Will the subtitles float in the air?

There are actually already a number of subtitles--elves dwarfs, each using their own.

No floating.

But floaty subtitles would have rocked.

We saw Hobbit again last night, and, while the audience sees the Ring fall out of Gollum's...pocket(?), Bilbo can't see the ground from his hiding place. He doesn't go straight over there when he gets out, so I think it's a fair read that he does happen upon it and may not be sure that it came from Gollum until "What does it have in its pocket?"

So I finally saw Lincoln. That was a good movie with a killer cast (Hal Holbrook! I had no idea he was still alive), and surprisingly funny in spots. And not nearly as leadenly manipulative as I expected from Spielberg, except for the very end.

Plus, Tony Kushner in less than 3 hours, which must be some kind of record.

Apparently, the script for Lincoln they ended up using was essentially the first quarter of the original treatment he turned in.

I thought it was a phenomenal movie. As was Silver Linings Playbook. An interesting one-two punch, too!

Just saw Hobbit. Yeah, lots of extra stuff, but what was there was interesting. Andy Serkis is amazing.

Apparently, the script for Lincoln they ended up using was essentially the first quarter of the original treatment he turned in.

Given my previous experience with Tony Kushner, that doesn't surprise me at all.

I love Tony Kushner, and yet I've never seen anything of his that I haven't fallen asleep for part of it. Except the Angels In America film, which was sensibly broken up into non-marathon-length chunks. I've utterly adored every word of his I've been conscious for, and if all his stuff were produced over a 4-5 week stretch with a good night's sleep after each installment I'd want everything he ever wrote on constant repeat, but damn I cannot sit through a full-length production of anything of his without nodding off from sheer surfeit of rich language and ideas. About 3 hours in my brain just collapses, OD'd on intellect, and I have to sleep it off before I take another hit.

ICompletelyON, an interesting list of 2013 movies to look out for -- some of them sound like things to look out for in order to strenuously avoid them, but some sound rather nifty. Apparently another Buffy bit player is branching out into screenwriting, and there's something coming out at the end of the summer costarring Emma Thompson as P.L. Travers, so that's pretty awesome. And Joss is doing something with Shakespeare. I dunno. I didn't pay much attention.

Does anyone really want to see Die Hard until You Can't Die No More?

I saw Les Miserables today, and I have lots of opinions:

That scene is pretty raw. Probably not the best for the trailer, but it works in context. Anne Hathaway was pretty convincing. The only true weak link singing-wise was Amanda Seyfried, but older Cosette never really impressed me in the shows either.

It did sound better in the film that the earlier versions I heard. I still think they should have dyed Anne Hathaway's hair blonde for the role. The part where she sells her hair makes more sense if she is blonde for the time period, doesn't it?

The only true weak link singing-wise was Amanda Seyfried

I have to disagree with this - I actually thought she was terrific, and that the major HUGE vocal misstep was Russell Crowe as Javert. He literally could not hit any of Javert's low notes and resorted to speaking most of those lines. So disappointing.

I agree with Jessica on this one. Crowe was awful. He can obviously sing, but he was majorly miscast voice-wise for Javert. Seyfried's voice was as good as I remember the character being, but as was also said upthread, adult Cosette is just not very interesting.

I didn't really like Eddie Redmayne. Again, I don't find Marius very interesting in general, but "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" usually makes me cry. Yet, it was one of the few times I didn't cry in the whole movie.

All the kids were wonderful! But I'm sad that they cut Little People They had the reprise of it right before Gavroche died, but not the longer version, which I love.

Adult Eponine was just perfectly Eponine. I adored her. The first note she sang on both of her songs brought immediate tears to my eyes.

I will say, in general, that this film suffers from the usual modern movie musical problem of the ensemble and supporting characters (made up of Broadway and/or opera singers) being much MUCH better than the main cast (made up of movie stars). Colm Wilkinson and Hugh Jackman singing together doesn't do Hugh Jackman any favors.

I definitely agree with this. I enjoyed most of Jackman's performance, but when he is acting with Wilkinson, you could see the difference in singing talent. Still I loved that Wilkinson was in it. However, when Val Jean is singing to Cosette that she'll know the truth when she dies and see's God (I can't remember the exact line), I cringed. The line sounded so off from how I am used to hearing it.

Mostly I loved the movie version, and I cried a lot.