I LOVE the lesser of two weevils joke!

I LOVE the lesser of two weevils joke!

I love that Jack thinks it's so funny. In the books, Jack's so ridiculous in that he thinks so highly of his own wit when it's usually really labored and kind of simple. The movie, I think, doesn't quite get to that: you don't see Crowe ever being quite the doofus book!Aubrey can be, although they made a good attempt with that, and the silly Galapagos pudding.

Part of the problem is that Russell Crowe just doesn't do silly convincingly.

Oh, hey, the Catching Fire trailer is out

HA - I was just about to mention Hunger Games as a pop culture phenomenon I felt so completely overloaded by commentary and opinion on that I never bothered to check out the original thing itself. (Until I was on vacation with nothing else to read...I got through about 50 pages before I got bored. The movie was ok.)

I haven't listened to the audio on that, but watching it did make me shiver. Certain hot buttons got hit there.

I have yet to see Avatar OR Titantc

Avatar: Don't. Still annoyed, though happy I saw it solely for techno reasons. Am glad there are now occasionally GOOD movies being made with that technology (see: Hugo. And maybe Gatsby will do it well.)

Titanic: Kinda do. Surely by now the pimping and build-up has worn off a little, right, and you've incorporated just as much hate as obsession into your psyche? It's not best-movie-ever-made good, but it's really pretty, plus Kate and Leo are pretty good actors (not as good then as now, but still) so the love story sells well. I didn't like it much at the time, but I was a fifteen-year-old boy and so the swoons of my female peers did far more to turn me off than any overselling I would encounter now. But watching it now, it's enjoyable. And did I mention pretty?

I've tried to watch Titanic--it's not the hype that turns me off. The romance storyline was really unengaging for me, and I don't like real life disaster movies, so its 0 for 2.

Finally saw Oz, the Great and Powerful this weekend. I must say that everyone who said Franco was miscast could not be more correct. For a good actor, he was really...flat. And I mourn for how awesome RDJ would have been.

Saw 42 last night. It was very old fashioned and totally movie-of-the-week in tone, but I still really liked it. The actress who plays Rachel Robinson is amazeballs.

I saw 42 yesterday also. I enjoyed it a lot. I'm such the target audience that I didn't get the movie-of-the-week vibe. I have game tickets today, which is Jackie Robinson day.

I watch Titanic for costume/set dressing porn, because all of that is GORGEOUS. And because I'm easily emotionally manipulated by media, if I watch through the ship sinking, I sob at the scene of the elderly couple in the bed.