'Objects In Space'
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Ed Harris as John Glenn in The Right Stuff.
Hell, the whole cast were great.
You also have Cagney as Lon Chaney in The Man of a Thousand Faces. Not great but enjoyable.
Geoffrey Rush as David Helfgott in Shine, was excellent. Did anyone watch the Peter Sellers TV biopic? What was Rush like as Sellers?
ita, why didn't you mention how freaking sad Soldier's Girl is? just finished watching it and gah! i just don't understand some people... and the fact that this is a true story not very far from where i am makes it even worse.
Sorry, tiggy. It just about wrecked me. Knowing that it was not only true, but probably unexceptional doesn't help.
But wasn't Lee great?
Lee was amazing! he makes a very pretty woman.
I still have trouble believing that was the same person. I wonder if Lee is frustrated by the trouble people will have recognizing him, or grateful for it?
Speaking of bio-pics, has anybody mentioned Audie Murphy as... Audie Murphy in To Hell and Back?
What was Rush like as Sellers?
Pretty frelling astonishing, quite actually. As a reviewer said, Sellers would have loved it and hated it (both because it felt so accurate).
I went to see The Life Aquatic etc. on Christmas. I liked it quite a bit, even though it's Wes Anderson's least coherent movie. Word of warning: my wife, who was expecting a comedy, was very disappointed with it. It's not a very funny movie; most of the funniest parts are in the commercials. It would be more accurate to describe it as a sad and surreal movie with a few funny parts, most of which you've seen already. Please adjust your expectations accordingly.
I watched I'll Sleep When I'm Dead last night. Am I being terribly conventional and unimaginative and hidebound by convention by being dissatisfied by the ending? I feel Hodges skipped some of the narrative, and while I'm comfortable speculating on what comes next, I'm irritated by not being told what the penultimate events in the movie were.
Yesterday I watched Shaun of the Dead. It wasn't as funny as I expected, and more gorier than I'd anticipated. Good, but not as good as I'd hoped.