Thanks so much Laga.

Actually, at that moment in the film when they are in that place doing that thing, I turned to my companion and described exactly what you described. Either I'm psychic, or that was wicked predictable!

Oh well, nothing will rival the monkey jumping out of the screen at the end of the first one.

If you haven't seen the interview with Rush, Nighy and Chow at moviefonedotcom, I highly recommend it. I'd love to have a dinner party with Rush and Nighy. They seem like such charming, erudite, courtly gentlemen.

A friend just worked as Nighy's dresser in the recent Broadway show he did with Julianne Moore and reports he was kind and charming and incredibly funny.

That is my sense of him. Nice to have it confirmed.

Oh, Beej, yay re the whitefont you mentioned from Under The Black Flag! Not that I've read it, but I did know about the whitefont from other pirate historians, and I'd been hoping like a mad thing that the whitefont would be part of the movie.

I don't suppose there's any chance that either Ann Bonney or Mary Reade puts in an appearance ? NO! Never mind! Don't spoil me!

Dear Loward, I am gonna be such an uncritical brainless mess of squealing fangurl when I see this thing. I can't think of anything that will ruin this movie for my poor addled self, short of (maybe) everyone bursting into movie-musical song. And even then it'd depend on the song. "Greased Lightning" would kill it for me. Anything from South Pacific or possibly "The Sadder But Wiser Girl" from The Music Man would just make me squee even harder. And if they wanted to bust out with a chorus of "The Good Ship Venus" (far too filthy to be a movie-musical number, but it was included on the POTC tribute sea shanty album last year) I might just ascend bodily into heaven.

Can someone remind me what Jessica said about Hot Fuzz? I can't seem to find it.

ION watched Hard Candy last night. I think one of the things I loved the most about it was that I had no idea what it was going to be about so every plot twist was a complete surprise. (OK I saw a couple things coming but mostly it was a dizzying ride.)

I am watching 10 things I hate about you. Why did I forget how much I love this movie? I think I need to own it, like now.

I think I've seen 10 Things a multiple of 3 times 10. Love.

JZ, I KNOW huh?!

You really must read Under the Black Flag as soon as is possible given baby wrangling. Not only is it packed, packed, PACKED with stuff I didn't know, but the writing style is truly enjoyable.

Squee away my little squeeterpea. I hope you have a blast when you get a chance to see the movie.

Laga, do a search in the thread for 'fuzz'. She's the first person to mention seeing it, or maybe it was SA. To step out of line and synopsise, she liked it a bunch, and wondered if "Forget it, Nick, it's Sandford" was an obscure reference. I am wondering if the plentiful Bad Boys shot stealing was obvious, and what other movies (well, the Point Break was clearly telegraphed) I missed.

eta: Oh, and I couldn't half kill a Cornetto right now!

Oh yes I too was in a theatre full of people who did not laugh at that particular reference. Luckily I had finally seen Chinatown just this year so I was the only one laughing. Oh wait- I think the first audience I saw it with did get the reference. Or maybe that was just ND and Kristin laughing along with me.

I also recognized tributes to The Matrix and a few other films whose titles escape me now.

What was the Matrix bit?