I'm saving that VF for when I travel to the midwest next week. So exciting!

I'm not sure anyone here saw Restrepo, but the photojournalist behind the movie has died on the frontlines.

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Prim cast in Hunger Games. Apparently her lack of plucking is raising a storm on the internet.

Fuck the internet, man. She's just little!

Seriously. Tiara toddlers are the norm now?

(Found the Cronenberg quote: "I want to show the unshowable.")

Okay, was pondering the great/A+ movie thing on the drive home, which passed the time nicely, and here are some of the disjointed thoughts I had:

Some A+ movies: Jaws, Citizen Kane, Casablanca, Shadow of a Doubt, most if not all Kubrick, Unforgiven, A Fish Called Wanda, do I even need to say Miller's Crossing?, Diva, M*A*S*H, Chinatown, and I will think of more as soon as I hit post. My favorite movies include these, but also a lot of others I love despite (or because of) their flaws.

And nothing is perfect, but I guess the best way I can express it is, how close do you come to the target? If you're within the yellow center of the "quality" bullseye you're aiming at? A+. Hit a little further out -- maybe there are a few dangling threads, or something doesn't quite click... or Keanu is in it. So more like an A- or a B? (I had to do letter grades for TWoP recaps for all those years, so it's kind of ingrained now.)

I was trying to think of great movies that I don't necessarily like -- to torture the metaphor even more, "I don't care for this target, but you sure did hit it precisely." And I'm pretty sure they exist, but I'm less likely to see those movies in the first place. (Like, I'm sure there are great sports movies, and great musicals, but... ugh.) I did think of a borderline case, to bring Kubrick up again: The Shining. I don't know when I sat & watched it straight through instead of stumbling upon a edited-for-TV version, but it was on Netflix streaming so I saw it recently. I don't dislike it, but I certainly didn't wind up going, "Wow, I loved that! Can't wait to see it again!" It's too deeply unsettling to make me enthusiastic that way... but that's why I think it's a great movie.

Prim cast in Hunger Games

Oh, she's perfect! She's pretty much exactly what I pictured.

Some A+ movies: Jaws

I always think this one gets discussed for its blockbusterness, and the shark, and the problems filming, but the film itself is so well-written and performed. We probably watch it once a year.

I love Unforgiven, too. One of my all-time favorite movies.

I don't think Elizabeth Banks is confirmed quite yet, ita, but it does seem inevitable. she's one of those actresses i don't get. i still think Chenoweth would've been an awesome Effie.

ION i watched Julie & Julia this past weekend. i'm not sure what the opinion of it was here, but i liked it. it did seem like two different movies and was sad that it didn't end with them meeting, but i also didn't know it was based on a true story.

Hit a little further out -- maybe there are a few dangling threads, or something doesn't quite click... or Keanu is in it.

It makes me sad that Strega does not share the Keanu Love, when we agree on so many other things.

Apparently her lack of plucking is raising a storm on the internet.

Right. Because that is the first thing a character would worry about when dealing with near-starvation conditions on a regular basis.

She looks adorable.