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A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Just yesterday I was worrying that I was now old enough that I'd soon be making friends with people whose parents were younger than I was.
Oh. That will be painful.
I've already experienced hanging with people with parents younger than my sister, and that disturbed me enough.
I think I've got five years before I run a realistic risk of that, however.
Nope...Haven't seen the Professional yet.
Nope...Haven't seen the Professional yet.
You should. Because everyone ought to do so. When you rent it, make sure you get the version titled "Leon" instead, for the extra-disturbing extra 20 minutes.
more to do with the disturbing psychology of being a sex symbol at the age of twelve,
Which may also go a long way to explain Brooke Shields, Michael Jackson, and Donny Osmond, but that's another discussion.
On-topic, thanks to Hec for recommending Aventurera. Excellent film noir, and, since it wasn't Hollywood, I couldn't rely on the conventions to figure out what would happen next. Which means I was caught completely off guard by the big plot twist.
And on NP -- I think Natalie Portman was a tremendously interesting actress at 12 or 14, but her adult performances haven't lived up to The Professional or Beautiful Girls yet.
This is my feeling too, but I haven't seen Closer or Garden State, so I'm mainly judging off the SW movies, which are probably not her best adult work. I'm really curious about V for Vendetta, though.
I think Natalie Portman was a tremendously interesting actress at 12 or 14, but her adult performances haven't lived up to The Professional or Beautiful Girls yet.
I really liked her in Closer and Garden State. They weren't mind-blowing performances, but she inhabited her characters in a very natural, relaxed way. (And played them differently enough that I don't assume I know anything about how she acts in real life.)
Her performance in SW is an anomaly, which is why it's so irritating. (Also irritating is the rumour that Lucas cut out a subplot where Padme forms the beginnings of the Rebel Alliance. Way to give your female lead zero agency, George! )
People born in 1984 can buy booze in the US. People born in 1987 can buy smokes.
Gack! What? No!
Wow, that mysterious whitefonted subplot would have been great.
People born in 1990 are like sophmores in HS! It's fucked up!
I have yet to see something involving Natalie Portman that impresses me much, in part because she still looks like a child, to me. It's harder to take her seriously as an adult consciousness with all of her childlike gestures. (I feel the same way about what little I've seen of Keira Knightley, although in her case it's a vaguer feeling.)
Which is not to say Portman doesn't have something; certainly, there's more there behind her eyes than, say, Orlando Bloom's. But, like green bananas.