Kaylee ,'Serenity'
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Morgan Freeman was sly and Morgan Freemanlike as he always is. Wasn't much of a stretch for him.
Though he was spared from having to be the Magical Negro in this role. He was just a Nifty Dude. (Who was TOTALLY getting it on with Alfred. Just TRY to tell me they weren't!)
(Who was TOTALLY getting it on with Alfred. Just TRY to tell me they weren't!)
I noticed the same thing. Y'all have corrupted me.
SMG starring in a dark continuation of Alice in Wonderland.
Oh, cool! I saw that on Whedonesque and wondered whether it was the McGee thing. I haven't played the game, but it sounds cool.
(Who was TOTALLY getting it on with Alfred. Just TRY to tell me they weren't!)
They...weren't.
Who was TOTALLY getting it on with Alfred. Just TRY to tell me they weren't!
Sweet Jesus. Now that's an idea I won't get out of my head ... and I'm not sure I want to.
(Who was TOTALLY getting it on with Alfred. Just TRY to tell me they weren't!)
You know, this hadn't occured to me, which makes me think I am loosing my slash fan cred, because they so totally were.
People! When Lucius was in Bruce's bedroom after the Scarecrow attack, the way he and Alfred said goodbye ("Alfred." "Lucius.") make me instantly go -- OMGHOTMANLOVE!!!!
NYistas: Gothamist is give away five pairs of tickets to March of the Pengiuns here.
Teppy me too!!!
It's an idea that never crossed my mind until just this minute, and my mind is still sitting there saying, "Nuh and uh."
Very, very pretty and thrilling and I want to see it two or three more times, but it didn't punch my crybuttons the way Spidey 2 did. Thoughtful and dark, and the fight scenes didn't bother me the way they did Hec, and wall-to-wall intelligent, engaged, exciting acting.
I was meh on Holmes, though -- she was fine, and I do agree that part of the problem is that Rachel was large with the speechifying and otherwise somewhat flabbily written, so there just wasn't much there there for any actor to work with. And still.
Hec mocked me for saying this last night, but I would've preferred seeing someone like Claire Danes or Aly Hannigan in the role, anemic as it was. In the right roles, they're both extremely emotionally present actors, all naked and skinless onscreen, compelling an empathetic reaction from the audience whether the audience wants to give it or not. Which helps hugely in making a whole person out of a speech-giver or just an anemically written generic love interest.
And they're both extremely attentive to whoever they're in a scene with. There were a handful of moments in BB when Bale gave Holmes a really interesting, unexpected line reading, or a look that undercut what he was saying, or a glance away, or some small physical detail that opened a door to something more interesting or surprising between them, and her response just fell oddly flat. Not bad, she was never bad, but I kept getting pinged by little missed opportunities to react and move somewhere new with the dialogue. And God knows, her dialogue didn't allow her many such opportunities, so it was extra-pingy when they were missed.
Still, oh so very good, all told. I stayed up way too late last night after we came home, scrolling back here through the whitefont and clicking on the links to all the crack-headed reviews (the 9/11 parallel was probably truly the worst, but it had some fierce competition).
One of my co-workers (who's a huge Sci-Fi fan -- very big into Trek [TOS, I think]) just stuck his head in my door and told me he saw Batman over the weekend, and so we geeked out for a few minutes. Most excellent.