Good Morning, World

So apparently Joshua Jackson saw how positively we all responded to him wearing tighty-whities on Little Fires Everywhere back in 2020 and he said, "You know what? I'm gonna give the gays..." et cetera, etc cetera y'all know that meme. And so anyway there he is in tighty-whities again on that Fatal Attraction series he is on opposite Lizzy Caplan. Yeah that same Fatal Attraction series that reportedly kept her off of the new season of Party Down episodes. Which had me pissed off at Fatal Attraction. But I am willing to accept Joshua Jackson in tighty-whities as a make-up gift. I guess I will watch it when it airs in April, then. Voila, that easy. Anyway happy Monday yadda yadda let's just get on with it already. Oh, one note that you should scribble in your mind's calendar -- an unexpected day-job thing will have me off-blog for Thursday and Friday of this week. So just a brief three-day MNPP week ahead! Prepare your bodies!

Dick on the Box

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Well this is groovy news we all can use - Ryan Hansen, our beloved Dick (sucker) Casablancas, is getting a sort-of Veronica Mars spin-off! We'd actually already heard whispers about this, and we thought it was going to be timed more in line with the release of the Veronica Mars movie, but now there's word beyond the little dribble we knew (thanks Mac) - it's going to be an online series called Play It Again, Dick (you speak to me, title) via the CW's website, and it's actually going to star Ryan Hansen as Ryan Hansen, who will be going around trying to convince his Veronica Mars co-stars that there should be a Dick Casablancas spin-off. Meta, yo. Veronica creator Rob Thomas is writing the whole thing. I hope they find some way to rope in some Party Down folks, too. This is me just wanting more Lizzy Caplan in my life, though. Always!

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Good Morning, World

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I hope everyone had a lovely little holiday, if Thanksgiving (and/or Hanukkah) is a thing you celebrate; if it's not, then I hope you had a nice weekend, and I envy you for probably never feeling over the course of the past few days so full that you might literally dig into your chest cavity with your bare fingers to remove your own ribs, for being in the way of your expanding guts. It's not a nice feeling. Anyway that's Martin Starr up top; I have no real reason for posting him (it's not his birthday or anything) except that the scene where he dresses as the Bionic Woman in Freaks & Geeks popped into my head the other day and I couldn't stop laughing.

"No! These are not bionic! These are all me!"

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Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... riding the pony with Rob Thomas. 

Pony, unicorn, whatever. It was Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas' birthday last Thursday and these two pictures of him got tossed out by the upcoming movie's Facebook and Instagram accounts to wish him a happy one, and how could I not share? I've always thought he was cute - a sense that only multiplied due to his mad writing skillz.

Who Wore It Best?

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Sexual suspenders?

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poll by twiigs.com

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Pic of the Day

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Apparently the cast of Party Down reunited in San Francisco for Sketchfest over the weekend, and EW has some pictures. Would they just make a movie already?

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Make Me a "B-Face"

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If Bridesmaids is the happy drunk at the wedding who tries to get the DJ to play "Celebration" three times in a row, then Bachelorette is her coked-up cousin who storms out onto the dance-floor and kicks her in the shins and screams for her to give it a fucking rest. I love both of these ladies, but I want Bachelorette as my date. Since the flick's been on demand I've already seen it three times, but now it's out in theaters and I'd really like it to make some money, so y'all go see it please. Kirsten Dunst, Lizzy Caplan, Isla Fisher, and Rebel Wilson! Plus we get to see James Marsden without any pants on, and Andrew Rannells strips! Simply put, you cannot go wrong.

For some more thoughts on Bachelorette as well as the other movies out this weekend, hit up Celebrity Beehive. I'm seeing Premium Rush tonight! Aren't I timely?

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I Deserve That Side-Eye, Adam Scott

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I suppose it's just the fact that I am totally blown out right now but everything that should be exciting me today is just making me wary. So instead of greeting the (week old, but I am just seeing it) news that comedy storm-troopers Adam Scott and Ken Marino and Kristen Bell and hot hot Ryan Hansen (Party Down, ho!), plus Michael Ian Black and Kerri Kenney, plus others, will all be appearing in an online series for Comedy Central called Burning Love that will make fun of reality-dating shows... well instead of greeting that with a hearty "Whoo-hoo!" like it deserves my first thought was more like "Well it can't be as good as Party Down, maybe they shouldn't push their luck." Ugh I am so gross right now! So don't listen to me and my mood. Be excited, be be excited. So forth, so on.

