Good morning, all! I will setting out for Toyland shortly, and I plan to spend a lot of the day there working on various and sundry projects.
Last night I finished watching Middleton's THE CHANGELING, which petered out: the lunatic subplot was never integrated into the main story, which continued to be a doozy: Beatrice-Joanna, about to marry the man she loves, finds she's pregnant by the killer she hired and her sexual blackmailer. So, she bribes her virginal maid to sneak into the bridal chamber and have sex with her new husband. Then she and the killer start a fire in the maid's room and in the evacuation kill the maid so no one will ever know of the plot. The groom's servant has been flirting with the maid and he's aware of the affair between Beatrice-Joanna and the killer, so he tells the groom. The killers both end up dead. No one lives happily ever after.
Then I watched the bonus features on the new ENCHANTED disc, and this led to my watching the entire movie again. DR FJL, there are two cut scenes that provide more info on the attitude of the Idina Menzel character before the elopement, both of which should maybe have been retained for those of you discontented with that plot development. I still think Amy Adams deserved an Oscar nomination, but I guess the committee thinks being funny is easy and only scenery chewers deserve a nomination these days.
I, for one, liked GONE BABY GONE; I'm not sure I'd want to see it again, but it interested me enough to pick up a couple of the Dennis Lehane mysteries besides MYSTIC RIVER.