'Shindig'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Maybe a bit too old? Also, not English.
Oooh, Colin Salmon! Since he didn't get Bond, and it looks like he might not have the Head Flunky to M role for much longer (according to the interview I saw about his disappointment at not getting Bond), it'd be great if he got even a small role in an HP film.
OMG, I forgot there was a Jason movie in space.
With half the cast of Andromeda in it, IIRC.
Gleason is going to be great as Mad-Eye, even though I had always pictured Patrick Stewart as Moody ever since I first read the book.
Heh. Even though I knew they weren't going to cast American actors, I kept picturing Dennis Hopper as Mad-Eye.
I know it's past time for being helpful, but Dead Alive is also a funny scary movie.
or more Carpenter, They Live has a funny 20-minute fight with two muscled guys trying to get each other to put on sunglasses.
Best. Fight scene. Evar.
And so many great cheesy quotes, too:
I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum.
I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum.
This is DH's FAVORITE movie line. Ever.
Oooh. I just found out that Toby Stephens (a fetching young red-haired actor of British TV and movies) is Dame Maggie Smith's son. I think I have my mental Bill Weasley cast. Plus, his mum's in the flicks already, so it shouldn't be much of a hassle to get him to sign on.
Vonnie, if you've seen Branagh's Henry V, you've seen Toby's dad. Robert Stephens, an acclaimed Shakespearian actor of the 1960s and at the time considered on the same level as Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole until he crawled into a bottle for most of the 1970s, played Aged Pistol in that movie.
It's been years since I've seen Branagh's Henry V so I don't recall him very well, but this photo of the presumably young Robert Stephens doesn't resemble Toby that much other than the same impression of lanky physicality.
Great Shakespearian actors and the affinity to bottle seem to go hand-in-hand.
