“to keep the circus inside the tent,”

I’m amazed development didn’t start the day after the first box-office results came in. 

wow - I really need to read Wonder Boys...

yeah, that too, but I meant it was foreplay for the sheep...

in Tasmania, they call that foreplay.

“Mr. Flynn was acquitted, your honour! If it please the court, strike that from the record...”

I really like Alec Baldwins f-bomb in Aviator. Nice slow build up, and then....

“he’s the Fly! He knows things we don’t!”

and wasn’t there rumours about Errol and some farm animals?

I’m ok with Leo, but he wasn’t great in Aviator. He’s probably the weakest thing in the whole show. I’d have preferred a movie with Jude and Cate flirting, getting into fist fights at fancy dinners, Alan Alda being sassy, Alec Baldwin dropping an awesome eff-bomb etc.

To be totally fair to Jude Law, the apparent reason was that he did a really good Errol Flynn. Not as good as Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn, but best man for the job in 2004.

to be fair, when i saw it in the cinema, that scene with the hollowed-out chest cavity of an autopsied body growing teeth and clamping down on the dudes hands got a huge laugh from the audience. Yeah, there was some screaming, but it was supposed to be funny, right?

and the sleeve design was lovely - it’s a gatefold that folded vertically down, not the traditional horizontal across. Because of course they would.

oh, the script is terrible, but the intonation is totally South Belfast. He actually hung out here before the movie started, to do some research. There’s a story that he got winged by a guy who spotted him, and smacked him in the head with an elbow as he was walking by. Which is totally a Shankhill Road thing to do,…

spell-check corrupts moderutely, too.

heyyy Abbott!

dood - that movie was shite, but I’m from Belfast and Brad’s accent was perfect. He even had the walk right. I’ve seen that guy walking up the Shankill Road.

totally. Or they’re all doing accents that they’ve heard in an old movie. 

Idris is flawless, but Christian... he’s a bit chewy as Bruce Wayne. And the posh Brits (Kate, Rosamund etc) all sound a bit too fussy. Also, they all think American accents are the same. Fatal flaw. 

or, if you can’t do an Irish accent in an American movie, just make the character Irish. You think an American audience will care?