If I see one other Boston Irish Melodrama in my life it will be one too many. I wanted to beat every single character in that movie with a shillelagh until they bled green beer.

Also, as I said on the day I watched The Departed, in Hollywood movies about Boston, stereotyped Italians count as diversity. Grrrrr!

CoM was one of those movies where I was left wanting to know more about the world it was built in, which is rare. My only complaint was how bored I became during the final action scene with all the gunfire and running and confusion. I don't care to watch The Departed. Organized crime so does not interest me. My brother got a bootleg copy on the streets of NYC, and what little I saw left me cold.

If I see one other Boston Irish Melodrama in my life it will be one too many.

Hey, that Ben Affleck adaptation of Lehane's Gone Baby, Gone just came out this weekend. Apparently Affleck used a lot of regular Boston people off the street for extras, and Casey Affleck who plays the lead, is from Boston so at least his accent should be authentic. You get both Irish (Patrick) and Italian (Angie) so two stereotypes for the price of one!

And my childhood crush wrote the script!! (I know it says co-written by Ben, but I'm pretty sure Aaron did the heavy lifting.)

Ben's movie has gotten surprisingly good reviews. At least that I've seen.

They note particularly the performances he gets from his actors (which you would expect from an actor-turned-director), but also that it's well paced and directed.

I *so* want to go to that. go on, pretend you're suprised. But I love it when Ben(and Matt) get all Boston. But I live in the land of no ethnicity, so I want all the stuff my grandparents fled here from.

Also, am fucked up enough to consider Zodiac as mom-daughter bonding. Suddenly, my lack of childhood slumber parties is not exactly Shock Theater, huh?

Huh. I didn't know the Stephen King short story "The Mist" was turned into a movie. I remember thinking when I read it that it'd make a great flick. Anyway, it opens in about a month. You can see a preview here (I think): [link]

Looks awesome.

Is Mist the one (won't play for me) where someone gets pulled through the slats in the floating platform? Don't remember any narrative, but it sure was freakout material.

Is Mist the one (won't play for me) where someone gets pulled through the slats in the floating platform?

Ooh, I know the story you're talking about! That ending was burned into my brain. Nope, that's not it. It's the one with the people trapped in the grocery store. There's weird monsters from another dimension out in the mist. And the rest writes itself (if the writer happens to be Stephen King).

eta: I think both of these stories were in the same book of SK short stories.