100% my reaction, up to and including the Bettany love.

Thirded.

I'm from Roswell, and I work in embassies. There's a lot of movie stuff that's just silly, especially regarding what embassies are like. Bourne Identity did a good job with the consular officer ("This isn't a menu, miss") but was otherwise silly...although we all laughed when Bourne took out the RSO.

There's a lot of Roswell stuff that's silly too, but that's an improvement.

It always bugs in theater movies when they show actors reheasing in full costume on a finished set.

when they show actors rehearsing in full costume on a finished set.

ZOMG, yes. Actually, Shakespeare In Love is a pretty good depiction of the process (it was pre-director era, but still). I choose to believe that there are still occasionally grandly silly-yet-serious actor fights like that somewhere. (Not that we don't have such things, but it mostly consists of sniping at each other behind each other's backs. A full-on melee would be much more civilised.)

Plei keeps trying to get me to watch it. I have so far resisted.

I'll bring it over next time I see you. Or IO it, but IO takes forever from the bowels of my part of campus.

Did I mention there is dancing to Bowie??? Did I? Cause there IS.

Oh, and you can judge the demon/Satan chick from Devour's acting ability in something that doesn't suck! Sadly, as pretty as she is, and she is pretty, Devour was pretty representative of her skills.

On a note related to my earlier post on Juno, which is two fatfingers away from Jump if you're touch typing with a headache like I am, I'd just like to point out something I think got lost in the shuffle of Stuff Movies Get Wrong, I think there's a HUGE difference between handwaving factual accuracy and reinforcing commonly held potentially damaging/harmful ideas, and it's the latter that has the Juno critics twitchy.

I think there's a HUGE difference between handwaving factual accuracy and reinforcing commonly held potentially damaging/harmful ideas, and it's the latter that has the Juno critics twitchy.

Well, yes, but often how movies present history and what they get wrong (wars, patriotism, etc.) is just harmful, if not more so, in the the long run. For one thing, it's far more pervasive.

The Knight's Tale haughty bitch is on Moonlight, too.

And I'm in total agreement with the "Nooooo! You go with the smith chick. She's an actual person. And can fix your armor!" and the Bettany love. And the Alan Tudyk love. The out-of-era music makes the DH grind his teeth, but I love it. How not? It's Bowie! And Queen!

She's srsly stunning. Shame about the acting skills. In my world, blacksmith chick found a nice woman and settled down.

I love Knight's Tale so much I can forgive the ingenue for her lack of depth.

Alan Tudyk was my main reason for watching Firefly.

But Paul Bettany's entrance is my all time favorite in the history of cinema.

Well now I'm glad we're not showing Cloverfield. So far other theatres have had several complaints of nausea and I just got my first report of an actual puking.

Finally saw Sunshine, and while it was pretty and had a great cast and a wonderful score (damn, was that hard to find, but I finally succeeded thanks to *ahem*) it fell kinda flat for me.

It wasn't so much that I would change anything, but that it had left out a lot of storytelling and it needed more added to it.

What little meaning I could glean from it I got from commentaries and interviews, which to me is a sign of failure (which is how I felt about the LotR trilogy). If you can't say what you mean to say within the given medium, you haven't successfully told your story.

I didn't mind the sudden shift in tone towards the end, but the lack of any foreshadowing of where the movie would go. Or maybe I was expecting too much... but, no, because from what the director and writer said, there was supposed to be more, but I didn't get that from watching it. Not at all.

Still, pretty.