'Smile Time'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
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.
HELLO, Jamie Bell.
I want the glasses with the red lenses. WANT.