I just couldn't get past the fact that the questions were asked in chronological order to his life story. I know they said up front that the whole thing was about destiny and blah blah blah, but I just could not reconcile myself to how utterly stupid the framing device was. I did love the soundtrack, though.

ION, I finally caught up with Iron Man on DVD and thought it was great fun. And now I would like a snarky British AI valet who builds robots for me. They have those on Amazon, right?

Jessica, that definitely required you to just Go with It, but I loved the framing device enough to let it go.

What's your favorite Hepburn/Tracy movie?

I don't really like their movies together. He always has a scene where he takes her down a peg for being so uppity and feminist.

Even in Desk Set? I haven't seen it in a while, but I don't remember that.

Even in Desk Set? I haven't seen it in a while, but I don't remember that.

I have no vivid memories of him hauling her across his lap to give her a spanking in that movie. Though the premise that Kate's brain is a better reference tool than a computer sort of skips past the notion that she's exceptional and if she gets a cold then the system goes down.

I've never seen Desk Set. I keep thinking, "this desk set wants to fly"

Fave Hepburn/Tracy? Without Love. It's slighter, less witty, and more cliché-ridden than Adman's Rib or Woman of the Year, but but there is a bittersweetness to the story I like very much. Plus, I'm a sucker for the "marriage-of-convenience turning into a real marriage" plot device. I blame all the genre romance I read growing up.

I love the beginning of Woman of the Year, but the part where Hepburn tries to be a housewife and is crashingly bad at it makes me cringe so hard. (And I think the spanking was from Adam's Rib, which... oy.)

I LOVED Slumdog, even though I freely admit the story is flawed like heck, but I figured it was a cracked-out fairy tale and just went with it. I think the framing device worked well within that particular context, actually. Magic realism and all that.

I found the character of Salim most interesting among the lot, since he actually had a character arc unlike Latika. Except after the movie, I realized that he was essentially Spike (at least in terms of the character archetype), and I've been having mixed feelings about him ever since.

However, the music is legitimately FANTASTIC. My favourite track is the song over the credit dance sequence, which is a thing of joy and beauty forever. Also, M.I.A. + AR Rahman = marriage made in musical heaven.

Bonny, from reading wikipedia it seems we heard heartbeats at the very end of Crank so there may be some non-tenuous rationale for a sequel. Other than cash and hormones.

I'll go out on a limb and guess cheese-tastic dialogue occurred.

Oh, there was cheese enough.

But if it's being delivered by Bill Nighy, who cares how overblown it is?

His delivery struck me as just... odd. I mean yes, dining on scenery, but it was so... odd.

Next weekend, Let The Right One In finally comes to town. I'm really looking forward to that.

Though the premise that Kate's brain is a better reference tool than a computer sort of skips past the notion that she's exceptional and if she gets a cold then the system goes down.

Which is why the reference department had (IIRC) 3 other reference librarians. Then someone can get a cold.

And the computer in the movie wasn't exactly Wikipedia.

I love the beginning of Woman of the Year, but the part where Hepburn tries to be a housewife and is crashingly bad at it makes me cringe so hard.

But doesn't it resolve with him saying (I'm paraphrasing), "I don't want you to be a housewife, dumbass!"?

Bonny, from reading wikipedia it seems we heard heartbeats at the very end of Crank so there may be some non-tenuous rationale for a sequel. Other than cash and hormones.

Ah. I must have been too 'ohmygod'-ed to hear it.

I'll see 2 anyway because, well, you know. I can't help myself.