It's movie preview time with The Enforcer again!

[MorganGrayson]

Thank you so much, TE! Succinct and valuable reviews!

RE: "Alexander"...not even my distaste for Colin Farrell could keep me from purchasing this movie on DVD when it's available. I am so hopelessly in lust with Jared Leto it's...well, it's probably undignified for a woman of my age, but the hell with it. Of course, I might send the DVD over to Defiant and say "yo, my brother, can you just cut my hottie out of this film and give me all of his scenes?" Finally - I'll have my own porn flick!

RE: "Harry Potter" and the cast ages: actually, the ages of the actors and the ages of the characters in the book are right on target. Each book is the next school year. (My youngest is firm on this point and has discussed it - she talks, I listen - at length.)

RE: "Saw" ... Watched that one with my "movie buddy" and spouse. He sat there reflectively at the end trying to determine 1. what the hell it had been about and 2. if he had enjoyed it. It took me literally decades to get the man to watch a movie and actually *think* about it that I was content. (We tend to watch "action" movies, where the good guys stomp the living shit out of the bad guys with little or no nuance involved. Give us a car chase, something on full auto and a few explosions and we're happy.)

Note: Saw "XXX: State of the Union" over the weekend. Any time anyone can explain why I adore rappers as actors I'd appreciate it. I hate rap, but they make the coolest actors. (I'm assuming "Ice Cube" is a rapper because of his name. Anyway, I like the guy a lot, especially when he's kicking bad guys in the face.)

For TE: "The new phone book's here! The new phone book's here!"

I, too, love Robert Downey, Jr. and I'm glad he seems to have his life back together. Recently watched "U.S. Marshalls," one of my favorite DVDs. This was *not* "funny Robert," this was "bad guy can't wait 'til he's dead Robert."

I see they're remaking a lot of films...AGAIN. I swear, the last original idea left Hollywood a very long time ago.

Philosophical point: yes, TE, you're right. What you *can't* see is so much more scary than what you can see. I remember hanging in there with the movie "IT" when it was first on television. (I'm deathly afraid of clowns, so this took some serious white knuckle hanging-in.) When they finally showed the "big scary thing"? It was a fucking spider. All that for a fucking cliche spider????? I swore at length. I put myself through absolute hell with that damned clown, even knowing it was one of my favorite actors whose name sadly escapes me at the moment, though I can picture him...all for a damned cliche spider. Shitfuck.

Thanks for doing this, TE! We'll have to have "Oprano Lounge Movie Night" soon, picking something we can all get on DVD.