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bbm_stitchbuffyfan:
I don't mind Maggie G. at all but I am not a big fan of her's. I haven't seen Secretary but I plan to. I saw her in Mona Lisa Smile -- which I liked; I usually hate Kirsten Dunst but she was tolerable in that (maybe because she was playing a bitch and she didn't have to try so hard  :-*).

Since BBM, I watched Jake in Jarhead and I enjoyed that movie. It was depressing though because I kept wishing I was watching Brokeback. Jake was great in Jarhead though.

Today, I watched the first half of 10 Things I Hate About You. It was the first time I've watched it since it originally came out. I don't know if I'm biased now, or what, but Heath was surprisingly good in that. Before Brokeback, I thought of him as a mediocre actor and simply a pretty face but then he astonished me as Ennis. He was good in 10 Things too (not nearly as good, obviously). The script is cheesy as hell in parts but it was also pretty damn funny.

I'm still trying to overcome my issues with seeing Jake & Heath in new movies, as talented as they are. I just have to plan ahead when Zodiac comes out; make sure not to have watched Brokeback within three weeks prior to my viewing.

henrypie:
Hey Chantie,
I remembered your "ridiculous" as I watching Proof (although I didn't read beyond that sentence -- didn't even mean to read that much), and I thought that the main ridiculousness was trying to accept someone as beautiful, fit and socially adept as Jake's character as math PhD.  No offense to all y'all math PhD's but come ON!

Jake has a funny run.
Speaking of London, there's a shot of Jake bursting out of a pair of double doors and running down the hall.  Those double doors had the little white square stickers with the blue circle... can't remember what the stickers say but it's something about a fire exit probably.  Anyway I was all "Pause! Pause!" so I could go back and look at those doors which are supposedly in Chicago.  I knew those stickers are a British thing -- I've never seen them in the US.  Sure enough, it was shot partly in London.

Chanterais:
Yes, I've noticed that Mr. Gyllenhaal has a funny run.  Not that I've been staring obsessively at him, memorizing every last physiological detail, down to the fact that he has a very cute mole on his lower back.  Absolutely not.

And what did we make of Proof, besides the silly casting?  Did your other half manage to sit through it without stuffing tissues in his ears to muffle the cooing, gurgling sounds coming from his wife whenever Jakey-wakey appeared on-screen?  He's a strong man.

I can't tell what's English or what's North American anymore.  I used to try to keep it straight, and adapt to wherever I was, but I've given up.  I say elevator instead of lift, but flat instead of apartment.  I look both ways whenever I cross the street not because I paid attention in Kindergarten safety lessons, but because I can't remember which way the cars come in which country.  I am a complete, bewildered mutt.  It's a wonder I can remember my own name.

henrypie:
Well, Catherine and her sister were sure one-dimensional, and annoying.  I thought there were cool creepy elements, but it felt like a short story that wanted to be a novel.  And should have been.  It's weird; all my criticisms are dwarfed by the gross miscasting of Jake as a math nerd.  Couldn't take the whole movie seriously because of that.  I'm not saying he did a bad job with it, but not even he can make wine into water.  Reminds me a little of Gregory Peck as Penny Baxter in The Yearling.  Penny Baxter was a small, weak-chinned, pockmarked man.  Um, Gregory Peck?   But Peck wasn't as distracting.  And I guess it's hypocritical that I wasn't so distracted by Jake in BBM -- no buck teeth, no thick middle.  Mmm, middle.

I was restrained.  My husband didn't have to put up with anything but a little bit of noise because I was rolling pennies during the first half.

henrypie:
Next entry:

Dick.

Historical fiction in which two fifteen-year-old girls (Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams) are inserted into Watergate.  Super-duper silly, but I admit I laughed and smiled a lot (smiles a lot).  Those girls are cute as buttons.  And my husband and I recently watched and read All the President's Men so the details of the basis for parody were fresh in our minds.

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