Good Luck Chuck. Jessica Alba and Dane Cook did okay when they were by themselves, but together they were awkward and had no chemistry. Seeing as it's a romantic comedy, that's not really a good thing. I dunno . . . the movie was weak but not as awful as I thought it would have been. All in all I'm glad I saw it for free (my school's campus center was playing it last night).

I just got those Shakespeare Retold adaptations and overall I liked them. The version of Much Ado was excellent, both Sarah Parish & Damien Lewis's performances were very enjoyable, although I too dislike Billie Piper. Did I see Captain Duff from The High Life as Beatrice's first co-anchor? And was the new director Pete really Tyres from Spaced? Because I literally screamed once I twigged them (so I'll feel like a complete eejit if it turns out I'm wrong).

I really liked Shirley Henderson and Rufus Sewell in The Taming of the Shrew, particularly the latter's costume in the wedding scene! Fair play to him, he >>walks well in a skirt & high-heeled boots.<< The bit about her being told she needed to get married to soften her public image was irritating, not to say daft, alright.

I enjoyed the version of MacBeth, though I did get confused about who the MacBeths were setting up to take the fall for the murder. There was one believable Irish accent in that kitchen (Roddy, who was played by an Irish actor), others less so, particularly that by the actor playing Duncan - more "Oirish" than Irish, very ott or forced. And the repeated pronunciation of "Doherty" as "Dockerty" really took me out of it - if the character of Duncan was born & reared in Ireland, and still speaks in an Irish accent despite having lived in the UK for years, why wouldn't he pronounce his own surname as we do with an aspirated "h", instead of inserting a hard "c" sound? Things like that prevented me from suspending disbelief enough to really sink into the drama, so that took away from it a good bit. Having said all that, I thought James McAvoy was wonderful and Keeley Hawes (who irritated the hell out of me on Spooks) was impressive too.

As for A Midsummer Night's Dream, I never particularly cared for the play to begin with so it was really just filler for me, but Imelda Staunton was great and I loved Bill Paterson's poem at the end. "... last minute suit doubts ... hold your hand during penalty shoot-outs"!

Today, I rented Tony & Tina's Wedding, based on the off-broadway show. I haven't seen the show, but thought I'd check it out. Mila Kunis played Tina and took me out of the movie every time she talked. The character was a lot like Jackie Burkhart, but with a Long Island accent. Joey McIntyre played Tony. I was a little old for New Kids (right?) so I didn't recognize him. It had a lot of laugh out loud moments, such as the "owner" of the catering hall asking one of his staff members if he liked gladiator movies.

The beginning of the movie showed "ads" like you would normally see in a local movie theater, but everthing shown there was mentioned in the movie. Very cute and believable!

Also watched Epic Movie, which was a lot better than Independent Movie and Date Movie. They spoofed Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter, Willy Wonka, Nacho Libre, Snakes on a Plane, Borat, MTV Cribs, DaVinci Code, Pirates of the Caribbean/Lazy Sunday and more. Kal Penn was in it so of course they mentioned White Castle. Jennifer Coolidge played the White witch or whatever she was/is. Fred Willard played a "lion." Quite a few LOL moments! Just the right amount of brain power expended today.

I also have to admit that I watched Night at the Roxbury with Will Ferrell & Chris Kattan. You have to love he movie just for the Twink Caplan cameo and reference to Pismo Beach... Love Dan Hedaya, too.

I believe it has a 2% on Rotten Tomatoes, which is the lowest I've ever seen. I may need to see it just because that's so impressive.

And on that note, I finally just watched I Know Who Killed Me, and...and I don't even know where to begin. It's so bad that it's awesome, and then it loops back around to bad again. The plot holes! The awkward-ass sex scene! The motif of blue and red smashing you over the head every second! Lohan stripping really, really badly! (Seriously, at least Demi Moore took classes and stuff for Flashdance.) I laughed, a LOT.

Often I have wondered, why do people keep hiring Jessica Alba? I mean, I know she's hotter than sun, but she also can't act even a teensy little bit. It comforts me that most of the movies she's made are apparently utter crapola.

In an otherworldly occurrence, ulkis, the solution to your puzzle is contained within the puzzle itself:

If you relax your eyes, the answer begins to appear.

LOL! (People still use that, right? Well I am.)

But lifeguard, there are many women in Hollywood hotter than the sun! Surely some of them can act a bit more than Alba can. I think that's what puzzles me most of all, that they can't seem to find these actresses.

If you need to cast one of the hot Jessicas, go with Biel. Though I wish she'd stick more towards The Illusionist, and less Chuck & Larry.

Sold! Just added it to my queue.

HER BODY PARTS START RANDOMLY FALLING OFF!

You know you got a drug problem when you think that sounds good.

I recall seeing one website put up the trailer for Awake with the tag: "Dear Hollywood, there are other pretty girls out there."

Assuming she ever actually read a word of the script before signing the contract, I think it was something like "yaddayaddayaddablahblah HEY I GET TO DO A POLE DANCE STRIP SCENE! KEWL!"

I think I have to add that to my netflix queue. And drink a bottle of wine before I fire it up.

Last night, we watched Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 1-12 with the commentary track on. My favorite part (though there were many to choose from), was when R. Kelly explained why he went with a beretta in the "then he looked behind the dresser, I reached for my beretta" part:

"Well, I needed something that rhymed with dresser."

I almost fell off my couch, I was laughing so hard. God bless you, R. Kelly.

Yeah, but the pole-dances on CSI are more risque. All movie producers should employ the Demi Moore Rule: if you're playing a stripper, and you have an actual striptease scene, you can't be demure about it.

Demi Moore. Demure. I see what you did there.