So why give it to Michael Bay, Mr. Spielberg? Why?
Because Bay makes The Summer Movie--pretty, loud, mindless, exciting, cool-looking, non-challenging. That's what he does. The guy is a money machine.
Buffy? I like that. That girl's so hot, she's buffy.
Forrest ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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Scrappy - Jul 18, 2005 6:35:33 pm PDT #5857 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Jessica - Jul 18, 2005 6:45:36 pm PDT #5858 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
So why give it to Michael Bay, Mr. Spielberg? Why?
He wanted to make sure it didn't outshine Minority Report?
Beverly - Jul 18, 2005 7:13:25 pm PDT #5859 of 10002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I think Louis Jordan absolutely nailed the role in the BBC Dracula,
Matt beat me to it. And it was a miniseries, so they had more time to be faithful to the text and to develop the characters. Jack Shepherd's Renfield was memorable, too.
Volans - Jul 18, 2005 9:52:46 pm PDT #5860 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Daughters of Darkness
This movie goes down in history as the first vampire movie I turned off and left halfway through. Bo.Ring.
Well, okay, I did try to walk out of the theater during Coppola's Dracula, but couldn't get around the sleeping fat man.
alienprayer - Jul 19, 2005 2:39:46 am PDT #5861 of 10002
Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. -Bierce
Coppola himself was at the screening and you still tried to walk out?
DXMachina - Jul 19, 2005 3:40:12 am PDT #5862 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
And Anne Parillaud in "Innocent Blood." sexay.
Oh yes.
Polter-Cow - Jul 19, 2005 7:48:59 am PDT #5863 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
From way back, I know Ben Foster from his Flash Forward days, but they'd have to clean him up a lot to make him look like a Warren Worthington III.
§ ita § - Jul 19, 2005 7:51:29 am PDT #5864 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Mr. Broom - Jul 19, 2005 7:54:12 am PDT #5865 of 10002
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
I can't see Ben Foster playing Warren the way he ought to be played: capable and intelligent, but also very full of himself. I get the feeling that's not what they're going to go for anyway, though. After all, look what they did to Bobby Drake.
§ ita § - Jul 19, 2005 8:01:10 am PDT #5866 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The guy I know who read for the role was told that he was too old (at 28) to play Angel. Ben's not much younger, but he does look more boyish.
I know it's not main-universe Angel, but when I think of him now I think of Ultimate Angel who freaks out and leaves Westchester, and Storm goes after him to talk him down (literally as well as figuratively). He's just so heartachingly beautiful -- it's a combination of magnificent strength and a graceful sculptor's touch.