I should add I have a ticket to see a Q&A with Adam Scott in person with that movie Friends With Kids tonight and I am about 95% to the point of bailing, just so I can go home and lay very very still on the floor until sweet slumber takes me away. Somebody yell at me! God, pathetic.
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Paul Rudd Twelve Times

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(click to embiggen) Wanna know who's adorable in person? Wow if I said somebody other than Paul Rudd to answer that question - Albert Fish! - that would be weird. (It would especially weird if I said Albert Fish.) Anyway yes as you can see from those pictures above, Paul Rudd is indeed every inch of adorable live you hope he will be. Those are from the Film Comment Selects screening of David Wain's Wanderlust that screened here in NY last night. Also there with Paul was Wain and his co-stars Ken Marino, Kerri Kenney, and Alan Alda.

I'd put Wanderlust about on par with Wain's last movie Role Models - so very funny, but maybe undone a little bit by an erratic tone - towards the end there's some sappy story machinations that even the movie half-rolls its eyes at. Sometimes you feel with Wain's movies this sense of, "Oh fine, we'll actually bother to do some plot now, whatever." It's a real showcase for Rudd though, and he's his ever charming yet vulgar self. That he can maintain such sweetness while using a broad southern waitress voice to say the word "dick" over and over again is a testament to his abilities.

And of course the rest of the cast runs deep with talent - Aniston's perfectly charming, while Ken Marino has his blustering jerk thing down pat. And I was surprised not at how funny Micheala Watkins was as Marino's suffering wife but at how much the movie allowed her to be so funny. Hers is a usually thankless role that Wain mined more than you expect him to. And then you've got Kenney, Alda, Malin Akerman, Joe Lo Truglia, Kathryn Hahn, Lauren Ambrose, Linda Lavin (!), so so many people hitting so many funny notes. And Justin Theroux is a bushy-bearded sex bomb. This thing I tweeted last night about says it all.

Oh and during the Q&A Paul Rudd and Ken Marino were asked about a Party Down movie, and that managed to be the only bit I recorded on video. Spoiler alert: they totally dodge the question, but are adorable while doing it.

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Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... doing the three R's: 

reading and riding and Ryan.

(click to embiggen) Oh boy, a new chance to indulge my two favorite things in the world - good looking fellows in some state of undress, and bookshelves. Hooray! When the twain ever do meet it's a celebration, and this time's an especially good one, because it involves Dick. Casablancas, that is. Ryan Hansen, who played with Dick on Veronica Mars and Kyle on Party Down and got shot through the face with an arrow in the Friday the 13th remake...

... that is, aka one of our most favorite people, and one we don't get to talk about often enough. And there he is striking a pose for us in front of bookshelves! I do, Ryan!

These pictures are from some show he was on called Friends With Benefits that I'm pretty sure I never even heard of. He apparently spent a whole lot of time on the show taking his clothes off though, which you'll see since I've got a thousand and a half pictures to post, but can I just say first off that Ryan has aged well. Really well. He's let his natural fuzziness come in for one, which magnifies his sexiness to the Nth degree.

Nnnnnth. So like I said I've got a whole lot of pictures from this show to post, but all of this was actually brought about because of actual real news, and not just my hormones. Deadline take it away:

"Party Down and Veronica Mars alum Ryan Hansen has landed the lead in the Fox comedy pilot El Jefe. The project, from writers David Guarascio & Moses Port and Sony TV, centers on an affable but lost 30-year-old (Hansen) who, tossed out of his Brentwood home, moves in with his longtime Latin American nanny and goes head to head with her strong-willed son and finds himself in a family and work life very different than the ones he grew up in."

So it sounds for the best that I never watched Friends With Benefits, because that shit is obviously super dead. But Ryan moves on, and I hope this show's good, because my beloved Dick deserves good things. HIT THE JUMP for a mountain of pics.

Quote of the Day

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"I will be doing the Party Down movie."

--- Megan Mullally on what her plans for 2012 are.

This is happening!??!? This is really happening?!?!?!!

Everybody keeps telling me it is, so...

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I Am Link

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--- Dazed of Heaven - Glenn is rubbing it in that he got to see a double-feature of Badlands and Days of Heaven on the big screen over at Stale Popcorn, like that makes him BETTER than us or something. (It does.) I haven't gotten to see Days of Heaven on a big screen yet, boo, but I did see Badlands and Sissy fucking Spacek was there to talk about it, so I win a prize too, don't I?

