Giles ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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I just think Pierce is too skinny for Bond. I don't picture Bond as looking lean and hungry.
I can't imagine why they would cast Bana over Jackman, until I remember how few Bond movies I've actually bothered to see in the theater. It occurs to me that I may not be their target demographic.
I couldn't tell you who the actors in it were without checking IMDB.
Guy Pearce, Russell Crowe, and Kevin Spacey. Goddamn, that's a great movie.
I just think Pierce is too skinny for Bond. I don't picture Bond as looking lean and hungry.
But Pierce never looked like that until LA Confidential, I don't think. He could bulk back up a little.
Just got back from seeing Casablanca at Memphis' grand old Orpheum Theatre. I think the scales may be balanced for that long list of craptacular movies I've seen this year. It was just so beautiful, and so unexpectedly funny.
I know for a fact it's magic—even the mewling brats that crawled over the seat backs to sit beside me a minute before showtime quieted down and watched it almost silently.
I love Guy Pearce's intensity. I'd like to see something new from Bond. But then again, I liked Dalton. ETA: IIRC he was funny in Memento. At least I remember that movie being pretty funny.
Have you seen Pearce in Pricilla, Queen of the Desert? Quite funny.
Geez, I can't believe I'd forgotten about Priscilla.
Saw Donnie Darko (Director's cut) tonight. No, I hadn't seen any version of it before, and, yes, I am a bad person.
However, going into it knowing almost nothing (I knew it was at least mildly depressing and that Jake Gyllenhall and Drew Barrymore [once I saw her. Very good character. I had that teacher twice. Only once she was male, and the other time significantly older.] were in it.) was a good thing.
I feel like I should see it again 1) to see the non-director's cut and 2)now that I've seen the whole thing. I called the plane crash as soon as they talked about the dancers flying.
And the smurfs conversation, particularly, cracked me up.
I have this whole thesis on the idea of reality as a dream, but I am sleepy (hopefully enough that I will sleep despite my issues with things-in-the-dark (currently rabbit-shaped). No I don't have all the lights in the apartment on. That would be wasteful. The ones in the bathroom are off, as I can't see that doorway.), and therefore too lazy to type it out right now or go back and see what people thought of the movie.
I liked it.
And the smurfs conversation, particularly, cracked me up.
Hasn't the creator of the Smurfs agreed that Donnie was right WRT their sex lives?
