I just couldn't help feeling I was supposed to buy into the wall to wall eroticisation of the profession, as opposed to it just being Girl 6's issue. Unless we were seeing her sexed up co-workers through her eyes, it was just too much.

Next you'll be telling me that strippers all want to bone the customers.

Man, I don't even remember enough to be intelligently discussing it, but that wasn't my takeaway. I can remember having heated discussions about it at the time but can't reconstruct my position or arguments, so, really, I should just shut up.

He won't be the first person to kill Batman.

The other day in the comic book store I came across a collection of various times Batman has died. I knew Grant Morrison had just killed him, but I didn't realize how many other writers had!

I knew Grant Morrison had just killed him

Darkseid actually hit him with the Omega Sanction and sent him into the past, which didn't actually kill him. t /pedant

kinda enjoyed that one, ita, but it was strange. "Clockers" is good. Of course, the novel it's based on is too.

Teppy is a Bat-pedant.

Has anyone seen Drive, with Ryan Gosling? I'm debating movies to watch, and I lurves the Gosling, and it's got Carey Mulligan (Sally Sparrow!) and Christina Hendricks.

yes, we saw in back in October. What is your other movie choice?

I enjoyed Drive more than my better half did. He was kind of bored. I just went with it and I felt like the movie flowed.

I do kind of think the movie was trying too hard, but I think it is entertaining.

Note: there is a fair bit of violence in the film - especially the latter third or so. And the violence (in one scene) made me gasp out loud. You may not have needed that warning, but I like to err on the side of warning for graphic violence.

I'm tired and not stating myself clearly. Right now my choice is one movie, and I'm debating on whether to watch it or not. Wish I had a second choice right now. I watched Puncture over the weekend because it had a shirtless Chris Evans in it. I'm grateful for the edification on the bullshit of Big Business (yet again) and Chris was great (and tragic, and not timely for dealing with my own brothers drug problems), but not terribly well directed or edited. But the trailer had made it seem like John Grishamly goodness (underdog lawyers! Evil corporations! Suspense and threats of violence! And then sucky reality intervened in all it's jaded bitter glory). I'm glad I watched it, but it wasn't a Good Movie.

Yeah, I got from the trailer and Ryan's Hammer of Brain Spattering that there might be some harh violence. I'm okay with that in theory.

then go for it! watch it.

the music in the film was running through my head for weeks.