Maybe on drugs I could enjoy that...then again, that made The Doors even worse."

HPV, HPIV, I can never keep things straight. It was a great trailer though, and I'm not particularly a fan of the movies. Exciting, and Harry's Potter isn't so little anymore, I bet.

Yes, Campbell was very Cleesey, and I didn't mind it one bit.

The second Bourne flick had Karl Urban as the Russian hitman in his best haircut ever (that buzz cut emphasized his prettypretty eyes).

The number one movie in the country was, obviously, Spider-Man 3, which took in a record-breaking $148 million.

In second place was Disturbia, which took in $5.72 million.

That is...disturbiaing.

A screenwriter critiques Spidey 3 (some spoilers): [link]

Didn't see Spidey 3. But an obscure gem for the oldies fans.

There's Always a Woman is a late '30s screwball comedy. Bill Reardon (Melvyn Douglas) is a private eye with little success. While he's busy getting his job back as an investigator with the D.A.'s office, his wife Sally (Joan Blondell) finds a client (Mary Astor). Both Bill and Sally end up investigating the murder that follows.

In other words, the plot is The Thin Man meets Adam's Rib. But it's a lot of fun, especially trying to figure out what Sally will do next. Plus, a lot of one-liners come out of the screwball assumption that marriages work a lot better when the spouses don't take each other too seriously. And Douglas and Blondell, while not Loy and Powell or Tracy and Hepburn, have enough chemistry to pull it off.