I am with whichever one of you thinks it's possible but not certain. If they really wanted him to die, he would've died in that sweet shadow scene, which is what I was expecting. There's no good reason to have him live through that if he just dies in five minutes. Although I also expected him to maybe drive off a cliff. He should die in a car, after all.

so you agree with me. naturally. and I am with you logic-wise, but I see a narrative reason to have the movie end with him driving and not dying.

Nah, I agree that it's certainly more appropriate that the movie ends with him driving, but it's one of those things where I was so surprised he actually survived that scene. The movie does a lot of unexpected things. I liked it for being different, even though it was formed from classic tropes. I just really wished I knew anything about Carey Mulligan's character. In a weird way, the fact that everything was so understated makes it okay that the characters are underdeveloped, but sometimes I am greedy.

And the violence (in one scene) made me gasp out loud.

Was this the head-stomping scene? Because damn.

technically I think I gasped in one scene and said "wow" out loud in the theater for another.

the former was the elevator scene. Is that the one you mean?

The latter was Christina Hendricks. Homegirl can play a red hot mess if she wants to and she was believable. What an end though!

I just saw another TV spot for Chronicle and none of the shots were ones that stood out as cheaty for me.

The ones I'm thinking of are the ones where a character is flying and one where it's way up in the air. And, well, there are several shots that seem like they're out of a regular movie, just the way they're framed and the way they look. I'll be interested to see how those are "shot." Think I'm going to go see it on Tuesday.

Is that the one you mean?

Yep.

said "wow" out loud in the theater for another.

I was like, "Did that just happen??"

The ones I'm thinking of are the ones where a character is flying and one where it's way up in the air.

They explain those.

Tivo picked up Alice in Wonderland for me. . . and I've suddenly realized that I haven't actually read the books. So that whole ridiculous proposal scene at the beginning was that in the books? Because I can't imagine anyone ever thinking that was a good idea.

No, sumi. Not in the books. You're talking about the Tim Burton movie, right? That version of Alice in Wonderland is deliberately not faithful to the books, it's supposed to be a sequel or something. Again, beautiful to look at, oh G-d I hated the plot and dialog. Except for the flashback where she woke up from the nightmare and asked her father if she was mad. That was adorable.

(MY FEELINGS OF DISAPPOINTMENT AND BETRAYAL WITH THAT MOVIE, LET ME WHINE ABOUT THEM SOME MORE.)

Dear Tim, don't fuck up Dark Shadows, okay? I'm counting on you to have a return to good form.

I kind of liked the jabberwocky (that was a jabberwocky, wasn't it?)