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that looks really good...i could do w/o the cheesy music at the end of the trailer lol...I'd go see it with you if I could.

ok...on saturday my mom said she would watch the kids so that martin and i could go out and celebrate our 6 year anniversary...so we went out to the movies for the second time since we have been together rofl ...i wanted to go and see happy feet...but we decided to go and see night at the museum....the first few minutes were ok..but once those passed i really enjoyed the movie....i cant wait for it to come out on video cause i think that the kidlets are gonna love it too...they will love all the running around rofl

Just saw a movie called "Face" starring Bai Ling (or Ling Bai as she's listed in the credits) It's basically the story about a woman who leaves her child to be raised by her mother and then shows up 20 years later to try and rekindle a relationship with her daughter.

It deals with family, interracial romance, shows how close knit the chinese community can be (or any ethnicity really) there's one scene where the granddaughter does something in chinatown in Queens and before she even gets home her grandmother has already heard all about it.

I didn't like the ending. While I thought it left alot up to your own imagination, perhaps it left too much and the things I wanted to see resolved weren't, but perhaps that's the beauty of the story.

It is definitely a must see. I watched it mostly cuz I'm a sucker for Asian (and Asian themed) cinema and it had me glued to the TV crying and laughing with the characters.

i thought of her the whole time I was watching it lol . I couldn't wait to share it cuz I thought exactly that!

confused I think this is a title I lodged in my brain somewhere as one I wanted to see, but maybe not now? Is it supposed to be horror? Or is it just disturbing in some ways?

This movie is actually a poor remake of a 1973 movie entitled "The Wicker Man.

I've seen the original about a year ago and I saw the remake a couple days ago. The original was much more intelligent and well thought out. It was based in druidic culture and not some ramdom island of women bee-keepers type scenario.

I know the scene you are talking about...that scene wasn't actually in the original theatrical release. They had to remove it in order to keep a PG-13 rating (i listened to part of the director's commentary)

They had originally put that scene in there (again if it's the one I'm thinking of) to explain to you later events of why he stays where he is and doesn't try and leave. In this day and age you have to cover your bases or someone somewhere is going to question "why didn't he just call someone?" or "why didn't he just ....?"

It was a pretty disturbing turn of events, but IMHO no more disturbing than scenes I've seen in movies such as Misery (and I"m sure others I can't quite think of right now) Remember, this is based on a foreign film so of course the ending isn't going to be a happy hollywood everything gets resolved and the familiar prevails over the unfamiliar (I won't say good vs. evil because imho the islanders aren't evil)

I personally really like Nicholas Cage as well, but I found his performance lacking in this movie.

I suggest to you (and to everyone) to rent the original Wicker Man. It's a much better film and I think You wouldn't find the remake as horrifying. again IMHO

What's odd is I remember reading the book when I was little, but the *only* thing I remember is the ending, and I don't even remember what all happened/went on on the other side of the bridge when they went! rofl So I was a little surprised to see all the fantasy stuff in the trailer and its resemblance to Narnia, etc. I'm glad to get an opinion on it though!