Holy shit, Wreck-It Ralph is fantastic, everyone go see it. I could write things, but Tasha Robinson basically says everything I want to say.

What PC said. The story was well crafted, with plot twists that managed to take me by surprise but hat were fairly played.

Also, there's one scene in the film that delighted me, especially as it passed unremarked within the film itself: the one time we really get to see the human game-players, the gamer who is playing the Halo-esque FPS game is a girl, while the two kids bogarting the Strawberry Shortcake-like racer game with he female avatars are boys.

Saw Argo yesterday. I liked it quite a bit. No doubt it was excruciating in real life, but there came a point in the escalation of the climax where I was willing to fake an orgasm to get our of there.

I wondered what it would look like politically, but it didn't make me annoyed. The US did a bad thing, the Iranian people were taking revenge on innocents.

I was impressed by the credits and the likenesses--until it came to Antonio Mendez, to whom Affleck bore not the slightest resemblance, and wasn't even trying. Oh, and the guy played by Tate Donovan got a bit of an upgrade.

Also, there's one scene in the film that delighted me, especially as it passed unremarked within the film itself

YEP.

Charlie Kaufman raises $400,000 through Kickstarter to make a stop motion animated movie with Dan Harmon.

I saw "The Double Hour" last night on Netflix. It is a weird movie and I did not wholly know what to expect. It is Italian and Beau described it as a movie about loss, which I suppose is true but the movie (it seems to me) is more about a character study. It sets an emotional mood really well.

Without spoilers, let me say that the movie starts out (what I thought) would be a movie about romance, but that isn't precisely what the movie is about after all. There are about 2 major twists that were effective at keeping me a bit off balance and wondering what is going to happen next.

The plot isn't really so important as the effectiveness of the director in drawing a character and setting a mood, IMO. For those reasons I liked the movie.

I can't count the number of times someone told me that I need to see the movie Buck. I hesitated...no, resisted...because I generally avoid stories about people who had a childhood similar to mine.

My general, cynical response is, "I lived it. I'm not entertained by it."

Today, I discovered that all the well-meaning people who strongly urged me to see Buck were absolutely right. It was made for me to see.

So, I further the recommendation. It's a beautifully made piece about a truly valuable human.

Saw Cloud Atlas on Thursday and mostly I was taken by how bad the freaking makeup is!! Did they do that deliberately? I really wish they had just not used prosthetics at all.

Overall, I was not that impressed. I love the book and I can see how the Wachowskis probably also loved the book and wanted to share their love by making the film. But they really made it sappy and took out so much of the beautiful subtle messages of the book. I know they had to cut plot points and characters for the sake of fitting the story into a movie-length work but, in doing so, they made it so much more simplistic than the book. I'm hoping it gets more people to read the book at least.

Having grown up with horses, but not abusive childhood, despite some problems, I am interested in that movies, bonny! I'd not heard of it.

My friend really wants me to go with her to see Cloud Atlas, but the trailer just doesn't catch me, and I've not read the book.

man, I really need to get to reading that book! thanks lisah.