the blandness of Jason Isaac

These words do not make sense together. Asshat indeed.

I do think Hoffman (and Hoskins) WERE the best thing about Hook, but that's faint praise indeed.

new iron man 2 trailer so cool!!!!!!!

I am so totally psyched for this, it's unreal. Despite it having ScarJo and Gwyneth.

You know, I regret seeing the IM trailer. I'm gonna see the movie anyway, right? So if you can hold off, I say do it. Because it looks like it gives away the entire plot. (HOWEVER look for my friend the extra, who plays a Monaco police!)

bon bon, that was one of my biggest beefs with the format of the Oscars last night. In the past, they'd play one key scene from each Best Picture nominee; last night they basically played an extended trailer for each, and showed EVERY highlight. So I guess people really don't need to go pay and see those movies now. I started muting and turning away so that the movies I still want to see weren't completely ruined.

There's a bad guy! There's an ally! There's a mysterious character!

Now we know which one is which.

Admittedly, I know what I'm looking for from Iron Man 2, and the trailer teased me just right. I need more RDJ and Cheadle, stat. Blow. Shit. Up.

I had to tell DH to stop saying "Hey, they're showing the last scene!" during the Best Pic montages, because if he hadn't said anything I probably wouldn't have known they were giving away all the endings. (And out of context, most of them still don't give away much, but still! Don't these people want to sell DVDs??)

I know what I'm looking for from Iron Man 2, and the trailer teased me just right.

Yup. This is me.

I need more RDJ and Cheadle, stat.

Oh HELL yes.

Blow. Shit. Up.

Oh hell YES.

OMGNEWIRONMAN2TRAILERSOCOOOOOOL!!!!!

I KNOW!!!

You know, I regret seeing the IM trailer. I'm gonna see the movie anyway, right? So if you can hold off, I say do it. Because it looks like it gives away the entire plot. (HOWEVER look for my friend the extra, who plays a Monaco police!)

Yeah, it did seem to give away more than previous trailers, and although I kind of wished I didn't know, it has also made me more excited!

I had to tell DH to stop saying "Hey, they're showing the last scene!" during the Best Pic montages, because if he hadn't said anything I probably wouldn't have known they were giving away all the endings.

SERIOUSLY. What the fuck.

One of my favorite movie blogs reviews Superbatman v. Mazinger V (1990, South Korea)

I know that Super Batman & Mazinger V is just one of many patchwork, copyright-flaunting children's films made in South Korea during the 80s and early 90s, but there is something about its combination of lazily disguised knock-offs of both American and Japanese nerdy pop cultural icons that seems so specifically designed to lure me in that I wouldn't be surprised if it was part of some kind of trash cinema based sting operation with me as its target. And watching the film did nothing to allay this paranoid mindset on my part. I just couldn't shake the feeling that the film was somehow speaking to me directly.

Super Batman & Mazinger V briefly approaches the level of sublimity promised by its title at about the one hour mark, when its hero flies through an opening in the Earth into a subterranean hell world. Here Super Batman undergoes an ordeal of near mythical proportions, which, in its presentation, is a triumph of limited animation combined with cut-outs from still photographs. (It looks a lot like a filmed version of one of those old Santo photo-comics.) First he's attacked by cartoon bats, and then has his head vomited on by a giant cartoon spider, after which he is threatened by a giant cartoon snake before having to fight some cartoon skeletons and some hooded vampires that he vanquishes using a cross and a laser beam that shoots out of his mouth. Throughout all of this, Super Batman is screaming in pain and terror, which, as you might imagine, is more than a little unsettling.

In honor of Akira Kurosawa's 100th birthday, TCM is running Kurosawa films every Tuesday this month.

Tonight: Ikiru, Throne of Blood, The Hidden Fortress, Hakuchi (unavailable on DVD, I think), and The Lower Depths.

The 16th: The Bad Sleep Well, High And Low, Red Beard, and I Live In Fear.

The 23rd (which is actually Kurosawa's birthday): Sanshiro Sugata, The Most Beautiful (not on DVD), The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (not on DVD), Sanshiro Sugata II, Regrets For Our Youth, One Wonderful Sunday (not on DVD), Drunken Angel, Stray Dog, Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Dodes 'Ka-Den

The 30th: Dersu Uzala, Kagemusha, Ran