I finally saw The King's Speech today. It was worth the wait. The only surprise was the Guy Pearce was in it and I had no idea. When did he drop into obscurity?
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quester - Apr 23, 2011 1:50:58 pm PDT #14226 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
DavidS - Apr 23, 2011 1:56:09 pm PDT #14227 of 30000
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Jilli, did you ever see the 1970 Czech movie Valerie and Her Week of Wonders?
I ask because of this description:
"Valerie and Her Week of Wonders" is a wonderfully surreal and hallucinatory horror/fantasy tale made by Jaromil Jires. This poetic film looks like a curious mixture of "Alice in Wonderland" and "Nosferatu". The pubescent Valerie is awakened one day by a pasty-faced, Nosferatu-like vampire who steals her earrings (which, we later learn, are imbued with magical powers). She pursues him, but he manages to vanish into a crowd. She spots the vampire again later, feebly disguised behind a mouse-head mask, and points him out to her (alarmingly pale) grandmother. As it turns out, the earring thief has vampirized Valerie's grannie, along with much of the town, and furthermore has set up shop in the dark, cobwebby basement of Valerie's house! Matters aren't helped by the presence of a lecherous priest with an eye for Valerie, but things really come to a head when Val's young, pretty 'aunt' moves in and tries to take Valerie out of the picture. The aunt is in fact Val's vampirized grandmother looking to further the head vamp's nefarious aims. Luckily Valerie's one true love, a dashing young man, is there...The main actress Jaroslava Schallerova is stunningly beautiful.
You can see a clip here and even ahem it if one were so inclined (in 8 parts)
Rayne - Apr 23, 2011 2:22:43 pm PDT #14228 of 30000
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire
I saw King's Speech the other day and loved it! Sadly, I followed that up with Skyline which was horrible! I wish I'd watched them in the opposite order so that King's Speech would have cleansed my palate.
And quester, I totally didn't recognize Guy Pearce until I was watching some of the extras. It didn't look like him at all!
Polter-Cow - Apr 23, 2011 2:43:53 pm PDT #14229 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The only surprise was the Guy Pearce was in it and I had no idea. When did he drop into obscurity?
I know, right?? When I saw it, I thought, is that Guy Pearce? That can't be Guy Pearce. If Guy Pearce were in this movie, I would have known. Right? People would have mentioned it? And then it was Guy Pearce.
quester - Apr 23, 2011 3:45:11 pm PDT #14230 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
It took me halfway through his first scene to say "hey, that's...that's Guy Pearce!"
The last movie he was in was The Hurt Locker, which he was in for about 5 minutes.
Polter-Cow - Apr 23, 2011 3:54:21 pm PDT #14231 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
He was also in Animal Kingdom.
quester - Apr 23, 2011 3:56:40 pm PDT #14232 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
WTF is up with his career?
Polter-Cow - Apr 23, 2011 4:01:09 pm PDT #14233 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I DON'T KNOW! Does he not have a publicist? Why do I not know he's in a movie until I see the movie?
I'm scanning his IMDb bio, and he was in The Road, too! And Bedtime Stories ??
Maybe I am overestimating his star power because I love Memento so much. But he was in L.A. Confidential, too! And then The Count of Monte Cristo and The Time Machine happened, and Hollywood decided he wasn't worth its attention or something.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 23, 2011 4:03:08 pm PDT #14234 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
Karmic payback for that remake of The Time Machine?
§ ita § - Apr 23, 2011 4:06:11 pm PDT #14235 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
He was just on HBO in Mildred Pierce.