Before I forget - here’s a link to a “Bagel-Cam” which is a webcam that was pointing at the craft services table on the set of Jackie Chan’s movie The Tuxedo which sounds pretty absurd…So, watch that show (C O’B reference) …

Erin and I went to a movie with her Aunt, Uncle and Cousin last night - Kate and Leopold. It stars Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman, and can you believe it, it’s a romantic comedy. For some reason, we got free passes to a sneak preview of it. It was interesting…First, the whole movie had an odd colour tone to it - kind of like when you’re watching out-takes on DVD’s. Some of the scene’s looked truly awful as far as video quality goes. I suspect it will get cleaned up before it’s actually released though.

As for the movie…Well, first I should confess that I don’t mind romantic comedies. Yes, they’re formulaic, but sometimes they can be quite good. You’ve got your basic - Boy meets girl, girl hates boy, boy romances girl, girl falls for boy, boy loses girl, girl comes running back to boy at the end, music swells and credits roll. It’s actually pretty funny applying this formula to romantic comedies - it applies in most (if not all) cases.

Well, they followed the formula for this one, except they mostly forgot the comedy part - there were a few chuckles, but certainly not any more than an average Schwarzenegger movie (Yes, I meant Schwarzenegger - I wouldn’t try to type Sandler and have it come out that wrong…) To me, the characters didn’t make me care about them all that much, and the outcome was never in any doubt. There was no real conflict in the movie, and there were some pretty contrived plot holes (which is to be expected when a movie deals with time travel I suppose.) It was pretty long too, as romantic comedies go, though I suspect that a lot of what we saw last night has been/will be cut before it sees it’s release date. For what it’s worth though, Erin really enjoyed it, as did her Aunt and Cousin (I’m not convinced that her Uncle liked it as much as the rest of them) and after all, these types of movies are aimed at the female demographic pretty squarely.

On the other hand, the Habs won last night, and Jeff Hackett is back from his injury.

Simpsons quote of the day - “Unshrink you?! Well that would require some sort of a REbigulator, which is a concept so ridiculous it makes me want to laugh out loud and chortle.. but not at you O holiest of gods with the wrathfulness and the vengence and the bloodrain and the ‘hey hey hey it hurts me’” - Miniature Professor Frink - betcha thought I’d forgotten about him…