For a lot of women, the quality of the personality trumps looks, to a frightening degree.

You need to watch it; it's really good and easily found online.

Watched Pacific Rim Thursday night and loved it with reservations. I thought it was visually beautiful and the perfect evocation of geek obsessions, and oh my, I adored the Japanese character, Mako. del Toro, along with Whedon and Miyazaki, is one of the few male directors working who is a genius at depicting the…

I really like The Avengers but can see your point as well. The first half of the movie is oddly paced and it doesn't really flow at all, but once all the Avengers assemble on the Helicarrier and start interacting with each other, I'm sold. I think it has some of the most inventive action scenes in the last 40 minutes,…

I've not seen many movies this year, so Much Ado about Nothing takes the prize. I don't think I've seen a better romcom in years; it's Shakespeare done with the wit and joy of a classic 30s screwball comedy.

UGH. I live in San Francisco and it's not an expensive city at all except for housing. Housing fucks us in the ass.

I've never owned/worn a strapless bra and (*whispers*) I haven't worn a regular bra since I was 14. I'm well into my 30s now and it's the best! It's camisoles with the bra-let thingies for me, all the way.

@avclub-9da69292e584b8204f05c2be827c0347:disqus Two weeks, give or take. We're hoping to be in St. Petersburg for the White Nights summer festival, but if it's too expensive, we'll probably go in the fall. I'm excited! I've been to Western Europe a few times, but never thought I'd get to go Russia.

My local awesome revival movie palace is showing a double feature next month of Temple of Doom and Evil Dead 2; I will be there with bells on because those are my favorite movies of both series.

I'm serious; the short New Yorker gets it perfectly: "The director, Catherine Hardwicke (“Thirteen”), oversees some special effects that look a little cheesy, though the sunless Northwest, thick with mountain forests, is gloomily magnificent. Much of the time, Hardwicke keeps the camera close to the chaste lovers. A…

That's how I felt reading Bros. Karamazov — it's a book that mixes liberally the sacred and the profane, and when I read it, I felt unclean, like a dirty old priest was whispering terrible things in my ear.

I know. He's so good in Moneyball and yet so, so terrible in Troy. He's also the best part of the one Oceans Eleven movie I watched (the first one?).

I'll stand up and say the first Twilight movie is actually pretty good (seriously!) because Billy Burke is great in it AND the awkward relationship between Bella and her dad is just really painful and real.

I like the Donner Superman movies a lot — particularly the second, which is technically Richard Lester's — but yeah, I can't help but agree that Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder are the pillars of the movies. Their performances and relationship are the reason the first two movies are so great.

He's my favorite in both sides of the role. His Bruce is oddball, but his Batman is just as great: he's very, very still and quiet, and he whispers almost all his lines. The villains practically have to lean in to hear him, but he makes it seem like his utterances are very, very important. No wasted emotion, movement…

I started reading Dostoevsky's The Idiot and am reassured that it's not going to be a Candide-like story of an idiotic man-child in a corrupt world. One thing I can already tell, not even 100 pages in, that Nastasya Filippovna is some kind of woman. (On a semi-related note: I started trying to learn how to speak some…

Not just you. I tried watching it on a plane (perfect conditions, long international flight, not sleepy) and turned it off after 30 minutes. It was very, very predictable and the minions were the only saving grace.

The Elizabethan English is a lot easier on the ears the second time around, I found. I also found the emotional impact deeper the second time too.

My friends made me watch The Thing prequel, both of them claiming they prefer it to Carpenter's original. I cannot see where the hell they are coming from; the prequel isn't bad and is in fact a quite serviceable thriller/horror movie with a fairly strong performance by the lead, Mary Elizabeth Winstead. But it feels…

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