2) Okay, I'm a dolt. It has taken me nearly a year to figure out that Bones is Eomer. He does such a good job!

3) (related to 2)) Bones and Scotty? My favorite characters.

The casting for Bones and Scotty were the reason I was so excited to see this film in the first place. I'm such a Karl Urban fangirl that I was all over the idea of him playing McCoy, and Pegg is such an SF fanboy that him playing Scotty was a perfect choice.

They, for the most part, obeyed my one rule of possible plot holes: Ask the question. Give me a line of dialogue. Acknowledge you thought of it, even if your answer is "I dunno."

One of my favorite examples of this was back on classic Dr. Who, during a Pertwee ep, when someone asked the Doctor about some time-travel conundrum issue. He is just about to answer when he's interrupted by the monster of the week. At least they got the question out there, even though the answer was never given.

Isn't that call "hanging a lantern on it"?

Pointing out a plot incongruity within the plot?

Not a lantern--a lampshade.

quick poll: what's the scariest ghost movie you ever saw?

The Frighteners!

I kid, although...

The Others, maybe? I'm ruling out anything that was gory and gross and disturbing.

yeah The Others definitely wigged me out. I can't decide if it was scarier than The 6th Sense because I never saw the latter on the big screen.

I always liked Lady in White. It wasn't overly scary, but Lukas Haas did a good job portraying terror, and the scene with the little girl ghost reliving her assault and death was horrific in its own way.

Ooh I've never ssen that. I'll put it on the list.

The Lady in White is very good.

I vote for the original version of The Haunting, though.

I never saw that one either. Cool! Online polls keep putting The Shining at #1 but I didn't think it was that scary, especially compared to the book.

We just watched the director's cut of 1408. I'd only seen the last 45 minutes of the theatrical release and remembered it as being quite scary but I think it wasn't that great on rewatch and I really disliked what turns out to be the original ending.

So now we're trying to really frighten ourselves.