Ha. He doesn't address the "it's all Mal's dream" which is my favorite theory.

Mark Ruffalo is a terrorist. No, seriously. He's why we have to have backscatter scans, obviously.

DH got the screener for Inception so we watched it again over T-day weekend. I've come to the conclusion that most of the tiny little details that seemed so important and meaningful when I saw this in theatres are actually just regular movie loose ends. (Like Saito buying the airline. I love Saito and it's a great comic beat, but how did he already work out that they would need exactly 10 hours with enough lead time to BUY A FREAKING AIRLINE? And if so, why didn't he mention it earlier? Is the whole Fisher mission just an excuse for Saito to fuck with these people because he thinks it would be funny? Maybe! Who cares, he's awesome!)

I did pay very careful attention to the treatment of the totems since we had that debate here, though, and Ariadne clearly says "It's a very elegant way to keep track of reality." So there is that.

Jessica, in response to the whitefont, I read an awesome Ocean's 11 / Inception cross over that basically posits the same thing.

Jessica, in response to the whitefont, I read an awesome Ocean's 11 / Inception cross over that basically posits the same thing.

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Do you have the link to this handy? Because that sounds like a thing of beauty that I need to read.

I Don't Think You Think I Think About Probability

Ocean's 11 / Inception cross over

Oooooooooooooh.

Johnny Depp In Vanity Fair: Disney Hated My 'Gay' Captain Sparrow

NEW YORK — Johnny Depp's flamboyant portrayal of Jack Sparrow in "Pirates of the Caribbean" was good enough for an Oscar nomination, but the actor says Disney was less than thrilled.

Depp talked about it in an interview with rocker Patti Smith for the January edition of Vanity Fair magazine. Depp said Disney "couldn't stand" his Sparrow and one person there even asked if Sparrow was gay. Depp told the Disney executive "all my characters are gay," and he said that "really made her nervous."

Heh.

What are they going to do? Get Charlton Heston? "Brokeback fucking pirates, bitches!"

We saw Tangled this weekend. It was OK. I kind of wish they hadn't gone the "blonde hair is better than brown hair" route, but there you are.

Unlike The Princess and the Frog, I think all the scenes from other Disney movies were supposed to be recognized as loving homage, and a farewell to the "princess movie." (Rather than the cheap-out recycled animation from TPATF). And there may have been a Blade Runner reference in it.

Oh, dear. I'm afraid I am the anti-Raq, which makes me sad. I really liked both Tangled and TPATF and found the animation in the latter kind of swoonily gorgeous.

And, if anything, the movie seems to be saying that blonde hair is a terrible trap; Rapunzel is just about the only blonde in the movie, and her hair has pretty well screwed up her entire life.

And there was the whole creepy passive-aggressive "I'm the only one who will ever love you because everyone else will treat you shamefully and be horrible/I'm the only one who will ever love you because you're basically dog shit in human form and you're lucky you even have me to love you/anyhow, whichever, just don't ever leave!" dynamic between Rapunzel and her mother, which was depressing and scary and both a dynamic I completely recognized and not one I can remember Disney ever tackling before.

Also, I want whoever designed all the murals in Rapunzel's tower to come over and paint our ceiling right now, please.