My TiVo had downloaded a
Constantine
promo, which looked wicked cool to this source-material-naive philistine. Is the dude supposed to be a Brit? Because everyone else in the movie seemed to be.
I'm rather fond of Keannu--he seems a swell guy and genuinely interested in pushing the boundary of his ability...eh, I mean his craft, and pick interesting roles--I don't think he can convincingly bring the dark. Well, unless they're playing for camp.
I'll probably go see it anyway because... Tilda Swinton!
Yeah, I imagine Weisz will be good, Hounsou prettily disturbing, and Swinton positively electric. I love the idea of her and Christopher Walken having played the same character, with similar aims but polar opposite motivations for them.
That photo of Swinton accompanying the NYT article linked above was lovely. I mean, like she ever took a bad photo in her life, including during the parts of
The Deep End
where she was swimming in freezing water in granny underpants.
But that photo in particular showcased her hard beauty.
I've loved her ever since I first saw her in Orlando. Hell, I willingly paid to see a Leonardo DiCaprio movie because she was in it!
In other news, I just found out that she's going to be the White Witch in the film version of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
I've loved her ever since I first saw her in Orlando.
I don't get the Tilda love. I hated, hated, hated Orlando. And I think the only other movie I saw her in was Female Perversions, which made me almost run screaming from the theatre. I tend to avoid movies she's in because I assume they will be pretentious pieces of crap.
I think she is one of the most beautiful people ever to walk the face of the earth, and I hear she is a lovely woman, but I find her a terribly limited actress.
I just did a Google to clarify.
I think she's not good looking. Elfin, but without the good bits.
I liked her in
The Deep End,
didn't hate her in
Orlando.
Mostly I don't remember she exists.
I tend to avoid movies she's in because I assume they will be pretentious pieces of crap.
So, I am lucky I've only ever seen one movie she's been in, plus a lot of still photos. Good to know!
Well, I'm just basing it on two...so I'm probably not being the master of rational thought.
And I'm being a liar at that because I just looked her up on IMDB, and I've seen her in Vanilla Sky, Adaptation, and Wittgenstein too. But I don't remember her in any of those.
