It never came to a theatre near me, Jessica. I'm guessing from the "request a screening" form on their website that they don't have a distributor.

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I missed the discussion of the trailers on Spidey 3 but I wanted to put in my $.02 regarding Across the Universe (the trippy Beatles one.) It's directed by Julie Taymor which is enough to make me want to see it but now I'm afraid of what the final cut might turn out to be. Read the article about the editing controversy here:

Ocean's 13 featurette.

In case you were wondering, Ellen Barkin in HAWT.

Spider-Man 3:

Wow, that movie sucked! It's possible it would have sucked a lot less if it had been cut down to about half that length, but I don't know. If I hadn't been there with someone who was really excited about seeing it, I probably would have walked out soon after I lost all interest, which was about an HOUR before the movie ended.

Good things about the movie:

James Franco. Hot DAMN, is he gorgeous.

Bruce Campbell's cameo.

Topher Grace, though his hair was unfortunate.

Bad things:

Uh, pretty much everything else. Spider-Man himself just bores me, I'm afraid. I realize I may be in a minority here, but I really don't like Tobey Maguire. He creeps me out, and I think he's really unattractive. He's a freakish bug-eyed man-child. Also, this isn't his fault, but I'm pretty tired of Spidey being some mopey, emo dude who cries at the drop of a hat. COME ON. One of the few sequences in the movie that I really enjoyed was when Peter lets the symbiote overtake him, and he's walking down the street snapping his fingers and dancing and all the women are looking at him. That was funny and light-hearted but with an edge of creepiness. More of that, please! (NOT the nightclub dance scene though. SWEET JESUS. I turned to my friend during that scene and said, "I feel like I'm watching The Mask !")

Harry and Peter together again -- um, what? That whole thing made no sense. (Hee! to Deus Ex Butler. SERIOUSLY.) So just because the Green Goblin was killed with his own blade, that means that Spider-Man couldn't have done it? And then everything is OK between the two of them, even though Peter thought Harry was trying to steal MJ from him?

MJ, you bore the snot out of me. Sorry. Though I did like your hair.

Okay, but seriously: how many villains does a movie really need?? There's Harry as the young Goblin, Sandman, symbiote!Peter, symbiote!Eddie Brock (Venom, right?), and then the actual symbiote itself. OY. I suppose you could just count the symbiote as one villain, though it took significantly different forms. But more to the point, every time some new incarnation of it appeared, it just added to the feeling that the movie would never. ever. end.

Also, was that Paris Hilton I saw in the first scene of Peter in class??

In conclusion:

Now that Harry Osborn is dead, I pretty much have no reason to continue watching the Spidey movies.

from Imdb:

Classic British crime film The Long Good Friday is getting a Hollywood makeover in Miami under the direction of Resident Evil moviemaker Paul W. S. Anderson. The 1980 original starred Bob Hoskins as a London gangster whose criminal empire comes under attack from a wave of mysterious bombings. But production company Handmade Films says the new movie would be "refreshed" with a modern setting. Chairman Patrick Meehan says, "The original was a highly praised classic and one of Handmade's most prized films, but its reach was limited primarily to the U.K. Following continued interest from the U.S., we realized this remake could attract audiences worldwide with an updated setting and contemporary overtones. When Paul presented his creative vision for this project, we were instantly convinced that this is a story that could be successfully refreshed, yet leave the integrity of the original intact." No actors have so far been cast for the project.

cos Anderson has such a great track record as a director. They could've at least remade it in England.

Wow, does that fall into the realm of really REALLY bad ideas.

A couple of Dark is Rising stories and one PotC3 story - all from ScifiWire.

I am so sad that they are changing the story. I am beginning to develop a serious allergy to the phrase "to make it more accessible to today's audience."

Man. All my favorite stories are being filmed in places I used to live.

I am beginning to develop a serious allergy to the phrase "to make it more accessible to today's audience."

I think that's because it seems to actually be code for: "Today's audiences are congenitally retarded."

On a sort of similar subject -- I actually got a little excited about Live Free or Die Hard when I saw the trailer for it last night on the TV, except....

Well, one, the title. And two, I liked Die Hard and Die Hard With A Vengeance, but those were the two directed by John McTiernan.

Live Free or Die Hard (what an awful name)? Is directed by Len "Underworld" Wiseman

Well, one, the title. And two, I liked Die Hard and Die Hard With A Vengeance, but those were the two directed by John McTiernan.

The second one wasn't? Ah, Renny Harlin. Of Deep Blue Sea fame, woo!

Sean, the trailer looked pretty damn cool to me too. But the title is pretty dumb indeed.