All I know about Hathaway is that she's pretty. But I'm happy about the character. Contraiwise, I know I like Hardy, but I'm kind of "...Huh" about his role.
Ah, yes, of course. The gypsies, they gave you your soul. The gypsies are filthy people. Ptui! We shall speak of them no more.
Ilona Costa Bianchi ,'The Girl in Question'
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Strega - Jan 19, 2011 8:46:59 am PST #12920 of 30000
Polter-Cow - Jan 19, 2011 8:49:57 am PST #12921 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Wait, do we know who he's playing?
*Googles*
...Huh.
Amy - Jan 19, 2011 8:51:18 am PST #12922 of 30000
Because books.
Who is he playing, P-C?
Polter-Cow - Jan 19, 2011 8:51:51 am PST #12923 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Bane.
Guess I have to finally get around to reading Knightfall. The library doesn't seem to have it.
The identities of both villains can be found here. If we're keeping mum about it.
Daisy Jane - Jan 19, 2011 8:52:42 am PST #12924 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Character details at the link, though it's not like they'll stay unknown for long.
I was all, "What character details?" and then I loooked at the title. I R DUM.
I think she'll be fantastic. She was amazing in Rachel Getting Married.
Steph L. - Jan 19, 2011 9:29:20 am PST #12925 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Who would you have picked instead?
I haven't really thought about it. Though, now that I am thinking about it, though it would be impossible considering Dark Knight, I think Maggie Gyllenhaal would have been aces. (I guess it isn't impossible; just weird as shit.)
Or do you not like Anne Hathaway (in general or specifically for the part)?
I like her, at least for the fluffy stuff I've seen her in (the princess movie with Julie Andrews, and that horrible bridezilla movie). And, honestly, her role in Brokeback Mountain didn't scream "I R SRS ACTRESS!!!" to me.
I guess she just seems like a silly vapid ingenue to me, which doesn't really fit the role she was cast for.
DavidS - Jan 19, 2011 9:30:17 am PST #12926 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I guess she just seems like a silly vapid ingenue to me, which doesn't really fit the role she was cast for.
As Daisy notes, she wasn't a silly vapid ingenue in Rachel Getting Married. She was dark, neurotic and fucked up.
Kate P. - Jan 19, 2011 9:31:52 am PST #12927 of 30000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Now I want to go home and watch French New Wave movies all weekend! I just saw Breathless for the first time maybe a year ago, and liked it quite a bit more than I'd been expecting. And I saw The 400 Blows in a high school film class and was fairly impressed. Can't remember many others that I've seen, but you all are making me really want to dig deeper into them.
We've been watching some older movies recently, including The Last Picture Show, The Apartment, and Adam's Rib, none of which I'd seen before, all of which I liked, though perhaps TLPS least of all. But the other two were great. Man, Jack Lemmon is just *perfect* in The Apartment. So earnest and goofy and soulful and just a joy to watch. I wish Shirley MacLaine's character was a little more developed -- you never get much of a sense of her feelings for him -- but it still made me happy to see them together at the end.
Steph L. - Jan 19, 2011 9:34:01 am PST #12928 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
As Daisy notes, she wasn't a silly vapid ingenue in Rachel Getting Married. She was dark, neurotic and fucked up.
Well, since Daisy didn't say any of that in her post and *actually* just said that she was amazing in that movie, and since I've not seen that movie (nor heard of it), I really couldn't infer "dark, neurotic and fucked up" from "amazing." But -- hey, if she can do it, right on.
DavidS - Jan 19, 2011 9:37:03 am PST #12929 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
You're right, she didn't actually say that. I am actually saying that, though. She was dark, neurotic and fucked up.
I'd be curious to see her Catwoman.