Dana. I hear (read) Renner is shirtless and wet.
My lord, I got called out as a Renner fangirl because I objected to the statement that him taking lead roles in big budget movies showed a weakness of character because he should know his place.
The talking down I got...
I wish he wouldn't get lead roles because he bores me. That's not a moral failure, and I certainly don't believe he has any ethical responsibility to be bound to that--he should take every lead role he can get and laugh all the way to the bank. Good lord--as long as he is getting his employers a return on investment and he's not sacrificing orphans for it, what the hell is the problem? He's not buying into his hype--he's cashing in on it, as well he should.
(eta: I have felt a compulsion to download H&G for a few weeks now--I don't know where that came from--I'm not a movie downloader. But that's where the ads seem to place it in the consumption queue)
I hear (read) Renner is shirtless and wet.
I'm just waiting for the GIFsets to show up on Tumblr. I know they will.
It wasn't particularly impressive shirtlessness, but he was for a very brief scene. Most of the movie has his arms covered by leather coats or pirate shirts, though.
Honestly the best part of the movie was the credits sequence, which probably outdoes any I've seen since Carnivàle.
just got back from
Amour,
which was brilliant. Heartbreaking but brilliant.
Saw an interesting oldie while I was sick (before vacation): Once Upon a Honeymoon from 1942.
We start in Vienna in early 1938. Ginger Rogers plays a burlesque-queen-made-good (her theme music is the Strip Polka) who's about to marry an Austrian baron in early 1938. Cary Grant plays a newspaper reporter who's dying to get an interview with her. He sort-of succeeds by pretending to be a tailor measuring her for her honeymoon wardrobe. Suddenly, Austria falls to Hitler, and the baron wants to hold the wedding immediately so they can start the honeymoon. The happy couple (with the reporter never too far behind) travel Europe for their extended honeymoon -- first to Prague, then Warsaw, and Oslo, and Paris.
So far, we've been hanging around in screwballish comedy terrority. But the bride and the reporter see the pattern that, if you're sharp, you've already seen. Yes, the baron is a Nazi, acting as advance man in whatever country Hitler is going to take next. And suddenly we're in a spy thriller.
The sudden shift in tone works surprisingly well, and it's an enormously entertaining movie. Not to mention, at one point the bride alters her ID to help her Jewish servant escape the oncoming Nazis -- not a topic the movies (or culture generally) were tackling at the time.
Oh, I remember that movie! Basically, what Fred Pete said.
I'm going to need to hunt that one down again.
I just watched Ted, and it is definitely an example of a childish guy movie that I think is is fun
Joel McHale sure is good at that character, isn't he?
Joel McHale sure is good at that character, isn't he?
I like the fact that he has more layers on Community (as is appropriate), but yes, indeed he is really good at that type.
My annual activity on watching "Groundhog Day" just finished. My how I love that movie. I am continually amazed at how well constructed it is and how you can follow Phil Connors' thinking as he relives the day over and over: a) I'll trying to use this to my own advantage; b) that didn't work, fuck it, I'm going to take out the groundhog; c) I'm going to kill myself; d) none of that worked - now I need to find purpose; e) I guess I'll try to spend all this time learning something and saving those I can save.
Just fantastic.
