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I know who I am rooting for for BEST ACTRESS.

Can someone tell me how much I need to see HAPPY GO LUCKY?

Because Sally Hawkins is CHARMING.

YAY!!!!! Is she single? I really like her!!!!

She's pretty dang charming in the movie, too. But the great thing about it is that it also reveals that being around a person who's relentlessly upbeat could sometimes be as difficult as being around a person who's relentlessly downbeat.

Don't buy the facile charm, it's Brithish humor with regular comedy beats and irony, and Poppy's a sexy beast.

So wait - does that mean you're panning the movie, T. Holly? (which I liked very much)

Oh no, I loved it, you'll be watching it 10 years for now still in awe. Some of the shit was so fast and funny, it flew by mean (partly Poppy's accent).

Okay...so what do you mean by 'facile' and 'regular'?

hawkins is lovely, and i'm a big fan of english humour so i'm looking forward to 'happy', but just a quick observation: super-happy people who smile all the time freak me out. and don't their front teeth go all dry and sticky? if i smile all the time my top lip gets stuck on my teeth when i try to close my mouth and i feel like a gopher. i wonder if that happens to sally.

I just meant don't be fooled into thinking the movie is facile because Sally is lovely and fragile, because Poppy and her co-stars are laser beams. They start getting into process after Dave asks Mike for his trade secret the second time. I hope you see it under good circumstances Leah; I couldn't have seen it under better ones with an audience who was getting the jokes, so I knew I was missing some here and there (the ones that flew by ME). It's British because it's fast, but regular because it's modern. I think there's a difference between smiling and laughing, when you laugh, you actually create more mouth lube.

very true about the mouth lube, i got no problem with laughing all the time!

i have two girlfriends who immigrated from northern england and they talk so fast and mostly in vowel sounds, it's hilarious. i'll go see it with them (if and when the movie ever gets down here, fingers crossed)

Yes, Hawkins was amazing in the movie, wasn't she? I always err on the side of thinking a comedic performance as being better than dramatic ones (as in, I find a performance like this much more interesting and exciting than Meryl Streep in Doubt) and she did a great job of showing that Poppy is not a complete freak like I would think if I met her in real life (and I've met similar people).

If I remember correctly, I understood almost all of the movie but there were a couple or lines I couldn't decipher.

I have to agree, actually, that I prefer Hawkins in H-G-L to Streep in Doubt. I enjoyed Streep's performance very much, but there's simply a layer to it of watching an old pro do stuff she's done before, just with yet another different accent (old-school New York).

T. Holly, I understand you and agree with you, I just hope you understand that a sentence fragment like "Don't buy the facile charm" can sound like a warning against what could be a facile film?

CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARMING.

CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARMING.

C H A R M I N G.

And *ROBBED.*

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