It's interesting that here people are comparing Benjamin Button to Big Fish - elsewhere I've seen it compared to Forrest Gump.

Same writer. I can see the similarities a bit.

Juliebird, I was interesting in seeing more of that too.

I rewatched Little Miss Sunshine last night. The moment when Olive flings her top hat to the audience still prompts an involuntary bark of laughter from me two years after first seeing it.

It finally made me get off my ass and order the movie poster to go on the long stretch of unadorned brick wall in my living room. (In a happy coincidence, the poster exactly matches the "Afterglow" art print I already have hanging on one wall.)

I saw Milk last night -- so many good performances! So much exciting facial hair!

I cried and cried, of course, but the tone of the ending was awfully anvillicious and overly sentimental -- did we really need to flash back to the scene where Harvey tells Scott that he'll never make it to age 50? Especially when that conversation was already reprised at Harvey's 48th birthday bash?

Up until that point, though, I really loved it. It was surprising to me, although it shouldn't have been, to see the real divide in the Castro between the conservative Catholic residents and the gay community. I guess I've always lived in a world where the Castro is a gay mecca, and for that matter, in a world where San Francisco had already elected Harvey Milk to city supervisor. It was strange to be reminded of a time when that wasn't the case.

Just finished the Tropic Thunder commentary. Oh my goodness, what a fucking hoot! Ben Stiller was decent and semi-serious and informative, Jack Black was mildly annoying and not as funny as he thought he was, and Rober Downey Jr. was a fucking genius. In a commentary. I'd heard he'd done it in character, but I didn't realize that he'd done it in *three* characters (counting his own). But not only that, while improving in character with an accent(s), he was hilarious, insightful, generous and really really good at knowing when to goof, and when to stfu and enjoy a scene while pointing out that everyone else should as well.

I think my fave Jack Black bit was pointing out that when between takes at one point, RDJ went to take a leak, and, still miked, he stayed in character.

The commentary is by far more funny than the movie itself, which I enjoyed quite a bit.

Yeah, I've watched the Tropic Thunder commentary twice now. I can't decide if it's better than some of the commentaries on the US release of Spaced but it is without a doubt the best feature film commentary I've ever heard.

And now I have an incentive to get actual DVDs of Spaced instead of repeatedly watching on serf teh chunnel. But first I must rob a bank (but I needed to anyway, so it's not out of my way).

cornflakes.

The "Making of" featurette and the MTV spot of Tropic Thunder are also hysterical. I'm waiting for my downstairs neighbor to start banging on her ceiling. Iron Man wailing on Kung Fu Panda's nuts with a wrench was priceless.

Please let RDJr live a long drug-free life making many many movies.

Oh, this is cool - AICN is confirming that Nick Frost and Simon Pegg will be playing Thomson and Thompson in the Tintin movie.

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Oh, this is cool - AICN is confirming that Nick Frost and Simon Pegg will be playing Thomson and Thompson in the Tintin movie.

HMOG - that's made of win. I think casting the two guys who played the Andys in Hot Fuzz would go one better, but they don't have the name recognition that Frost and Pegg will bring.

eta ...and Andy Serkis as Capt. Haddock potentially? Liking that too, especially after seeing him play Martin Hannet in 24-Hour Party People.