Do they manage to make Bacon's role uncomfortably sympathetic?
Yes. The whole movie is very uncomfortable, and I don't think there's a single character that you can view completely comfortably. Well, maybe David Alan Grier. He was cool.
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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Alibelle - Apr 18, 2005 10:16:40 am PDT #1995 of 10002
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan
Ash - Apr 18, 2005 10:59:13 am PDT #1996 of 10002
I saw Sin City this weekend. I won't need to be seeing that again.
Elijah should never be that creepy.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 18, 2005 1:11:59 pm PDT #1997 of 10002
"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
The Calgary Sun has an article about comic book movies.
Wonder Woman (2006): Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, has signed to write and direct. No word on who he'll cast, although he recently confirmed one thing to Entertainment Weekly: His Wonder Woman won't be battling evil in star-spangled panties.
Does this mean he's going to go with the Golden Age look, something more like the armor from Kingdom Come, or perhaps the stylin' Seventies approach?
Aims - Apr 18, 2005 1:13:18 pm PDT #1998 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Joe has that action figure.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 18, 2005 1:15:50 pm PDT #1999 of 10002
"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
Ah, but does he have the Mod Emma Peel-inspired Wonder Woman?
Aims - Apr 18, 2005 1:25:41 pm PDT #2000 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
No, no he doesn't. And he shan't, ever.
reequeen - Apr 18, 2005 2:23:49 pm PDT #2001 of 10002
"It's got to be the hair, Cotton. It's beautiful! Feathered and lethal. You just don't see it nowadays." Pepper Brooks - Dodgeball
That armor fuckin' rocks.
Gandalfe - Apr 19, 2005 3:43:44 am PDT #2002 of 10002
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
I just hope that he acknowledges Wonder Woman's bondage past.
§ ita § - Apr 19, 2005 4:35:20 am PDT #2003 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I am confused by this IMDB piece:
Hollywood hunk Mark Wahlberg has slammed Eminem, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck for giving a false impression of tough, impoverished childhoods in their music and films. The Planet Of The Apes star has lambasted Damon, his co-star in new movie The Departed, for romanticizing difficult upbringings in Good Will Hunting, his debut film with Affleck. Wahlberg - who blames his assault conviction 17 years ago on his harsh childhood - has also attacked rapper Eminem for idealizing his difficult formative years in his biopic 8 Mile, in an interview with Details magazine. The 33-year-old actor complains, "My childhood wasn't like some 8 Mile bulls**t where you go and have a rap-off. Or like West Side Story, where you all start dancing and s**t. If I make a film about my upbringing it's going to be about more than a f**king kid doing math, like in Good Will Hunting, you know what I mean?"
First off, it doesn't seem like he's harshing on Damon and Affleck, and secondly, why would you harsh on a rapper's semi-autobiographical movie for not being like your life? It's because there was no Funky Bunch, right?
reequeen - Apr 19, 2005 4:50:37 am PDT #2004 of 10002
"It's got to be the hair, Cotton. It's beautiful! Feathered and lethal. You just don't see it nowadays." Pepper Brooks - Dodgeball
Dude, not cool.