This Week in YouTube

[handful_ofdust]

Finally saw the trailer for Burton's Alice in Wonderland, and my Lord, that looks like tripe. OTOH, Iron Man 2 benefits heavily from each repeat viewing, not least because the version up at iTunes kept timing out every half-second, causing me to miss little details like the fact that when Tony Stark is dropped out of a plane at the beginning--yelling "You complete me!" back at Pepper, after she's kissed, then punted, his helmet--he isn't actually going into battle, or anything. Instead, he lands center-stage at the Stark Expo, surrounded by stripper-nubile ladies in Iron Man-colored bikinis with fake arc reactors stuck to their ample, scantily-clad chests. Oh, Tony: Never change.;)

Something I'm surprised to find myself increasingly excited about: Clash of the Titans. Something I'm not surprised to find myself excited about, but am nevertheless gratified to observe seems not to suck: Sherlock Holmes. Jude Law makes a particularly pretty, put-upon, man-of-action Watson, as it should be. I also love the clip which has Holmes mentally breaking down how he's going to break down his bare-knuckle boxing opponent, then physically doing it, while Irene Adler completely ignores him in the background.

Hmmm. I wonder if there's a trailer up for Neil Marshall's Centurion yet...