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That was the gayest Dracula I've ever seen.
Warhol virgins, the lot of you!
I saw Hide and Seek today, and thought it excellent. Though I have to agree with the reviewer whose reaction was "WTF is up with everyone saying Dakota Fanning's character is cute? She looked like Sally from The Nightmare before Christmas, only not as hale and healthy!"
Wasn't Cate wonderful? Adored her.
She was terrific. It would have been so easy for that role to have turned ridiculous, but she just nailed it.
I saw Finding Neverland yesterday, and LOVED it. It made me cry like crazy, in happy ways and sad. I do have an irrational love of Peter Pan that only added to the whole thing -- the story pisses me off when I think too hard about the Peter/Wendy relationship, but if I don't think too hard, I just cry. I thought all the kids were great. And you can't go wrong with Johnny Depp.
I really should see that movie. And re-read that book now that I'm a (semi-demi) adult.
God bless Johnny Depp. He's such a magical little man. He is in the rare place of being completely stereotypable, but there's still a lot of acting range needed for him to be Jack Sparrow and JM Barrie, although they're both men with a lot of fantastical boy in them.
Clint Eastwood won the DGA for Million Dollar Baby.
Clint Eastwood won the DGA for Million Dollar Baby.
Hmmm. And DGA has a high rate for predicting Directing Oscar because it's basically the same people, right?
They have a high rate of prediction, but I'm pretty sure the Oscar nominations are done by peers, award voting by everyone.
Jesse's right.
And DGA has a high rate for predicting Directing Oscar because it's basically the same people, right?
All but 6 of the DGA winners in the last 20 years have gone on to win the Oscar for best director. The last time when Roman Polanski won for The Pianist.