Have a feeling I might be waiting for Invasion to hit cable before catching it too.

i don't want to see Nicole Kidman toss a kid on camera. That's nasty.

Does the kid die? Is that what you mean?

I should've picked Finbarr as my name, pah.

oh, and don't get me started on the editing. its rare when a movie's editing is as terrible as this movies. i would now make fun of V for Vendetta seeing as that guy came into "fix" this, but i feel as though talkbackers might verbally rape me, so i will refain. though that movie was terrible too.

Joel Silver is a fat pleb with the charisma of a quadriplegic Chris O'Donnell. The Reaping, Exit Wounds, Dungeons & Dragons, Cradle 2 The Grave, Matrix 2 & 3, Swordfish, Romeo Must Die, Ghost Ship, Father's Day, Fair Game....I could go on but I'm getting depressed. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang is the only thing he's done this decade of any artistic value, but let's be honest, he was just lending support to an old friend (Shane Black) who helped to put him where he is today. That movie is all Black though, Silver just gave him $15 million and left him to it.

And here's the part where my credibility goes flying out of the window, I love Hudson Hawk!!!

If this flops, will it affect the BO of The Golden Compass (also starring Kidman/Craig)?

Answer: Nicole Kidman.

WHO CAN KILL A FILM?

Answer: Joel Silver.

Dialogue in movie theatre (not in movie): "Oh, that looks like our little grandchild! This is a good movie! Me love this POS!"

Skimn, Hoge's bloody shrimp on the barbie thing will follow us Aussies to our graves. NOBODY has ever said it except to take the piss out of Hogan. Beside the fact that generally who can afford seafood BBQs all the time anyway, the reason he said shrimp is so that Americans would know what he was talking about. We say PRAWNS, dammit! And that was a tenuous segue dude - you should be a newsreader! - I keed.

The bowl cut thing is a hideous cinematic/entertainment curse and we should all blame Adam Rich. That guy's got a lot to answer for, and I'll bet a lot of the young pups don't even know who I'm talking about. What hell hath the 70s wrought?!

Creasy, it's no better or worse a cinematic conceit than anything else, especially in horror films. With all respect I think you're missing the forest for the trees mate. Either that or the movie is lousy and obviously not holding your attention if you're thinking about stuff like that. The creeping up is unimportant, and after all this time movies, especially genre films, rely on cinematic shorthand as we all know what we want to see (or don't). It's the timing of the scare you know is coming, the "boo!" moment (in other words the "get to the point" thing). Which is exactly why the framing thing works! You KNOW it's coming sooner or later and the challenge is to make you jump anyway despite yourself. It's like the illusionist deflecting your attention when you're watching his hands intently. Peripheral vision couldn't be more beside the point. It's a monster/thriller/horror film! Just like it doesn't matter that the hordes of bad guys attacking from all sides never skewer our hero from behind (which actually has a bit more to do with the proscenium arch and the audience's position but anyway), sound being unrealistically synched to lightning ('cause it seems MOR stupid the other way) and so on. Go with it dude, it doesn't bother most folks as it's cinematic logic. The scare's the thing, not some anal degree of occular dexterity. You actually want to be interrupted by boring old physics and science when it's a story about some supernatural psycho killer? Woo! Having said that, "Behind the Mask" is cool. Cheers mate.

On that note about pedantry, please no-one do the moronic "why is night BLUE in films" logic argument. Fuck me that one's stupid. Did no-one think about why they DO do these things? Or why they always wet down the streets? Jesus!

Quentin, it's best to mentally separate those two if you can. You don't wanna be seeing a Little George Dubbya down there when getting it on. That'll kill your libido faster than someone mentioning your mother! Cue dodgy references to Dubbya can suck my weapon of mass destruction. Oh wait. Ewwww.