Playing a chained-up, half-naked nymphomaniac in her new movie Black Snake Moan helped Christina Ricci overcome her prudish nature, because now she parades around in her underwear all the time. The former child star had to face her fears of baring almost all for the film and decided the best way to get comfortable with revealing scenes was to wear nothing but lingerie at all times - even after cameras stopped rolling.
See, I read that on ImDb and am still trying to figure out what she means by it. Has Ricci really forgotten she appeared
stark fucking naked
in that "Prozac" movie, or is she simply trying to pretend it never happened and she never appeared
stark fucking naked
in anything?
I didn't see the Prozac movie, so I don't know how long she was naked in this--one day on set, or what. She was scanty for a very long time in
Black Snake Moan.
Christina ricci always seems like she is naked to me, for some reason.
McSweeney's lists Songs from Fight Club:The Musical [link]
Radcliffe has signed for the last two Harry Potter films:
[link]
I am glad. I'm not sure what I would do if the last two movies had a new Harry. Possibly go crazy.
We rented Idiocracy the other night. Would have made an excellent short but as a full-length movie it was just too dumb. The first 30 minutes or so were funny as hell because it's true!
Last night we watched
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
and
The Quiet Man.
I think the passage of time has made
Morgan's Creek
less laugh-out-loud funny and more really-damn-weird. Not that it wasn't amusing, but we spent a lot of time saying, "Wow, they're still piling on more complications? Where is this going?" Plus, a lot of the comedy is based to some degree on shock value, and since much of it isn't shocking now, that hurts it a bit. (The premise is that a girl gets drunk, may or may not get married to a soldier whose name she can't remember, and then finds out she's pregnant. Mayhem ensues.)
The Quiet Man
was also somewhat weird, not to mention kinky. But also quite charming and gorgeous. Bonus points for the IRA joke, too. I love movies where half the supporting characters have their own subplots.
Would have made an excellent short but as a full-length movie it was just too dumb. The first 30 minutes or so were funny as hell because it's true!
My understanding is that the studio took away control from Mike Judge, and that the movie that you saw was not necessarily the movie he wanted to make.
I would have liked to see the movie he wanted to make.
My understanding is that the studio took away control from Mike Judge, and that the movie that you saw was not necessarily the movie he wanted to make.
Watching the DVD, it's very obvious that this was the case. There are several scenes that just don't make any sense, in a very "the studio didn't know what the fuck they were holding in their hands and so handed it off to a herd of crazed ferrets to do the final cut and then plugged the holes with vapid voiceover narration" kind of way. (The VO isn't terrible, but it was clearly slapped on at the last minute after focus groups reported that the only way anyone would be able to tell what was happening in what remained of this movie would be for someone to constantly explain it while the film was playing.)
