I was just coming to post that!
I want that version of Big Lebowski SO MUCH I can't even tell you. So much.
Also that Die Hard.
I hate to break it to you, oh impotent one, but you're not the big bad anymore, you're not even the kind of naughty.
Xander ,'Showtime'
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Jessica - Jan 18, 2012 10:07:12 am PST #17606 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
DavidS - Jan 18, 2012 10:34:46 am PST #17607 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
You can't have Zappa as Lebowski! He famously didn't do drugs.
Though Iggy as Donny is perfect.
Tom Scola - Jan 18, 2012 10:43:39 am PST #17608 of 30000
hwæt
You can't have Zappa as Lebowski!
It should be Marc Bolan, right?
Connie Neil - Jan 18, 2012 12:58:34 pm PST #17609 of 30000
brillig
I rather liked Alien 3. It's not as good as the other two, but it's always seemed inevitable, in a saga-ish kind of way.
Polter-Cow - Jan 18, 2012 1:27:46 pm PST #17610 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I don't think it's inevitable that Ripley crash land on a prison planet full of indistinct Brits and Charles S. Dutton who blab a lot and are really boring and vaguely religious and, whatever, alien, just eat them.
But if you mean the stuff with Ripley's being impregnated and dying, maybe. I also liked the appearance of Bishop at the end. The last half hour or so is pretty good. Alien-POV-cam was Fincher's best contribution to the franchise.
§ ita § - Jan 18, 2012 1:37:12 pm PST #17611 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Alien 3 was just...not up to 1 or 2 for me. I don't feel vaguely inclined to revisit it. I'm more likely to watch 4 again, and even then, not much.
I love this BBC estimation of which American actors can do a good British accent. I wouldn't have seen #5 coming, but I ain't mad at them. In fact, I'm laughing.
JZ - Jan 18, 2012 2:14:16 pm PST #17612 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.
Nice list. And lots of lovely first-runner-up praise for Claire Danes in the comments.
Vonnie K - Jan 18, 2012 2:50:45 pm PST #17613 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Hmm. Gotta disagree with the pick of Downey. He made an appealing Holmes, but I found his British accent dreadful and I could barely understand him for a big swath of the movie.
Gillian Anderson does a spiffy British accent but I don't think that really counts, as she actually grew up in London.
I was gonna add Mia Wasikowska in the latest Jane Eyre flick, then I realized she's not American, but an Aussie.
Tom Scola - Jan 18, 2012 2:55:58 pm PST #17614 of 30000
hwæt
Are you seeing Haywire, ita !?
§ ita § - Jan 18, 2012 3:41:12 pm PST #17615 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't get the whole Downey-was-incomprehensible thing. No, I'm not telling anyone they understood what they didn't, but I can't even work out what bits people were having trouble understanding. I didn't conceive of that criticism until I started reading the reviews after watching the movie at least once.
Tom, I can't not. I'm terrified she's a horrible actress (she looks pretty flat in the scenes I've watched), but fuck yeah with the convincing she-violent action.
Hey, bon! You still up for that?