Mildly amusing XMen gag reel: [link]

The other thing I realized about This Is Where I Leave You is the "seeing yourself on screen" thing -- it was a movie about 40-something white people with money whose lives are basically great, but they still have problems. (I see where the critics are coming from, but didn't really care.)

So the other day I tried to watch Bram Stoker's Dracula. I saw it when it came out and I liked it but was kind of annoyed by it as well.

Watching it again, I just could not get through it--I found it profoundly irritating. It seems my tolerance for Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder is lower than it was in 1992. And the way the sky in Transylvania was always so red got on my nerves. Finally, seeing Reeves hanging out with Oldman's Dracula in his castle while Drac cast weird shadows on the walls kept reminding me of the Simpson's parody. So I had to stop watching.

I'm not sure if my tastes have changed or if I just wasn't in the right mood....

seeing Reeves hanging out with Oldman's Dracula in his castle while Drac cast weird shadows on the walls kept reminding me of the Simpson's parody.

The Simpsons have retroactively ruined (or at least cast a new slant on) many, many movies. I kind of love that.

Conversation at work turned to movies, me correctly identifying Paul Bettany in Wimbledon even though I'd never seen it, which turned into a rec to watch it because if I thought he was cute, I should watch this flick. OMG, I'm 40 minutes in and even that has been a trial. Give me Dean/Cas AU tennis slash fic instead, please.

Also watched Bronson, as part of my Tom Hardy kick. He was fucking brilliant in it. TH really disappears into his characters, and not just with his body transformations (I still can't believe that he was the kid in Saving Private Ryan).

But I don't think I got out of it what the director wanted me to. There was an interview where he kept talking about a transformation, an autobiography, homosexuality. But in the end, all I saw was ignorant misery.

I'm not sure if my tastes have changed or if I just wasn't in the right mood....

My tolerance for Keanu Reeves has always been and will always be very high, and yet Dracula is one of three movies where I've seriously considered walking out of the theater because it was so bad.

and yet Dracula is one of three movies where I've seriously considered walking out of the theater because it was so bad.

Those are fightin' words.

Okay, no, they're not. I know the Coppola Dracula is a trainwreck. But it's a super-pretty trainwreck!

My tolerance for Keanu Reeves has always been and will always be very high

In this we are opposites. I have very little Keanu tolerance.

Those are fightin' words.

I wanted to like it, really I did.

Seekrit message to SuziQ: I'm ignoring you.

As are Jess and Juliana I'm sure.

I think the answer is clear: there need to be a TON of vids: using the pretty, and saving us from the rest of it. Sadly, that skillset is still on my "to be developed" list.