--- Dudesploitation - Are we living in the golden age of beefcakery? Seeing as how I've got a seemingly endless supply of posting material as of late, a case could be made... and has, by Joe Reid, over at Vulture. Go forth! All of our favorites are mentioned!

--- Hasa Diga Eebowai - I had The Book of Mormon on my brain yesterday because I'm pretty sure I saw its star Andrew Rannells on the subway. (Here's my review of the show.) EW is reporting that, shocking absolutely no one, Trey Parker and Matt Stone are going to make a movie from the play. Of course all the article says is "some day," whatever that means. But that could be a good thing! I wanted to see the show right away after the first time, but then I remembered it was constantly sold out and costs hundreds of dollars each time, so notsomuch.

--- Remembering Raiders - There was a big 30th anniversary screening of Raiders of the Lost Ark in LA this week with Steven Spielberg there - doesn't he ever come to New York? I don't think he's done anything here the entire time I've lived here, the rat - and AICN has the details from the Q&A including the surprise appearance of Harrison Ford.

--- My Own Private Franco - Towelroad gives us an update on the current state of James Franco's art wankery - he's on the cover of some zine splashed with Pepto Bismal and he's still yapping about how much he adores Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho, because we all didn't hear you say you loved to suck dick the first time, James.

--- Party This Summer - Adam Scott says they are just "crossing the i's and dotting the t's" (okay I said that, and backwards, on purpose, it's gonna be my new catchphrase!) on shooting the Party Down movie this upcoming Summer. I hope he knows how physically viiolent I might become if this turns out to be a lot of hoo-ha.

--- Lannister Lately - The Kingslayer is making a horror movie! Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is starring opposite Jessica Chastain as a couple who take in their long-thought-lost nieces and nephews only to discover a supernatural force of some sort is hunting them. Guillermo Del Toro is producing, because Guillermo Del Toro produces every movie made now, didn't you hear?

--- Bite My Pillow - I told you just yesterday that Club Silencio was on fire with awesomeness this week, right? Well the blaze is still going strong, with love thrown at Corky St. Clair and Eraserhead and most inspired of all Dr. Lester in Being John Malkovich, a seriously underappreciated performance. Head over and see! 

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I Am Link

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--- Great Scott - Sometimes I think to myself, Self, hello. Adam Scott really couldn't be any more awesome and deserving of the crush the world has on him, could he?" And then I reajavascript:void(0)d an interview with him like say today's in TimeOut and I realize that I've been such a dreary fool, of course he can be, and of course he will, time over and time again, he is incapable of being anything but the most awesome and adorable lollipop-headed man ever. He also says the Party Down movie is at like a 90% going-to-happen, which yay! I keep seeing all these mentions of there being a cult for that show now and it just pisses me off, though. I would like to enter into evidence all my posts on the show, even from before it even started airing back when we thought Paul Rudd would be on it. Fuck y'all people that didn't support it from Day 1! You're why it's not on anymore, I hate you!

--- Hillbilly Handfishin' - Speaking of adorable men who you fall back in love with every time you read an interview with them (or see them in a red speedo, for that matter) STYD chatted up Alan Tudyk whose supposedly-hysterical horror-comedy Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil is out in limited release and on VOD today.

--- Pro Frills - Glenn made sweet love to some images from the BluRay of Kelly Reichardt's gorgeously-shot Meek's Cutoff over at Stale Popcorn and reminded me how much I loved that shot of Zoe Kazan's costume blowing around her head like the frill on a dilophosaurus Frill-necked lizard.

--- D Is For Decapitation - Been hearing about The ABCs of Death for awhile now - it's an anthology horror movie where 26 different horror directors will each be assigned a word about death from a letter of the alphabet (A is for Asphyxiation!) to make a horror short about. These things are always hit or miss and it's often the directors you're most excited to see within that are doing the missing but looking at the just-finalized list of directors I'm still excited all the same. Ti West, Simon Rumley, Angela Bettis, Xavier Gens, Andrew Traucki and Nacho Vigalondo to name just a few!

--- Jewel of the Defile - Why is this still being mentioned, as if it might happen? Don't they know that if they try to remake Romancing the Stone with Gerry Butler and Katherine Heigl the people will rise up and burn Hollywood to the ground? Why don't they know that? We need to let them know this. There's only so far we can be pushed before we start pushing back!

