No, just Kingsley's good reputation.
That survived SPECIES?
Kaylee: So how many fell madly in love with you and wanted to take you away from all this? Inara: Just the one. I think I'm slipping.
'Serenity'
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Frankenbuddha - Aug 11, 2004 7:47:10 am PDT #2671 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 11, 2004 7:51:00 am PDT #2672 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Well, he made an Elizabethan romantic comedy with Mira Sorvino after that one, so there were still tatters.
From here on out it'll be all late-night infomercials and "Where are they now?" specials on A&E.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 11, 2004 7:58:35 am PDT #2673 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
From here on out it'll be all late-night infomercials and "Where are they now?" specials on A&E.
And of course GANDHI 2: Electric Boogaloo.
§ ita § - Aug 11, 2004 8:00:03 am PDT #2674 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
He did Sexy Beast. He'll be fine. Those British guys are weird.
Thomash - Aug 11, 2004 8:05:42 am PDT #2675 of 10001
I have a plan.
Many venerable actors have done things throughout their careers that would seem to have blown up their world. Take Sean Connery, for instance. The guy did, Zardoz, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and The Avengers and he's still going stronger than ever.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 11, 2004 8:08:06 am PDT #2676 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Many venerable actors have done things throughout their careers that would seem to have blown up their world.
See also, Michael Caine who seems to alternate periods of choosing great roles with extended periods of doing absolute crap.
What I should have said was if his rep survived SPECIES he's probably OK.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 11, 2004 8:18:04 am PDT #2677 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
See also, Michael Caine who seems to alternate periods of choosing great roles with extended periods of doing absolute crap.
Yes, but as he's in EVERY MOVIE EVER MADE it's a bit difficult to avoid the crap ones.
Jesse - Aug 11, 2004 8:22:08 am PDT #2678 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I like that about Michael Caine -- it's like he's still a working class guy, so he wants to make sure there's a next paycheck coming.
evil jimi - Aug 11, 2004 8:39:18 am PDT #2679 of 10001
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
I like that about Michael Caine -- it's like he's still a working class guy, so he wants to make sure there's a next paycheck coming.
I'm sure Ben feels the same way.
Odd that the movie is set in the 18th Century, when the game was set during just prior to WWII. At least in the game you got to kill lots of Nazis in elaborately bloodthirsty ways...including feeding off them to boost your health.
eta: I see BloodRayne2 is about to come out but this one is set 60 years later (mid 90s I guess).
Oh and according to the site:
BloodRayne is a dhampir, born from the unnatural union of vampire and human. Blessed with the powers of a vampire but cursed with the unquenchable thirst for blood and a weakness to sunlight, Rayne is challenged with her most personal battle yet in BloodRayne 2.
uhuh
Nutty - Aug 11, 2004 9:06:43 am PDT #2680 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Oy. Any live-action movie with an abstract as abstruse as that -- for that matter, any live-action movie with a premise as complex as that of your average anime epic -- needs to go away.
From a personal perspective, being a total slave to routine, I'd probably want to be acting all the time just so as not to have to come up with something to do with myself for months at a time. Also, for money inna bank. Then again, in acting, people do judge you by the projects you choose, so choosing shitty ones can make your choices disappear. I think Michael Caine is the bizarre king of taking every project that comes his way, and he is just the cleverest/luckiest dude ever that so many of his projects aren't crap.
Ben Kingsley wishes he were Michael Caine. For one thing, he would probably relax a tiny tiny bit. Ben Kingsley always seems extremely tense. I think he needs a massage.