"His tears will act as her lubricant, bro." Johnny Drama, on why you never let your gf rent "Brian's Song" for an ex.
Angel: Will you just shut up for once?! Illyria: What? Angel: My God, the speechifying. Has it ever occurred to you that now might not be the best time for when-we-were-muck stories?
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erikaj - Aug 09, 2010 12:49:04 pm PDT #10489 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
JZ - Aug 09, 2010 1:31:59 pm PDT #10490 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
How's the Ethan Hawke Hamlet in comparison?
Bad. Bad. Very, very bad. Lord, it wasn't good. Especially noteworthily bad are Hawke as Hamlet, Julia Stiles as Ophelia, and Bill Murray as Polonius.
Julia Stiles especially stank up the joint; after 10 Things I Hate About You I was totally ready to love her forever, but it took until the Bourne movies for me to forgive her for this (it made it all much worse that her Ophelia hit movie theatres right after Kate Winslet's, but she still would've been glaringly bad even without that comparison).
But, honestly, I feel slightly guilty for singling her out, because the whole thing was one long tedious ooze of unrelenting suck. Kyle MacLachlan as Claudius may possibly have sucked marginally less than the rest of the cast, but that's about as much enthusiasm as I can muster for any of the actual humans involved.
The sets were kind of coldly, glossily pretty, I guess. But that's about it.
Polter-Cow - Aug 09, 2010 1:48:40 pm PDT #10491 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Yikes. I will...not add it to my Netflix queueueueue, then.
beekaytee - Aug 09, 2010 1:58:18 pm PDT #10492 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
Oh, and the movie that inspired me to walk across America...and become a professional peace activist...The Day After. Yeah, I guess that qualifies as influence.
beekaytee - Aug 09, 2010 2:00:07 pm PDT #10493 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
Loved Brian's Song so very much.
I was totally in love with James Caan after that.
§ ita § - Aug 09, 2010 2:07:15 pm PDT #10494 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You people that don't hate Julia Stiles are weird. She can't out act a potato.
beekaytee - Aug 09, 2010 2:09:34 pm PDT #10495 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
I'm with ita. I like 10 Things a lot...even own it...but more for what goes on around her than for Stiles' acting. I thought she was terrible in the Bourne flicks and not even because of how poorly her character was written.
Aims - Aug 09, 2010 2:10:11 pm PDT #10496 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
She had me with Save the Last Dance.
But I have an unholy love for anyone in a dance movie.
JZ - Aug 09, 2010 2:14:47 pm PDT #10497 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
You people that don't hate Julia Stiles are weird. She can't out act a potato.
To be fair, she wasn't bad in 10 Things. And she totally out-acts a potato when Matt Damon is getting all up in her face in extremely scary Jason Bourne mode. I think she just needs to take Matt Damon with her on every single gig she ever gets. She still may not be able to manage much beyond "scared shitless and trying not to cry," but that's still one more emotion than she could plausibly play before she started working with Matt Damon.
eta:
She had me with Save the Last Dance.
She was awesome at saying "I would never pop a cap in your ass!" in the most wholesomely, earnestly white suburban manner possible. Though I don't know that that, coupled with "Watch me not altogether suck in my scenes with Heath!" and "Oh shit, Matt Damon is going to actually snap my actual neck!" will be enough to win her a lifetime achievement Oscar decades from now when someone notices that she's been in eleven jillion movies and never been nominated.
Kathy A - Aug 09, 2010 2:16:01 pm PDT #10498 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Oh, and the movie that inspired me to walk across America...and become a professional peace activist...The Day After. Yeah, I guess that qualifies as influence.
Threads freaked me out more. I still have nightmares from that film, 25 years later.
ETA: Not that The Day After wasn't scary! I think I just had too much of the HITG response to the film, and couldn't move past the recognizable actors to the guts of the movie.