Collateral Damage

Since I'm basically feeling unloved and unloveable and am having fits of angsty misery non-stop, I'll do what everyone in my family does when in emotional turmoil: I'll talk about movies!

(Warning: Secret Window spoiler in next paragraph)

Collateral was really well scripted and constructed and I loved the dynamic between the killer and the cabby. Unfortunately, Tom Cruise can't act his way out of puff pastry gift-wrapped in tissue paper; and that piece of casting almost scuttled the movie completely. Damn! Who would you have cast in it? Chris Cooper comes to mind, but I think he's a bit too old for the character. Johnny Depp is too marked as a good guy. In fact, in Secret Window, Chris Cooper had to play his evil half! Maybe Mark Ruffalo should have gotten the killer part instead of the obvious choice of making him the renegade cop. I'd like to see Ruffalo get dressed up and suave -- I think he could handle it beautifully. Did anyone see him in In the Cut? Sexy as hell, too.

Blah, never mind. I even bore myself lately. I especially bore myself.