Watching Misery with CJ. I thought I remembered how messed up the story is, but I really didn't remember the extent.

Well, because all the cliche's started with this story. The original came out in 1911.

Eh, I'd say that for "What These People Need Is a Honky" you could go back to James Fenimore Cooper. But A Princess of Mars is certainly one of the classic iterations of it.

Although as I pointed out to Nutty in chat earlier today, Superman actually works in that format, too, except ordinary Earthlings are the people who need help from the overpowered alien who adopts local ways. IOW, Superman is A Princess of Mars from the POV of the Martians...

Wow, I just watched Warrior, and even though as I was watching it was thinking it wasn't maybe objectively good, what with every ridiculous movie thing they could throw into one story, I'm still catching my breath, and the credits are almost over.

I'm so glad someone else saw it. I was fucking shameless, but I understand that I wasn't crying at the precise spots where it was expected (although I sure covered those too). Every fight of the big tournament had me sobbing like a child. Bell to bell.

every ridiculous movie thing they could throw into one story

They kinda did, didn't they? But I thought most of the performances were very sincere, even though you knew with a fair amount of certainty how some things had to go in order to make the movie have a point, never mind live up to the trailers.

Oh yeah, the performances made it. There were a couple of forks I could have imagined, but no.

I don't remember having seen Edgerton in anything else, and I was definitely there all for the Hardy, but I ended up really liking him.

The scene where Hardy's character pulls his drunken father up onto the bed and cradles him was apparently improv. That was one of those moments where I felt them root around for traction in my heartstrings. Although it didn't slay me like some of the other moments, I thought it was an interesting thing to show about his character, and I wonder how the writing and directing had originally intended it to go.

Oh man, I thought that was beautiful.

And yeah, I liked Edgerton a lot. He definitely hasn't done much with a big profile in the US. [link] But he's about to be in the Baz Lurhman Great Gatsby.

I thought it added something to the character that not any other moment showed to that level, and I was wondering if the director wasn't going to go that far with the characterisation, or he had some other way in mind of demonstrating. It was an interesting reflex/decision.

Yeah, and he played it just right -- it's not like it was transformative, you know?

Baz Luhrman is doing Great Gatsby? That cracks me up because there are so many billboards/signs in Luhrman's movies and there is already one built in to Gatsby.

The person on the left of The Warrior poster (not sure if it is Tom Hardy) looks like Harry Connick, Jr [link]