--- Milk Made - I didn't really like the baby-horror movie Grace that much as a whole but I can't honestly say that I don't think of the movie whenever breast-feeding comes up in conversation (which obviously happens all the time) so it left a mark, at least. It's director Paul Solet is lining up his next movie and STYD's got the info. It sounds kind of stupid, like The Strangers meets Hostel.

--- All That Spazz - At first I didn't think I'd have much interest in the gimmicky movie The Artist - a black-and-white silent film made in 2011 - but I'm actually starting to come around to the idea. At least, like Nat says in his take on the just-released trailer, it seems to be a genuine love-letter to movie-making, even if singing and dancing has never been my cuppa. I'm probably gonna check it out at NYFF so we'll see. It doesn't hurt that it stars ?, who we've already lusted over here before. Looker!

--- Hey Coop - According to Michael Ian Black everybody but his boning-partner Bradley Cooper have made it known that they would totally do a Wet Hot American Summer sequel. Black also talks about that gay sex scene exactly the way I wish every actor would talk about such things.

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Wet Hot American Reunion

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Yes, as teased in my previous post I went and saw the 10 anniversary celebration of David Wain's Wet Hot American Summer hosted by Stella (Michael Showalter, Wain and Michael Ian Black, as seen above) in Brooklyn last night, and I took some pictures and some videos to share, hooray! Let's get right to the good stuff.

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The above video is thirty seconds of five people fondling sweaters while being cursed at, and if you don't get that then you should probably stop reading this now.

Michael Showalter and Marguerite Moreau,

doing their awkward thing.

There be Janeane Garofalo, telling all the Jews in the audience that they'll have their pick of shoes when the Rapture comes. She was wearing a pillowcase. Unfortunately she never did her moose (mousse) impersonation.

On the left there is Gideon Jacobs who played Aaron, the little boy that Molly Shannon falls in love with. He got some lusty whoops for growing up good. Beside him is Gabriel Millman, who played the caped boy (the one with the twenty sided die that takes douchebag as a compliment). He did not get any lusty whoops. 

In the right-hand picture Showalter's doing his Alan Shemper shtick. Cavemen thought I was old, arrr, et cetera.

That's adorable AD Miles, who played Gary (the one who keeps hearing Christopher Meloni's bizarre comments), interviewing Can Of Vegetables. (Can of Vegetables as voiced by H. Jon Benjamin, otherwise known as Sterling Archer, my cartoon sex crush.)

And finally, we have Ken Marino and Marisa Ryan in character as the boastful virgin Victor and the gum-snapping slut Abby. If you've got a thing for Ken Marino's legs then this was must-see. Oh and he sang "Danny's Song" which happens memorably in the movie! Which you can watch right here!

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That is one of the best things ever. There were videos from several of the no-shows - Amy Poehler's character is apparently now a costume designer on a semi-animated film exclusively for Hulu, while Paul Rudd reenacted his tray-smashing routine for Judd Apatow. They showed a couple of audition tapes too - Bradley Cooper being kind of terrible, Amy Poehler hitting it out of the park from word one, and Naomi Watts (!!!) reading for the part that Marguerite Moreau got in a terribly sleazy-seeming video that felt like the opening scene from a lost 80s porn.

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Quote of the Day II

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If I were to write any words here they would betray my enthusiasm and immediately jinx any and everything involved, or it could just be a string of exclamation points, or I could find a way to make the pixels of your computer screen extend themselves outwards and turn into hands and grab you by the collar and shake you and shake you and shake you some more until you understood how fucking exciting this is to me. But I'll just present the quote from Party Down creator Rob Thomas as is, it speaks for itself.

"People are talking to us about doing a Party Down movie. We are pretty far down the deal-making process with that, so we’re hopeful that there will be a Party Down movie. Ideally, if it works out we could be shooting in television hiatus time next spring. Hopefully that deal will close, and we’ll all tweet about it when it does."

Shake shake shake! (via)

I Am Link

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--- Do Do And Do - How's this for a threesome - Kirsten Dunst, Adam Scott, and Lizzy Caplan! I'll take it. They're all set to star in an indie comedy called Bachelorette, about three means girls (Dunst, Caplan, and an as-of-yet uncast third) who tormented a girl in high school (to be played by brief SNL alum Casey Wilson, whose paraplegic stripper is one of my favorite skits on that show of all time) but are invited to be her bridemaids years later. That's so Muriel's (Mariel's?) Wedding I can't stand it! "And you three! What a bunch of cocksuckers!" Adam Scott's playing Lizzy's high school crush who's at the wedding too. Party Down reunion, ho!

