As long as it's a recipe ingredient, it won't really be hard to find. That's not a good reason to replace it in a movie.

After I posted my answer, I googled the question, just in case, and well--there's that now too.

Watched Rush. It's well done, and I could not love Niki Lauda more. I don't care who's on most of the posters, or who's supposed to look like a rat, Niki is my hero. The other guy was hot, but let's focus here.

I couldn't work out if I was spoilt (by history!) by knowing who Niki Lauda is, and knowing he had facial burns, and knowing nothing about Hunt based on my time in the UK in the 80s--and I know jack shit about racing. Wondering if that meant anything didn't hurt the movie in the least--maybe it made it tenser, but at the very least it made it tenser in the right places.

I wish they hadn't pushed it so much as the Hunt story in marketing, but the movie is pretty clear that it's a story of a rivalry. And, enh. Market that full body naked Hemsworth shot.

Catching Fire November 22nd! Entered in calendar!

Market that full body naked Hemsworth shot.

My lack of plans for tomorrow afternoon has been rectified.

It's from behind, but that's just context, not a mark against (GOOD LORD).

Crap, when am I going to see this movie?? Maybe I can talk my cousin into it for next weekend. Or just go in the morning...

ZOMG GRAVITY. SO good, you guys. SO SO GOOD.

For people worried about the 3D in space effects, don't be. The camerawork is gorgeous, no shaky-cam. (I get terribly motion sick in planes, so I was worried.)

The whole movie is just indescribably beautiful. See it in IMAX, in a theater with Atmos sound if possible. (The score is a wee bit overbearing, but the sound design is phenomenally detailed, and the surround speakers are very well used.)

A review put me off it, what with the "you'll feel like you're there!" and when it came to something that looks to me like a slow death in space, or burning up in the atmosphere, it sent me running for the hills shouting "hells no!".

thank you Jessica. I can't wait to see this movie.

Jess, can you allay my worry that it's it's going to be like that movie with the couple stranded in the ocean?

Ditto ita !'s worry. Not that I saw that movie, but it struck the same fear and worry that I'd be hyperventilating with fear the entire time. With a cast of two, there aren't any redshirts to throw under the bus unless the story is telling of their final moments, which is automatically not a story that I want to see. I don't even want to see two hours of one or two characters winning a fight to live filled with fraught tension and desperation and horrific acts of self-preservation that equal self-mutilation or something.

And I know that caveat might mean spoiling the story, or giving away the entire point of the story, but I will never, EVER, watch it otherwise.

Jess, can you allay my worry that it's it's going to be like that movie with the couple stranded in the ocean?

Open Water in Spaaaaaaaaaace !