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So. New Mummy movie coming out. On the plus side -- directed by Rob Cohen, not Stephen Summers. Cohen's had some stinkers, but has also had some really good movies (Dragon: the Bruce Lee Story leaps to mind). And John Hannah is back for this one.
On the I Don't Know side -- Do we really need another Mummy movie? Plus, Evey won't be played by Rachel Weisz.
On the plus side, Evey will be played by Maria Bello instead (though I liked Evey as a brunette, thanks).
I saw the doc Young@Heart last night and, as calculated, was completely charmed.
There was a bit of the Look!CuteCodgers! and Woe!theMortality that I feared, but in between those bits, I loved watching the personalities at play. Nicely done, docu.
Hobbit casting rumor: James McAvoy as Bilbo.
Hobbit casting rumor:
Now I'm really hoping this rumor turns out to be true.
pleaseohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohprettyplease
The projectionist who called me and the inventory supervisor "a bunch of girls" for refusing to watch The Strangers is screening it with the house lights up and the door open.
Heeee. It looks pretty scary.
he said it was pretty good with that creak in his voice which tends to indicate it could have been better.
I watched half of Juno last night, before falling asleep (surprisingly early, but I've been tired lately).
There was a lot I liked about it (the first half that I saw, I'll try and watch the second half this morning). But there was a *lot* that was bugging me. There was so much about so many characters that seemed.... affected. Juno's pipe being one of the big things. I don't think it's Ellen Page's fault. She seems to be a decent enough actress. It seems likely to me to be the direction. Or perhaps the affectations were Ellen's idea (it's the sort of thing a young actor would feel more comfortable with) and Jason Reitman wasn't willing as a director to really talk her out of it.
Anyway, there were things I liked, but the affectations were bugging me.
I admit I've only seen the TV commercial for The Strangers, but...it looks incredibly similar to Funny Games (which looked like the most utterly pointless waste of film ever).
Home invasion, creepy villains, screaming, running, flailing, lots of blood. Yes?