'Hell Bound'
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The dad was J. Jonah Jameson! That's why he looked familiar. Damn!
I feel like an utter simpleton for not recognizing him as J. Jonah without the mustache; for me, the dad was the blackmailed headmaster from The Ref, and that's why he looked familiar, damn!
Also Dr. Skoda on L&O.
This is what I'm saying, people!
And Pope from The Closer.
He's Emil Skoda, definitely.
Which makes listening to the 1992 revival of Guys and Dolls rather strange, because he's also one of the guys who hangs with Nicely Nicely and sings "Fugue for Tinhorns" (His name is Valentine / and in the morning line / they got him figured at five to nine) and the title song.
Watched A Dog's Breakfast this evening. Awkward, funny, horrid, wonderful. It got to the point where I was thinking that if I hadn't correctly figured out what was going on, I was going to throw my shoe at the TV. I liked that it seemingly used the cliches of "OMG, don't you see what he's doing? Are you blind?!" and then turned them on their ear. I just want to run it through my editor to take out some of the too-long silences that made me feel like I was watching a highschool play (or actually watching the actors wait for their cue while the film was rolling).
J.K. Simmons! He was my one celebrity sighting in L.A.! I just felt the need to mention that.
Rambo is set in Darfur I think. The only US movie to tackle Darfur -- which is the location of ongoing ethnic genocide whilst the world has ignored it -- is Rambo. Julie Benz is in it, also.
I saw I AM LEGEND yesterday and really liked it. It wasn't the book, but it was very well done and definitely not a Will Smith quip-a-thon. He was really good a portraying a guy with about half a thread of his sanity left (if that), that gets more frayed as the movie goes on.
I also really liked the soundtrack (or lack thereof). It added to the emptiness of everything.
It's Myanmar, Kevin. As much as I like to see legitimate world political issues addressed in movies, I also can't quite stomach the idea of one of the worst American movie icons that I can think of being brought back in an expensive shoot-em-up. Rambo is a relic of the gun toting, lone wolf, violent, American and not one that I think brings a warm, fuzzy feeling into geopolitics.
I'm sure conservatives will love it.