Jonathan ,'Touched'
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I thought she and the main guy were both trying so hard to emote SEXY that it was really offputting. We were both laughing in places that weren't supposed to be funny. Plus I just thought overall she wasn't very good. I could see the Acting taking place.
They didn't have a lot of chemistry, I'll grant. Though I was kind of blaming him. I thought her part was underwritten and she did pretty well putting something into it.
I liked the movie though for the London Real Estate Porn.
A fascinating essay by Ron Rosenbaum, the author of "Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil" (which I totally loved).
Going back to read the essay now, but first I must say how deeply I heart tommyrot. "Explaining Hitler" is an amazing book, intelligent and profoundly uncomfortable and with a conclusion that still gives me unhappy bottom-of-my-gut/lizard-brain/depths-of-the-soul shivers when I think about it. If you haven't read his collection "Travels With Dr. Death," you must. Like, today. He's such an utterly fucking fantastic essayist and journalist.
I agree with that.
first I must say how deeply I heart tommyrot.
Yay!
If you haven't read his collection "Travels With Dr. Death," you must. Like, today.
That sounds cool. But it looks like I'll have to order a used copy or something, so I can't read it today....
I liked the movie though for the London Real Estate Porn.
That was good. GF and I also snickered at the main guy's wife liking the play The Woman In White. We saw it and thought it was pretty terrible.
I loved Match Point. Also, I've been out of love with Scarlett since I read some interviews with her and she seems kind of arrogant and uninteresting. I don't think I'd want to hang out with her, really. I think Natalie Portman would probably be a better conversationalist.
I did think Scarlett's acting in Match Point was good - I have no less respect for her acting ability now than before. But then, I saw her in The Perfect Score so maybe that helped lower my expectations below those of somebody who's only seen, say, Lost in Translation.
Match Point is coming up shortly on my Netflix queue, and I'm looking forward to watching it, finally. What I've read of it made it sound like something cold, nasty, slick and compelling, sort of like Talented Mr. Ripley (which I adore.)
What I've read of Johansson--her 'tude, her sense of entitlement--did little to endear her to me as a person, but I don't really care about the personal lives of actors when I watch them on movies anyway. (When I swoon over Errol Flynn swashbuckling, I don't want to think about his statutory rape charges; ditto Jason Dohring and Scientology.) She's been uniformly good in every movie I've seen her in so far, so I'm keen to see how she fares in this one.
Just watched Good Night and Good Luck. My Clooney love continues.
A friend IM'd me at work yesterday to inform me that Keira Knightley has been voted World's Sexist Woman. Other sources tell me it was Angelina Jolie.
Anyway.
Watched The Frighteners last night (10th Anniversary DVD). It was actually a pretty good movie. One or two "but how...?" points, but some good writing and some good performances. Awesome work by Michael J. Fox. And R. Lee Ermey!
As usual with Wingnut, the art direction was awesome. Nothing scary about the movie at all, but the "creepy house" was perfect, and the "scary evil thing" was also well-designed.
PJ (half the man he used to be) introduced the movie, and talked a little on the extras, and it's so odd...the result of my 9-year LOTR obsession is that when I see Richard Taylor or Grant Major in the credits, or PJ says "I had Christian Rivers do up the storyboards" I feel like they are my friends, or at least people I know.
the result of my 9-year LOTR obsession is that when I see Richard Taylor or Grant Major in the credits, or PJ says "I had Christian Rivers do up the storyboards" I feel like they are my friends, or at least people I know.
I totally get this. When Richard Taylor was up getting the Oscar for effects for King Kong, I was all "Gumby's back!" Then wondered why I hadn't been invited for the afterparty with the fans like LOTR.