My review of Cloverfield, after some sushi talk.

I thought it was great, and it didn't disappoint in being a really cool monster/disaster movie told from a hand-held camera's POV.

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

This. Also, I like her truly ridiculous ensembles.

Alan Tudyk was my main reason for watching Firefly.

Whereas for me, I was all "OMGWTFWash!!!!" when I finally watched A Knight's Tale.

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

Heh. And in his entrance, you see his entrance. Um.

(Cap'n Jack Sparrow's entrance in PotC1 is definitely my favourite in the histroy of cinema, but ymmv.)

Funnily enough, I never shipped Heath Ledger's character with the blacksmith chick. I wonder why? It seems so obvious, in hindsight, but I just...didn't. I loved her enormously, but I didn't think she was just the love interest - I thought she was one of the guys.

Now, I did ship Chaucer with Watt. In fact at some point I'm going to have to write the fic in my head, in which Chaucer falls like a tonne of bricks for the knight (oh yes, yes he does, my goodness, in the second nekkid scene it is ALL about the eyefucks) and yet how he ends up with Watt, to both their surprise.

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

This bothers me more than is reasonable, I think because I feel that people who make movies and tv should actually know a little about theatre, since it is related. Or at least more than they can be expected to know about law or medicine. I mean, they don't even have to research. Anyone who has been in a high school or even grammar school play knows that you don't have costumes and sets spring full formed in to being for rehearsals. See also when actors audition in costume. Crazy!

But in terms of gleefully deliberate anachronisms, Marie Antoinette is the winner in my book.

I was about to say this!

Just watched I am Legend.

Really really liked it. And not just for the sheer hotness of Will Smith, although - man. Man. That is some salty goodness right there. Still, shallow and obvious fervour aside, I thought it was a cracking film. Made me jump, made me cry, seemed to me to make the right story-telling choices. It rocked.

from a recent internal email about the rash of vomitings, "It seems all the raves about Cloverfield truly being an experience rather than a movie have held true, whether that’s as positive a review as it might sound remains to be judged."

It made close to $18 million on Friday. It's doing pretty well as a movie experience!

I was worried that the big theater we saw it in* was about 2/3 empty, but the friend I went with told me it's just that people have mostly stopped going to it for fear of all the gangs hanging around.

Gee, thanks for letting me in on that info after picking that particular multiplex to go to!

• Seriously, this one theater occupies the whole top floor of the cinema by itself, and has an Imax-sized screen. The monster was almost life-size!

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.

A coworker at the bookstore gave it a big thumbs up, but also reported vomit sightings (actually, almost stepping-ins) at the theater.

eww!