I wouldn't even say she sucks in that one; the movie sucks, and the writing for her character sucks, but her performance is doing the best it goddamn can, and she at least recognizes what kind of movie she's in.

The Star Wars and Indiana Jones movies had been my favorites for about two years at that age, and I had just been introduced to The Fellowship of the Ring, which blew my mind. The closest I've come to being completely transported to another world through film.

Actually, a crossguard is extremely practical on those things. Otherwise it's incredibly easy to just slice the handle open.

I was physically angry at that part. Shaking. It's not often I have that reaction to a film.

The same thing happened to me the second time I saw Her. The first time I saw it I was completely alone in the theatre, and it such a special, personal experience. The second time there were two women sitting in the front mocking it as the credits started rolling, and the part of me that was so emotionally devastated by the film wanted to run back and yell at them. Similar thing happened when I tried to watch it with my family, so I guess it's just one of those things I'm destined to watch alone the rest of my life.

He loves Her, that has to count for something.

...then again, even Hilter loved Snow White.

I've only seen it once on a normal screen, and I heard the dialogue just fine for pretty much the entire thing. *shrugs*

Loved it to death, want to start ranting about space to people now.

The sound mix wasn't at all bad in my theatre, so that was good. I had mixed feelings about the first act--too much coincidence and rushing IMO--and I agree that Damon ' s stunt casting wasn't a good idea. Actually, I wish Caine had been left out for this one too. His performance is curiously flat in a lot of scenes, though his reading of "Do Not Go Gentle..." made up for a lot of that.

And as has been noted, holy shit Hans Zimmer did a good score again. I'm not usually a fan of synthesizer unless it's used extremely minimally, but this was fantaatic. The eeriness and the grandeur of it were just perfect.

^In the spirit of the above, It's a Wonderful Life for Christmas? I think it could actually be very interesting to discuss.

Postcard sent! Hopefully it wings its way across the Atlantic quickly.

Can we talk about how music boxes are supposed to be comforting to children but in reality are the creepiest-sounding things known to man?

Excellent job, man. Your pieces are always awesome to listen to.

There's an utterly fantastic Stephen Sondheim musical called Assassins all about every person to ever kill, or attempt to kill, a U. S. president, and your town's song is one of my favorites from the whole soundtrack.

The only anime I've actually seen is Kill la Kill, which is famous chiefly for being the most batshit crazy thing to ever hit television. The writing can be really hamfisted and the fanservice is frequently gratuitous, but the afore-mentioned batshit craziness makes it entertaining enough to be worth it, and about halfway through its run it transitions from Monster of the Week filler episodes to solely plot-based ones and achieves a much better quality than it previously had.