I thought Memento was funny, and I admire Nolan's ability to keep twisty narrative threads straight. But putting him and Christian Bale in the same movie is the road to dourville. They both have a tendency to take themselves too seriously, which ruined Batman Begins for me, and made Prestige kind of unfun to watch. Bale is comparatively lighthearted in Rescue Dawn, where he's a frickin POW.

Related: Thinking about it, it’s entirely possible that sex symbol Christian Bale has never played a character who’d be worth the trouble of sleeping with.

Reign Of Fire: Too embarrassed about being in this movie to relax and open up emotionally.

I'm sorry, has she seen this movie? It's as cheerful a pile of melty cheese as ever graced a slice of toast! Surely if Michael Caine can see his way clear to Jaws 2, Christian Bale can show his face over a silly dragons-and-shirtlessness caper.

(I'm secretly convinced that British actors just don't have a sense of shame.)

Michael Caine was in Jaws 4, an even worse film than Jaws 2.

Velvet Goldmine: Gay. Oh, you lucky gay men, you.

HEE. Well, yeah.

Michael Caine was in Jaws 4, an even worse film than Jaws 2.

DH says he saw an interview with Michael Caine where the interviewer asked him if he had seen Jaws 4. He replied that he had NOT but that he HAD seen the very lovely beach house he purchased with the paycheck and he loved it.

Heh--I remember seeing that quoted in more recent Caine interview.

Sad thing is that he had to skip receiving his Oscar for Hannah and Her Sisters since he was in the Bahamas making that movie.

Caine really does embody the "keep on working, regardless of the quality of roles" type of actor, doesn't he? I think one of my favorite of his less-noted films was The Fourth Protocol, costarring a pre-Bond Pierce Brosnan and Joanna Cassidy.

I would TOTALLY sleep with Christian Bale's Laurie from Little Women (if he ever got over the March sisters, that is.) I never was all Jo/Laurie 4evah!! and Laurie always struck me as kinda cheerfully boyish, but Bale's Laurie was all mischief and merry eyes, with a dash of usual Bale-like intensity. Adorable *and* attractive.

Oh, my god, Vonnie, that scene at the fence.

Oh yes, what Vonnie said.

And Bruce Wayne? No love for Bats?

Oh, my god, Vonnie, that scene at the fence.

I know! It broke me.

The bit of physical performance by Bale I remember most vividly from the movie was the scene in which Laurie and Jo are talking about... oh, I don't know. Probably about Meg and whasshisface. I don't recall much else, but there was a shot of Bale looking up at Winona Ryder holding a book tucked under his chin (I think) and he does this little spirit-fingers thing then clasp his fingers on top of the book, and he's trying to look mock-serious but his eyes are just dancing with mirth and OMG, he was so freakin' adorable I nearly died.

Clearly I need to rent this movie again.