Movies I'm hoping to see

I just got my paycheck, so I'm feeling a bit generous with myself; could have something to do with the fact that "the Frenchman" (i.e., my supervisor, who bears a wierd resemblence to a very young Lambert Wilson) said he'd give me a couple extra nights next week. So... I'm planning to go see "I, Robot" when it comes out tomorrow. I just have to check on Yahoo! Movies for showtimes (Ain't that a great site?), and then plan my bus route around it.

I'm really looking forward to seeing this one: just from the previews I've seen, it looks like a combination of "Minority Report" and "A.I.": The art design looks a LOT like "Minority..." and the robot characters look oddly like the Specialists from the last scenes of "A.I."... and, for that matter, like B1-66-ER, the robot murderer from "The Animatrix: Second Renaissence, Part 1". (::SHIVERS!::)

I'm watching "Without a Trace" on TV with my mom last week, and this ad for "Late Night with David Letterman" came on, and there's this clip of David Letterman talking with Will Smith (who plays the robo-phobic detective in "I, Robot"): David Letterman's rattling on and on, and Will Smith cuts in: "Can I ask you somethin'? ...How come you haven't asked me anything about 'I, Robot'?" I've seen Will Smith in the really funny "Men in Black" movies (the ultimate sci-fi comedies... well, after "Galaxy Quest"), and I know he was nominated for an Academy Award for playing Muhammed Ali in a recent film based on Ali's life story, but seeing him in a serious science fiction movie is going to be interesting to say the least. I'm sure he can pull it off.

I'm ambivalent about "Catwoman" (coming out next week). I used to like Halle Berry, but since she got the Oscar a couple years ago, she seems to have gotten extremely snotty. She refused to repeat the part of Storm in the projected "X-Men 3" because she claimed that she got less lines in "X-Men" and "X-Men 2" put together than in whatever-it-was she got the Academy Award for. But there again... Lambert the French Sex God is playing opposite her in "Catwoman", so *that's* enough to make me think again; plus, Benjamin Bratt, who used to be on "Law & Order" has a part in it.

Hm... Halle was playing opposite a French actor, plus I think the director is French as well... and since the French have elevated snootiness to an artform, maybe between the two of 'em, Lambert and the director took Halle down a few pegs!

YESS!!!!

I looked on Yahoo! Movies to find the showtimes for "I, Robot" earlier this afternoon.

Zero. Zip. Nada. The Big Bupkuss.

I almost got upset, and I started grumbling about how they have to waste screens on Michael Moore's damn movie (I don't believe in censorship, but I'll say this much: Michael Moore should count his blessings that he lives in a country that allows him the freedom to make movies like that: If he lived in Iraq under Saddam "The Super-Sadist" Hussein, and he tried to make a movie on the same line, it would probably never hit the can, and he'd probably have his head cut off for even *THINKING* about making it.)... But I just jumped on Yahoo! Movies again... Aaaaand the showtimes for it are up!!! So, I'm planning on either the 10.40 am. showing, or the 12.50 showing, depending on bus schedules.

And in other news, some of our neighbor H.'s mail ended up in our mailbox, so I nipped over to bring it to her... and I met her new dog, Mufasa, who took an immediate liking to me: tried putting his paws up on me! He's an active, cheerful fella: he'll make a great canine neighbor. I'd showed up right about when H. was taking him for a walk in the cemetary behind Shed Park in Lowell, so I went with her. Very pleasant way to spend the afternoon...