It almost makes me sad that Darren Aronofsky couldn't have made both The Fountain and Watchmen.

Oh not me. I thought Snyder's Watchmen went quite far enough with the brutal and visceral aspects of the comic. I shudder to think where Aronofsky might have gone.

I haven't seen all of Aronofsky's work, but when I read the trivia that he backed out in order to do The Fountain, it kind of clicked that that movie also did some head-tripping past (albeit fictional), present, as well as future (emotional speculation) inter-cutting, with lyrical imagery and motifs. Also, naked men and the lotus position.

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I watched Millions yesterday, and I think I have moved from simply admiring and respecting Danny Boyle to loving him and wanting to see whatever he does. Such a nice little movie.

from simply admiring and respecting Danny Boyle to loving him and wanting to see whatever he does

Which rumor says is the next Bond film.

Nope. Would've been neat, though. I still haven't watched QoS.

In sad news, I've just heard that they're going to take Natasha Richardson off of life support this evening.

Where did you hear that, Corwood? There have been all sorts of conflicting reports about her status. It's really sad, regardless.

Ron Silver died on Sunday.

Yeah, I'm still reading conflicting reports about Natasha Richardson. I hope the better sounding ones are the true ones, but it's very hard to say at this point. It's sad either way.

Yeah--it's not like the better-sounding reports are good. Just less bad. All sad.

Can't cut & paste on the phone yet, but I heard it from a movie geek at another forum, then read it on the google news.