Why don't we have characters like this any more?

Han Solo is pretty much the greatest character ever. This is what I have learned in rewatching the original Star Wars movies. That, and Mark Hamill seriously gives like, the worst performance ever. Sorry, Luke.

Happy birthday, lovely lady.

...and the man in this picture is pretty lovely too.

1. Cold Mountain (easily one of the best cameos ever)
2. Leon: The Professional
3. Garden State
4. Closer (at its best, this performance would probably be #2 on this list, but let's play it safe)
5. Beautiful Girls
6. V for Vendetta
7. needless to say, in last place, the Star Wars series

Can't wait for My Blueberry Nights and Paris je t'aime and Goya's Ghosts and The Other Boleyn Girl and the other 150000 movies she's going to be in over the next year or so.

Also, it's some weird guy who likes to dress like a pirate's birthday. Like I care.

Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun...

...that's supposed to be the Darth Vader movies. Because several of the movie channels keep showing the Star Wars movies in chronological order (as in, from Episode I to Episode VI), and I've had the chance to observe two things. a) The leap in quality of the movie overall from Episode III to Episode IV is hilarious. b) While I think it was horrible of George Lucas to re-release the old movies with new special effects, the old special effects are indeed laughably bad.

Sorry I haven't posted anything of substance in a while, I guess. Life is busy. But I saw Shrek the Third and...loved it? Why am I liking all these summer movies that are getting such shitty reviews? I do hope they stop because I've thought every Shrek movie was very very good and the chances of them making a good fourth one seem extremely slim.

from IMDb...

George Lucas has joined the major newspaper critics in their negative appraisal of Spider-Man 3. In an interview with FoxNews.com's Roger Friedman, Lucas said, "It's a silly movie. ... There just isn't much there. Once you take it all apart, there's not much story, is there?" Over the weekend, Spider-Man 3 surged ahead of Lucas's Star Wars episode Revenge of the Sith to take the record for the biggest weekend box-office record. Star Wars was also criticized as being "silly," Lucas noted. "But it wasn't."


Uh...yeah. Spider-Man 3's problem is that it has TOO MUCH story. But more importantly, No matter how bad Spider-Man 3 may be, none of the most recent three Star Wars movies are fit to kiss its ass. And great defense of Star Wars there, Lucas (no, he doesn't go on to elaborate).