I thought Hanna was great. The bad-ass parts were fun and the slow, making-a-friend parts were strangely believable and did a great job of capturing awkward adolescence. For me, it proved that the praise given to Saoirse Ronan after Atonement wasn't a one-time fluke thing based on the movie itself, and she is completely the real deal.

I haven't seen Hanna, but i suspect that role is why she was cast in The Host.

Okay, don't compare it to Run Lola Run. I did not like that.

However, I think maybe liking Cate Blanchett being OTT is what tips it over? I loved Hanna, and everything she did except for the electricity shit and working out the internet in 30 seconds. I liked her father, I liked the girl she met on her travels and her parents (not so much the brother), I enjoyed Cate, and for a little while I liked the requisite deviant pervy thug.

There's most of the movie right there. Unlike Haywire, the bits inbetween the fight scenes weren't soporific. Not to me.

Signed, Still Irritated by a recent Staged Dracula referring to Harker's "dime store cross"...because really, what's a "dime" in Victorian England?

I'm reading Hound of the Baskervilles, and a character just referred to feeling like he was in a "dime novel."

re: Hound--Watson is assumed to have spent a lot of time in America, is he the one who refers to the dime novel?

No, it's one of the folk from Devonshire.

No, it's one of the folk from Devonshire.

Isn't that like the scientist in S2 BBC Sherlock's version of the Hound saying "cell phone" instead of whatever the Britishism is -- "mobile," I guess? That was one of the clues that made Sherlock realize he had spent a not-inconsiderable amount of time in America, where the Scarecrow fear toxin was developed.

t /crossing the streams

Oooh, maybe you're right! I'll have to keep an eye on that guy.

Oh, wait, never mind. It's Sir Henry Baskerville, who specifically says that he's spent most of his life in the States and Canada.

So I wasn't the only one that didn't know about Red 2? Good; I felt like my geek mana was dwindling...

Watched Haywire tonight; wasn't impressed by the script, but the fight scenes were solid, and damn, was it nice to see a female action star with strong shoulders and solid legs.

(Although I remain irritated that despite the yoga and weight loss, my hips are too wide and my short T. Rex arms render it impossible -- so far -- for me to change my handcuffed position from behind the back to in front.

Yeah, I have handcuffs, and yeah, it's a pointless goal of mine. Don't judge.

I think I'll try again now, with the cuffs.)

ETA: HA! Typing with cuffs on! I DID IT! FUCK YEAH!

damn, was it nice to see a female action star with strong shoulders and solid legs.

And shot like an action hero, not a sex object, and who goes through most of the movie in jeans, hoodie, and flat-heeled boots. I loved the escape/chase scene in Dublin. So much.