Willow ,'Storyteller'
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.
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.
that mysterious whitefonted subplot would have been great.
Indeed, and provided us with some internal consistency. Hmmph.
that mysterious whitefonted subplot would have been great.
Why do I have this horrible feeling that if he HAD gone that way, it would have meant more JarJar.
Gack! What? No!
I know! AND no-one cards me anymore. WTF?
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.
I agree that she was good in Garden State. But I thought that, while she was clearly trying hard, her performance was the weakest in Closer -- she was visibly Acting at times, instead of existing as the character. Then again, the character probably *should* be visibly Acting at times.
I couldn't be that critical of NP in Closer since I thought JR was pointlessly blank. She was ranking below OB on the emotimeter.
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.
You should have heard the gasp in the Castro Theater. And that was an audience full of hardcore Dynasty fans (back when I saw it).
::points at the New Old and laughs derisively, Nelson style::
You're no longer young! One of us, one of us. Join us in achey backs and out-of-it-ness, and "You call that music!" and pathetic nostalgia for the crap pop culture of your preteen years. Bwahahahaha!
Jessica's whitefonted subplot would have been great.
She was ranking below OB on the emotimeter.
My first association with OBs is tampons, which I suspect is not what you mean.
My first association with OBs is tampons, which I suspect is not what you mean,
Hey, she was less appealing than tampons too.
My first association with OBs is tampons, which I suspect is not what you mean,
Depends on where you hide Orlando, I suppose.