My issue with the Philadelphia Story movie is much like mine with the Rent movie (as opposed to standing issues with the show). Katherine, as much as I love her, is too old for the part.
Honestly, you meet the most appalling sort of people....
Giles ,'Chosen'
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DebetEsse - Dec 07, 2006 12:38:01 pm PST #6317 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Hayden - Dec 07, 2006 12:40:35 pm PST #6318 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
People that don't like Bull Durham are simply bad human beings. I don't mean to impugn your taste, but it's a proven fact. Really, it's not even a question of taste, it's about your worth as human beings on this planet. Consider yourselves judged.
Actually, we're not just bad but evil. And intent on World Domination. Consider yourself on notice, Costner-lovers.
Dana - Dec 07, 2006 12:41:36 pm PST #6319 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Is it acceptable to love Bull Durham if you otherwise despise Costner? (With another exception for Field of Dreams, of course.)
Glamcookie - Dec 07, 2006 12:41:41 pm PST #6320 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Huh. I've never thought that of The Philadelphia Story. Cary Grant isn't too young for her, and he plays the ex-husband. I figured the character would be a little older since she's been married once already.
Hayden - Dec 07, 2006 12:43:45 pm PST #6321 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
My understanding is that all people who love Bull Durham secretly also love The Postman. I believe I read this on IMDB.
DebetEsse - Dec 07, 2006 12:44:57 pm PST #6322 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I worked on the play, so I lived...rather intimately with the script, and we had the same problem as the movie.
At the time, I thought the actress who played Leo's daughter would be perfect for the part (this was circa season 1 or 2)
Aims - Dec 07, 2006 12:45:46 pm PST #6323 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Katherine, as much as I love her, is too old for the part.
SHE WAS NOT.
DebetEsse - Dec 07, 2006 12:51:49 pm PST #6324 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
This is not an argument I'm going to win with logic, is it?
Aims - Dec 07, 2006 12:54:00 pm PST #6325 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Have you met us?
Sparky1 - Dec 07, 2006 12:54:36 pm PST #6326 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
Hivemind! A professor here would like to have an International Law film series to go with his IL class. The topics to which the films would have to be vaguely related are:
Use of Force, Terrorism, Humanitarian intervention, Self-defense (i.e., use of force by states in self-defense), US Foreign Relations (Alien Tort Claims Act, Sovereign Immunity, Act of State), Human Rights (including women's rights, civil rights, torture, and some other stuff), Laws of war (protection of civilians, occupation, detention) Genocide, Crimes against humanity, War crimes, Environment (fisheries, ozone, climate)
My list of suggestions so far includes: Judgment at Neuremburg, Hotel Rwanda, An Inconvenient Truth, M*A*S*H, Wag the Dog, Breaker Morant, Munich, Syriana, The Constant Gardener, Missing, A Dry White Season, Missing, Dr. Strangelove...
Also, TV is fair game if there's a copy we can get our hands on. Star Trek must have dealt with many of these, so if you know 'em suggest 'em.