See, I thought you were talking about M.C. Hammer, and all I could think of was Cary Grant in parachute pants. Not that I wouldn't watch that movie.

You know...who wouldn't want to see Fantom of the Hip Hopera?

"Too legit to quit...the killing!"

Finally saw Half Nelson and loved it. Ryan Gosling deserved that nomination as his was a flawless performance. I was exhausted and heartbroken just looking at him.

I would've loved to have him as my history teacher though (at least when he had his shit semi-together).

You know, I love Altman so when The Dude gets to my favorite of his films (the Player, Shortcut, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Company <which actually is the one Altman film, you like, right>, M.A.S.H., and Gosford Park) its gonna, like, hurt me.

Well, the Phantom of the Opera sequel is going to be set in New York. So maybe ALW will decide to incorporate some MC Hammer-esque tunes to show how down he is with the kids and so forth.

Like he did in the 80s with the rollerskating in "Starlight Express"? Cause this too could be awesome in all the wrong ways.

Is it bad if I totally started thinking about "Fantom of the Hip Hopera" and was all "Ooh, Christina could be Cristal a video ho just looking to get ahead!"

Oooh. Now that I would see.

The best part will be when we can have various analogs for the more ridiculous icons of rap music (And maybe rap metal acts!) done in by a vengeful Fantom for defiling his music.

I rented Darling and Where Angels Fear to Tread last night. Fall asleep during a bit of Darling! But otherwise, I found it interesting, and of course, Julie Christie was such a beatiful woman.

Where Angels was a good movie -the more it progressed, the more I wanted to see where the story went. Judy Davis was good as the crazed, neurotic sister. What sad times that women were so repressed into their traditional roles, yet they also had more authority than men.

I watched C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America which didn't get any sort of release here. I found it very absorbing, especially all the film parodies - the British knight in blackface in the 1940s biopic about Jefferson Davis reminded me that Dame Flora Robson blacked up for Saratoga Trunk, and the fake anti-Commie 1950s film was hilarious (in a scary sort of way). I gather from IMDB comments that it was quite controversial (and some people don't seem to have realised that it wasn't an actual history) but I liked it enormously and thought the way they used real events (JFK's assassination, the Watts riots etc) in a slightly skewed way worked very well given the purpose of the film wasn't a serious alternative history (if there can really be such a thing).

OT:...but Chuck D should totally play the Fantom.

I don't know if it counts as a movie, but Eddie Izzard: Dressed to Kill was hilarous. I got it on netflix friday, and it was exactly what I needed to watch after I got back from work.

"Cake or death?" finally makes sense to me! Cake, please.

Just watched Murderball tonight, which was very good. It was interesting to learn more about wheelchair rugby (such a rough, intense sport!) as well the competitors themselves and how they have learned to deal with being quadrapalegic, not letting it slow them down.

Are the paralympic games televised? I don't think I've ever seen them on TV before, but they look really awesome and would be cool to watch.

Ahh, good movie.

I watched the documentary Con Man this weekend, and I am posting it here as a warning: do not watch this movie. It's duller than dirt. It's about a guy who applies to Princeton under an assumed identity, and when Princeton finds out, they kick him out. That's it. That's everything that happens.

Yeah, that's like, half a rowdy college comedy. He's supposed to eventually get back into school either by getting in the dean's good graces, or humiliating him terribly.