Helianthus

So, Brave, the first thing I watched today.

( I liked it a lot. )
It'd be nice if it did well enough to steer Disney/Pixar movies to more of a middle road, so you don't have the Girl Movies with princesses, ballgowns and weddings and the Other Movies with toys, things to do, and "gender-neutral" appeal with no female characters to speak of; as we were leaving I noticed a little Merida in her Official Disney Princess Dress and bow.  (Like... archery bow.  Not hair bow.)  I don't know if it'll work, but it'd be nice.

We went to see Superman Returns. It's nice to see James Marsden get to do something in a superhero movie again, you know? Also got to see the Spider-Man 3 trailer, which, um, he was definitely kissing Gwen Stacy, which seems kind of evilly appropriate given the way Mary Jane behaved with the fiance in the last movie. Also an ad for AX - I hope the Yuna cosplayer's boobs got some kind of compensation for being featured so prominently.

( Short spoiler post - on Superman, not cosplay boobs. Obviously. )

I am such an X-Men whore. It was like, WARREN OMG! BEAST! DARK PHOENIX! HOLY CRAP ARE THEY DOING FATAL ATTRACTIONS IN THIS ONE TOO?! I mean, I knew Beast would be in this, and was thrilled, because, dude, BEAST! and Warren was foreshadowed in the last movie and Dark Phoenix was the logical next storyline, but Fatal Attractions thrills me inordinately because I have only the haziest idea of what happened in it the first time, essentially "Wolverine + Magneto = Wolverine - adamantium = YEARS OF FANBOY DEBATE" and possibly there was Logan/Jean stuff too, to justify the double entendre in the title, but in the movies I like Wolverine, so things involving him don't make me instantly sleepy the way they did in the comics. So this should be good. Also, Bobby/Rogue in the trailer, so presumably the brief mention of Gambit's name in the last movie does not mean he will be swooping in to cheese Rogue off her feet and make me crabby. Also, BEAST!

As for the actual movie, um, I just took a couple of sinus meds to help with the low-level headache I've had all week, so this will probably get steadily less coherent. I mean, I hope to start coherent, not like the hyperventilating above, but I doubt I'll stay that way.

( V for Vendetta. Evaluating it mostly on how it works as an adaptation - spoilers for both versions, because it's a pretty faithful one in the end )

I... may try to finish it all coherently tomorrow. Maybe.