I wasn't daydreaming about the casting.

You are mistaken in thinking I rate The Weather Man higher than A History of Violence. I rate A History of Violence higher, I think. It's hard to say. I was forced to counteract the excessive hype around A History... Whereas The Weather Man was slightly underrated. Cronenberg's movie obvisously deserved credit for getting people talking. They're all pretty mediocre but History of Violence obviously is better filmmaking than the other two.