DH and I watched There Will Be Blood last night, and while it's an incredibly well-made movie, with very strong direction and outstanding performances by all the actors, stunning cinematography and great period detail in the production design...I really wish I hadn't seen it. It was just very upsetting. All I wanted to do when it was over was wake Dylan up so I could hold him in my lap and cry. (Note to parents in thread: I did not actually go and do this. I know better than to wake a sleeping baby.)

I'm very much afraid that I look at the film from the other light Vonnie mentioned, with the added horrifying WTFness that his character seemed to me to be not only her father figure, and psychotic, and cruel, and a terrifying contemptuous finger-breaker, but ferociously and utterly gay (with a vague menacing undertone of "I am gay both because men are magnificent and because women are repulsive and I wish to fuck they'd all crawl away and die," but still the gayest man in Gayonia even without the misogyny).

The "happy" ending literally did not occur to me for one second until it actually happened, and then when it did I was left gibbering slack-jawed at the screen, "You're making out with your physically abusive clinically insane gay uncle and I should be happy for you? I...but...What? How? WHAT?" as the credits rolled.

::regretfully crosses "There Will Be Blood" off her to-be-seen list, like, forever::

Seeing Juno again for the second time in a theater. I can't remember the last time I did that. Or even wanted to.

Last time I did that was Grindhouse. I watched it three times.

Wait, don't you work in a theater? Does that count?

I have to say that I worked in a movie theater for only three horrific months and I was only able to drag myself back there to see one movie. Just couldn't bear to go back to the place I had to be at the rest of the hours of my day.

is character seemed to me to be not only her father figure, and psychotic, and cruel, and a terrifying contemptuous finger-breaker, but ferociously and utterly gay

Hahaha. I must locate a copy of the film to see if I see this now.

I was expecting some grand tragedy of the ending where Mason's character would get what's coming to him but it would be operatically fucked-up in a way I'd find interesting, then the happy-ending made me go, "... the hell?" Still, I love the film for the melodrama, headgames and WTFery. And James Mason, damn his eyes.

He walked the line between a tragic woobie and the creepy sociopath really well. He made a couple of very fine Carol Reed films around that time -- "Odd Man Out" and "The Man Between", where the story of the tragically flawed antihero took a more sense-making path.

Epic fail: Jewel Staite's movie THE TRIBE (which basically looked like a Lost rip off) has been renamed THE LOST TRIBE, with Jewel recast. The producer gives a somewhat amusing and major league wankage interview about it: [link]

Although reading the interview I'd say the producer has no idea what the fuck he's doing.

Yes I work in a theatre so I get to see movies for free so it kinda doesn't count.