Nice list. And lots of lovely first-runner-up praise for Claire Danes in the comments.
Fred: It's the pictures in my mind that are getting me. It's like being stuck in a really bad movie with those Clockwork Orange clampy things on my eyeballs. Wesley: Why imagine? Reality's disturbing enough.
'Shells'
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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.
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?
Vonnie K - Jan 18, 2012 4:18:15 pm PST #17616 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
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.
Vonnie K - Jan 18, 2012 4:58:41 pm PST #17617 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
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.
Dana - Jan 18, 2012 5:05:21 pm PST #17618 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
HELLO, Jamie Bell.
Atropa - Jan 18, 2012 5:11:47 pm PST #17619 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I want the glasses with the red lenses. WANT.
tommyrot - Jan 18, 2012 5:33:38 pm PST #17620 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I want the glasses with the red lenses. WANT.
World peace aesthetics demand that you have them.
§ ita § - Jan 18, 2012 5:38:17 pm PST #17621 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I cannot get over Jamie Bell. I wish he'd stop making movies with guys who I have allergies to. He needs to be in a buddy rom com with JGL. It doesn't even have to be gay!