Love the Girl in the Cafe--'cause, Kelly MacDonald! and Bill Nighy! And hey, you're not the only one who loves him in Underworld! SO much. Couldn't get past the prosthetics and CGI to love him in Pirates, though.
Lorne: You know what they say about people who need people. Connor: They're the luckiest people in the world. Lorne: You been sneaking peeks at my Streisand collection again, Kiddo? Connor: Just kinda popped out.
'Time Bomb'
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Beverly - Mar 06, 2013 2:14:05 pm PST #23654 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
JZ - Mar 06, 2013 2:19:39 pm PST #23655 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.
Seconding Something The Lord Made. The whole cast is terrific, and the story is compelling, and for all that Rickman is incredibly unsympathetic he's also weirdly, stubbornly honorable (as was the real Dr. Blalock, who knew Vivien Thomas's worth and genius, expected others to treat him the same way, and valued him enough that when he was offered the chief of surgery position at Johns Hopkins he wouldn't go unless Thomas was offered a job too; Thomas became the first black man to walk the halls of JH wearing a lab coat).
I don't know if I could watch him be Reagan -- or anyone, really. My Reagan tolerance at any one viewing lasts just about as long as a vintage SNL skit and not a second more.
beekaytee - Mar 06, 2013 2:22:22 pm PST #23656 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
ITA.
I was completely bowled over by Girl in the Cafe. It was absolutely not what I expected. His performance is almost painful to watch, it's so brutally honest.
lovelovelove.
beekaytee - Mar 06, 2013 2:24:23 pm PST #23657 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
Totally agreeing on Something the Lord Made, as well.
I had absolutely no idea about Vivian Thomas' contribution to medicine...which I suppose was the point of the movie.
As soon as I saw it, I threw myself into as much research as I could find. Fascinating.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 06, 2013 6:29:50 pm PST #23658 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
January Man
OMG, so nice finding other people who appreciate that movie. Rickman was wonderfully eccentric in it.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 06, 2013 8:15:13 pm PST #23659 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 yeah. Though I think I mostly watched it for Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio.
beekaytee - Mar 07, 2013 3:27:08 am PST #23660 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
My absolute favorite bit...whitefonted for the uninitiated: was the reveal of the bad guy. Everyone in the audience was madly "Agatha Christie-ing" all the clues, and it turned out to be very different from our expectations .
I _loved_ that moment.
And, the conversation in the restaurant between Mastrantonio and Kline. "There are four hotels within five minutes of here" [sic]
Rickman's quirkiness was emblematic of the entire feel of the movie. The paintings were fun too.
Just like Where the Heart Is. Great use of character and paint.
erikaj - Mar 07, 2013 4:25:01 am PST #23661 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
I have watched "Something The Lord Made" a bunch of times. Fascinating flick with quite a few Wire alums in it too. Rickman's character was fascinating, because sometimes he was a partner and sometimes an antagonist. Which is really more how people are than the baddie that's all "I don't expect you to talk, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die." I know I'm betraying major ideological bias, as well as showing my age, but why would anybody see a Reagan movie?(sorry, Mr. Rickman.) Maybe it's for people who think the animated Grinch Stole Christmas was too biased toward Whos.(No, I'm kidding. I'm sure it could be interesting,(for someone else) if Oliver Stone is not allowed to get anywhere near it.
Fred Pete - Mar 07, 2013 5:16:34 am PST #23662 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
Anyone else ever seen Kaleidoscope? It's a '60s caper film. It seems that one company manufactures all of the playing cards used in all of the casinos in the world, and Warren Beatty (young, wearing horn-rimmed glasses that make him look earnest/sexy) plays a guy who's figured a way to mark all of the cards at the factory. Of course, eventually things get complicated, and not just because Susannah York plays the love interest....
Light entertainment of the kind that the '60s did so well. Hardly great art, but a movie that knows what it is and is comfortable with that.
Polter-Cow - Mar 07, 2013 8:23:00 am PST #23663 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!