Okay, I went and looked elsewhere and that is Cedric Diggory. . . hmmm.

Here's a much better pic of Cedric.

Hmm. Not my image of Diggory at all. But that profile does sport the nose I imagine on Krum.

RE: The Crow: Wicked Prayer, I too watched it recently and completely get everyone's criticisms. OTOH, I enjoyed the pure cheese of it. I mean, come on, the film makers were crowing (no pun intended) about how they turned a Pinto into a muscle car!

And it was cool to see Martin Chong (Tank in the Matrix) working again after his reported flip out.

My biggest objection was that there were lines of dialogue that might actually have been interesting if one could hear them over the pounding score.

It looked like DB was having a blast being a huge goof.

Then again, I sat through all of Dracula III this weekend, so there is obviously no accounting for my taste.

Ganked from LJ: misleading movie blurbs.

On the little blurb extra re: Sony giving people $5 for seeing films endorsed by the fake critic - where do I sign up???????

They're gonna have to up their rates to hit what 90 minutes-2 hours of my life are worth.

Ebert not feeling the good old boy love.

Wew rented ps last night. It's by Dylan Kidd, who wrote/directed Roger Dodger, which was a really good film. This has Laura Linney and Topher Grace, two of my favorite actors , but we only made it through about the first 40 minutes due to being driven insane by the HORRIBLE WRITING. In an intimate character-driven film, is too much to ask that the characters actually act and speak like human beings? He is a painter and some of his talk about his work was lovely and awkward and felt very real. There is a lovely little sex scene in it and you can see the director and actors really trying hard to be real and not glamorize it which I think is a fine goal, except for she keeps all her clothes on and, as the BF noted, "Who has sex with a woman and never touches her breasts or ass?"

Also Marcia Gay Harden played a character who seemed completely forced and false and made me want to gouge my own eyes out.

Tonight we're off to Hustle & Flow.

I saw that in previews, Robin, and remember thinking it was two great performances trapped in an awful, boring film.

According to the press notes, the goal of this movie was to make a romantic comedy where the characters didn't have any obstacles put in front of them, and I guess the mostly succeeded. It was just a really poorly thought-out goal, as no conflict-->boring movie.

the goal of this movie was to make a romantic comedy where the characters didn't have any obstacles put in front of them,

I thought My Big Fat Greek Wedding already covered that.