I'm agreed with Gris and Jilli on LTROI, which I finally saw. The little boy will not be 12 forever, and now he'll be her new caretaker, and probably meet a similar end someday.

But I loved it. I'm glad she was a real, non-sparkly, not particularly sympathetic, vampire. That the characterization of the boy was right on; I completely understood why he identified/sympathized with her. And the way they filmed her crawling up walls and dropping out of trees onto people, all understated and simple, was effing scary.

Alexander Skarsgard joins Battleship. I'm still at the point where I'm surprised there are people in it.

Hmm. I have a sinking feeling I am going to need to see it. (Pun intended)

Toy Story 3 was pretty awesome. I don't think it's better than the second one, but it's almost as good as the first one.

Saw Cyrus last night. It's not a big-laughs type of comedy, more of a tiny slice of fucked-up-in-a-funny-way life. Reminded me of a little scruffy 70s kind of film, in a good way. I really liked the script and acting, although the camera work is enough to drive you NUTS.

Toy Story 3 was pretty awesome. I don't think it's better than the second one, but it's almost as good as the first one.

What's the crying factor like? I ask this as someone reduced to sobbing EVERY TIME by "Jessie's Song".

My BFF and her 7 year old son were bawling, her husband and 9 year old daughter, not so much.

Toy Story 3 was pretty awesome. I don't think it's better than the second one, but it's almost as good as the first one.

This translates to me as "Worst of the three, but worth seeing anyway."

Plotwise, Toy Story 3 is a bit of a tortured mess, but it's easily forgiveable because it so clearly stems from the creators love of the characters and this universe. You can see the writers thinking "Oh, we HAVE to have this scene where the stuff happens with the things!!!!" and then bending the plot so that awesome scene can happen. And that sort of thing happens over and over and over again, and while each individual scene really IS that aweome and completely worth it, the end result is a plot that doesn't, in the end, make a whole lot of sense. But you probably won't realize that until you get out of the theatre and are on your way home. And I still want to see it again.

And then there's the matter of the last scene, which from a critical standpoint is ridiculously overwritten and in dire need of a visit from the editing fairies, but from an audience perspective had me drowning in tears and mumbling "GODDAMNIT PIXAR HOW DO YOU KEEP DOING THIS?" under my breath for the full ten minutes.

[eta: I do have to give them props for the mother of all callbacks. THAT was not tortured at all, it was simply excellent.]

but from an audience perspective had me drowning in tears and mumbling "GODDAMNIT PIXAR HOW DO YOU KEEP DOING THIS?" under my breath for the full ten minutes.

So you're saying that I should bring extra handkerchiefs and be prepared to be sobbing into Clovis' ears?

Wait, you kind of know my reaction to certain things, so I'll ask it this way! In terms of Jilli Will Cry At This, where does it fall in this list? Lilo And Stitch, "Jessie's Song" from Toy Story 2, or the entirety of Big Fish.