I'm watching Iron Man 3 here at work--yay, RedBox at the supermarket!--and it's holding up better on a second goround, now that I'm familiar with the emotional beats they're attempting. Though I still think Tony and Pepper have too much bad tension between them for it to work (and has nothing to do with my overconsumption of Tony/Steve fic).
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Connie Neil - Dec 15, 2013 2:45:43 pm PST #26037 of 30000
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Connie Neil - Dec 15, 2013 3:24:52 pm PST #26038 of 30000
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"They say his King Lear was the toast of Croyden."
Vonnie K - Dec 15, 2013 4:34:30 pm PST #26039 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Joan Fontaine just died. She was 96.
Eleanor Parker, Peter O'Toole and now Joan Fontaine in one week? Sad time for classic movie fans.
I used to love Fontaine and her roaster of innocents with their nervous sweetness. Constant Nymph, Letter from an Unknown Woman, Rebecca, Suspicion and I guess, her take on Jane Eyre as well (minus the backbone). Way more typecast than her sister, poor dear, and I think she rebelled against that in later period of her career? She had such a face.
Amy - Dec 15, 2013 4:42:51 pm PST #26040 of 30000
Because books.
I loved Joan Fontaine. And Peter O'Toole. Sad.
Connie Neil - Dec 15, 2013 5:16:57 pm PST #26041 of 30000
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I don't know Eleanor Parker.
megan walker - Dec 15, 2013 6:23:24 pm PST #26042 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Peter O'Toole is one of those people I somehow thought died long ago.
Joan Fontaine too, I guess. And I had no idea she lived in Carmel (probably because I thought she was dead).
Fiona - Dec 15, 2013 8:01:13 pm PST #26043 of 30000
I don't know Eleanor Parker.
Her most famous role is as the Baroness in The Sound of Music. She didn't get many big roles because she refused to be typecast.
DavidS - Dec 15, 2013 8:07:56 pm PST #26044 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I know her best from the 40s Women In Prison Noir, Caged.
Vonnie K - Dec 16, 2013 5:08:55 am PST #26045 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I have a big soft spot for The Naked Jungle, in which Eleanor Parker plays a mail order bride Charlton Heston brings to a... I think, a plantation of some sort in South America. Instead of a docile innocent he was hoping for, Parker turns out to be a sophisticated bombshell and Heston is so freakin' repressed, he does not know what to do with her, and they have incredible seething UST for the entirety of the movie. Well, then they get attacked by a swarm of killer ants, as you do. It's ridiculous and pulpy and awesome.
Kalshane - Dec 16, 2013 5:15:18 am PST #26046 of 30000
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Finally watched Pacific Rim over the weekend. I enjoyed it a lot despite some of the rampant silliness. Not sure what purpose was served by the one kaiju being pregnant. The secondary brain could have just as easily been undamaged for the sake of the story. Plus it seemed like these things were grown and then sent through the rift, so I'm not sure how it got pregnant or why it had a functioning reproductive system to begin with.
Of course, in a movie full of scientific impossibilities, the one that bugged me most was how does a winged creature fly high enough to leave the atmosphere and cause re-entry burn?
Still, some great visuals and some enjoyable moments.