Does it have Helen Mirren snarking and wielding silver knives? 'Cause I'd watch that no matter how late it was.

No, although the Grandmother actress is quite good and kind of reminiscent of her. Really, all the major actors in the movie are pretty good except for the one playing Felicia Day's younger brother (his postmortem dummy was more talented and expressive than he). It has some gorgeous locations, but the director and/or cinematographer couldn't film an exciting action sequence to save their lives, and the budget limitations really have an effect in that it's very claustrophobic and the werewolf effects might as well be kindergarteners acting out the scenes with felt puppets.

I'd love to have the chance to remake it with a $5 million budget so we could get the sense of these characters in context of a larger world and hire someone capable of good practical werewolf effects.

Chaila, who is an awesome vidder, got ahold of a copy of Pacific Rim, and made this: [link]

It's pretty awesome. If you like Mako and Stacker, anyway.

Who...who doesn't?

Saw Pacific Rim. Fun, and I unexpectedly teared up about five times, some really good emotional beats throughout. One of them was quite random as it reminded me of my grandfather's funeral when we let his ashes go from the bay house in the south shore of Long Island (when the asian peeps were holding hands witnessing the destruction near the beginning of the film).

Even if the movie had sucked, I'd be grateful for the amazing amount of fusion fic it has inspired, at least from what I've seen in SPN and Avenger fandoms.

I spent today in Memphis watching indie films. The Girl Most Likely is sad but pretty good, occasionally funny, and Darren Criss is hot like the sun in it. really, just getting me to enjoy Kristen Wiig after having what I thought was my lifetime fill of her on SNL a year ago was a victory.

I don't know exactly how to describe The Way Way Back, but it's easily the best quality movie I've seen at the theater since The Artist right around last year's Academy Awards, and immensely enjoyable/emotionally satisfying to boot. I've been really entertained by all the summer action movies this year, but it's nice to see some smaller films that make me feel good about the artistry as well as the showmanship.

I was just going to come in and post about The Way Way Back! I loved it. A very well done film, with lots of wonderfully true moments. Excellent performances, too.

For anyone who's going to wait and watch it at home, I feel I should note that it took me a while to warm up to it, and then I also loved it.

And while I haven't seen it yet, it was co-written and -directed by Dean Pelton (aka Jim Rash), for those who didn't know.

He plays a supporting character in it, actually, as does Nat Faxon.