He is like the most humorless man alive,
No, no. He's like Andy Kaufman. As much as he's like anything in this dimension.
You need to hear The Big Problem.
Wash: Captain, didn't you know kissin' girls makes you sleepy? Mal: Well sometimes I just can't help myself.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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Strega - Jul 20, 2005 7:21:56 pm PDT #5886 of 10002
Kate P. - Jul 21, 2005 4:38:04 am PDT #5887 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
All of my favorite candidates were never actually candidates. Aamir Khan, Jonathon Rhys-Myers, Don Cheadle .
Ooh, I would have loved to see either Aamir Khan or Don Cheadle as Bond. I don't think JRM would really work well in the role, as much as I love him.
juliana - Jul 21, 2005 4:52:07 am PDT #5888 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I don't think JRM would really work well in the role, as much as I love him.
Doesn't Bond often have to run? That knocks him right out of contention.
Calli - Jul 21, 2005 4:55:38 am PDT #5889 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I don't think JRM would really work well in the role, as much as I love him.
Doesn't Bond often have to run? That knocks him right out of contention.
Nah, he'd lull the villians into a false sense of security with his flailing weird-ass running. And by "lull" I mean "send into fits of helpless laughter." The bad guys would be toast. Giggling all the way to their high-security prisons, but toast all the same.
Scrappy - Jul 21, 2005 6:35:47 am PDT #5890 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I saw "Being Julia" last night. A charming confection, if you like period pieces where people wear pretty clothes and speak witty lines (and I do). Annette Bening was absolutely incandescent.
beathen - Jul 21, 2005 6:56:10 am PDT #5891 of 10002
Sure I went over to the Dark Side, but just to pick up a few things.
I rented Constantine and Ice Princess. That's an interesting combo to put together. I'm not too sure how I feel about them. I guess they were ok, but not great.
IP was too clichéd about the geeky kid with big dreams and breaks out of her shell and falls for the hottie boy and everything works out in the end .
Constantine had some neat special effects especially the scenes when they're in hell .
If you combine quotes from the two movies you get this:
Ice Princess: I can figure out ice skating through physics! (paraphrase)
Constantine: Go to hell, asshole.
(Hee!)
Cashmere - Jul 21, 2005 9:05:21 am PDT #5892 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.
I saw "Being Julia" last night. A charming confection, if you like period pieces where people wear pretty clothes and speak witty lines (and I do). Annette Bening was absolutely incandescent.
I couldn't get to the theatre to see this. Must go put it in my netflix queue.
Gris - Jul 21, 2005 9:06:26 am PDT #5893 of 10002
Hey. New board.
Ice Princess followed some clichés quite thoroughly and others not so much. It was better than most other films inside its rather limited formula, I thought.
Reger Ebert's review of it discusses this much better than I do. - I really like Ebert's reviews of kid/teen movies. He's a lot gentler with them than a lot of reviewers, who won't give them good scores because they (the reviewers) are so outside the target demographic. Most reviews basically limit comparison ability by giving even the best of the genre low scores, so that the ones that are TRULY bad (like, say, A Cinderella Story) don't look as bad as they should in comparison.
This is a pet peeve of mine. 'Course, the same could probably be said for raunchy comedies, explosion-centric action licks, and many other movie formulas.
Calli - Jul 21, 2005 9:07:22 am PDT #5894 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I saw "Being Julia" last night.
I saw this a while back. Loved it. It's set in one of my favorite periods, and Annette Bening's character was wonderfully fun to watch.
Anne W. - Jul 21, 2005 9:18:58 am PDT #5895 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I really like Ebert's reviews of kid/teen movies. He's a lot gentler with them than a lot of reviewers, who won't give them good scores because they (the reviewers) are so outside the target demographic.
While there are times that Ebert makes me roll my eyes forever and ever, I like the fact that he is not a genre snob and that he realizes that you look for very different things from an edge-of-the-seat action movie than you do from a character-driven art-house film.