Ooooh! ::bookmarks::

It's official: Joss Whedon is directing the Avengers movie!

eta: Joss sez:

I'm still writing the outline. I am at the stage where I am reworking and reworking. What I love about this is that there is no way that these people should be in the same room together, let alone the same team. And that, to me, is the definition of family.

I find it noteworthy that the official Disney press release didn't even acknowledge the existence of the Eddie Murphy film.

Karl Urban to play Judge Dredd (it's buried down there below Trek II talk).

I just got back from seeing Inception and I just read all the white-font. I found it a very involving movie. I didn't check my watch once. And I surprised myself by being a little teary at the end.

I haven't made up my mind yet whether I believe it was all a dream or whose dream it might have been. Or whether the last part was Cobb's dream, because I'm not sure it wasn't.

We saw The Kids are Alright today. The friend of Kelly's who is staying with us this week has two moms and she said so much of it rang true to her.

Annette Benning and Julianne Moore were fantastic.

I want to get Inception when it comes out on dvd just to watch with the captions on because I didn't understand 90% of Ken Watenabe's dialoge.

There was an entire post about Watanabe (and Rampage Jackson and Vin Diesel) mumbling on IO9 of his, and seriously, I missed one sentence, which later worked out by context. Maybe your theatre had a compromised audio setup.

I really enjoyed the movie.

I didn't see the supposition here that the actual job was on Cobb to get the idea of the inception out of his head. Which was why Ariadne had to talk him into going as far as he did.

No comment on the final state of the totem. Plenty wobbly noises, But we weren't meant to know the answer--the question is, when would the dream have started? With the movie, or with the part where the heavy drugs started? Because once he starts revisiting Mal, we never see him spin the top to falling again, but we have seen it done so before.

However, if it started at the beginning, he's a thoroughly unreliable narrator on all aspects of dream reality, and every plot hole from then on is is his fault.

I have to admit, I found some of the jump cuts jarring, after he explained the "no, but how did we get *right* *here*" speech to Ariadne in the dream. I suddenly felt like there was a lot less movement in segments of the movie. Plus they'd shown an Old Spice ad before the flic started.

I saw Inception. Still have to go back and read all the white font. I think I need to see it three or four more times. I definitely liked it.

Marion Cotillard blew me away. Her character was all over the map, and had to carry all of it convincingly, which she did.

I'm living life by Netflix, which means I just (finally!) watched Moon and just walked out on 2012. DH watched all of 2012, but at 3x speed. We agreed that the script meeting for 2012 was a few Art Bell fans and industry types writing all the cliches they could think of on Post-it notes, putting those in a random order, and sending that to the render farm. Done.

Moon, however, was exceptionally good. I had a couple quibbles, but I can handwave them pretty easily.