Oh, I thought he was very dashing as Sirius in OotP.
You are totally right, he's come back into his own. There was a period however, (I'm thinking Romeo is Bleeding) when he was just kind of scary.
Xander, don't speak Latin in front of the books!
Giles ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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Sue - Aug 28, 2007 7:03:39 am PDT #1183 of 10000
hip deep in pie
Vonnie K - Aug 28, 2007 7:10:05 am PDT #1184 of 10000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I can count a non-raving/murdering psychopathic Gary Oldman roles I've seen in one hand. Lemme see: Sirius Black, Gordon from Batman Begins and Rosencrantz. Well, he played Beethoven in that awful biopic, but he was sorta raving in that as well, if I recall. He always manages to come across unhinged, which was why his lovely subdued turn as Gordon was such a shock to my system.
juliana - Aug 28, 2007 7:28:30 am PDT #1185 of 10000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I have sort of a shameful mad love for Oldman's character in The Fifth Element. Actually, I have a shameful mad love for all of that movie. It's just so very over the top and so very clear that a sixteen year old boy who read too many comics wrote it.
Polter-Cow - Aug 28, 2007 7:34:38 am PDT #1186 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I love that movie too. It's so much fun and filled with awesomeness.
Beverly - Aug 28, 2007 7:51:38 am PDT #1187 of 10000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Zorg. Gods, I love Zorg. The Diva's number is up on YouTube. Saves me from having to keep loading the dvd.
Ailleann - Aug 28, 2007 8:58:51 am PDT #1188 of 10000
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The digitization at the end of the Diva's number always makes me sad. Because if they had gotten a skilled opera singer, they wouldn't have needed it.
(Though I guess it might have been a conscious choice. Man, I need to see that movie again...)
Polter-Cow - Aug 28, 2007 9:06:17 am PDT #1189 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I think it was a conscious choice, Ailleann. It really fit the style, as there was a clear switch from the regular opera to the sort of techno opera. I liked it.
Ailleann - Aug 28, 2007 9:11:42 am PDT #1190 of 10000
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Guess that's what I get for being an opera nerd.
Hayden - Aug 28, 2007 10:38:40 am PDT #1191 of 10000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Mrs. Industries loves that movie, too, but it fills me with nameless dread and eldritch horror.
esse - Aug 28, 2007 10:44:57 am PDT #1192 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
I have sort of a shameful mad love for Oldman's character in The Fifth Element. Actually, I have a shameful mad love for all of that movie. It's just so very over the top and so very clear that a sixteen year old boy who read too many comics wrote it.
I *adore* that movie. I must have seen it like fifteen times. Sometimes the track from the opera comes up in shuffle on my iPod, and I just sit there luxuriating in it. I'm certain it was a conscious choice, though, because for the first minute and a half it's the singer's natural voice, which is just lovely and resplendent, and then in the last thirty seconds or so is just the little bit of digitization--although that isn't even very much, it's just a little modulation for effect. The astonishing climb through the octaves really showed off her range.
Watching "The Terminator" which I have managed to go 23 years without seeing, but it's really quite good. It's showing off a lot of movement with very little dialogue, and though the effects are cheesy now in comparison to today's effects, I bet that they were shit-hot back in the day.