I had many reasons to like Reign of Fire, the frequent shirtlessness of Christian Bale, the lovely voice of Gerard Butler--unfortunately completely clad at all times, ditto Dr. Bashir. But I really loved the little geeky Star Wars play the Bale and Butler characters did for the kids. "hhhuuhhh-pahhh Luke. I AM your father." "Nooooo!" And then one of the kids asked, "Did you write that yourself?" And Bale said yes. Hee!
This is my boat. They're part of my crew. No one's getting left. Best you get used to that.
Mal ,'Ariel'
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Beverly - Nov 06, 2005 9:54:25 pm PST #8483 of 10002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Steph L. - Nov 07, 2005 3:16:09 am PST #8484 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Shot of Thomas Haden Church from Spidey 3 filming, which is only spoilery if you read all the constant back-and-forth as regard to which villain he was playing and aren't sure which was true:
Oh HELL yeah. HELL YEAH!!!
Polter-Cow, he's Sandman.
Kalshane - Nov 07, 2005 6:52:26 am PST #8485 of 10002
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
The Star Wars bit was one of the only parts of Reign of Fire I actually liked.
Personally, I was hoping for more of the dragons and helicopters angle, in the sense of full-on dogfights rather than one lone unarmed helicopter with stupid people jumping out of it.
Nutty - Nov 07, 2005 7:49:56 am PST #8486 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
On the up side, helicopter vs. dragon would result in dragon-bits being chopped off as it meets the rotating blades. On the down side, helicopter blades don't tend to survive their meeting with dragon flesh, and helicopters don't tend to survive the loss of their blades.
So with only the one heliocopter, we were pretty much doomed to a lack of machine/animal dogfights.
Good thing people took their shirts off in that movie!!
Help me to organize my Netflix queue. What kind of movie am I in the mood for??
Frankenbuddha - Nov 07, 2005 8:22:12 am PST #8487 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Help me to organize my Netflix queue. What kind of movie am I in the mood for??
From the sounds of it, something with shirtless dragons trying to hack each other up with helicopter blades.
Vonnie K - Nov 07, 2005 8:24:11 am PST #8488 of 10002
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I've been doing quite a bit of old BBC minis. K. from LJ mentioned Dicken's "Our Mutual Friend" so I put that in my queue and just finished watching it couple of days ago. This may be my favorite BBC Dickens adaptation, full-stop. Steven McIntosh is such a wispy little man, but he's marvellous as John Harmon/Rokesmith. Anna Friel and Keeley Hawes aren't bad, either. And the dude who played Headstone was fucking *scary*.
Next up: Middlemarch.
Nutty - Nov 07, 2005 8:34:31 am PST #8489 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Vonnie, was it you mentioned that the Beeb was doing/has done a Bleak House adaptation? Probably that is not on DVD yet. But I have had good luck with seeing 19th C. novels on TV, and then reading them and enjoying them. Somehow, knowing the plot in advance, and in visual terms, can help reinforce a narrative throughline when the prose is busy meandering.
I have a number of obscure/art house movies in the queue, and am trying to leaven them with things that are fun, but not Will Ferrell-type. There is only so much French black-and-white dystopia I can take at one time.
DavidS - Nov 07, 2005 8:50:33 am PST #8490 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I've been doing quite a bit of old BBC minis.
Have you seen The Pallisers? (I might've asked this already.) I'm trying to decide if JZ needs it. She's a huge Trollope fan.
flea - Nov 07, 2005 8:56:23 am PST #8491 of 10002
information libertarian
My British boss went on and on about a BBC series called "The Palaces" before I figured her out.
We will not speak of the Korea Development Office fiasco.
Jessica - Nov 07, 2005 9:06:03 am PST #8492 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Vonnie, was it you mentioned that the Beeb was doing/has done a Bleak House adaptation? Probably that is not on DVD yet.
They've done 3 -- 1959, 1985, and 2005. I don't think any have been released in the States, though.