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that was some funny funny shit.

OK, having seen it again, unless there's actually Cumbervoice mixed in with the dragon's roar, I'm going to have to say that he was credited because he's CUMBERBATCH.

I mean, the Necromancer's outline could've been Stephen Colbert.

It's also possible he was credited for part 1 back when it was part 1 of 2, and so blah blah contractcakes, his name's in the list whether he's in the movie or not.

In the credits, which I have open in another window, he's credited as Necromancer. It's in between Goblin Scribe and Dwarf Miner in the bottom right hand side of the credits screen. You can see it at 2:42:21 on the DVD.

I'm on the fence about getting the theatrical release versus waiting for the extended edition. I did the latter for LotR, but with The Hobbit I already felt like the theatrical release was a little too long, so I'm not sure that more of it is really the best idea.

We watched Les Miserables last night. Admittedly it wasn't the best viewing experience ever, as Mal whined pretty much throughout the whole thing (hey, no one forced him to watch it), but I was decidedly meh.

It was neat to hear different actors' interpretations of the music, and there was some fun casting (although not Russell Crowe, dude, horribly miscast), but ultimately I think I agree with The Hulk - Get the camera out of their noses!

I also watched Room 237 Friday night. It's a pretty good documentary, which subtly slides its own thesis in while purporting to report other people's interpretations of The Shining. It also changed my mind a little bit about the whole cinematic kabbalah exercise of Shining interpretation, and confirmed my belief that Kubrick was a mad genius.

Raq,

I saw Room 237 last night with Beau and Beau HATED the film. Just hated it. I think he felt the movie actually ruined his night. I did not think it was a good movie really - I thought it was entertaining to have these crackpot "film enthusiasts" talk about their pet theories of the film, but a lot of the theories were decontextualized. I don't think a movie can have any meaning you impute on it. Random images you see strewn throughout the movie, including mis-seeing a ski poster as a minotaur, does not mean a filmmaker is interested in minotaurs.

I did laugh out loud until I was disabled at one part of the movie where the enthusiasts are discussing (at length) the role of an unspeaking part in the movie. OMG, that brought all the absurdity together and just made me catch my breath.

It is unfortunate too that all this time was spent on the unspeaking character and no time spent discussing Scatman Crothers' role. Are you telling me that of all the crackpots filmmaker found, he couldn't find one to discuss magical negro or John Henry?

The one section of the film I did like was when one of the commenters talked about how Kubrick planned the pathway of the boy in the big wheel. That actually felt informative.

Seven Psychopaths: does Martin McDonagh like to see Colin Farrel suicidal? Anyways, not what I was expecting based on the trailer, but still, I dunno, emotional with a toe-hold in reality. Sam Rockwell is slowly winning me over. Now I'm hearing a bit of Owen Wilson and seeing a dorky Tom Cruise.

I did not know my old secret boyfriend Rick Yune is the villain in Olympus Has Fallen! Of course, I learned that in an article about people being fucking racist about it, and the movie still looks terrible, so I guess I won't see it, but still. Good for him.