God, I love Viggo: [link]

Second the Viggo love.

Went and saw Ironman, today. I have one thing to say, RDJ has eminently lickable arms. Oh, and it was a cracking good film.

In how many ways does Tropic Thunder seem wrong?

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RDJ as a black man. This I have to see. (and hopefully Jack Black and Ben Stiller don't suck)

A black (sounding) guy behind me at Iron Man said, "I don't know about that " after the Tropic Thunder trailer.

I can't check youtube at work but if Juliebird didn't link to the red band trailer there are copious more levels of wrongness to be had in Tropic Thunder . I get the feeling that wrongness is the point of the film. Robert Downey Jr is playing an Australian actor and I think the point of him playing a black character is that the Ozzies have already played every other kind of person so black is simply the next logical step.

It is the red band trailer for Tropic Thunder.

--just saw the red band for The Happening... HOLY SHIT M. Night Shyamalan has an R-rated movie!!!?!

I saw the green band trailer for Tropic Thunder, and at the time I thought it was going to be a parody of war movies, and I actually kind of wanted to see it. (At the time, I didn't realize that RDJ was supposed to look black.)

When I saw the red band trailer and realized that it was a parody about actors, who happen to be making a war movie (plus the fake!black thing), that pretty much went away.

Shit. Sydney Pollack died. [link] He always looked so hail and hearty. Anthony Minghella and now Pollack. Bad year for directors.

So Indy. It was a lot slower than I had prepared myself for.

Cate Blanchette's character was very Dr. Girlfriend, wasn't she? Despite the fact that she didn't have a masculine voice; her demeanor just struck me as very Dr. Girlfriend. (That might have just been me.)

And, really? Isn't there already going to be an X-Files movie this summer? I was spoiled and knew that the thing they were chasing was an alien skull, but it just didn't work for me.

There were a lot of moments where Indy didn't feel like Indy (the character) to me. Like the scene when the college Dean just told him that he has to take an enforced sabbatical, and he's sitting behind his desk in shirtsleeves looking at the pictures of Marcus and his dad -- he didn't feel like Professor Jones to me; he felt like Jack Ryan, or whatever president he was supposed to have been in Air Force One. He didn't feel like Indy in scholarly drag, which he did in the other movies. It was weird.

That said, the movie *was* fun, which was all I really had hoped, so I call it a win.

have you seen this? Hamlet 2