Not quite movies, but I spent the morning minding the babby whilst JZ slept and poking around on the Avengers Forever website.
It's one of the coolest and most comprehensive show sites ever, and explains all the backstory on how/why Linda Thorson got cast, the great producer putsch of the last season, who Elizabeth Shepard was and with a lot of cool analysis and tidbits.
Sort of like the Buffy guide once was. But more comprehensive.
Damn. The Buffyguide was sooo good at one point.
Still also missing The Eleventh Hour.
Watched some of
The Protector.
Admittedly, it was the Thai version with no dubbing or subtitles, but you have a long road to hoe to convince me that understanding what they're saying makes the movie significantly better.
I've been told I should have started with disk 2 of the VCD set, but this was from the same guy who didn't see fit to tell us we'd not understand 2/3 of the conversations.
It also features some painfully bad phonetic English which makes you realise how well Jackie Chan and Jet Li were doing.
How the hell did Naomi Watts get first billing in King Kong? By virtue that she could scream louder than any of the leading men?
How the hell did Naomi Watts get first billing in King Kong? By virtue that she could scream louder than any of the leading men?
Well, that and having to have to display emotions other than "RUN AWAY!!!!" to the ping pong ball representing the effects to be named later.
The cynic in me thinks it's because she appeared in all the promotional material in that wet flesh-colored dress. Then again, she's more of a draw as a performer for me than Adrien Brody or Jack Black, and that movie was made pretty close on the heels of her fame from The Ring.
Yeah, Jack Black seems to be the only big-enoughname contender for first billing there, and if they gave it to him people might assume it was a comedy.
It makes sense to me. I mean, she did plenty of work. It's not like Neve Campbell being mentioned on the cover of Reefer Madness: The Musical for her one throwaway scene, and other even worse travesties I've seen.
Brody had won a best actor Oscar in recent years, but given that he seems to be emulating the post-Oscar career path of a best supporting actress winner...
In case anyone is interested, Amazon is currently selling the Criterion DVDs of
Diabolique, Eyes Without a Face,
and the original
The Vanishing
for under $20.
How the hell did Naomi Watts get first billing in King Kong?
Not even remotely as bad as Sting getting top billing for his less-than-ten-minutes appearance in
Dune.
I think Sting stepping out of a shower half-naked is the kind of cameo appearance that deserves top billing, personally.
Just got back from seeing The Queen, which is a very nice movie, but I'm not entirely sure what it's trying to say. It's kind of pro-everyone, which is pleasant to watch, but not much more. Helen Mirren gives an incredible performance, as usual.
