I kissed him, and I told him that I loved him. And I killed him.

Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'


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Frankenbuddha - Oct 12, 2005 9:44:03 am PDT #7872 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Branagh's Yank accent in Dead Again (one of my alltime faves) had that strange flatness that just screams "Shakesperian Brit Acting American!" to me.

Hmm, it always sounded like Mandy Patinkin to me. Anyway, miles better than his Woody Allen impression in CELEBRITY.


Kathy A - Oct 12, 2005 9:45:42 am PDT #7873 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

You mean narration? I think the only one that had any was "Crossroads" (the one where Winters goes to Paris on leave), and it was in the form of Winters' report on the attack on the German battalion.

ETA: I've only seen BoB on History Channel (with they replaced all the "fucks" but left the "shits" in).


Vonnie K - Oct 12, 2005 9:48:05 am PDT #7874 of 10002
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

Well, there was the Winters voice-over near the end of the last episode, where he talks about what happened to the various survivors in the Easy Company over the backdrop of the men playing baseball in slo-mo. I remember it well because the scene made me weep like a little girl.


Kathy A - Oct 12, 2005 10:00:01 am PDT #7875 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I love the comment about one of the men becoming "just" a handyman in his small town back home, but when he died, he had over 1600 people at his funeral. Now there's a tribute!


Volans - Oct 12, 2005 10:11:42 am PDT #7876 of 10002
move out and draw fire

That scene by the lake in the opening scene of the last episode was slashier than some of the season 1 Smallville, which is my slash-barometer. Can't quite wrap my mind around RL war-vet slash though.

Agreed

I was SO in Love with Lewis in BoB. Great character and great acting

Agreed

though I still adore the film

Agreed

I hated everything about that Dracula movie, so I don't particularly remember Keanu's accent.


erikaj - Oct 12, 2005 10:21:10 am PDT #7877 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!

Clarke Peters(Lester Freamon) is also a Wire UKer. That one still makes me go "No way!" because he nails an American accent so perfectly. And he just plays the hell out of that part in every possible way...hard to believe he's not *Lester*, let alone not from Balmer.


askye - Oct 12, 2005 10:30:42 am PDT #7878 of 10002
Thrive to spite them

In BoB I could have sworn there was narration during the winter seige thing. I'm not sure what to call it, but I could have sworn there was narration there and another place where it was Walberg doing the narration.

I had no clue that Lester was not American.

Also --erika because you've been talking about Peleconos (which I think I mispelled) I picked up one of his books at the library.


Sean K - Oct 12, 2005 10:36:37 am PDT #7879 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

In BoB I could have sworn there was narration during the winter seige thing. I'm not sure what to call it, but I could have sworn there was narration there and another place where it was Walberg doing the narration.

There was. I don't remember if there was narration by Walberg anywhere else, but he definitely narrated the siege at Foy.

I hated everything about that Dracula movie, so I don't particularly remember Keanu's accent.

That movie caused a schism between me and a couple of my friends for a little while after it came out because they were all "OMG, IT'S SO SWEEPING AND ROMANTIC AND VAMPIRES AND TAKE ME AWAY FROM ALL OF THIS DEATH!!!!1!!1!," and I was all "You know it's one huge steaming pile of poo, right?"


tommyrot - Oct 12, 2005 10:38:19 am PDT #7880 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Tom Waits made an excellent Renfield.


Calli - Oct 12, 2005 10:39:11 am PDT #7881 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I was all "You know it's one huge steaming pile of poo, right?"

Very stylish poo, though. If I turned off my brain I could enjoy a fair bit of the pretty. Kind of like Mary Shelly's Frankenstein.

That reminds me, at the scene where the suitors and Van Helsing are riding to save whatsherface in Dracula, the guy I was watching the movie with leaned over to me and said, "Good God. It's Van Helsing and the Three Stooges vs. Dracula."