I'm liking Josh Hartnett so much more than usual in this.
This is me.
When I heard he was cast, the only thing I could think of was how his terrible acting drug down one of my favorite, little, tiny movies, Blow Dry.
Then, I saw him in an interview being so much more mature and grounded than I've every seen him.
Not to mention that I have _always_ appreciated a man's face more as he ages.
He seems lovely, inside and out.
Still not sure how I feel about that particular scene, both for the genesis of the behavior (anger over being rejected by someone else) and the total randomness of it.
Plus, right in the middle of it, I could only think "the Buffistas are going to LUV this!
Amy, I cannot believe you missed it. It is almost comical how your recording cut off at the exact wrong moment.
You say comical, I say tragic ...
I'm not sure I necessarily buy Ethan suddenly macking on a guy, either, but I'm willing to handwave. Dorian is clearly fine with hedonism of all stripes, so that's good.
Showtime re-airs, yes? Worth looking for a showing you can catch the last few minutes of, I'd say.
Dorian has a very "wait, what? Well, okay then" reaction. I'm not sure what Ethan's motivation is, there was a lot of "you're pretending to be something you're not" in that conversation, and he did say he wanted to be someone else before they left the theater - I hope I'm not disappointed when his story becomes clearer, because the mystery is really interesting
"Lannister in the front, Dothraki in the back" [link]
I've seen it now! And already started writing the fic, to be honest.
I watched most of The Normal Heart yesterday, and really liked it. My sister said "Ruffalo/Bomer, how can you skip that?" but it was so much more. Oh, the anger, the pain--any AIDS-related movie set in the early 80s is not going to be a mood lifter, but I thought this was well done, and Ruffalo's character especially was interesting and interestingly handled.
I'd give it a rec.
Although they give AIDS stats after the movie ends, they don't talk about improvements in treatment--I know there's a clear message they're trying to get across, but I do think that only scrolling the horror is...well, there's so much AIDS horror, I guess.
I missed the start of it, but I have set it to record the whole thing. Maybe it's even a downloader (does HBO Go take stuff off? I could keep watching it there...).
I think it was undersold. I've seen billboards for it, but no promos on HBO that told me what it was going to be about or even when it was set. I don't think that's all on me--I see a lot of HBO promos.
Is Jim Parsons gay? I counted three actors, if he is, that I think/know are queer--Bomer, BD Wong, and him. I can see how this must have been an attractive story for someone to whom it's so integrally relevant (although, really, all of us--just in the early 80s, NSM).
Oh! And for "adapted from a play", finally, I was completely unable to tell. It didn't have any of the stiffness or awkwardness that the translation often comes with.
Have a look.
