Maybe the accent thing only works if you're an American doing an accent? Has a Brit ever won for doing an American accent?
'Heart Of Gold'
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that he immerses so deeply into a lot of roles that people don't realize it's the same actor from movie to movie
I agree, but the industry folks who make the nominations should know. Unless not even his manager realizes those were all him...
Kate Winslet rants about Oscar bait roles in the new Ricky Gervais/ Stephen Merchant show Extras.
ETA That wasn't so tangential in my head.
Has anybody else seen Alone in the Dark? It's the first movie I've been able to find without a single positive critic review..
Played the game; had zero interest in the movie.
Christian Slater and Tara Reid... Best casting evah.
Stephen Dorff would have been my gateway to the movie, but I've seen a Uwe Boll movie before. Never, ever again.
Some of the review quotes to it are great..
"The three stars have seen better days, but I'd like to think they could still do something classier and more dignified than this. Like gay porn." -- Rob Vaux, FLIPSIDE MOVIE EMPORIUM
"Alone in the Dark doesn't even deserve the indignity of going straight-to-video" -- Christian Toto, WASHINGTON TIMES
"Saying Uwe Boll’s Alone in the Dark is better than his 2003 American debut House of the Dead is akin to praising syphilis for not being HIV." -- Nicholas Schager, SLANT MAGAZINE
I saw it! It was fantastic! It has the most wonderfully random sex scene, and Christian Slater seems to live in a lamp warehouse, and there's a security guard giving the performance of his life, and at the end the captions and the narration seem to be describing entirely different endings. It's also educational, like when Slater says, "Nowadays we can't remember why we valued gold in the first place." It's so true. My favorite character was the guy who was in charge of guarding the perimeter.
And the DVD has a trivia pop-up feature that will tell you all about H.P. Lovecraft. If you can make it out, because the text & background colors were both very dark. So it's a really nice feature if you're a masochist. But I suppose that's true of the entire movie.
Strega, you should start MoviesWithoutPity.com...