Wait... Idris Elba? Vaughn from Ultraviolet Idris Elba?
That's the one.
Hmm. I wonder if I got my Ultraviolet DVDs back yet. I'm due for a rewatch.
Wesley: Feng Shui. Gunn: Right. What's that mean again? Wesley: That people will believe anything. Actually, in this place, Feng Shui will probably have enormous significance. I'll align my furniture the wrong way and suddenly catch fire or turn into a pudding.
'Conviction (1)'
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P.M. Marc - Mar 01, 2005 9:57:20 am PST #9573 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
sumi - Mar 01, 2005 9:57:39 am PST #9574 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
I say Paul Bettany can do whatever he wants. And that includes silly popcorn movies with Kirsten Dunst in which he lounges against a doorframe wearing only a pair of low-slung sweatpants.
I'd go to that movie.
Dana - Mar 01, 2005 9:59:07 am PST #9575 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
I'd go to that movie.
Wimbledon. Big screen. So totally worth the money.
erikaj - Mar 01, 2005 10:02:45 am PST #9576 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I've not seen Ultraviolet...is it on disk? Vampires and Elba? Sounds like a party. (Which is my way of saying, um, yeah...same man. Not your father's drug dealer on TV.) Cleans up nice, doesn't he? Very perfect American accent, too. Even knowing he's not, I couldn't hear it at all. Ever. He says dealers talk to him on street tell him all kinds of scary stuff. DW's accent is damn fine, but sometimes his vowels sound foreign now that I know.ETA: Netflix doesn't know Ultraviolet and we usually get on so well!
Calli - Mar 01, 2005 10:12:01 am PST #9577 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Ultraviolet is indeed on dvd. It also has Jack Davenport being angstful and pretty.
askye - Mar 01, 2005 10:12:27 am PST #9578 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
Ultraviolet is a 6 episode British series. An incredible six episodes. I knew the name looked familiar (and Stringer Bell looked familiar but I never checked to see who Elba was playing...I'm slow like that sometimes).
DW's vowels give him away.
I heard a rumor that UV wasn't available to buy anymore, but it should be available on Netflix --- do you do Netflix?
Vonnie K - Mar 01, 2005 10:17:31 am PST #9579 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I've not seen Ultraviolet...is it on disk?
It's on DVD, but lamentably not on Netflix...at least the last I checked. It's vampirism battled from a more scientific and technical front rather than outright supernatural, with some excellent dark, conflicted characters, and espouses noir conventions more than than gothic or horror. The writing is clever and villains are relatively complex. Jack Davenport (from "Coupling" and "Pirates of Caribbeans") plays a newcomer to a top secret unit built to battle "Code Fives" and Elba is a more seasoned veteran in the unit, but my favorite character was Susannah Harker's Dr. Angie March, a hematologist who's in charge of the research into vampiric transmission, who *strongly* reminded me of early Scully in all the good ways.
It's short (there are only 6 episodes) and at the end, I badly wanted more.
Beverly - Mar 01, 2005 10:17:57 am PST #9580 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Netflix doesn't have it. I've recommended they stock it. Go, recommend likewise. They'll listen if it's more than just me. Maybe.
Scrappy - Mar 01, 2005 10:19:09 am PST #9581 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Hugh Laurie's accent is spot on. Dominic West's, in the ep I saw, was pretty darn good. Mark Addy's, in the four minutes I saw of his dopey sitcom, was terrible.
§ ita § - Mar 01, 2005 10:20:15 am PST #9582 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hugh Laurie's accent is spot on.
I thought it wavered in the early eps of House. He was atypically thorough in his enunciation. But I haven't been paying much attention recently.