That's how you distinguish the timeline.

A movie of It seems pointless, because they'll never be able to cast someone who will top Tim Curry as Pennywise. And if they CAN, I dont want to see that, because my brain will melt in terror.

If I were King (or whoever has final say about the movie), I'd make Curry reprising his role a condition of the film being remade. Every second of film he wasn't in could be safely jettisoned and random chance would probably result in a better version the second time around, but you're not going to find anyone who can equal that rendition of Pennywise aside from Curry himself.

"We all float down here...."

Brrrr

Saw Snow White and the Huntsman, and enjoyed it, although I thought it could have been better. Snow White could have been a stronger character, K Stew could have been a more exciting actress.... Charlize was flawless. Chris Hemsworth update: He can still get it.

"A word to the wise from Pennywise"

All the talk about It made me decide to reread the book.

Now I want to see James Bond embroidering.

In Roger Moore's opening scene in Ffolkes, he was knitting. 'S as close as I can get. Couldn't find a screencap, though.

Oh, BTW, did see The Raven. No anachronisms that set me off. A bit gorier than strictly necessary, but not too-too much so. Well worth the bargain theater price.

Beau and I saw Prometheus and our reaction was considerably less positive than Sean's. Beau disliked it more than I did. I think my reaction is: "it was okay." Beau (who has a phd in Literature) is running around the house exclaiming "where is the plot?"

I am now going into the spoiler arena of the post. I thought the first 30-40 minutes of the movie was really great. Loved the cinematography, the set up (except for how the 2 scientists discussed the mission. Are you going to tell me these folks signed up for a several year mission and didn't have this talk BEFORE hand? WTF. Not credible.)

And then we get to the planet. This is about where the movie starts to falter. Made worse by the latter 30 minutes of the film. I have a real problem with characters being really really stupid and such stupidity advances the plot. Of course that happened here. I don't recall anyone being STUPID in "Aliens." There was an understandable naïvete, but not flat out stupidity. The characters seeing the reptile like creature and APPROACHING it is just out of the realm of "something only an 8-year-old would do." Come ON. And this one guy is the biologist? He should be ashamed of himself.

The last part of the film was just straight up action movie overload. Let's have self-surgery. Let's have explosions. Let's have a mid-air airship crash. Let's have our remaining heroes run away from the crash as it lands on top of them. Let's have the progenitor try to kill our hero again. Then let him be killed.

The end made me fucking groan out loud. Was that really necessary? Really? The aliens (from the earlier flicks) morph into whatever they inhabit. See: cat. Did we really need this one-to-one "oh look. a baby alien." Really?

I know that curiosity is a theme of the film (and an ending relates to this). If I discovered the tomb of a group of people who were out to kill me. I would not give one fuck how they died or to try to find them. Go fuck yourselves and I'm glad you were killed with your own weapons. Fuck you. It's abuse to try to find them and see what we did wrong.

Since they died 2000+ years ago (right?), who knows if they still live? Maybe they fucked up real bad and deployed these weapons around the universe and fucked everything up. They should have killed themselves. Not us.