You Can't Run Away From It - Terrible 1956 musical remake of It Happened One Night. June Allyson (she was also in a terrible musical remake of The Women, too) and Jack Lemmon star in this film. I couldn't get through it. Stopped watching after a half hour. Bleh!

Lash, I think there was some mention of Australia, but nary a blip shown of its destruction, sorry. The destruction of Rio, so heavily featured in billboards here in L.A., was shown only in crap-quality news video in the movie. Very disappointing.

I've been told different parts of the county got different trailers accentuating their local areas of decimation. Was it only coincidence that, here in L.A., the trailer showed almost the entire destruction of L.A., the best part of the movie? Or are there completely other versions of the film out there for other parts of the world? Does John Cusack live in Hong Kong in some of them, and he has to get to Canada to be saved???

It is a well known fact of movie reality that the destruction of the world rarely extends south of the equator. For surely it is a myth that people actually live down there.

I consider it a great leap forward for globalism that apparently Rio de Janeiro was granted inclusion.

Hey, the bugs blew up Buenos Aires in Starship Troopers.

But that's only because Heinlein hated Mexicans! (and they didn't destroy the whole world and Heinlein didn't hate Mexicans though he did hate Democrats but only after he married Virginia).

On the Beach is another exception that reinforces the rule (Australia lasts longer but is also eventually destroyed).

Not that any of the fans care, but New Moon is at 27%/all critics, 37%/Top Critics on rottentomatoes.com. It's still going to be huuuuuge.
Ugh.

Ebert gave it one star. I loved the opening line of his review.

About $72.7 mil for New Moon. That's big. Sh!t, I guess we have to go through all this brouhaha again when the next one comes out.
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