You can't have Zappa as Lebowski!

It should be Marc Bolan, right?

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.

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.

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.

Nice list. And lots of lovely first-runner-up praise for Claire Danes in the comments.

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.

Are you seeing Haywire, ita !?

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?

I can't even work out what bits people were having trouble understanding.

The fast-talking talky-meat parts when Holmes was in the explain-y mode. His accent was off when he talked at a normal speed, but I could at least understand him then. At accelerated speed, he could have been talking in Hungarian for all that I could follow. I don't have a great ear when it comes to these things (and admittedly, I'm not a native English speaker) but I'd heard Downey do motor-mouth in his regular accent before and understood him fine.

Prada's Fall 2012 Menswear Collection, featuring a bunch of actors as models: [link]

Gary Olman's got his Smiley on, except with 1000x better clothes. Love those specs as accessories clipped on coat pockets. Love the coats, actually. Adrien Brody looks like a douchebag but the look kind of works for him.