Mayor ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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You're talking about the Natasha in the pushup bra with the zipper partway down?
I gotta say, that was the one thing about Natasha in the movie that really cheesed me off. She's got Kevlar body-armor in that jumpsuit (I assume), and shrapnel flying everywhere, and she can't be bothered to pull up her zipper? Bah, I say.
And it would have felt so right to me if she had just pulled it up for battle, and back down for comfort after, you know?
if she had just pulled it up for battle, and back down for comfort after, you know?
Totally.
She is the same Black Widow whose hair fell into her face any time it seemed like they might want to sub in a stunt double, so it's clearly not all about practicality.
(I saw some footage of ScarJo working out, and I'm wondering why even make it look like there's doubling, then? They don't have to!)
Animated Avengers do Bad Romance - [link]
Will and I saw Snow White and The Huntsman tonight. I really liked it. I kept thinking of Kristen Stewart as "Bella" which I knew wasn't fair, and once I told myself Bella would have probably stumbled and broken her ankle, and lay in a heap waiting to be rescued I got more into it.
Charlize Theron was over the top and in a good way, I'm not sure there was any other way to play that character.
The special effects were really good and I liked that Snow White was really a hero and more than just being rescued. I also liked that there was no real romance. There was William and Snow White, but the most "romantic" part was The Queen as William. And the Huntsman's kiss revived her (which I liked as well) but not so much I felt out of romantic love, but out of for who she was. I guess. He sounded like he was still in love with his wife. At the end I thought they would explicitly show Snow White with William or with the Huntsman and I was glad they didn't.
Awesome Star Wars paintings: [link]
It comes to my attention that some of you may not be aware of the National Theatre Live broadcast to cinemas (list here) of the Frankenstein that sold out and won all the awards.
Tonight I saw Benedict Cumberbatch as the Creature and Jonny Lee Miller as Frankenstein. Tomorrow (at 7 pm local time), they'll be in the reverse roles. According to Tumblr, some theaters got the other casting tonight: hell if I know.
I will say, and I cannot emphasize this enough: it is a phenomenal production and if you possibly can go, you should.
Which is Cast 1 and which is Cast 2?
I've not seen them listed that way. Tomorrow was listed as "reverse" here, which is Miller as the Creature. I would assume that that's Cast 2.