If I may, please come and enjoy this little tour through my mind:

I cannot imagine any movie made from "Pride & Prejudice" to turn out that badly - even directed by Michael Bay.

::squick:: Not Michael Bay, please.

What if "Pride & Prejudice" were directed by Tim Burton? Hmm ::thinks a bit more:: No wait, he should really direct "Pride & Prejudice & Zombies."

Tim Burton denies the Addams Family report.

That doesn't necessarily make me feel better with these in the potential works:

And in the stop-motion realm, there's the remake of his 1984 short film "Frankenweenie." Burton is also rumored for a villain-focused telling of the "Sleeping Beauty" villain in "Maleficent" and he's attached, along with "Wanted" director Timur Bekmambetov, to produce an adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith's excellent new novel, "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter."

The first one makes me go "WHY, TIM, WHY?"

The third makes me go meh. The second - potential, but you know...

he's attached, along with "Wanted" director Timur Bekmambetov, to produce an adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith's excellent new novel, "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

I wonder if their two styles will cancel each other out or converge and amplify one another into something more over-the-top than a Baz Luhrmann movie...

Looks like Marvel made the offer to Chris Evans. Now he just has to embrace his fate.

Thank goodness. It will be weird trying to separate him from Johnny Storm in my mind, but he's the only candidate I've seen mentioned for consideration who both fits the role and can act.

Watched The Crazies. Not all bad. In the end I was getting rather strong 28 Days Later vibes, and Radha Mitchell screamed way too much and was mostly useless. No Selena, not even a Hannah. Actually, throughout were overtones of 28DL, which may not be fair from what I hear of the original The Crazies, and it dealt with the human/political element a skosh more.

Some nice suspense, a bit of gore, but not in a horror-porn way I don't think.

Other thoughts:

1) I keep wanting to spell Crazies with an x

2) the end wasn't as awesome as that in Slither, and not as funny as that of 28 Weeks Later

Thank goodness. It will be weird trying to separate him from Johnny Storm in my mind, but he's the only candidate I've seen mentioned for consideration who both fits the role and can act.

On a casting older note, Alex Ross said it should be Jon Hamm, but I guess it wouldn't work for an origin story.

We watched Moon, which I liked, and Motherhood, which basically felt like I was living two hours of my self-entitled, modern existence. If I wasn a Mahattan mother, I'd want Uma's head on a platter.

Yesterday, I saw The General at the Paramount with Christoph Bull playing an original organ score during the movie. I don't really remember much from the score when I saw it on AMC, but it's kind of neat to see the same movie with different music. It's still great, and I still think it's the very first action-comedy.

We also watched The Hurt Locker, which was good and intense and sometimes interesting, even though I didn't really like the main character. I'm not sure you were really supposed to, though. That being said, he was the main character, so I assumed we would actually learn something about him and why the hell he acted the way he did. And we didn't. It was all right there in the epigraph. Which was disappointing. I really liked Sanborn, though, and I hope that actor gets some good work. I loved the scene where he was crying about wanting a son because it occurred to me that we almost never see that scene. It's always the WOMAN who wants a baby.

So I thought it was good, but after all the hype, I expected more. But that tends to happen when I see the movies everyone is all OMG IT'S SO AMAZING about.