Just finished watching Super Size Me. Holy shit, I never want to eat at McDonald's again. I hardly ever eat there, and the only things I really like there are McNuggets, but learning where they came from and how they are made was disgusting. And I cannot believe that one of McDonald's salads has the same amount of calories as a burger and 51 grams of fat. Gross!!!

Salads are barely healthy anymore, anyways. Between the dressing, and the fixings, it just becomes a chilled appetizer platter.

I think Morgan Spurlock's film had an interesting premise, but it kind of defeats the point of a documentary--it was way too sensationalist, and making it all about him.

Just finished Who Killed the Electric Car? Really interesting documentary.

Jesus Camp "Lord bless this power point display"

It's because the devil uses flowcharts.

Going back to 5 & Dime: I guess the scene where Joe was assualted (off camera) in the grave yard was him being raped. Why does Hollywood think there are roving gangs of bass tapists down south? Deliverence, Midnight Cowboy, Jimmy Dean... I'm from Alabama and I'd never heard of it.

And if you have tomake up something to use against the South, you just aren't looking.

I rented Borat and The Holiday last night. I watched Borat and was absolutely stunned at how much I loved it! I figured I'd heard so much about it and seen so many of the clips and heard the whiny frat boys talk about why they were SO MISREPRESENTED OMG!!111, and I didn't think it would live up the hype. It did and MORE. I haven't laughed that hard in a LONG time.

Particularly the scene at the bed and breakfast where they were throwing money >>at the roaches and when Azamat opened the fridge and we saw a glimpse of the bear's head. I am SO going to hell, but this movie was fantastic.

We watched that a couple of weeks ago. I was so sad watching those cars taken away for crushing when the people were begging to buy them.

Tonight I watched Wordplay, which I loved. I do crossword puzzles all the time but I'm not very good, so to watch the masters at work was impressive. And it's funny too!

Oh yeah, that was terrible to see. The whole story of what happened is really pretty tragic.

Thieves Like Us: Reading Altman’s biography I have yet to come across the part where a sound engineer set fire to his family. Because that is the only thing that could possibly explain his hate on for the spoken word.

This is a problem watching any movie of his with gun play, “mumble, mumble, chatter, chatter… BANG! BANG! ” next thing I know the cat's tearing ass out of the room. Isn’t the whole artistic point of his sound technique lost after 10 or so films? It’s like every AC/DC album released since Back in Black, it’s no longer innovation at some point.

So Thieves Like Us, strange for an Altman movie in that it has a plot. This was his film immediately preceding Nashville and his subsequent late 70’s shark jump (I think he borrowed Evel Knievel’s rocket car for that one). It has a coherence that would be absent his work after the US government started spraying paraquat.

In this destitute man’s Bonnie & Clyde one of the Carridines (the Deadwood one. Not Red Zone Cuba, Kung-fu or the Nerd one) busts out of prison, robs banks and falls in love with Shelly Duvall, which tells us he’s been in prison a LOOOOONNNGGG time.

All I can figure was Shelly Duvall’s acting career was some kind of My Fair Lady carried to ridiculous extremes. Most of the time when a film maker foists a no talent on us they are blinded by love, I’m looking at you Rebecca Pidgeon.

This also stars John Shuck described by Tom Servo as the only man in Hollywood who can play a Klingon without make up.

TLU is set in depression era Mississippi and only there. For some reason the back robbers never leave the state, where they are wanted. Even without trying to evade the law there are better states to be in; like 48 of them! Then again in my mind’s eye Mississippi is just the barrier between visiting my family and debauchery in New Orleans.

In one of those exasperating character details Altman blows up into their whole raison d’etre the characters tell bad jokes. And when you combine self-consciously unfunny jokes with Altman’s sense of humor, you start hopping the G-Men will be around any minute to airhole these dullards. Which happens in less than 3 hours, thank god for small favors!

Okay okay. Fine. Casino Royale was pretty damn good, I'll admit. And my Lord, Eva Green is incredibly gorgeous, isn't she? Until she starts dressing herself, of course.

Finally got around to Memoirs of a Geisha. I liked it well enough, and the soundtrack was good, but I enjoyed the dvd extras more.

See, Eva Green is gorgeous on film but in real life she scares me. Its a combo of the bad fashion and the bored bitchface. Which, your 26, you dont get to do bored bitchface. People like Dame Judi Dench who have earned their bitchface can pull that off.

LOOOOOVE this doc! I thought I was pretty good at crosswords too, until I saw this. It totally blew my mind.

I'll be unpopular and say that I don't get the appeal of her at all. I find her very girl-next-door, not that there's anything wrong with that, but I personally would have liked to see someone a bit more... exotic?... for a Bond girl. But what do I know? (Don't answer that.)