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[BuddhaRhubarb]

watched "What Just Happened" the other night. It was OK. DeNiro was fine, Hollywood stuff ok... but not great.

5.88888 foppish Brit directors who can't understand happy endings outta 10

Last night watched Clint's "Changeling"  re-fucking-lentless movie. beautifully shot and the 1920', 30's LA was sumptious. Angelina and her lips were good, the bad guys, oh so bad. Very well done flick.

9.00001 streetcars going everywhere in LA easily and conveniently outta 10

[Admiral Yi]

21.  MIT students led by a prof (Kevin Spacey) count cards in Vegas.

SPOILER!

They get caught by security consultant Lawrence Fishburne, who of course beats the shit out of them. 

So my question is what is stopping them from just going to the cops after the beating?  Are these beatdowns a cinematic invention?  Do the casinos have an understanding with the local cops and/or DA?  According to the movie card counters are not breaking any laws.

Love interest is played by the chick from Blue Crush.  Good to see her getting parts.

[vinraith]

Mongol - Exceedingly well done and much better than I expected. I'm really intrigued to see what they do with the planned sequels. I'll probably try to catch them in the theatre this time.

Get Smart - Better (and funnier) than I expected. Oh, and Anne Hathaway is hot as hell.

[Savonarola]

The Right Distance (La Giusta Distanza) (2007)

Italian Film about a budding journalist, an Arab auto mechanic and a free spirited teacher who is substitute teaching in a sleepy village on the Po delta.  It looks like it's going to be a charming romantic comedy with a host of quirky characters; about 3/4ths of the way through the film people start dying and it becomes a murder mystery.  Then the journalist must prove the Arab's innocence in a society which hates and fears Arabs.  It's a little like To Kill a Mockingbird, but lacks a strong central Atticus Finch character making it the film seem unfocused and clumsy.

[The Brain]

My Name Is Bruce

I wasn't drunk enough. But probably wouldn't have helped much.

[Queequeg]

Watchmen.

Conflicted.  Much good, much bad. 

[Queequeg]

Was Manhattan well hung or was it mostly the fact that he can't feel cold?

[Benedict Arnold]

Feeling a tad undersized?

[Queequeg]

Feeling a tad undersized?

Not really, that area is one of the few that I don't have much of an inferiority complex about, just don't understand why they changed it.  I mean, I *guess* he could choose to be any size he wants as he chose to be super ripped (why?), but it just seemed odd as I always kind of thought of him in a classical mold, like the Vitruvian Man, instead we get someone an inch away from being Dirk Diggler. 

[The Nickname Who Was Thursday]

Was I really the only person who managed to watch that movie without staring at the blue wang the whole time? 

[Scipio]

21.  MIT students led by a prof (Kevin Spacey) count cards in Vegas.

SPOILER!

They get caught by security consultant Lawrence Fishburne, who of course beats the shit out of them. 

So my question is what is stopping them from just going to the cops after the beating?  Are these beatdowns a cinematic invention?  Do the casinos have an understanding with the local cops and/or DA?  According to the movie card counters are not breaking any laws.

Love interest is played by the chick from Blue Crush.  Good to see her getting parts.

Conveniently stupid writer syndrome.

[Syt]

My Name Is Bruce

Nice to meet you.

[Syt]

Was Manhattan well hung or was it mostly the fact that he can't feel cold?

I thought his blue blimp fit well with his proportions. I guess something of the size we see on antique statues or in the comic would have seemed like a caricature in our day and age where most people get their mind-images of idealized nudity from porn stars, not classical art.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Was I really the only person who managed to watch that movie without staring at the blue wang the whole time? 

No. I like wangs yet I barely even noticed.

[Siege]

Knowing.

Didn't like it.