The guy's career spans from David Frost to a 700 year-old werewolf revolutionary to the White Rabbit. I'm not sure any role would seem odd for him.
Spike: I'm not a monster. Xander: Yes! You are a monster. Vampires are monsters! They make monster movies about them! Spike: Well, yeah. Got me there.
'Dirty Girls'
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Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 08, 2011 8:34:06 am PST #12727 of 30000
"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
§ ita § - Jan 08, 2011 10:31:26 am PST #12728 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
They need to blurb this article, stat, for Season of the Witch. It might not get better than that.
zuisa - Jan 08, 2011 11:07:07 am PST #12729 of 30000
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
That flowchart for Black Swan was fantastic. Much appreciated.
A group of us last night watched Moulin Rouge, which I always somehow forget how much I love. The scene with the dancing waiters will never not be funny. I feel like a lot of insanity and/or drugs went into the creation of that film, and I'm more or less OK with that. I always want to hit STOP as soon as the curtain falls at the end, but I have thankfully seen it enough times now that I don't cry anymore.
Consuela - Jan 08, 2011 12:24:40 pm PST #12730 of 30000
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I saw The King's Speech last night, and enjoyed it enormously. Not least because of the (to me) unexpected casting of Jennifer Ehle as Mrs. Logue. Halfway through the movie, I realized why I'd kept staring at her--she really does have the most striking eyes.
So fun to see her in a movie with Colin Firth again, even though they barely interacted.
Highly recommend the film, by the way: stellar casting, great writing, and quite engaging. It felt like a romance in its structure, frankly.
Atropa - Jan 09, 2011 7:06:07 pm PST #12731 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
We're watching one of Pete's Christmas presents tonight: the blu-ray of Alien. (The 2003 director's cut version.) I haven't seen it since ... huh, probably 2003. It's been long enough that I remember the broad outlines of the plot, but not the specifics.
The sound design & effects are great. And the sets are amazing.
Polter-Cow - Jan 09, 2011 8:33:17 pm PST #12732 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Has anyone seen Pontypool ? I'd been wanting to see it ever since I read about it in Entertainment Weekly a couple years ago, and Netflix doesn't have it, but it popped up on Showtime On Demand this free weekend, so I was finally able to see it. It's a zombie movie where the virus is transmitted through language. The director calls the zombies "conversationalists." It takes place inside a radio station, and you hear the horror from outside reports, the host, producer, and technician being trapped inside. It's very unnerving and freaky.
The tagline is "Shut up or die."
le nubian - Jan 10, 2011 6:39:32 am PST #12733 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
There are at least 2 things wrong with this:
Baz Luhrmann said that he has "workshopped" his upcoming film The Great Gatsby in 3D, though he has not made a final decision about whether to shoot the Carey Mulligan/Leonardo DiCaprio project that way or not.
§ ita § - Jan 10, 2011 7:09:37 am PST #12734 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
He's so avant garde. All those directors who just rehearse in 2D.
t /undoubtedly ignoring huge logistical differences
erikaj - Jan 10, 2011 8:44:32 am PST #12735 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Man, Entourage turns out real again? Of course, that was Scorcese's "Gatsby"
Polter-Cow - Jan 10, 2011 7:26:51 pm PST #12736 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Oh my God, you guys. You know I like everything, even The Village and sort of The Happening, but I don't think I have ever actually laughed out loud at a ridiculous plot twist before.
And then I watched Knowing.