and I was extremely disappointed by Skyfall.

How come? I thought it did a great job linking Craig-era Bond back into the Connery-Bond mythos.

I agree with Gris. I was disappointed (though perhaps not *extremely*) with Skyfall. I don't know if Gris agrees, but my main complaint was the plot. It was just ghastly.

I rented The Raven over the weekend on an impulse, couldn't finish it because it was so boring and badly lit and full of scenery chewing that was still boring.

Forced myself to finish today, since I'd paid money for it.

What an excellent premise squandered.

A part of me feels that if I'd been more intimately familiar with Poe's work, I'd have gotten more out of it. But then, if I'd been more familiar, and a fan of, said work, I'd be offended.

Juliebird!

I started watching it too and had to stop. At what point did you stop? I stopped at a particularly gruesome scene involving a swinging rounded axe. I was so out after that.

len, I stopped at so many points, but the pendulum scene I had my eyes covered. That was not the movie that I signed up for, and wasn't even a good barometer for the rest of the movie (which was pretty tame after that). But, I think I got through that (behind my fingers, and that shit went on for way too long) but bailed on the lovey-dovey scene shortly afterwards.

The dialogue was atrocious, every scene was too long, for the first time ever, I cared not a wit for Brendan Gleeson (so wrong!) and what I thought would be some decent eye candy (Luke Evans) was also woefully overwrought in his acting. And I am officially done, it seems, with John Cusack.

Surprisingly, I dug the damsel in distress. When the director wasn't making her do silly stuff like scream unrelentingly, she was quiet and competent for the most part.

But, I only finished it because I might as well know how it ends for my three bucks.

I thought it did a great job linking Craig-era Bond back into the Connery-Bond mythos.

I didn't want it linked. Craig-bond alone was significantly more interesting to me than Craig-bond linked.

I mean, Skyfall was a much better movie than QoS. I was disappointed because the scuttlebutt was that it was as good as Casino Royale, and though I suppose it was in some ways I mostly thought it was silly to the point of banality. Like the old Bond movies. Which, as mentioned, I didn't like.

I thought The Raven was entertaining shlock, but I watched it with sub-zero expectations.

I think it got better as it went on because I'd started drinking. But it took itself too seriously and had too much scenery chewing to be the fun kind of bad for me. I'll take Sleepy Hollow and Snow White and the Huntsman over this.

ION, watched Due Date because of the need for brain deadness, and watching RDJ sucker punch a kid and spit on a dog was worth the price of admission. I almost choked on the latter scene. But the former might still be my favourite, even if I feel morally wrong about that.

OK, so you weren't watching the Vincent Price-Boris Karloff "The Raven" and hating it. I am much relieved.

(hahahahaha)

Uh no.