ita, I saw Ultraviolet last week and thought it was much worse than Underworld: Whatever (and that was "Kate's bum and some other stuff"). I described Ultraviolet in my LJ as trying to read an old copy of Heavy Metal over someone's shoulder on the subway. Yes, it is pretty and has vampire-y stuff and cgi galore, but it is muddled, with razor-thin story and razzie-class dialogue. My buddies and I were reaching to Bo Derek movies as equivalents for the dialogue, and that's where I go for the worst ever.

Pretty to look at, utterly forgettable 5 minutes after you've left the theatre. My two pals who are huge Mila fans had stopped talking about it by the time we reached the pub around the corner.

The Toronto Star guy gave it 3 out of 5, mostly for the pretty. I can't see how he got all the way to three.

Of course, Hecubus. Was that not implied from my imitation and jealousy? The fate of TV rests in the hands of three Davids, at the moment. Which is a strange thought if you look at it closely but then again, not as if Mr. Chase, Mr. Milch, and Mr. Simon were all named Klaus. Funny(odd, not ha-ha) I think I read that Andy Sipowicz sobered up before David Milch...I guess the part of him that writes is his Smart brain, if you'll follow me, the part that knows stuff he's not ready to admit yet.

Huh. That X3 trailer is significantly better than my total lack of hope would have implied. Not that I think it will actually be good, but it might at leats be fun.

Knowing the Big Big Plot Points of this film in advance, it just irritates me at the manipulation, because the trailer makes only barely hints at maybe one of them and says nothing about the rest. Based solely on this trailer, I'd be fairly excited about X3 (Halle Berry's continual lump-of-teak delivery notwithstanding), because it's a good trailer. Which shows what you can do with judicious editing.

Problem is that I know too much about what they're not saying, and I'm bitter about it. At this point I'm willing to believe that they may be able to make their horrible ideas work within the film and feel right within that context, but within the greater context of the X-Men, Fox is grabbing its collective crotch and flipping the bird at the franchise.

Morlocks! I saw no cheesy Morlocks!

I've seen 2 biopics this week -- one dreadful and one cute and fun.

The dreadful one is called Stoned, and I suspect it will not be in theatres outside of NY/LA, and in those only briefly. Which is a good thing, as sitting through it was 100 of the longest minutes of my life. Who knew the last 3 months of Brian Jones' life were so completely uninteresting?

Tonight though, we saw The Notorious Bettie Page, which is the latest from Mary Harron (American Psycho, I Shot Andy Warhol), and is terrific. Like with Warhol, she does a really good job matching the tone of the film to the personality of her subject, so it's a straightforwardly saucy bit of fluff. And beautifully shot -- it moves completely seamlessly from black & white to color and back again. Lots of fun.

I had an idea the other day - after Peter Jackson makes The Hobbit, he should go and re-make the 3 Star Wars prequels as they should have been. Am I a genius, or insane?

we saw The Notorious Bettie Page

Good to hear, as I've been looking forward to this movie!

flea, you are an insane genius. About the PJ-making-Star-Wars, though, I don't know.

I learned from Wired today that there's Sailor Moon/Anakin Skywalker fic.

flea, I like the idea. Though I'd prefer to see the never-to-be-made SW 7 through 9. Because one problem with SW 1 through 3 is that it has to set up the story for the original trilogy, and there's only so much you can do with that.

I learned from Wired today that there's Sailor Moon/Anakin Skywalker fic.

Clearly, Wired doesn't understand the motto, "All the news that's fit to print."

Tonight though, we saw The Notorious Bettie Page, which is the latest from Mary Harron (American Psycho, I Shot Andy Warhol), and is terrific.

Cool! I love the look of it from the trailer. And it's got Jonathan M. Woodward!