I appreciate not being lumped into this crowd.

I'm in a Serenity annoyance league all my own, HaHA!

Well, Teague knows I only do it cause I love him.

Well....I enjoyed it.

But then I only saw it once when it came out, and haven't even thought about it since...so yeah. Maybe I'm not the best metric.

I wanted to enjoy it, I really did. But I found the plot damn near impenetrable, due in no small part to the dialogue mix. I had to watch big chunks of it with the subtitles on, especially when Depp was on screen.

Once I got it, I realized that it was an extremely clumsy pastiche of the Alice stories that borrowed its plot — such as it was — from a piece of purposeful nonce.

It reminded me of nothing more than the Sci Fi channel's recent riff on the Wizard of Oz called "Tinman," except that story at least had characters with motivations. And Kathleen Robertson's captivating décolletage.

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TIN MAN was awful. I wanted to like it, and I liked the idea, but it insulted the audience's intelligence at every turn.

Like, they'd do a cool subtle thing like have the so-called "Tin Man" of the title be a right asshole, and we're watching going "Oh, he's heartless, I get it. Nice." But then the next thing out of Zooey Deschanel's vapid mouth would be "Have a heart, Tin Man."

I kept expecting the director to stick his baseball-capped head into frame and going "Did you all catch what we did there? Yes? Are you sure? We'll do it again, just in case."

Just out of curiosity, Mike, do you think anything is merely okay? Or does everything either suck or rule in your world?

If I find something merely okay, that means I don't have much of an opinion about it either way. So I'm unlikely to bring it up since all I think of it is "meh." Why would I spend much time thinking about things that don't excite or interest me -- for good or ill?

EDIT: FUCK HOMEOPATHY GRAAAAAAAAHHHHH

Yeah... my sister loved it, so I gave it a look... it's clearly aimed at those who only know the 1939 film and have little experience with how others have "updated" classics. Which includes my sister, although she's more educated then me in many areas There's just so much from the books you can play with, and all we got were some short people in the beginning...

Even though October is drawing to a close, I've dug up a few to toss around for next year.

Frailty
Ginger Snaps
Maniac
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Bug

These are on my "to watch" list, so while I can't vouch for them personally, I've heard enough to be intrigued.

So wait...Bug doesn't have anything to do with an entomologist turned sociopath?  Damn.  Well, dibs on that idea in case no one's done it yet.

The Producers, your thoughts? Yay or nay?

That's how I feel about the film version of Rent. But replace "but do not care, love" with "and that's just one of the many reasons why I fucking loathe it".