The "rapid aging" plot device never works out that well. Remember Mulder's awful old-man make-up in "Dod Kalm"? (Although, truth be said, I am irrationally fond of the episode--it's got some lovely cinematographic touches, and I love Scully's monologue at the end about Ragnorak.) Oh! And there's that early SG-1 episode with doddering Jack and Dr. Bambi. Cheesy fun, but pretty bad all the same.
Oh! I know this one! 'Slaying entails certain sacrifices, blah blah blahbity blah, I'm so stuffy, gimme a scone.'
Buffy ,'Help'
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Vonnie K - Mar 24, 2005 5:43:11 am PST #475 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 24, 2005 6:17:43 am PST #476 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Thing was, it wasn't actually rapid aging - he was supposed to have lived through all those years. I can accept the makeup looking a bit off if someone's developed wrinkles and gray hair over the course of a day, 'cause who knows what accelerated metabolism would do to a body (thinking of that Russian diplomat with dioxin poisoning). But regular old people don't have skin that looks like grainy papier maché.
Sean K - Mar 24, 2005 7:57:53 am PST #477 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Age makeup is soooo hard to do. You'd almost be better off trying to find older actors who bear some small resemblance to the younger actor they're portraying.
But that could suck too.
Wolfram - Mar 24, 2005 8:07:22 am PST #478 of 10001
Visilurking
Unless it's Charlie to Martin Sheen. Funniest Visa check card commercial ever.
DavidS - Mar 24, 2005 8:21:01 am PST #479 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
You'd almost be better off trying to find older actors who bear some small resemblance to the younger actor they're portraying.
This was a good solution in A League Of Their Own. The matching was excellent, particularly with the older Geena Davis.
Sean K - Mar 24, 2005 8:24:45 am PST #480 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Unless it's Charlie to Martin Sheen.
Love that one.
"Hey."
This was a good solution in A League Of Their Own. The matching was excellent, particularly with the older Geena Davis.
Other problems with the movie aside, I thought this worked for Saving Private Ryan, too.
Nutty - Mar 24, 2005 8:41:18 am PST #481 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I thought the whole point of the old man framing device in Shaving Ryan's Privates was that we have no idea who the old man is. Tom Hanks and Matt Damon (and for that matter most of the other guys) only look alike inasmuch as they are white men with all of the standard ingredients in a face; the more generic an old man they find, the longer they can draw out the suspense over who he actually is.
(I didn't think he looked like anybody, FTR.)
The matching was excellent, particularly with the older Geena Davis.
Er, wasn't that makeup? I was pretty sure it was makeup.
DXMachina - Mar 24, 2005 8:42:43 am PST #482 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
This was a good solution in A League Of Their Own. The matching was excellent, particularly with the older Geena Davis.
Except the voice was clearly Geena's, and it kind of took me out of the movie. They didn't even let the other sister's older version speak.
eta:
Er, wasn't that makeup? I was pretty sure it was makeup.
Nope. Different actor.
§ ita § - Mar 24, 2005 8:43:50 am PST #483 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Er, wasn't that makeup? I was pretty sure it was makeup.
Lynn Cartwright would be shocked (and also proud) to hear that, I think.
Someone buy the casting director a drink!
Betsy HP - Mar 24, 2005 8:56:19 am PST #484 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Furthermore (not that I'm holding a grudge) I hated the making-time-flow-backward-by-flying-backward meme when I saw Superman doing it. In the comics.
This episode just had so many asspulls: Stark's reappearance, the space mist, Chiana having trashed Aerin's prowler offscreen, the time travel, Aeryn's locket reappearing in the transport pod even though in this time stream it had never *been* in the transport pod, the crumbling picture...
Bleh. My suspension of disbelief snapped and I got whiplash.