Brokeback Mountain has made it here -- a couple weeks before they said it was going to get here. The cover of the weekend section was one of the publicity pictures. Hopefully I'll be able to go see this tomorrow.
Actually, I was thinking it would be sort of like a pet. You know, we could...we could name her Trixie, or Miss Kitty Fantastico, or something.
Tara ,'Empty Places'
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askye - Jan 06, 2006 7:53:07 am PST #9656 of 10002
Thrive to spite them
Nutty - Jan 06, 2006 7:55:28 am PST #9657 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I was skeeved out by him in Troy.
Who was not skeevy in Troy? Be honest, now. The Starlight Express outfits were not doing anybody much good, and don't get me started on the hair.
I think Brad Pitt makes a much better ironic character than he does a heartfelt character. Playing a role straight seems to lead to expressions of constipation.
erikaj - Jan 06, 2006 7:57:08 am PST #9658 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
yeah, you know, now that you mention it...
§ ita § - Jan 06, 2006 8:00:44 am PST #9659 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think Sean Bean overcame a great deal stacked against him. And I think that at least Orlando was supposed to look spineless and a touch puling.
Which was kinda hot.
I'll volunteer to be skeeved by this anytime.
Ailleann - Jan 06, 2006 8:02:43 am PST #9660 of 10002
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
Who was not skeevy in Troy? Be honest, now.
Wasn't skeeved by Sean Bean. Granted, the Greco!Mullet wasn't doing him any favors, but I've been dying for a remake of Odysseus ever since.
(eta: any x-post with ita is good...)
Kalshane - Jan 06, 2006 8:04:39 am PST #9661 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.
Ooh. A non-sucky Odyssey staring Sean Bean would be awesome. He was about the only character I really liked in Troy. Well, Eric Bana's Hector was cool too.
bon bon - Jan 06, 2006 8:05:46 am PST #9662 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I thought Pitt was supposed to be skeevy in Troy-- he was perfectly cast as an analogue of the vapid but but mysteriously compelling celebrity.
§ ita § - Jan 06, 2006 8:07:41 am PST #9663 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Well, sleeping with his cousin certainly pushes things that way.
Scrappy - Jan 06, 2006 8:11:16 am PST #9664 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
No, I found him physically skeevy. I liked Bana and Bean a lot in that (horrendous) film, AND found them both Hottly McTogapants, but Pitt's musclebound physique just made me want to run screaming.
Nutty - Jan 06, 2006 8:11:22 am PST #9665 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Eric Bana's Hector was cool too.
I will say, in the hair competition, he and Orlando got off well -- long curly hair just looks more glam than long straight hair (as Robert Plant or Luke from General Hospital will surely attest). However, Bana incurred skeevy points for a scene in which he sits down, shirtless, with the infant Astyanax in his arms, and looks for all the world like he is breast-feeding the child with his enormous man-breasts. My brain was scarred.
(It was particularly notable because the woman playing Andromache looked like she was starving to death, and had no breasts at all.)