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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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
I wouldn't change a single frame of Princess Bride, but Gong Li probably gets my vote for Most Beautiful Woman In The World.
Oh, and Operation Take The Toddler To The Movies was a rousing success! We went to the first show of the day, so there were tons of other preschoolers there. Dylan was a little chatty, but not moreso than the other 2-4 year olds in the audience, and he stayed in his seat and watched the whole thing!
As soon as the Studio Ghibli logo came up, he shouted "TOTORO!" and there was this ripple of other kids going "...Totoro? Totoro!?!?!!" so you know we were in the right crowd.
DH and I really enjoyed it too. It's definitely a throwback to Miyazaki's earlier movies - much more similar to Totoro or Kiki's Delivery Service than Mononoke or Spirited Away.
The moral of the movie seems to be that Liam Neeson needs to chill the fuck out, and that you can win friends with ham.
I am currently watching Doomsday. Dear lord, what a hot mess of a movie, but I kind of like it anyway, and love the main character.
Is that the one...yes, checking IMDB, I see it is.
Have you gotten to the cannibal glam concert yet?
Is that in the middle somewhere? I'm kind of nearing the end, and I did play a quick game of Wii Bowling in the middle, so I may have missed that, but that may just be enough to get me to rewatch.