Xander ,'Showtime'
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LOVED the Tartakovsky (sp?) Clone Wars. Not sure how they can equal/top it...
What Laga said. It's good but less good than the Genndy. He had the good sense to end-run the dialogue issues by having many silent battle scenes of beautiful graphic design.
I just finished Alpha Dog. Great film but I feel wrung out. It a little weird since I'm only two episodes from the end of season 1 of Veronica Mars and Amanda Seyfriend played pretty much the same character in both. It was easy to imagine Lily Kane mixed up in the whole mess.
edit: wow Vincent Kartheiser did a great job. I never recognized him. I did try to turn off that part of my brain because I knew the cast was huge and it often messes with my enjoyment of a movie when I spend the whole time trying to place people.
Alpha Dog was so heartbreaking. i've only been able to watch it once even though i really, really loved it.
It was brilliantly done. Even if it wasn't true it would still be heartbreaking. Sharon Stone's insight in the featurette is spot on, too. They were all just kids. I'm surprised to find out the trial of "Johnny Truelove" has been pushed back to 2009. I thought he'd already been convicted.
When I first got interested in cinema I would see a movie with someone I really liked in it and look them up in the video companion (no internet back then) and rent everything I could with them in it.
I went through a Bogart Phase, Ingrid Bergman, Robert Duvall, Audrey Hepburn, Sean Connery. Now I get interested in an actor, look them up and find I've already seen most of the stuff they've done. I have to wait to watch what they've got coming up next.
I'm sure there's stuff out there I'm missing, heck I still haven't seen Gone With the Wind. But I miss being able to discover a dozen films featuring someone I've just fallen in love with.
Oh, Aims - Harry Potter nude scene in film 6? (I need to reread HBP because I don't quite remember that.)
He's naked in 7, in the train station afterworld, but I don't remember him naked in 6.
Ok - I'm all for gratuitous DR nekkidness in my presence, but it seems as though they're tossing it in there to maybe make up for making people wait another billion months for the damn movie or to profit off of Equus in some wierd way and that's irritating.
Where the hell in 6 is HP nekkid???
He was already naked in Goblet of Fire but he was too young and there were too many bubbles.
Also, Shirley Henderson acting pervy enough that those otherwise inclined to appreciate the view were probably put off.