Ever After totally sold me on Dougray, so I see everything he's in, but have never again felt that warm gooey feeling for him. He plays such nasty bad guys and such convincing crazies (Arabian Nights, for example) that I can't go all swooney any more.
Wash: Don't fall asleep now. Sleepiness is weakness of character. Ask anyone. You're acting captain. Know what happens you fall asleep now? Zoe: Jayne slits my throat, and takes over. Wash: That's right. Zoe: And we can't stop it.
'Shindig'
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beekaytee - Aug 25, 2004 6:25:35 am PDT #3022 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Fred Pete - Aug 25, 2004 6:26:38 am PDT #3023 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
The fact that Julia Roberts's character is portrayed as kind of a psycho is my very favorite thing about that movie.
I also like the risk they took because Dermot Mulroney and Cameron Diaz aren't exactly a prize-winning couple, either.
Dana - Aug 25, 2004 6:36:00 am PDT #3024 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
He is that, but I'm still extremely glad that he was so busy filimg MI:2 that he couldn't take the part of Wolverine in X-Men that was offered to him.
Dougray Scott in Ever After is equivalent to Judd Nelson in The Breakfast Club.
No, stick with me. In those movies, those guys are hot. They have never, never, ever been nearly as hot in anything else, for whatever reason.
Vonnie K - Aug 25, 2004 6:46:47 am PDT #3025 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Heh. I'll give you Judd Nelson, but Dougray's career is still kind of young, no? And while I didn't find him precisely hot in "Enigma", I didn't find him repulsive or anything. Well, I have to say that he was sadly outshined by Kate Winslet (despite the fact she was playing someone allegedly dowdy. As if!), Jeremy Northam, and then-unknown-to-me Matthew MacFadyen (who played the officer whose face was tragically disfigured during combat), on whom I developed a rather violent crush. I think it was that voice. Plus, the eye-patch.
Dana - Aug 25, 2004 6:49:58 am PDT #3026 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
No, no, not repulsive at all, and I quite liked him in Enigma. But did he have the magical level of hotness in Ever After? Nope.
beekaytee - Aug 25, 2004 6:50:10 am PDT #3027 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Enigma. Another too-convincing Dougray crazy. He did a great job making me believe he had gone 'round the twist. Fascinating but not attractive to me.
§ ita § - Aug 25, 2004 7:41:02 am PDT #3028 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Did My Best Friend's Wedding really mean them to all be despicable? That's why I hated the movie.
sumi - Aug 25, 2004 7:46:48 am PDT #3029 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
I can't imagine that they did.
Nutty - Aug 25, 2004 7:55:14 am PDT #3030 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Dougray Scott is hot.
In Ever After, he wore tights. (Also, Drew Barrymore picked up up bodily and he managed to keep a straight face.) In Enigma, probably no tights. In Mission Impossible 2, there was macking on Thandie Newton, but no tights and anyway there was Tom Cruise to bring the picture down.
In sum, I think tights cause hotness.
It's funny, trying to imagine Scott as Wolverine. #1, as your average white man goes, he looks a lot like Hugh Jackman. In a way that is many details the same but the overall picture totally different. #2, I know Jackman already had MOVIE STAR tattooed on his forehead by then, but wasn't X-Men his first movie? Imagine what we'd feel about his hotness level if we'd first gotten to know him through a series of idiotic romantic comedies.
Gris - Aug 25, 2004 9:26:04 am PDT #3031 of 10001
Hey. New board.
I love Ever After with an undying love. Also, its trailer.