David and I tried a couple of times to see Syriana – both times we weren’t able to get tickets and left rather than wait around for the next show. Then, we ended up missing it because it wasn’t playing the next time we felt like seeing a movie. I think we’ll end up renting it – we haven’t gotten into Netflix yet, so Blockbuster is fine for now.

There are some movies that you see once in the theaters and forget. There are other movies that you see once in the theaters, forget, and watch once more when it comes to cable. And then you forget it again. There’s a third class of movies that you saw multiple times in theaters, bought the DVDs, and yet you STILL watch them when they show up on cable – this latter class includes the Lord of the Rings movies, the Harry Potter movies, and so on. One other type of movie seen in first run is the kind where you can’t quite bring yourself to buy the DVD, or it’s never come out in DVD format, but you’ll watch it every single time it shows up on TiVo. Such movies as “The Fifth Element” fall into this category (which is where I got the “moolti-pass” joke.)

And then there are some movies that you never saw in first run, but when they show up in the cable rotation, you watched out of idle curiousity. Suddenly, you’re hooked, and you will happily watch them over and over again, because for some mysterious reason, you absolutely love them and can’t think why you didn’t see them in the theater.

Such a movie is “Can’t Hardly Wait,” a movie made in 1998. In some ways, it’s the “American Graffiti” of its generation, but with better dialogue (remember who wrote AG? I rest my case).

The characters are pretty stock, but the cast is good.

Also, the background action is sometimes pretty funny, but there’s no explanation. Why does that weedy little teen keep showing up and stealing stuff right from under everyone’s noses? At one point, he boosts a patrol car. No one notices this.

Preston? Pre-STONE! I can watch this movie over, and over, and over. Why? I’m always spotting something I didn’t notice before, like the fact that the actor playing the hippy guy that licks a brownie off of Denise’s face is an alum of “Six Feet Under,” as is the actress that plays Denise. There are 3 pretty well-known actors in the “uncredited” section – Jenna Elfman, Melissa Joan Hart, and Jerry O’Connell, not to mention several more like Liv Tyler who did voiceovers.

Like I say, it’s like American Graffiti, but much more contemporary, since it contains a fairly decent re-creation of the lightsaber duel between Luke and Darth Vader, with flashlights.

I’m currently listening to Harry Shearer’s Le Show. David doesn’t care for this show, but like it when I happen to hear it. I was in the mood for a little political commentary, satire, and humor after just seeing “Good Night, and Good Luck.”

As we left the theater tonight, I remarked that cigarette smoke was like another character in the movie. After checking the official website for the movie, I see that cigarette smoke is about the only thing moving on the splash screen after the intro.

And now ::yawn:: good night. Good luck too, I suppose.

Highlander: The Source, envisioned as the first of three new films in the popular supernatural franchise, will shoot in Lithuania starting in October, according to an announcement by Davis-Panzer Productions, Sequence Films and Grosvenor Park. Brett Leonard (Lawnmower Man) will direct, with Adrian Paul playing the immortal Scottish swordsman Duncan MacLeod.

Okay, I’m a Highlander fan. I own three (3) little tchotchkes shaped like the famous dragon-head katana: a necklace, a pen, and a rather cool if I do say so letter opener. I’ve blogged before about my HL fan-past. And the word among fans has been going around about this next movie for a while, so this news is not news to me.

And my gut reaction: is an almighty “meh.” I’m just not sure we need to watch this franchise die a slow and painful death (repeatedly, if the 3-movie deal is real).

Yes, I’ll see it, just out of curiousity, but I’ve got a bad feeling about it. My husband David will probably have to be lured with promises of being hand-fed Twizzlers during the show, and at least one damn fine beer at Brass brewpub after.

Although… well, Lawnmower Man was a pretty cool movie, with one pretty cool quote: “I am God here.” David uses that line every time he has to do something moderatorish on one of his mailing lists. So we’ll see how the new guy does with the canon.