In the plus column.... um. Reepicheep was cute, if way underused.

Also, if I heard correctly, Eddie Izzard. Does that make Aslan/Reepicheep slash less or more acceptable? Discuss.

I just watched Waitress. It was a lovely little movie and absolutely hilarious at times, so understated with its humor, like it hardly acknowledges its punchlines. I had some small issues with the ending ( the relationship with the doctor just sort of...ends, kind of anticlimactically, and it's hard to tell what the point of it all really was when Jenna's real epiphany appears to come when she sees her baby [although I guess he did show her that she had the ability to be happy]; and I really didn't think Earl would just disappear from her life that easily, especially if she stayed in the same town ), but it was still sweet and fun.

I really enjoyed the other two waitresses, and I thought the redheaded one was very cute and really pretty post-She's All Thating. And then when the credits roll, I discovered that it was Adrienne Shelly! Oh man. I'd forgotten she was an actress too. She was even in an episode of Oz ! Stupid random murdering dude.

Aims and I saw Indy 4 on Friday.

Didn't like it. I mean, it wasn't Spider-Man 3 levels of not liking it, but I didn't like it.

Aww, MM, that's too bad. I went with my dad and we enjoyed it a lot. I loved Shia Labeuf (not sure I spelled that right), with his ducktail and motorcycle. And fencing! Hee. It's all so over-the-top, but when is Indy not?

I didn't mind the over-the-top, though the "Tarzan" routine almost made me get up and leave. But, come on... ALIENS?! Even "interdimensional" aliens?! What the...?

It's always been a staple of Indy flicks that he deals with magic. The Ark of the Covenant, the Stones of Whateverthefuck, the Holy Grail. To switch that to super-science just felt...like a big ol' WTF? Ancient Astronauts? Really? The whole Van Daaniken thing just put me off and the giant 1950's cheap ass flying saucer at the end just made me wanna spit.

Why not go back to the magical relics bit? What's wrong with the Lance of Longinus? Excalibur? The Commies wouldn't want those? A magical sword that would make Stalin invincible? You know?

It just felt like horseshit to me. The whole chase through the jungle was "speeder-bikes" redux, the plot...okay, let me get this straight. Ox finds the grave of what's-his-nut, gets the skull, *takes it to the temple*, somehow fails to open the door so he puts it back where he found it, goes batshit and gets locked away so he can conveniently scratch psedo-mad-dribble all over his cell and lead Indy to find the skull that he, Ox, *already found*? Buh-whuh?

Meh, I say. Meh.

HPHBP pictures:

Slughorn Xmas Party
And 4 others - not from the Xmas party.

t smooches on sumi

$10 says the HPHBP trailer is tied to Dark Knight.

That would be excellent!

I can't remember, what movies were the trailers tied to before?

Why not go back to the magical relics bit?

I was fine with the alien stuff because in the 50's it was all. about. aliens. And Commies. But, it was all. about. aliens. And flying saucers. Superscience *is* magic. Any science beyond the knowledge of a civilization is magic. We may be more aware that there are scientific reasons behind it, but if we can't recreate it, it's magic. I had less problem with that aspect than I did the "swinging through the jungle", a side comment may have popped out of my mouth at that about about George of the Jungle during that scene, and the "drops three times" and they all survive.

Still, I enjoyed myself. Probably because folks already said not to expect it to be too much like the first three, so I went into it without a lot of expectations.

The refrigerator scene was priceless.