Wow. She is totally going on my list, too, billytea.
Angel: You know, I killed my actual dad. It was one of the first things I did when I became a vampire. Wesley: I hardly see how that's the same situation. Angel: Yeah. I didn't really think that one through.
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Amy - Aug 23, 2009 5:55:09 am PDT #3856 of 30000
Because books.
Connie Neil - Aug 23, 2009 6:07:13 am PDT #3857 of 30000
brillig
That guy behind her is no slouch, either. They're going to have beautiful babies.
evil jimi - Aug 23, 2009 6:19:00 am PDT #3858 of 30000
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
I'm sitting on the couch with Jessica, waiting for a director's cut of Idiocracy.
megan walker - Aug 23, 2009 6:46:10 am PDT #3859 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
My vote for Most Beautiful Woman Ever goes to Isabelle Adjani (though she'd be all wrong in Princess Bride). She was 40 in the (not good) La Reine Margot, and looked about 15.
My cousin did some work on her apartment and said she is absolutely stunning IRL and that even without makeup her skin looks like porcelain.
juliana - Aug 23, 2009 8:08:10 am PDT #3860 of 30000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Who would you have cast in her place? I think she has a remoteness that I think is applicable to Most Beautiful Woman EVER even if I can't decide who wears that crown.
Angela Basset. But, I have no probelm with RWP and how she played Buttercup. I thought she was awesome.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 23, 2009 8:27:54 am PDT #3861 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
Rita Hayworth, Simone Simon, Audrey Hepburn, Jaclyn Smith, and Michelle Yeoh would be on my short list for Most Beautiful Woman Ever.
My top pick for remaking would be that painfully bad A Wizard of Earthsea movie SciFi did a few years ago. They could keep Danny Glover as Ogion, but EVERYTHING else must go. I'd probably pick Guillermo del Toro to direct and give Ursula K. LeGuin veto power over every decision.
megan walker - Aug 23, 2009 8:53:53 am PDT #3862 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
One of the standard items in the "Watching the Directors" podcast was, which movie would you like this director to remake, or which movie of this director would you like remade? I don't love the couple that did that podcast, but I always thought that was an interesting question.
DavidS - Aug 23, 2009 9:30:27 am PDT #3863 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I wish somebody besides Cronenberg did M. Butterfly.
And I'm a fan of his work. Neil Jordan would've been a better pick. Almost too on the nose considering his long standing fascination with inappropriate love objects.
I love Princess Bride as is.
If I were to interview Quentin Tarantino I would ask him some variation on this question, probably: "How would you recast a classic screwball comedy with French actors from the sixties."
Sean K - Aug 23, 2009 9:31:36 am PDT #3864 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I would love to see a director's cut of Idiocracy. That poor movie was cut to ribbons by the studio and dumped onto DVD, but there are such flashes of brilliance in there that really regret not being able to see the movie it was supposed to be.
So looking forward to Extract.
Jessica - Aug 23, 2009 10:25:53 am PDT #3865 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I wouldn't change a single frame of Princess Bride, but Gong Li probably gets my vote for Most Beautiful Woman In The World.