Scrappy, I enjoyed "The Bank Job" also. Beau and I had a good time at the movie. It was actually better than we were expecting.

I saw The Bank Job last night. I liked it--not just a caper movie, It is set int he 70s and is about the reasons for the bank job and how those reasons drive what happens afterwards which makes for a very cool ride. Plus Jason Statham gives a nicely nuanced performance and is just plain HAWT.

I saw it yesterday too. I vaguely remember the actual story from the 70s...must google for verification.

I love me some Jason in anything he's in. And, the supporting cast was fun. I'd have to say I enjoyed Lock, Stock and Snatch more, but this one was good too.

Points for most creative use of a sand blaster...ew...that must have been part of the real story because I've never seen THAT before .

He did seem to think that "sleepwalking" was the acting choice to make in that movie, didn't he?

Not that the writing was helping him out any, but yeah. I was really hoping she'd wind up single, since her two choices of love interest were the fun guy she couldn't end up with and the stick-in-the-mud she was for some reason supposed to be falling for.

I'm also not entirely down with the "Disney prinesses make better role models than Marie Curie" message overall, but that's a whole nother issue.

bonny -

to save you googling, there seem to be some big differences between the actual outcome of the heist (for the burglars) and what happened in the movie. whitefont:

those robbers who were caught served prison time, the authorities never did recover most of the $$

Thanks le n. I thought I remembered that bit...plus the object the gov't wanted to get back. Scanal!

I finally got around to watching Pan's Labyrinth. I've had it since February 25th, but I was pretty rabid on catching up with Torchwood, so I put it off. I also put it off because I knew it was going to be sad as hell and I wasn't sure if I could deal with it. I did, but, wow, was that sad. Such a contrast between Ofelia, who couldn't be obedient to authority and sacrifice the life of an innocent and the Capitain, who could not only sacrifice an innocent, but sacrifice his own humanity to do it within the rigid bounds of the party line. I like to think that Ofelia's soul returned to her rightful kingdom, but she's still dead, poor wee thing. Guillermo del Toro is a fricking genius.

I'm amused by Yahoo's use of "raunchy" in the headline.

Heh. Well, I'm glad! Because the red-band trailer for Forgetting Sarah Marshall is MUCH funnier than the green-band trailer.

I recall in my cinephile infancy being excited about the possibility of a red band trailer every time I saw an R rated film but now that I've seen the interior of a projection booth I understand the concern regarding someone putting the wrong trailer on a print. Kudos to Edwards for taking that risk (and with digital projection it's far less risky) but now any time I want to see a red band trailer I only have to go on line.

have to share the cuteness from the imdb trivia page on The Importance of Being Earnest.

"While Reese Witherspoon was learning her English accent for this movie, her husband, Ryan Phillippe was learning a Scottish accent for his role in Gosford Park (2001). And the person who picked it up fastest was... their daughter Ava."

The movie was a decent adaptation but nothing special. Colin Firth was great but Rupert Everett was not.