I just saw Edward Scissorhands for the first time (I know, I know). I loved it.

But I can't really complain about the ridiculousness of having Lautner unnecessarily shirtless throughout the movie.

IIRC he's unnecessarily shirtless through much of the book as well.

Finally got around to Men Who Stare At Goats last night - what a giant steaming pile of horseshit.

I tried my best to separate it from the book, but turning the journalist into a believer at the end? WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK, MOVIE???!?!!!! I can't believe Jon Ronson is being so polite about this film in interviews. It's just so fucking insulting.

My in-laws who hadn't read any of Ronson's stuff were also not impressed, but they weren't actively angry at it like I was.

[edit: Jon Ronson, not Ron Jonson.]

From Yahoo News: Top 10 movie flops of the decade

Some I'd forgotten about, and some I've never heard of. There was a 2007 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers?

here's a question: how many of those top 10 movies have y'all seen?

My number: 0

I saw part of Battlefield Earth on cable, but it doesn't count, as it was an accident.

So my number is 0 as well (although I did want to see Grindhouse - maybe I still will).

I enjoyed Grindhouse. Never saw any of the rest. Actually I've seen bits of Catwoman. It was that bad.

Has anyone seen "The Cove?" It is about the politics (and history) of dolphin slaughter.

I'm watching it now and it isn't graphic at all (so far) and I'm about 20-30 minutes and I am horrified - only by the statistics presented by the people on screen. What a crime this is. I just can't get over it.

I liked Grindhouse too.

So, I'm caught up with the filmed version of the Twilight series although I have yet to read the books.

Watched Twilight on bluray Thursday night: yeah, it didn't get me. I wasn't that taken with either Bella or Edward and I found both the bad vampire makeup and the weird color/lighting v. distracting. I mean, was it necessary for the whites of Bella's eyes and her teeth to appear blue/green? Shouldn't there have been more contrast between her normal living friends and the vampires? I also felt like the move from attraction to being desperately in love wasn't shown very well. But I liked Charlie and was interested in Carlisle's back story. The special effects kind of sucked too - the sparkliness was particularly bad and I thought that there was pacing or possibly blocking issues that made the whole film seem very static. Edward in particular seemed more like a series of photo stills than you know, a moving, undead creature.

On New Moon Loved Jacob and the werewolves, still don't get the Edward attraction. I'm told that when Bella went into her depression that in the book you know that her family tried all sorts of things to get her out of the funk but the movie (for some reason) chose to not show that. Liked the little glimpse of Carlisle's backstory we saw - want more. Thought that the Italian law vamps were fun, enjoyed Edward's sister. I think that the makeup and special effects were much, much better. It does seem very weird to me that Carlisle and family would go along with something that would break their centuries - possibly millenia old treaty with the Native American people in the area. I guess everything really is about Bella and Edward.

We saw an afternoon show on Friday and my 40-something friends and myself were the youngest people in the theatre. Hilarious.