War of the Worlds, PSA

I know you'll all be crushingly disappointed, but I don't have any more Sims updates as of yet (will Draco get over his fear of roaches?) -- I didn't play last night as I went and saw War of the Worlds. To be honest, I wasn't really looking forward to seeing it. I thought about going to watch Batman Begins yet again, but Jade said that I should at least see WotW once, and anyway I've already seen BB three times. (I had a free movie ticket from buying the BB Xbox game, but the showtimes were only 5 min. apart, so at least BB got my 'money.' :D) I'm completely indifferent to Tom Cruise. On a scale of 1-10 of how interested I am in a celebrity, he'd rank a solid 5. I wouldn't see a movie for him, but I wouldn't stay away because of him, either. And he's done lots of movies that I've enjoyed (Top Gun, A Few Good Men, and Minority Report come to mind), but he's also done ones that I wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole. Also, prior to seeing WotW, I wasn't a Dakota Fanning fan. I'd never seen her in anything, but she's just one of those kids who seem annoyingly precocious -- a 40-year-old woman in a child's body, you know? Plus I wasn't all that impressed with the trailers, and the last movie I saw by Steven Spielberg was A.I., which has to be one of the worst movies in existence. So these were my biases going into the movie. ( Anyway... (long review, with spoilers) )

PSA! This is totally and completely legitimate, if you weren't sure:

In a few weeks, cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing companies and you will start to receive sale calls. You will be charged for these calls. (noelleleithe points out that this part is not true -- see link in comments for details.)

If you haven't already done so, call 888-382-1222 from your cell phone or go online to www.donotcall.gov.

This is the national DO NOT CALL list. It blocks your number for 5 years. (This part, however, IS true, and totally works. The volume of telemarketing calls I received after putting myself on this list went down dramatically.)

I've done this for all my phone numbers, not just my cell phone. It only takes a second, and it's so worth it.