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[Bad_Rich_Chic]

First - I concur with Slave that Chronicles of Riddick was rather better than I expected. And it had the electric chick from Angel in it, and I like her. Then again, I will watch anything with Vin Diesel in it just so I can drool, so YMMV. Incidentally - what a weird cast.

Second - Cleopatra Jones. This is an excellent movie, which I recommend highly if you haven't seen it before. The plot of the thing (super-hot spy-chick must defeat evil local crime-boss who is messing with her boyfriend's halfway house) and sophistication of dialogue is roughly like a cross between an episode of Starsky and Hutch and a porn movie, but it is all good silliness. Just when you are wondering what the fuck is going on with her wardrobe, she takes one piece of it off and suddenly is wearing something pretty cool. (Except for the red turban with the silver lame cone on top - I still can't figure that one out.) Also, it has one of my new favorite lines in all of moviedom: "Outa sight, sistah!" Said with such a refreshing total lack of irony, you forget people actually used such simple yet colorful phrases once upon a time, and they conveyed meaning.

Third - European Vacation. This is a totally stupid movie. And the world really does not need yet another totally stupid teen sex road movie. Nevertheless, the robot-mime fight scene would have been worth the price of admission. Everyone wants to see a French robot-mime get kicked in the balls, whether they admit it or not.

Fourth - Stepford Wives. Pretty amusing. They went for more broad comedy than the original, and in general it works, but the new ending is stupid. Nicole Kidman looks luscious with dark hair and dark, urban nut-crusher clothes in the first 1/3.

Fifth - Smallpox (FX made for TV thing). Faux-documentary about a smallpox outbreak in 2002. Really not badly done at all. Any tension lost by knowing who lives (based on their giving interviews in the documentary) is more than made up for by the realism of the form and mock-footage.