survive Vesuvius blowing up... by climbing inside the aqueduct. ???

I don't blame you, that would bother me. Last time I checked aqueduct's weren't fire proof or volcano proof.

Ghost Writer didn't seem so presposterous as just been there, done that...which is okay, I guess.

And I watched the Dumas movie when I had the flu. I'm hoping the flu had something to do with it because.. that was one weird ass movie

Not entirely...that movie was a mess. Sort of campy in places, confusing in others, like it wanted to be two different movies at the same time. Polanski has gotten into atmosphere lately and consipiracy theories.