Eternal Sunshine works on so many levels, and personally it meant a thing to me. Plus, Kate? Can act. And is very pretty.

I love Eternal Sunshine. Saw it twice in the theatre, which is rare for me.

I was actually tempted to say Clementine wore something fuzzy and I wanted to touch her. But I didn't.

Before Sunset is awesome. I may even like it slightly more than Before Sunrise.

Since I hated Before Sunrise, I'll have to agree with you there. Plus, Paris!

Before Sunset seemed kind of pointless and meandering to me. I much preferred the brief reunion with those two characters in Waking Life.

I just saw that Mysterious Skin is in my Netflix queue. I can't decide whether or not to delete it.

Beowulf = AWESOME

Forget all the trailers you've seen - they don't even come a little bit close to doing the film justice. The animation, seen properly in 3D, is spectacular. If you do not live near a theatre that is showing this film in digital 3D or (even better) IMAX 3D, do NOT see this movie. Just don't even bother. I can't remember the last time I saw a movie that so seamlessly married style and narrative.

(There are still a few things that look silly when animated this way, like running. Fortunately our heroes spend most of their time fighting, swimming, or on horseback.)

Also, in spite of the MPAA briefly losing their collective minds and giving this a PG-13 rating, DO NOT TAKE YOUR KIDS TO SEE THIS MOVIE. It's not just the near constant sexual overtones in every single scene, or even the multiple scenes containing full frontal (albeit CG) nudity. This movie is freaking VIOLENT. The violence is beautifully coreographed and shot and some of the best action sequences I've ever seen, but it is intense. And very, very bloody.

Laga, my final conclusion on MS is that while a movie that skillfully gets across the point of the horror of pedophilia, I still would have known that child molestation is bad, m'kay, and a horrible thing. And I don't feel richer in my life for now feeling that intimately crawling under my skin.

I know it, and I really don't think that I needed to (and I know I didn't want to) know it, know it..

The movie was described as a story of self-discovery, and, I'm sorry, I think it failed. The discovery was just more molestation, lovingly filmed. Maybe the movie was too subtle for me, maybe there was nuanced stories being told in the background through hints and expressions on the parts of the families, but I didn't see it.

I went looking at reviews of MS on Rotten Tomatoes (MS is 90% fresh in the Cream of the Crop category - a rarity) and I agree with this one:

There is a terrible, terrifying honesty at the core of Mysterious Skin that will make it chillingly recognizable to some viewers and important to recognize for others.

Ann Hornaday

Washington Post

That said, it's brutal, heartbreaking, and really tough to watch. I will say that I can't imagine letting my child act in one of the kid roles. I know they gave the kids a different script so they wouldn't know what was actually going on but I wonder when they grow up and watch the movie if they'll wonder WTF their parents were thinking. That could be damaging, I think.

I had never heard of this movie before, but now I am intrigued.