--- Hotsman - They've tried about forty different dudes and not found a fit yet, but now they're trying to cram all six and a half solid feet of Chris Hemsworth into the tights of the Huntsman in that other Snow White movie. Mmm Chris Hemsworth in tights.

--- Speaking of a solid six and a half feet of man, Armie Hammer's signed on for a thriller called 2:22 (will it come out on February 22nd? Stay tuned!) where he'll play an air traffic controller who almost crashes a bunch of planes because of a mysterious flash of light that happens at oh some time in the afternoon, I dunno, look it up.

--- Lady Dictator - I mentioned a couple of names that were up for the female lead in Sacha Baron Cohen's next movie The Dictator, including Anna Faris and Kristen Wiig, last week - well apparently the offer's out to Anna Faris for it. I can see her and Sacha making for a killer tag-team. Yay Anna! I mean, nothing against Miss Wiig obviously, we love her too. Yay everybody!

--- Blood Sucking - Dario Argento's still trying (and mostly failing spectacularly) to make movies worth watching, and BD has a bunch of new details on his 3D Dracula movie that's next for the slaughter, including athattruly embarrassingly lousy poster there to the left. Sigh. Suspiria's so far away now.

--- Lava Bomb - Roman Polanski couldn't get a movie about the destruction of Pompeii made, but Paul W. S. Anderson, director of every single Resident Evil movie, apparently can. I think Anderson promised more things going boom to the men with the money, probably.

--- My Girl Greta - Hooray another part for sun-dappled phenom Greta Gerwig, my love. It's a rom-com of sorts about a lovely lady (Greta's the lovely lady, of course) whose fiancee dumps her a couple of weeks before their wedding, which sends her off on a life-searching type thing before her 30th birthday. Orlando Bloom's in talks to play the dumper.

--- Hit Record - I dunno if [REC]2 ever played properly here in the US, did it? I saw a special screening of it, and missed it if it did. But I loved it, so the news that it's coming onto DVD on July 12th, just in time for my birthday, is happy making. there are more details on the disc at that link.

--- Oh Danny Boy - There's nothing more exciting than shots of Daniel Craig and David Fincher standing around talking to each other in these shots from the set of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, but if you're like me, just seeing Daniel Craig's exciting enough for at least a look-see. Five to ten seconds well spent!

--- Up For Nasties - Over at Stale Popcorn Glenn takes a look at a doc I've been wanting to see for awhile called Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape, about well what the title says. You know, those grungy horror flicks in the puffy video cases at the back of the video store. AKA my bread n butter.

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I Am Link

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--- Fassy's X Factor - I almost gave this a post of its own yesterday but decided the image is too tiny to bother giving it that much weight just yet - the first image of the X-Men Muppet Babies popped online and over to the left in the film image is the one that matters most, Fassy as Lil' Magneto. Also, James McAvoy as a young Dr. Xavier.

--- See Lots of Evil - Any of y'all see the 2008 Brit-horror flick The Children? It was about some sort of virus making teeny little tots turn murderous on their parents, and it was a lively little thing. Here's my review. Well its director Tom Shankland is lining up his next movie - it's called Dark Corners and it's a blind lady in danger flick. Hopefully it'll be better than Julia's Eyes, the new Spanish take on this well-told tale, which I didn't like much at all.

--- Fangs For Nothing - I have no idea if this movie will be anything worth watching, but the first images from Vampire, in which cute boy Kevin Zegers plays a you-guessed-it vampire, are over here. It co-stars Keisha Castle-Hughes (remember her?) and Rachel Leigh Cook (don't remember her, please). And then here is a clip from it. I don't know. Kevin Zegers is cute, give me a break.

--- Remakecrimes - The gloriously riveting 2007 Spanish flick Timecrimes is apparently still getting the remake treatment, says Deadline. The man who wrote Searching For Bobby Fischer and Schindler's List, Steven Zaillian, is working on the script. Not bad. You know if they make it something new I'd be very excited to see another take on the story. It's a twisty enough tale that I get something new from every time I watch it, and it'd be simple to spin the story off in any number of ways and keep true to its spirit. But will they? Or will they just make the same movie minus pesky subtitles? Hmm I wonder.

