status post "ultraviolet"

okay so we just watched "ultraviolet." wow. ow. ow and wow.

it was worse than i had imagined. it was worse than "aeon flux" (though the films are similar in a few ways). yes, milla's abs were featured in nearly every scene (funny were the scenes in which she'd zip to her throat her halfshirt as if chilly - put on a real shirt, milla!), and they're nice of course but not quite enough to carry an entire movie.

fichtner, yeah, was cute with his vampiric incisors, and so earnest and kind i wanted to give him a hug.

but sheesh. awful film. kara nearly fell asleep.

milla's titular character had crazy fighting skills and apparently built-in weaponry and her clothes changed color sometimes in a way that seemed significant but wasn't explained, though i'm not sure an explanation would have improved things.

as william hurt's character says in "the big chill," "sometimes you have to let art flow over you."

i wonder if it pains actors like fichtner to work alongside "actors" like milla. i'm talking actual pain. i mean, milla can't act at all. she's rotten as an actor. (though there's a film called "dummy" in which she was rather good.) like paul newman working with tom cruise in "color of money." or with bruce willis in "nobody's fool." oh, poor, put-upon paulie.

shouldn't he and bob redford make another film together right about now? and i don't mean "the sting 2."

incidentally, that's one of my all-time favorites, "nobody's fool" - no foolin. paul is terrific in that. and bruce actually isn't as bad in that as in most things - 1994 was a good year for bruce: "nobody's fool" and "pulp fiction" had his best performances i've seen.