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-t - Dec 17, 2014 2:20:00 pm PST #28140 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

So, Exodus: Gods and Kings - I have to say, I'm not sure what Ridley Scott had in mind. I feel like no one ever decided what kind of movie this was supposed to be. And I sat through all the credits particularly to see the "No animals were harmed" thingy and there wasn't one.

As we were leaving the two white-haired ladies behind me who also stayed through the credits said they should have cast people who looked like Egyptians, so if that's the target audience: still missing the mark.


§ ita § - Dec 17, 2014 2:59:55 pm PST #28141 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I read that Christian Bale called his skin colour a burden when people complained about the casting (Idris Elba may have been mentioned...).


-t - Dec 17, 2014 3:34:18 pm PST #28142 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Oh dear.


Dana - Dec 17, 2014 4:49:42 pm PST #28143 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Uh.

Remember when he was so cute in Little Women? Sigh.


Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 18, 2014 5:42:35 am PST #28144 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

Yeah, he's been one of the worst cases of celebrity disillusionment for me. The realization that, say, Mel Gibson or Mark Wahlburg is someone I wouldn't want to know in real life didn't come with much trauma.


Burrell - Dec 19, 2014 10:20:34 am PST #28145 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Of those three Mel Gibson was the hardest fall for me. I had quite the crush on him back in the Galipoli/Year of Living Dangerously days. And now ::shudder::


§ ita § - Dec 19, 2014 11:26:33 am PST #28146 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Me too. And I can almost watch the Mad Max movies in a bubble, but I don't have to!

FURY ROAD.

Luckily he lost me as a fan with Lethal Weapon II, and I never liked Martin Sheen ever (it was Emilio I preferred).


Jesse - Dec 19, 2014 11:28:24 am PST #28147 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I had quite the crush on him back in the Galipoli/Year of Living Dangerously days.

Oh yes. Watching the Year of Living Dangerously, I got The Feelings for the first time in my life!


Beverly - Dec 19, 2014 11:30:45 am PST #28148 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Mel and Sigourney were incandescent in Year of Living Dangerously, but really? I fell in love with Linda Hunt in that movie and have been hers to command ever since.


Gris - Dec 19, 2014 11:33:04 am PST #28149 of 30000
Hey. New board.

I'm not supposed to like Martin Sheen? I don't know that I've ever heard anything about his real-world self, actually.

Maybe don't make me sad if it's bad. I want to rewatch The West Wing for the fourth time soon...