Is Ian Richardson still around? He'd be good if he is.
Jonathan ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Buffista Movies 4: Straight to Video
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I've been singing "So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish," and the Talking Heads' "And She Was" all day long, interspersed with the ocassional humming of "Journey of the Sorcerer."
Sadly, no one has asked me why I'm humming these things. Losers.
Hey, Sean, why are you humming those things?
Because they all relate (two directly, one indirectly) to my favorite movie so far this year.
There, now, don't you feel better?
The world was moving
She was right there with it and she was
The world was moving
She was floatin' above it and she was
And she was
I definitely got a Fenchurch vibe off of movie!Trillian, if only because they made her relationship with Arthur more romantic, and when I think romance and Arthur Dent, I think Fenchurch.
I read today that Edward Norton has an uncredited role as Baldwin IV (he's a leper who wears a mask that he never removes) in Kingdom of Heaven. EEEP. DH wants to see it too, so as soon as we can line up a sitter, we're going.
I just want to noted for the record that I confessed a newfound affection for James Marsden before reading this week's Advocate, where he has an interview talking about his upcoming gay role in Heights and manages to avoid every pitfall that other straight actors have fallen afoul of when speaking to the press about such roles. Also, Marsden reveals that he will have a makeout scene with Jesse Bradford in that movie (it's like they're filming my fantasies now!) and that Hugh Jackman was interested in having him play Peter Allen's boyfriend in The Boy from Oz.
Just saw Kingdom of Heaven. Pretty, but I had some issues. Like, why is it only noble to kill the obviously evil madman after he has caused the deaths of hundreds of people, but bad to kill him before he does the stupid evil thing he inevitably will do? If Bailion (sp?) had let the King execute the evil traitor and marry the good guy to the future queen, none of those people would have died. Saladin would never have attacked if all the tropps had remained in the city they were meant to defend. And why wasn't the King making the decision about succession on his own? Were I King, I would'a just done it. Then any evil would have been on my head, and Noble Hero wouldn't have had to make a grey-area decision. I prefer the Mal Reynolds School of Noble Combat: Shoot first. Kill the bad guy before he screws up your life.
I had other issues, but I think that's the most important one.