Xander ,'Chosen'
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Except for the bits where HBC sings. My favorite "My GOD why was she cast (as if I don't already know razzin' frazzin' married or whatever to the director grumble grumble)" moment was when she and Toby sing together and the 10-year-old had a stronger voice than she did. Like, obviously and painfully stronger.
See, I liked her voice. It was rough and real. But I have a big soft spot for non-professionally trained singers who sing (in public) being one myself.
"Is this the face that launched a thousand ships and burned the topless towers of Ilium?"
Paris was so much prettier.
Gilding the Lily
What movies get wrong (and right) about gardening.
So there I was muttering, "Fraud, fraud," while watching Enchanted April.
It's a charming movie that sets very few viewers to grumbling. Oppressed women leave cold, rainy 1920s England and proceed to find happiness, peace, and sunshine in a rented castle on the Italian coast.
My complaint wasn't about the story line but about the fact that the movie's Portofino, Italy, hillside garden was bursting with flowers that wouldn't be blooming simultaneously. No garden in the real world would look like that—the blooms of high summer (roses, sunflowers, geraniums) right next to the flowers of April (daffodils, tulips, camellias). It's garden fraud.
Mostly, though, my memory is of that whole "Cousins! They're cousins, okay? COUSINS, damn it!!!" thing.
Cleolinda certainly did make that movie a lot more enjoyable in retrospect. I can't see a photo with Brad Pitt in armor and helm without hearing the smartass audience member yell "STELLAAAAAAA!" in my head.
But they are all extremely pretty. Especially in the midriff shirts.
Sean Bean as Odysseus is the best thing about that film, both in terms of acting and eye candy.
I'll vote for Eric Bana as Hector, at least in the eye candy category.
Paris was so much prettier.
True. And we got to see him mostly-shirtless a lot. Sean Bean was actually quite wonderful.
Sean Bean as Odysseus is the best thing about that film, both in terms of acting and eye candy.
Oh hell yeah.
I hear that, sister! [link]
Sean Bean as Odysseus is the best thing about that film, both in terms of acting and eye candy.
Oh my! (Haven't seen the film, but followed the link.)
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