I would have thought the same of Ben Stiller, but I think he's great in Tenenbaums.

I think (hope) Anderson's a strong enough director to get the performance he needs.

With that cast, even if they just sit in a room reading the phonebook for two hours, I'd watch it!

I mostly love Wes Anderson (though I sometimes wonder if it is a good thing to be able to tell who directed a movie by looking at a still from the movie) but my distaste for Willem Defoe is mighty strong.

However, I will hope that Anderson takes his queue from a Craig Ferguson bit and after the movie reveal that it wasn't actually Angela Lansbury in the movie but rather Paul McCartney.

I really, really, really loved Moonrise Kingdom (Anderson's most recent ... still in theaters .... catch it) - though I understand it might not be to everyone's taste. It's easily my favorite film of his (I like about half his oeuvre, really dislike the other half).



Oh, and Magic Mike was the most boring piece of wasteful celluoid I've seen in forever ... and that's even with hot near-naked men abounding. Sheesh. What was Soderberg thinking? There was nothing interesting about anyone's character, story, not a hint of insight into the off-the-grid world of male strippers they established, and really no fun to the choreography or male stripping either. What A Waste.

Yes, Moonrise Kingdom is very good.

But just to make sure that we don't bond too much, I really liked Magic Mike as well.

Alex, you are killing me tonight! Thanks for the laughs, literally sitting her all alone and laughing. The cats think I'm crazy.....maybe they're right!

The Dark Knight Rises is rad.



:snap: Saw it last night (this morning) at midnight, at the Irvine Spectrum, because that's the only real IMAX screen in Southern California. Worth seeing it in IMAX once. It's beautiful. It's touching. It's fun. I loved it.

:cheers: Heheh, all 21 screens were showing Batman at midnight, so the place was an awesome geekfest of thousands of people, several hundred in costume or some kind of Battire. Really fun.


I didn't learn about the shooting in Colorado till I got home at 4:30 a.m. And even that did not put a total damper on my experience. It was a fun midnight show, and I really love the movie.

Ahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaa

Just got back from The Dark Knight Rises.

The first two hours were excruciatingly boring. It wasn't until talking to Lani after that I realized I may have completely zoned out for a few minutes.

The last 30 minutes or so were a fine action set piece but unfortunately it hinged on something extremely stupid several times over and all of the big reveals had been obvious almost two hours earlier. But it had enough energy to end on a high note.

But I didn't expect Nolan to actually bore me, to wallow in silly cliches, to treat the last movie in the trilogy like the last episode of a long running TV show where every repeating character along the way has to make an appearance (even a couple of the dead ones) and every core member has to have their dramatic curtain call.

So, overall, blech.

Those of you who are fans of magical realism and films that may sometimes be more interesting in approach than necessarily good, I strongly recommend checking out Beasts of the Southern Wild.