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I AM FREE OF CUBE WORLD! YAYS!

And what was waiting for me in my mailbox?




It is totally a pre-print, but whatever. That means RDJ (or someone in his office) got my package and opened it and sent something back. So awesome. Yeah, I'm a fangirl, shut up.

I've spent all weekend catching up some TV and movies I've been meaning to watch. Which means I've done nothing productive. Meh.

Battlestar Galactica 4.01-4.10: Wow. Okay. That was pretty awesome. And I still think the final Cylon is Dualla.

Penelope: Yeah, again. Really like the movie and the visuals. And James McAvoy.

Doctor Who season 3: Just filling in some episodes I happened to miss. "The Lazarus Experiment," "42," "Human Nature," and "Family of Blood." They were quite good and the Doctor seemed like less of a jerk to Martha in some of the episodes. Still a jerk though. Forgot how much fun this show is; need to watch season 4.

The Singing Detective. Uh. I heard a lot of mixed reviews about this RDJ movie and, yeah. I think I'm in with the group who think this film is fraking weird. I may or may not watch this again. It was kind of cool seeing a lot of other favorite actors (Eddie Jones, Jon Polito, Saul Rubinek, Jeremy Northam) but really, it was just odd. Until the end... the last twenty minutes was pretty cool.

Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus: Odd, but in a good way. I liked it and think I'll be watching it again. RDJ does some interesting things with the character of Lionel.

Resident Evil: Extinction: Wow, that was really... not that good. I did like it better than Apocalypse, but that's not really saying much. Also, WTFCARLOS?! I was just starting to 'ship Alice/Carlos too. Meh. An army of Alices would be pretty kick-ass though.

Casanova: The Heath Ledger one. Honestly, it was a bit silly and oddball, but I liked it for what it was. Heath plays a great Casanova, of course, and I loved Charlie Cox as Giovanni Bruni; found it funny that he was after a girl named Victoria in this as well (see Stardust, which Victoria was played by Sienna Miller).


Didn't really think about what I'm going to do about the job. And now I should really try and finish my Shore Leave report.

While looking for interviews mentioning the amount of improv that occurred during shooting, I found this interview. I loved these bits:

When I was in my 20s, you train for six weeks and you look good for the next six years. Now, I train for six months and I look good for six minutes.

I think audiences, myself as a movie lover, you forgive a lot. Look at the movies we love and look at the schmucks and bitches people are before the turn, act two or the resolution. You never want them to change entirely because part of the aspect of that aggression, drive or that wit is ultimately what comes to bear at the end. From the little I know about storytelling that seems to be useful.

Sometimes, you think [someone] is hot, smart and cool. And then you go on set and she's just talks like a wench and you think, "I can't believe I got to spend the next couple of months with this bitch." Gwyneth was a very corrective experience for me.

We're writing all this stuff down on this huge cue card and Matty, the poor DP, goes, "I have eight minutes of light. Are you guys partying with your improv over there?" I'd go, "This is the scene we had. Fergus and Ostby wrote this pretty cool scene." We used half of it but we're doing this hodge podge and putting it up on this piece of cork board and Matty the DP goes, "I see his eyes moving." I go, "Cut! Props? Sunglasses, please."

About his Hulk cameo: I'm so fucking pissed off. I went and did a scene for two hours which they're going to run during the end credits in "Hulk" and everyone's like, "So, your role in 'Hulk'…" I did it as a favor to these guys at Marvel. They're really cool but I have to talk about it every fucking day. But they're smart because they get that you're saying "Hulk" when we're talking about "Iron Man." They know what they're doing.

The interviewer asked what movies of his people should see if they'd never seen him in anything before. He replied: I would start in the order of which I was making films. I don't know. That's probably something I should spend more time thinking about. I would start with kids seeing "The Shaggy Dog." I just contradicted myself.

After work, I hit Best Buy and picked up Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Zodiac (2-disc with commentary!), and Goodnight and Good Luck. Two of those I've always meant to see and the other is purely for Downey Jr.

Watched a really abbreviated version of the MTV Movie Awards. They still suck, so I'm glad I didn't actually sit there and watch it for 2 hours last night. This was probably the best thing on the show:



Aside from RDJ arriving on stage for the Best Movie presentation XD Is it just me or does RDJ look like he's slimmed down a bit?

Oh yeah. I upgraded my VLC player finally and figured out how to make caps. Sweet.

I just watched Robert Downey Jr. on Inside the Actor's Studio. He's really interesting to watch. Seriously... he's always doing something interested with his face and it's just intriguing to watch. He is way cute with his wife, Susan, and I love the fact that her first impression of him was that he was weird and that she still thinks he's weird! He hates the word "spelunker," hates custom ringtones, and his favorite swear word is sonofacocksuckingwhore XD Ahahahahaha!

Need a copy of this like, nowish. Heh.