What was it changed to?

"Fool."

I fear that I will have no chance to see this in the theater. Apparently, Eastern Iowa has never heard of Art Movie houses.

I finally saw Gatsby and was underwhelmed. I was lured in by the Art Deco-ness of the logo into thinking that the production design would be likewise. Oh well. I think Di Caprio is kind of weak as an actor. And McGuire is also disappointing.

A Flash game to relive the last half hour of Man of Steel.

Got to see Much Ado!

The physical slapstick and Buffy running behind the main scene with a rocket launcher was hilarious.

I was underwhelmed by NF's Dogberry, but Keaton stole my heart with his Beetlejuice rendition of "Remember: I. Am an ass." But, Fillion did his cute Fillion thing. I just wish I knew the dialogue by heart, because his lines were the ones I had the hardest time parsing, especially when the rest of the audience was laughing over his dialogue.

Weird laughter for some of Sean Maher's scenes, maybe because they were filmed to be so incredibly evil and forboding?

I think the naturalness and the easy-to-follow delivery of the dialogue made it too clear what a ridiculous story it was once the Don John machinations came to fruition and all that followed. Like, how did any of the actions, subterfuges, and characterizations make sense or be redeembable to get anywhere close to a happy ending?

AA's delivery of "Kill Claudio" was chilling.

And I think FK had more of a chance to give off personality because he actually had lines. I liked Hero when she could speak, and she did what she could with her non-line scenes, but damn, she had a heck of a lot of screen time with absolutely nothing to say, darn you Will.

I adored the visual gags and how so many of the lines were handled, the interpretation. Like the lines being delivered during roughhousing, or the characters trying to control themselves while telling falsehoods.

In the end, this version made me long for a version that had characters and plot that made sense. I blame that on how accessible Joss made it.

If there's spoiler fonting that I should do, please give me a poke.

BTW, Katha Pollitt loves the Joss "Much Ado".

she seems hard to please.

Link?

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Full Quote:

Katha Pollitt ‏@KathaPollitt 6h "Saw Much Ado About Nothing at Madison at Cinema. It was terrific! Great acting, loved the black and white. Go!"

Just a tweet, not a full review

Saw the new Star Trek, and I really really liked it, now to go read the white font.

I must have been in just the right mood to see White House Down, because I enjoyed it unironically and even teared up at the daughter waving the Presidential flag to call off the air strike.

Channing Tatum has come light years as a dramatic actor from where he was four years ago (i.e., a block of wood, albeit an exquisitely carved one, in the first G.I. Joe movie), and this time out I enjoyed his performance without benefit of being hypnotized by his bare chest. Not only did I enjoy a Jamie Foxx performance, but I also sat through a Roland Emmerich action movie without saying "OH COME ON!" once.

It helps, of course, that many of the supporting roles are filled by gifted character actors like Richard Jenkins, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Lance Reddick, and James Woods.