Though he was the best Jack Ryan in the best Jack Ryan movie.
Dad and I caught most of the last hour of Hunt for Red October on TNT yesterday afternoon before going to see The Departed, and I was telling him exactly the same thing!
Zoe: Next time we smuggle stock, let's make it something smaller. Wash: Yeah, we should start dealing in those black-market beagles.
'Safe'
Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Kathy A - Mar 19, 2007 9:55:13 am PDT #7898 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
beekaytee - Mar 19, 2007 12:32:34 pm PDT #7899 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
I loved AB in State and Main. "So, that happened." I use that line in my work all the time.
Amy - Mar 19, 2007 12:59:15 pm PDT #7900 of 10001
Because books.
I loved AB in State and Main. "So, that happened." I use that line in my work all the time.
OMG, Beej, that is one of my all-time favorite lines ever. The first time I heard it, I laughed so hard I cried. His delivery was perfect.
I like Alec Baldwin. He seems to sort of deserve his real-life Bloviator nickname, but I've never seen him in a role he couldn't carry off.
Also a big fan of Malice here. It's not a great movie, but it's better than a lot of the current entries in the genre, especially because Nicole Kidman plays totally against type, and Alec Baldin plays the doctor so convincingly. Also, I adore Bill Pullman, so there's that.
Kathy A - Mar 19, 2007 1:12:46 pm PDT #7901 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I really should pick up the DVD of The Zero Effect--Bill Pullman is fabulous as the updated (and whacked out) Sherlock Holmes for the new millenium.
beekaytee - Mar 19, 2007 1:14:12 pm PDT #7902 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
The Zero Effect-
Ooh. I love that one too.
esse - Mar 19, 2007 1:40:11 pm PDT #7903 of 10001
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
He rocked in Outside Providence. So awesome. But he really does shine like the brightest star in 30 Rock.
beekaytee - Mar 19, 2007 1:42:50 pm PDT #7904 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
"Sex is like a Chinese meal...it ain't ovah until both youse get your cookies."
Frankenbuddha - Mar 19, 2007 2:36:26 pm PDT #7905 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Stands in the loves ZERO EFFECT corner with Kathy and beej.
I own the DVD proudly (MALICE too, but somewhat less proudly).
Loved STATE & MAIN (or was it MAINE?) - really must get a copy of that. Rebecca Pidgeon's character on children (she plays a grade school teacher): Never much saw the point of them.
Sean K - Mar 19, 2007 4:18:14 pm PDT #7906 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Okay, I'm probably one of the most liberal people out there, particularly when it comes to First Amendment rights, and double particularly (way good grammar!) when it comes to those rights and filmmaking, but I saw a bilboard for this movie today at the corner of Hollywood and Vermont, and I'm incredibly offended.
Basically the bilboard was a four panel story board with the captions "Abduction, Confinement, Torture, Termination." each with a picture of a woman (presumably star Elisha Cuthbert) in each of those four states. Basically a storyboard for the ritualized sexual torture and murder of this woman.
Seriously vile.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 19, 2007 6:21:59 pm PDT #7907 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Basically the bilboard was a four panel story board with the captions "Abduction, Confinement, Torture, Termination." each with a picture of a woman (presumably star Elisha Cuthbert) in each of those four states. Basically a storyboard for the ritualized sexual torture and murder of this woman.
Odd. It's by Roland Joffe who did THE KILLING FIELDS and THE MISSION. The snarky part of me wants to say that he wants revenge for everyone who watched the first 3 seasons of 24, but I'd hope there was more going on than it looks like.
OTOH, he also directed that gawdawful Demi Moore SCARLET LETTER, so maybe he's just embraced his inner hack.