Sadly, I can't see it getting that popular, because it's not easy. The couple in front of me going to the parking lot didn't get the details: "What was it about, though, really?" "A mole!" "Seriously?"

I have a couple pieces I still need to put together myself. I mean, if Inception is regarded as difficult, at least it had exposition.

For some reason, I saw my last Tom Hardy movie at this same theatre. I think I won't have to drive a whole ten minutes to see his next one.

LeN, I should check Netflix.

sj,

it is supposed to go in wide release on Jan 6

One of the trailers I saw the other night was something I found rather baffling: apparently Madonna made a movie to redeem Wallis Simpson?

By "redeem" I mean, the movie "W.E." appears to characterize the woman I have seen described as, at best, a gold-digging adulterer with unfortunate political affiliations, as a true romantic unfairly tarnished by a cruel world that doesn't understand the True Power of Love.

Turning the sordid into the epic is a challenge only Madonna would take on, I guess?

Wasn't Wallis Simpson a Nazi sympathizer? I mean she really does not come out looking very good on any dimension.

What galls me is that they blamed her for Edward's own relationships with Nazis, which I think is utter bullshit.

Edward nor Wallis come out looking great in The King's Speech, and yet it was probably the kindest the movie could have been.

Consuela, I was meaning to post just that, when I saw the trailer before TTSS. I was very WTF about the relentless positivity and romantic OTTness of the trailer. And then...Madonna. Okay. I was indeed wondering if there was any credible modern angle that didn't make her look like a gold-digger at best.

Wasn't Wallis Simpson a Nazi sympathizer?

She was certainly suspected of it; some people even think she passed information about French defenses to the Germans when they were in France before the war started. According to Wikipedia, anyway. [link]

And then...Madonna. Okay.

Yeah, far be it from me to psychoanalyze someone I've never met, but I can't help but think Madonna feels a lot of sympathy for a woman who became simultaneously enormously famous and enormously vilified, in roughly equal measure.

But I think she'll have to do some serious cherry-picking from history to pull it off...

I haven't watched Alien in years. Should I watch the theatrical version or the "Director's Cut"?

I haven't watched Alien in years. Should I watch the theatrical version or the "Director's Cut"?

Well, the theatrical version is just about a perfect movie of its type. And I'm starting to trust Riddley Scott less with the Director's Cuts after the third do-over on Bladerunner.

Theatrical it is, then. Even he said he was perfectly happy with it to begin with.