Dr. Snoodles, Teddy Bear Phrenologist

One of my favorite movies is "The Best Years of Our Lives" which is about 3 WWII vets coming home and readjusting to civilian life with varying degrees of success.

It also sparked one of the best jokes on the Golden Girls: when Dorothy finds out Blanche is dating a military officer & plans to leave to become an army wife, she says, "Blanche, these aren't the best years of our lives, these are the LAST years of our lives."

Context schmontext!

( If you really must know the source )

Remember, remember the fifth of November,
The gunpowder, treason and plot,
I know of no reason
Why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.

OMG FAWKES ISN'T JUST A PHOENIX?!

So the boyfriend is extremely relieved we won't be able to watch Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest together. He apparently is afraid of my fangirl squees once Jack Davenport appears as scruffy!Norrington. To hell with him I say.

And the revamped POTC ride just sounds so awesome. Johnny Depp with kohl eyeliner just makes everything better.

Also, I either have excellent google fu or I'm a creepy stalker: someone I know had a tv makeover! (She's told us a bunch of times; it's just that none of us have ever watched her episode or seen any stills.)

The bestest line: "OH GOD EVEY I'M LESS FAMOUS THAN I THOUGHT!"

I finally caught the Elijah Wood Intel ad over the weekend.
I'm so glad the kitty hair is back.
It's pretty obvious they got a petite actress because he barely fits in her lap. I suspect if they got someone more average-sized, it would be a little too "sitting on Santa's lap."

I also saw V for Vendetta. I've been putting off reading the comic because of my bad experience with The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (soulless tripe! soulless tripe!). The movie's a bit heavy handed and they draw 9/11 parallels where there were none in the comic (isn't it all about 80s England and Maggie Thatcher?). It's also less about anarchy and more about up with people against an unjust government. Thankfully the Matrixy effects were kept to a minimum.

Stephen Fry's in it for a short bit as everyone's favorite gay uncle (unlike Remus Lupin who is everyone's favorite gay uncle on smack). I was afraid Star Wars had atrophied Natalie Portman's acting muscles but I really liked her in it, and I like her better bald than with long hair.
And Hugo Weaving's voice so sexay.

Speaking of sexay, omgsosexy!

Emma Thompson's makeup in Nanny McPhee repels me but I cannot look away.

And now it has 85% freshness at rottentomatoes.com

I don't really want to see this film but the snaggletooth (and Colin Firth) compel me.

"A Christmas Gory" - Another movie trailer mash up where "A Christmas Story" has been reimagined as a horror film. I think it would have worked better if they didn't keep the "fragile" joke but see it for yourself.

The idea of Sean Bean speaking with a Minnesota accent makes me giggle so very much.