Chats, quite sensibly, checks weather.com first thing in the morning before picking out which coat and hat to wear. We're under a winter storm warning today in the northern half of Illinois, and as she read the warning she said that the National Weather Service sure has turned into a bunch of Nervous Nellies.

I tried reading the bulletin aloud in my Mr. Woodhouse voice and decided it would make a decent blog entry. Mr. Woodhouse, you'll recall, is the tremulous, self-described "invalid" from Austen's Emma.

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Well, the DVD for The Invasion hits today. No original director's cut or deleted scenes or anything. Damn.

I said it before and I'll say it again. I thought it was quite a good movie until it turned into a stupid zombie chase. There's nothing wrong with a good zombie chase, but not when it's grafted on to a paranoid thriller in the last fifteen minutes -- and the brain-liquifying ending is probably the dumbest thing I've seen since Burton's remake of Planet of the Apes.

And I'm not crazy for liking much of it, the gal at DVD Verdict agrees with me.

I've serched in vain for a description of the original ending, but all I found was this on IMDB:

Some people at test screenings talked about an unhappy ending in which Nicole and the kid escape. The screens goes black and then we see a TV broadcast from the city they just escaped. In the broadcast, you see different people, adults and children begging their relatives & friends to return because they love them. The last person seen is Daniel Craig who begs Nicole and the kid to come back. Apparently, the government was able to isolate the city but doesn't know what to do about it.

No surprises here.

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