Oh, where they switched ages? That did look cute.

I saw that flick. It was fun. I think I would have liked Footloose better with him in the lead.

I want to see him switch it up -- take a role as a drug dealer or a pimp or something. That would be fun. For me, anyway.

A singing dancing pimping drug dealer?

You write the script and I'll let you know.

I'm dying to go to a movie in a theater. What's out and good right now?

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree re. Efron. He's pretty and a good dancer, but I think he's got very little range as an actor. I actually can't recall much about him from the body-switch movie, which I'd seen at some point, but now I remember he was rather cute in Hairspray. But Finnick? Too complicated and broken for Efron. YMMV.

Also, something about his face bothers me. He's got the same kind of plasticine prettiness Tom Welling has that totally creeps me out, like a pretty doll with nothing behind the eyes. (And I know plenty of people disagree with me re. Welling, so there you go.)

Amy, yesterday's Footloose excursion was my first time in a theater for quite a while. Maybe since the last HP movie.

Unfortunately I know when I'll be going next. I'm sure I've mentioned that my darling, smart daughter has a thing for the Twilight series. She thinks the last book is beyond rediculous but we are both completists, so I'm sure we will be seeing the next movie, probably at the midnight release. Please judge. I judge myself. I feel like I'm stuck watching a trainwreak waiting for it to just be OVER.

I got all confused about Steven McQueen being too young because I was like, "isn't he dead?"

So glad it wasn't just me.

So Akira is being made, and it's set in Neo New York, and it's going to star Garrett Hedlund.

And I'm not mad at it.

I feel like I should be up in arms, but I'm not. You take a movie, you translate it into your culture, and you retell it. So, yeah, it turns out to have the racial demographics of your culture. Now, it probably won't have true American representation, but casting the lead as a white guy? I don't think that an American production has a responsibility to make a Japanese movie.

For reasons I can't properly articulate, this doesn't strike me as an Avatar: The Last Airbender situation, which wasn't translating shit, just whitening the characters in place.

This is an interesting link of overpaid actors based on who gets the lowest box office return on their salary dollars. It's pretty much clearly divided into people I'm screamingly not surprised to see on there (Eddie Murphy (animation isn't counted) and Nic Cage, and Reese Witherspoon and Denzel Washington).

The list is some of the worst pageview whoring I've seen in a while, but the article is worth reading and gives away the top four or five positions, fwiw.