I'm with Jessica here. Depp surprised me by being able to sing. HBC not so much. And the girl who played Joanna really surprised me, cause I think she sang the part on stage in London. Maybe she had a sore throat during filming...
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Typo Boy - Dec 31, 2007 9:37:29 am PST #3108 of 10000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Jon B. - Dec 31, 2007 9:51:54 am PST #3109 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
to hear their reactions to things, which were of course very different from mine.
Could you give some examples, Jesse?
Jesse - Dec 31, 2007 10:05:11 am PST #3110 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
There was a lot of "EW!" and lack of laughing at things that cracked me up, but I can't quite remember what. Obviously the Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner characters didn't really resonate. The talk in the bathroom was all about, "No, seriously, your uterus gets that big!" "EW!!!"
Also, I don't think they went "aw" every time Michael Cena was on-screen like I did.
Scrappy - Dec 31, 2007 10:10:15 am PST #3111 of 10000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I totally did the aw thing with him. Well, he's such a big doe-eyed doofusy-but-cool kid, isn't he? And the kid can act. I mean, it's almost impossible not be all, Gee whiz over him.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 31, 2007 10:17:57 am PST #3112 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
And yet, somehow I manage. He did not feature in the "pro" column on my list of reasons to see or avoid Superbad.
Jesse - Dec 31, 2007 10:19:26 am PST #3113 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I don't think I've seen him in anything else except Arrested Development, and not much of that. I seriously said "aw!" out loud more than once.
Jon B. - Dec 31, 2007 10:19:34 am PST #3114 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
He really nailed his character, didn't he? One moment that resonated and perhaps summed him up was when Juno says to him how he's so cool without even working at it and he replies that no, actually, he's worked at it pretty hard.
Jesse - Dec 31, 2007 10:20:04 am PST #3115 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I was going to quote that very thing, Jon! Aw!
Gris - Dec 31, 2007 11:01:20 am PST #3116 of 10000
Hey. New board.
Having recently spent my Borders gift card, very productively, on their 3-for-the-price-of-2 DVD sale to get Pan's Labyrinth, Once, and The Princess Bride Buttercup edition on DVD, I just rewatched Pan's Labyrinth for the first time since seeing it at a theater at 10:30 on January 3rd of last year.
It never even occurred to me until people posted about it here to wonder about the nature of the ending - real or imagined. It was always real to me. Now, I almost think I like the movie more if it's imagined. But no matter what, oh, such a good movie. I want to watch all of my extra features now.
Jessica - Dec 31, 2007 11:40:45 am PST #3117 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Jon, I loved that exchange too.
Thinking back, Jennifer Garner may have been my favorite thing about the whole movie. Her performance surprised me so much - not a false note in there. It would have been really easy to go over the top with that character, but she hit it just right.