I ADORE that final swordfight.
It just looks so painful. Granted that is one movie that's not afraid to bring the pain.
Anya, the Shopkeepers of America called. They wanted me to tell you that 'please go' just got replaced with 'have a nice day.'
Xander ,'Selfless'
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Frankenbuddha - Aug 09, 2005 7:56:21 am PDT #6429 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Scrappy - Aug 09, 2005 8:27:54 am PDT #6430 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Painful and tiring and all kinds of real stuff. It's wonderful that way.
Jessica - Aug 09, 2005 8:28:43 am PDT #6431 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Do they look their natural ages?
Honestly, I don't know what all their natural ages are. But they don't look artificially youthful to me.
§ ita § - Aug 09, 2005 8:40:06 am PDT #6432 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't know jack about Frances, Tilda or Julie, have read rumours about Jessica (there have been some AWFUL pictures of her recently) and Sharon (who, by intelligent design or artificial intervention doesn't look like mid 40s).
It's a strange stance to take right there, about that cast. I mean, the general point is true, but there are clearer examples.
DavidS - Aug 09, 2005 8:42:17 am PDT #6433 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I do think Jessica Lange's plastic surgery looks scary. I wish she hadn't. Sharon Stone looks fine to me. It's when they do the eye-tightening and lip-plumping that they start to slip into the uncanny valley for me. Cheek implants? Man, that just changes your whole face. Don't do it.
Jessica - Aug 09, 2005 8:44:12 am PDT #6434 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I should say that in this movie none of them struck me as Botoxed beyond belief. They all looked old enough to have been with Bill Murray 20 years ago.
It's such a beautiful, wonderful film.
DavidS - Aug 09, 2005 9:22:47 am PDT #6435 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
It's such a beautiful, wonderful film.
Yay! I love Bill. I love Jarmusch. I have a fond spot for Sharon Stone and am always disappointed that she never really gets to do good stuff on screen.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 09, 2005 9:53:52 am PDT #6436 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I may be talking through my hat, but my impression of Tilda Swinton is that hell would freeze over before she'd undergo plastic surgery to accommodate Hollywood appearance issues.
§ ita § - Aug 09, 2005 8:45:46 pm PDT #6437 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Meta about Grimm:
Twelve Monkeys director Terry Gilliam is furious with movie moguls Harvey Weinstein and Bob Weinstein for scrapping his ideas and undermining his authority during filming of his new Matt Damon movie The Brothers Grimm. The powerful pair first ditched Gilliam's plans to cast Samantha Morton in the lead role in favor of lesser known actress Lena Headey, and then further enraged the former Monty Python star by sacking his cinematographer Nicola Pecorini for working too slowly. Tensions escalated to the extent that Gilliam refused to shoot for two weeks as he was so staggered by what he viewed as the Weinsteins' constant interference. He fumes, "I'm used to riding roughshod over executives, but the Weinsteins rode roughshod over me." But Bob Weinstein insists, "Any film involves the making of 10,000 decisions. If you only concentrate on the few we had issues with, you ignore the 9,997 we left to totally to Terry."
Jim - Aug 09, 2005 11:11:06 pm PDT #6438 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
It looks a little close to a sensitive First Worlder cliché to me
If it's close to the book, it's more like a furious, rage-obsessed first worlder. It's not Le Carre's best book by a long way, but there's a definite sense of a writer rediscovering his sense of outrage at the way pharmaceuticals operate.