I can easily see how someone could hate the Jane character, though for me Gina Bellman's performance somehow made her extremely enjoyable, if not exactly likeable. But Lindsay Price's Jane had the exact opposite effect—pairing a monstrously self-absorbed character with an actress whose cutesy "LOOK AT ME!" delivery in baby-doll voice had me hoping the American writers would throw in a date with a serial killer as an original plot twist.
This is a time of celebration, so sit still and be quiet.
Snyder ,'Chosen'
Buffista Movies 6: lies and videotape
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Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 16, 2008 12:02:31 pm PDT #7084 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
Dana - Jul 16, 2008 12:52:22 pm PDT #7085 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
British Patrick is totally a hottie. Please.
Steph L. - Jul 16, 2008 1:45:18 pm PDT #7086 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
pairing a monstrously self-absorbed character with an actress whose cutesy "LOOK AT ME!" delivery in baby-doll voice
See, that's exactly what I got from Gina Bellman. Maybe her voice wasn't *quite* high-pitched or breathy enough to be baby-doll, but MAN, did her voice grate. And I saw an interview with her (DVD extras, maybe), and found that I really liked her voice when she wasn't t Jon Lovitz Master Thespian flourish acting.
P.M. Marc - Jul 16, 2008 1:53:27 pm PDT #7087 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Gina Bellman won me over with her not-a-date at the Inferno party. When she stabbed the lamb and went baaa.
Steph L. - Jul 16, 2008 1:58:55 pm PDT #7088 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
When she stabbed the lamb and went baaa.
That might be my most-unfavorite Jane episode ever.
(I swear I'm not trying to be contrary!)
P.M. Marc - Jul 16, 2008 2:01:04 pm PDT #7089 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
It was just so cheerfully, completely, totally EVIL of her!
Sue - Jul 16, 2008 2:01:18 pm PDT #7090 of 10000
hip deep in pie
British Patrick is totally a hottie. Please.
Standing in Dana's corner.
quester - Jul 16, 2008 6:21:34 pm PDT #7091 of 10000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Is anyone else as unenthused about the X-Files movie as I am?
Sean K - Jul 16, 2008 6:25:05 pm PDT #7092 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Meh.
Polter-Cow - Jul 16, 2008 6:57:21 pm PDT #7093 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I am enthused. Not giggling like a schoolboy with anticipation, but I'm damn well going to see it opening weekend if I can help it.
I just watched Batman Begins again to get ready for The Dark Knight. It sure does take its sweet time, but it's a damn good movie. The first forty-five minutes feel terribly boring the second time around, even though I know they're important for setting up the second half. Iron Man zipped through the origin story much faster and snappier.
I like that Batman Begins is very thematically coherent. Or possibly incredibly anvilicious, if you want to look at it that way. But the idea of fear is carried throughout. I love that the first attack on the docks is shot like a fucking horror movie with Batman as the monster. It's awesome. And I really like the way Christopher Nolan did the hallucinations, how they're just a bent version of reality rather than something completely off-the-wall like you'd see in a cartoon.