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!

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

Add me to that list.

SJ, my chica!

Anybody seen "Cafe Flesh?"

Not only have I seen it, I own Rinse Dream's (Richard Sayadian's) other film, the semi-porn, dayglo remake of Dr. Caligari.

Then I went back and watched his actual porn films including Party Doll A Go Go parts 1 and 2.

Which love both as porn and humor. Oh, he also did the first two movies in the well regarded Night Dreams series. Which are basically the more porny versions of Dr. Caligari.

I've always wanted to write an article about him. That was the last time porn film production had any kind of crossover with the mainstream.

Saw Rattatouille yesterday. (FTR, 1pm shows on weekdays? ALL moms w/ babies or toddlers. Sweet!)

I have to say, I didn't love it. I think I have Brad Bird issues, because I came out of it with the same vaguely unpleasant feeling I had after The Incredibles. I haven't been able to pin down exactly what it was in this movie, but there's just something about his worldview that disagrees with me.

Uwe Boll goes postal on Wired