--- The Lindbergh Babe - Isn't it weird that Josh Lucas seems so in demand right now? He's just sort of bee there for a dozen years now, but lately his name's all over junk. Not that I mind. I like to gaze upon him, especially when his clothes are doffed. I don't think he'll be doffing any clothes as Charles Lindbergh in Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar Hoover movie though.

--- Frontways - It's been approximately fifteen thousand years since Alexander Payne's last movie Sideways came out, so it's good to see he's not sitting on his can anymore. His movie with George Clooney is finished, and he's lining up his next film. It's called Nebraska and it's a father-son road-trip movie where the father's convinced (but no one else is) that's he's won the Publisher's Clearing House sweepstakes. Sounds like an Alexander Payne movie to me. I just hope there's room for Margo Martindale somewhere in it.

--- Mr. TeeVee Man - Rob Thomas, not the singer but the genius-man who gave us Veronica Mars and Party Down, has a new project on the horizon - a little-league centered comedy for FOX called Little In Common. He's also working on Temp, a show about temps, for NBC. Gimme all of this!

--- The Beautiful Peoples - If you wanna talk about the fashions at the Golden Globes this past Sunday, then check out The Film Experience's twin posts on the fellas and the ladies. Nat does such a lovely job with these lineups every time.

--- Westeros: The Primer - If you've been wondering what the hell these Song of Ice and Fire books are that I've taking to yapping about with stuttered urgency over the past several months, then let me direct you over to my bud Sean T. Collins spectacular post explaining the series to those considering a glance. He made me want to start the series all over again by the time he was through. They really are must-reads; I must insist you all pick them up. I finished the fourth book A Feast For Crows just last night, meaning I'm now joining in with the rest of the series' fans in patiently awaiting for the fifth book. I can only hope that the HBO series coming in April will get the wheels moving.
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I'd Give My Left Arm For More Lizzy

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I don't appear to have it in me to write a proper review of 127 Hours today. Perhaps tomorrow, or perhaps later than tomorrow, or perhaps when I do my top movies for 2010, which at the rate this year's going it very well might make.

That's not meant as a swipe at the film so much because I liked the film a lot. But I wouldn't say I loved it. James Franco is very very good - that's twice this year; he's due his nomination, Academy - and the film's very attractive to look at. But I found myself feeling emotionally removed from the film for most of it. There was something, perhaps Boyle's frantic need to amp up the adrenaline of it all in an attempt to keep us engaged in a film about a solitary single character, that kept me at arm's length. Style was trumping, stampeding, substance.

Until the end, where Boyle rights the ship and brings it in. Those final ten minutes or so packed an emotional wallop I wasn't expecting at all, feeling as I did for what preceded them. Maybe it's that it comes in the wake of something so viscerally realized as the cutting through of one's own arm. Maybe it's that Boyle makes that moment so real, so awful and sickening and overwhelming, that it's impossible to not get sucked right into the moment at that point. The way Franco falls backwards before you even realize what's happened, and there it is, the arm is off. There's real shock captured there, a dizzying sense of whatthehelljusthappened, that's a true accomplishment when you think about the fact that that moment is the money-shot we've all been expecting the entire movie.


It's what the story's about, it's the selling point, and Boyle made what we all came to experience retain a sense of horrible surprise. You know Ralston survives, you know he gets the arm off, and yet those final few minutes of the film really truly got me. Not that I thought Boyle would change the ending, but that he made something we already know all about going in feel so alive. It could've been a freeze-dried turd like Apollo 13, but it wasn't, is my point.

So anyway it's a definite step back up in my estimation for Danny Boyle after Slumcrap Crapionnaire. Good on ya, Danny.

All that aside - and I did just end up reviewing it far more than I anticipated - what I really wanted to make mention of right now is what the hell was the deal with Lizzy Caplan showing up for five seconds? I wish I could find a frame of her from the film to share here because that frame would literally be her entire role. I know that, to the world's shame, the world isn't eaten up with Lizzy Caplan devotion and probably only finds the sight of her vaguely familiar, but I was all, hey! Rewind that! I want to see more Lizzy! But no, she sits on his dream couch in a wedding dress and then poof gone. It sent me off on this whole train of thought about how I guess it looks good for this movie to be on her resume and then I thought about how maybe some of it got left on the cutting room floor and then it made me think of how Lizzy's character Casey in Party Down was cut out of the Judd Apatow movie she was all excited about and so I started thinking about how much I think that Lizzy and Casey are probably a lot alike and then James Franco's arm fell off and I was all woah, and cried, the end.
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