I like Tobey Maguire. That is all.
Me too. Especially in Wonder Boys, but also in Spider-Man 2.
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DavidS - May 23, 2012 11:30:21 am PDT #20574 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
juliana - May 23, 2012 11:38:30 am PDT #20575 of 30000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I saw a trailer the other day for a period piece about moonshiners, called Brothers, I think. It starred Shia LaBoeuf and he looked utterly out of place. Also, he's just not old enough to carry that role.
Brothers stars Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhall & was released in 2009. I think you're thinking of Lawless, which does have Shia trying to play the brother of Tom Hardy and stand up to Gary Oldman. Which, no. [link]
Also, Nick Cave wrote the screenplay. Which, cool.
Consuela - May 23, 2012 11:50:02 am PDT #20576 of 30000
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Lawless, right! I sit corrected.
§ ita § - May 23, 2012 12:23:33 pm PDT #20577 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, hey, that's the movie set on which Shia's supposed to have beaten up Tom Hardy. I don't believe he's Bane or Tommy Conlon (he actually seems so fragile that I get nervous watching him being interviewed), but I do laugh at the idea of Shia hitting anyone effectively.
erikaj - May 23, 2012 12:53:57 pm PDT #20578 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Wonder Boys was really hilarious. Tobey Maguire is all right with me in general though.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 23, 2012 3:27:00 pm PDT #20579 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
Oh, hey, that's the movie set on which Shia's supposed to have beaten up Tom Hardy.
Is Hardy asleep at the time this happens?
§ ita § - May 23, 2012 3:46:36 pm PDT #20580 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think he is wearing a cardigan. Beyond that, I'm unclear on the situation.
quester - May 23, 2012 5:16:45 pm PDT #20581 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
I liked McGuire in Wonder Boys, heck I even like Michael Douglas in that movie!
Hated McGuire as Spiderman, he was just wrong, wrong wrong! But, so was Kirstin Dunst and a few other people. The movie had problems, ok?
§ ita § - May 23, 2012 5:47:51 pm PDT #20582 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have all these conflicty sensations about the K Stew Snow White (some of which IO9 articulated well). For 2/3 of the leading lineup--delish. But I only really know Kristen Stewart from Twilight, and that was appalling. And the trailers underplay her, but apparently there's way more of her than the queen in the movie--I am suspicious of that marketing ploy, since don't they want as many automatic Twilight tickets as possible?
She seems pretty gung ho in the action scenes, but then the teaser showed a Hemsworth one, and there was no comparison in technique. In timely fashion the interview pointed out they were supposed to have different techniques, but I'm still left with the wonder at hers being demonstrated as effective.
And I really need to take the stick out of my ass WRT female fight scenes, but on the other hand, can they up the quality? I'm going to have to buy Haywire just so I can insert it over other performances.
§ ita § - May 23, 2012 6:32:50 pm PDT #20583 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Speaking of fight scenes (and my eternal shame--especially you Hec, no need to say it)--I just saw the They Live fight scene and my socks are knocked all the way off. That was so many things you just don't get enough of in fight scenes today, from the start to finish connection with the actors, no crappy cuts to stuntmen or choppy editing for fake "kinetics", lots of range of strikes and use of terrain and some impromptu weaponry.
Fucking amazing. And to think I clicked play because some guy said the movie was great except for the "the pointless 10-minute fighting scene." Oh, you absolute heathen....