I'm sorry. I know lots of you think he's The Hotness.

And, yeah, this is a good picture–those heavy-lidded eyes, the great mouth just about to curve into a smile. But otherwise, meh. He's too slender and rangy for me, too…something.

I went and saw him in Hitch, preparing to be blown away after several friends raved about him. But, nope, didn't do it.

So ya'll can have him.

He did own the box office last weekend though (no big surprise) and I was planning to go see Hancock until I heard some of the reviews.

Did anyone see it? What did you think? $10 movie theater tickets or wait for Netflix?

I know lots of people who thought James McAvoy was fabulous (ie, hot) in Atonement. I never saw it (I like happy endings).

And he didn't do much for me as Mr. Tumnus in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe. You?

But, last night I conned the Music Man into taking me to see Wanted by telling him he could watch Angelina Jolie and it was rated R. (His response: "I'd rather look at you." Talk about brownie points!)

He didn't know anything about the movie except that Jolie was in it, and all I knew was that McAvoy played a loser who finds out he's really a skilled assassin.

Lots of blood. Pretty much through the whole movie. Nonstop. (Music Man's first comment to me after it was over: "You probably haven't seen that much blood in a movie ever." He's probably right.)

Some good lines and a couple laughs, especially near the beginning when Fox (Jolie) shows up all hard-ass and shooting things up, and Wesley (McAvoy), who suffers from anxiety attacks, is freaking out during their shoot-em-up car chase.

I'd probably rate the movie a 6 on a scale of 1 to 10. It could have waited for DVD. 

However, my point is: even after he shed the loserishness and became The Man, McAvoy generated absolutely zero quiveration for me. He still looked like a kid.

But on the other hand, Cross (Thomas Kretschmann) totally did it for me. (Check out that gun.)

Anyone else see the movie? What did you think? 

Okay, who's going to see what this weekend?

You know I'm all over Get Smart, if for no other reason than to see if Anne Hathaway can kick butt enough to be my Victoria.

But there's another reason to support Get Smart over The Love Guru on this all-important opening weekend (besides the fact that Steve Carrell's flick is getting reviewed wayyyyy better than Mike Myers's film [try C+ v. D-...averages]): and that is…Steve Carrell is a nice guy. He's not an egotistical jerk like Myers.

Here's an account (quoted directly from LaineyGossip.com) of Myers' recent appearance on Conan O'Brien:

"He stopped by Conan O”Brien the other night and pulled his usual f&ckery: insisting on a specific brand of creamer for his coffee, sending interns out on a whim for Twizzlers and raspberry seltzer, and when the seltzer arrived, he fussed that it wasn’t the right brand and sent the poor kid running to correct the egregious error.

"It’s a talk show! You’re there for, what, maybe 2 hours? They stock the green room with the loveliest things as it is anyway! He couldn’t wait two f&cking hours to go get that sh*t himself??? Sit DOWN Mike Myers!"

So, yanno…it's $9 to see a movie nowadays, plus the popcorn and stuff (which is a total must). What guy do you want getting your hard-earned money? 

Or…doesn't it matter to you? Come on, tell me true! 

*snort*

But then we wouldn't have had all those lovely battle scenes, with sweaty, muscular men.

So I'm at the Sex and the City movie on Friday night, sitting next to a woman who has read my books (not a close friend, and a woman who doesn't read romance novels very often at all–but she's read mine I'm delighted to say), and we're enjoying the movie.

And then we see Samantha's new neighbor, Dante the surfer guy. OMGHAWT. (And boy do we see allllll of him.) And Donna leans over to me immediately and says, "That's Maximilian." Just like that.

I thought that was pretty cool that she had Max on her mind!

So, there you have it. Dante (who's played by Gilles Marini; you can find pics here because I can't find any linkable ones on the web) is Max.

And Jason Lewis, whose hair is longer and wavier in the movie, is definitely Sebastian.

Anyway. I loved the movie. Am waiting for more pictures; will post when I get them. We were written up in the paper–there were 54 of us! (This is the picture from the paper.)

 I looooved the Brooklyn Bridge scene. Cried about three/four times throughout. Thought Charlotte's big thing was pretty anticlimactic. And the wedding gown montage was a thing of beauty. Incredible. Fell in love with Mr. Big all over again.

Pretty much a great night.

You?