Heidi! They were all great.

I really loved blow dry! /smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />

Sweeny Todd, the barber scene with Rickman and Depp, wonderful.

The singing, (banter) back and forth is my favorite scence.

I liked Sweeney Todd too, but hated that depp had to kill rickman.

an awfully big adventure, when he found out that was his daughter…OMG!

no complaints about the nude scene though in dark harbor haha

i'll try not to take that personally.

as someone who has tried VERY hard to lose weight, it isn't easy.

at least not for me. i've used restraint, i have desire and i certainly

do know what it takes, you're right it's not rocket science. but it

doesn't mean that it's going to happen. i've been lucky enough

to have lost quite a bit of weight over the last 6 months, but i feel pretty

crappy that apparently i must not be restrained enough or have

enough desire since i cant seem to lose it all. i've hit a plateau

and no matter what i do i've become stuck.

Well that is a relief as it wasn't aimed at you personally and I consider you a friend. Perhaps I misunderstood your response about his (Peter Jackson's) willingness to admit he had the surgery. I was only trying to show the side that it is possible to do it naturally. Some of the stuff I read on him indicated that(by his own admission) he'd gotten into some really bad food habits during the production of LOTR and was now opting away from that by eating a different more regimented diet. I don't know you (beyond what I see here) or your struggles. I'm fairly certain that I mentioned that everyone's situation is different. But for me personally it was AND STILL IS a matter of me getting my impulses under control. I quit smoking cold turkey, for instance, almost 5 years ago. Even now the urge is great but it's psychological, not physical at this point. I realize that I will never have the body Madison Avenue tries to tell/sell everyone is the right way to be, but I do the best I can w/the genetics I've got.

In the future I will try to pay closer attention to the words I choose.

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Yeah…i got up once or twice, but overall, it was better then some….I gave it 3.5 out of 5 stars…i've seen so many of these movies now, i can pretty actually predict what will happen in any particular scene….a good movie is one where I can't predict what will happen….

I agree completely. I guess I was being a little unrealistic. I thought the King/Jackson/Cusack would be something cool. It had most of the elements, just a few missing things. I would also concur about the predictability of movies these days. Naturally, I don't include literary adaptations, but some of these plot lines are a little obvious. Another movie that for me sort of falls into this category of cinema purgatory was M. Night's "Unbreakable" (ironically another SL Jackson show). I think this purgatory is best identified as the unfulfilled/unrealized potential category. Movies that really seem to have it going on and then….the transmission falls out.

Anyone seen the movie 1408? I watched it last night, very interesting….

1408: Unrated Version

(2007) PG-13

In this thriller based on a Stephen King story, writer and paranormal debunker Mike Enslin (John Cusack) is determined to demystify the ghostly events of room 1408 at the Dolphin Hotel, even though the clerk (Samuel L. Jackson) begs him to rethink his plans. Mike needs to write another book, and room 1408 may be his big ticket. But will he survive even one night?

Hi Gene!

It was okay. Not many Stephen King movies do it for me. Love reading his books.

My fav of his movies, Stand By Me. Very scarey, jk. /laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':mellow:' />

Shinning was fairly good, with a great direction.

Both the Stand and It were pretty decent. Also Needful Things was good from what I remember.

Sometimes King's stuff doesn't translate so well to the big screen, but would agree that the Stand and It were decent hard to believe they were TV miniseries and quality at that….John Boy casting a little odd, but okay. The Myst was decent.

I never read the Mist if it was a book but I didn't care for it, particularly the ending.

I wonder if a remake of Salem's Lot would be any good. It might do well with all the other vampire shows and movies coming out.

I believe the Mist was a short story in the Skeleton Crew book, I think i heard somewhere that they'd done alternate endings. The theatrical ending was harsh.