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The Comic Book Movie That Actually Did Rather Well Last Week

Also, how can Besson not have a distribution deal for the US yet?

Another Blanc-Sec teaser: [link]

This one's tailor-made for the US since there is no dialogue until the very end.

BTW, I love the tagline on the poster of Adèle and the pterodactyl facing off, which translates literally to "one of these two will lose their feathers" but uses an expression meaning "get burnt" or "lose everything".

Initial reviews of Iron Man 2 are not positive.

So basically some people liked it...others didn't?

Well, you have to look at who liked it and who didn't. I never think of AICN as a real positive review. Iron Man had broader appeal than this seems to.

But, hey, RD-fucking-J. I'm still there. And I'll probably enjoy myself. I'll just laugh and laugh if I end up liking The Losers more.

...and there goes the earworm again...

Ah.

I still need to get around to seeing The Losers.

We saw Hurt Locker last night. It...hurt. At one point I had to curl into a ball and have myself a bit of a cry.

Iron Man had broader appeal than this seems to.

I was afraid of that.

But, hey, RD-fucking-J. I'm still there. And I'll probably enjoy myself.

Yep, me too.

Calling back to a good bit earlier: I haven't seen The Wire, but I can't handle the pacing of Mad Men. And by that I simply mean that every time I watch an episode I say "Huh, that was good." and then I walk away and it's another month or two before I sit down and say "What should I watch? Oh, I guess I can watch another episode of Mad Men."

It's not that it's bad. In fact, I can recognize its excellence. It just completely and utterly fails to inspire me with long-term interest. At least, it's failed to do so in the first 5 episodes, which is all I've watched. I had the exact same thing happen with The Sopranos, Deadwood and, interestingly, Battlestar Galactica. All of those provide plenty of exciting moments, so it can hardly be blamed on a lack of adrenaline rushes - it's something about the narrative style. I like a little less subtlety, I guess.

To somehow connect it to this thread, if Mad Men were a movie, I'd want it to win the Oscar, but I wouldn't buy the DVD.

I just ran the cast of The Losers past a genre geek at work, and nope. He got who Chris Evans and Zoe Saldana were after I cited their resumes, but no initial name recognition there. I am so alone. I didn't even bother pushing the JDM thing.

Hell, I guess the movie's doing pretty well--he only thought he'd heard of it when I complained of my earworm. No print recognition at all.