'War Stories'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Who does Ian McShane play in Dark is Rising? Merriman?
Still pissed about Will being American. This is because characters with British accents are evil, right?
Gaiman's Beowulf: Why is that not Sean Bean?!?! And, does everyone look CGId, a la 300? It doesn't look very good, or maybe it looks very Krull-ish. I'll still try to go see it.
We've got a standee for The Dark is Rising prominently displayed in the lobby right now. It says "The Seeker" in big bright capitol letters. I have been earwormed with The Who song for days.
Who does Ian McShane play in Dark is Rising? Merriman?
Yep.
It says "The Seeker" in big bright capitol letters. I have been earwormed with The Who song for days.
Which in turn makes me want to see The Limey again.
Now this looks like a buffista movie.
Just watched Sunshine. I was a bit impatient with it, and spent way too long waiting for someone to be incredibly craven in the face of death, and was not disappointed.
I liked Michelle Yeoh exactly as much as expected. I liked Rose Byrne a fair amount--I just finished watching the first ep of Damages this morning, so that was interesting juxtaposition. Cillian Murphy was Cillian Murphy, otherworldy and just shy of fey (he should have a fey-off with Jonathan Rhys Meyers--there can be eyeliner, if they need). I was surprised at how much I liked Chris Evans. His character was written pretty much the perfect crew member, save rubbing the blood on Capa--they'd have been fine (although a useless trip) if Trey hadn't fucked up. I think, anyway. I might have missed a calculation here or there. But he did a good job not doing any of the stuff I liked him doing in the Fantastic Four.
I could become a fan.
And I would certainly have his babies, although I wouldn't raise them or anything.
there can be eyeliner, if they need
Oh, it should be written into the rules of the contest.
and I liked Branagh's Hamlet.
I loved his Henry V and hated his Hamlet. One of the three movies I have walked out of. (The other two are The Muppet Movie and this very long British movie called The Fool.)
I saw his theatre company do Lear in Toroto in 1990? 1991? The production was just okay. Branagh played Edgar and was terrible. Emma Thompson played The Fool as a misshapen, almost Igor like character and just completely blew me away. Definitely in the top three stage performances I've ever seen.
I knew the Branagh/Thompson marriage was in jeopardy by the end of that play because I realized that A) She was waaaaaay more talented than she was, and B) he would not be able to deal with that.
Only movie I ever walked out of was the last Star Wars. My partner kept snoring. We made it about 40 minutes. I even sat through Blade:Trinity. Admittedly, that was because I was watching Ryan Reynolds.
Get this, Megan: they passed on Crispin Glover to cast him.
Oh. as usual. dear.