Chris Evans also way exceeds any expectations I had of him.

Heh. Caught Not Another Teen Movie this weekend. I'd seen it before (perhaps a couple times, really), but it remains fairly amusing.

I knew it was Chris Evans, but I didn't recognize the acting. He really did a good job disappearing into the role. And I'm totally with you on the unstinting pragmatism. The coolness with which it was delivered, and the consistency of his viewpoint was some excellent writing.

The self-gravity never occurred to me. That makes more sense than anything else, but still...

See, I figured they intended to tow the second device, but that seems so implausible considering their careful calculations of air and fuel. Handwave!

Two other minor points...the sun is dying...humanity gets together and mines ALL the fissionable material but only sends up a half at a time? That seemed remarkably far-sighted of them.

And Icarus never bothered to mention the 5th lifeform prior to being asked. Unfortunate, that.

Hm. I must have gotten more out of Sunshine than I realized. Just this brief exchange has got me thinking about it in much greater detail.

I knew I'd seen the fellow who plays Trey somewhere before. Turns out he's British...and does a mean American accent. So much for my 'Cillian was singled out' argument. Wong did an amazing Scots accent in On a Clear Day.

ita, as for Capa and Kaneda going out to make the repairs...which was such an intense, though predictable scene... I was moved by how UNimportant the captain's role in the proceedings turned out to be, whether Kaneda or poor Harvey. It did not make sense for the captain to allow himself to be 'outvoted' and let Capa go outside. Without him, the plot she does not thicken...

One last thought...now that I've imdbed Mark Strong, the fellow who played the monster, I'm wishing we'd gotten to see something of him in his pre-Icarus days. Pretty!

Has anyone seen Broken English?

The music was credited to Nick Angel because it's his name.

The commentary on the deleted scenes* pointed out that a picture of the detective Angel was replacing (with the big beard) was actually Nick Angel.

* I only listened to the commentary on the deleted scenes because I was curious why they'd cut some of them. Some seemed fairly organic to the plot.

I finally saw Ratatouille ! It was thoroughly entertaining. I feel like in a non-Pixar movie, Remy would have just been able to talk to Linguini, but they wanted a challenge. And the added hilarity. And poignancy. And misunderstandingcy.

Now _I've_ seen Broken English and quite enjoyed it. Parker Posey at her cringe inducing best. Fairly predictable plot, but I really liked the performances.

Then, in a weird, art imitating life moment, a male audience member latched onto my friend and me...telling us his sad tale of relationship woe. And in a perfect us-being-who-we-are moment, my friend invited the wounded soul to dine with us...I encouraged him to seek counseling. Yay me with the NOT!rescuing.

The whole thing was completely apropos of the film's primary themes.

Anybody seen "Cafe Flesh?"

I thought I was the only person who had seen it, but I was attempting to gloss Children of Men for a spoilerphobe friend who hadn't heard of it, and he said, "Oh! Like Cafe Flesh!" (which, not really, but now I'm wondering how well-known Cafe Flesh is)

The missus and I took advantage of baby day at the Alamo to go see Stardust, which she'd been dying to see. Unfortunately, it was sort of a turd. In fact, even though I'm not that crazy about the story the movie is based on (I mean, I like it pretty well, I guess), just about every deviation from the story made the movie a crappier spectacle. It also seemed to be about 13 hrs long, most of which stemmed from the far-too-overwritten roles for the name stars of the flick. The only worthwhile part of the latter half was Ricky Gervais doing a sword-and-sorcery version of David Brent, and that wasn't worth too much.

Glancing back, there didn't seem to be too many other Stardust-hatas other than me & Mr. Jessica. Ethan, my man!