Is Anna Paquin not going to be in X-Men 3? IMDB isn't listing her.
It's my estimation that... every man ever got a statue made of him, was one kind of sumbitch or another.
Mal ,'Jaynestown'
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IAmNotReallyASpring - Sep 20, 2005 1:58:17 am PDT #7459 of 10002
I think Freddy Quimby should walk out of here a free hotel
Mr. Broom - Sep 20, 2005 7:08:07 am PDT #7460 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
The buzz I've heard regarding the script for X3 would more or less require Rogue to appear, and there's no real way they can replace Paquin in the role successfully. Call it an extremely unqualified "yes" re: her return.
Lyra Jane - Sep 21, 2005 6:23:51 am PDT #7461 of 10002
Up with the sun
I just watched Lovely and Amazing, with Catherine Keener, Emily Mortimer, Brenda Blethyn, and a bunch of other good actors. Great characters--you don't always like them or sympathize with everything they do, but you feel like you really understand them by the end. Definitely recommended.
I loved that movie. It was the good kind of depressing small indie film.
Nutty - Sep 21, 2005 7:30:32 am PDT #7462 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Hello, all. The Times hasn't made everything subscription-only, and they did a great profile of David Cronenberg over the weekend. Go, read: [link]
I enjoy Cronenberg's quest-y intelligence almost as much as I enjoy his yucky-artistic sensibilities.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 21, 2005 8:18:25 am PDT #7463 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I enjoy Cronenberg's quest-y intelligence almost as much as I enjoy his yucky-artistic sensibilities.
Whee, thanks for posting that, Nutty!
He's one of the most thoughtful interviews I've ever read on the subject of his own films, and if he's not my favorite director, he's damn near close too it.
I'm really looking forward to A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE. From everything I've read, it's ostensibly one of his most mainstream, and at the same time most subversive, movies.
Actually, it's been/going to be quite a Fall for movies - two Tim Burton's (dammit! I need to get to CHARLIE), a Terry Gilliam (ibid BROS. GRIMM) with another already playing festivals, MIRRORMASK, SERENITY and a new Cronenberg. Of living directors, only a new David Lynch could make it any better.
DavidS - Sep 21, 2005 8:22:16 am PDT #7464 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Of living directors, only a new David Lynch could make it any better.
What? No love for the Coen Brothers or Wes Anderson?
Frankenbuddha - Sep 21, 2005 8:26:41 am PDT #7465 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
What? No love for the Coen Brothers or Wes Anderson?
In my personal second tier. Anderson's still earning his stripes, and the last few Coen's have been pretty weak. Scorcese comes close too, but, again, his last two have been more interesting than good (although I was psyched to pick up the new Dylan doc).
erikaj - Sep 21, 2005 11:48:31 am PDT #7466 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Part of my grit-soiled heart will always belong to Marty Scorsese, even if "Gangs of New York" was kind of an "It happens to every guy, honey," kind of experience.(Cameron Diaz as a streetwalker. Feh.) I thought the Coens "Intolerable Cruelty" was funny as hell.
Jars - Sep 21, 2005 1:39:42 pm PDT #7467 of 10002
An article that's very slightly spoilery for Serenity, but it's barely mentioned, so I thought I'd put it in here instead. Excuse me while I go do my make-up.
§ ita § - Sep 21, 2005 1:48:00 pm PDT #7468 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'd like to discuss two excerpts from that article:
Even Jennifer Lopez, popular in romantic comedy roles, achieved two of her biggest disasters with films in which she impersonated brutal killers: an avenging, battered wife, who masters martial arts in Enough, and a ruthless, amoral hit woman in the reviled Gigli.
Pause for a moment and consider one of her most critically acclaimed roles -- Jennifer Sisco in Out Of Sight. No, she wasn't a brutal killer (wasn't really one in Enough either), but she was badassed and hardassed and physical.
Even more improbably, the embarrassing Stealth features 22-year-old Jessica Biel (best known as the sweet, girl-next-door star of TV's 7th Heaven) as a crack Navy aviator shot down over North Korea, single-handedly battling Kim Jong Il's entire army to a standstill.
Didn't see the movie, don't know what she fought her way out of. However, if it's a crap action movie, putting a guy in that role wouldn't make it significantly closer to reality -- it's a matter of what we're willing to suspend our disbelief for, not what we can actually believe.
Not to mention that whole thing where she shot out the camera lens during Blade: Trinity. It's not like she's inherently useless.