'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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But did you think she was convincing? They said a whole lot of things about what her character was supposedly capable of, but...all I saw was sex-me face.
I was convinced. I also wasn't seeing sex-me face so much as please give me an excuse to break both your arms off and shove them up your ass face.
Every move they had for her was so ludicrous. Those flying scissors where she's wrestling the guys down from their necks? So her initial badass moment worked not for me. She should have evaded his strike and taken out his nuts. Then when she went on her mission through the corridors taking guys down with one touch (the leg sweeps I buy, but you gotta do something to them afterwards) while Jon Favreau is in an actual extended fight with multiple blows? Made her look puny and implausible to me.
I haven't seen Iron Man yet, but I'm happy to say that I agree with ita about fights where the hero does a leg sweep, the lackey goes down and doesn't get up. I'm always looking behind the hero to see the bad guys jump up like insufficiently whacked moles. Ruins any good fight scene for me .
I'm prepared to suspend disbelief for TKO leg sweeps along with the action movie idea that one gun shot takes out a bad guy, and hitting someone over the head knocks them out safely for a long time.
Problem for me in this particular segment is that they kept cutting back to a fight where a guy was taking multiple blows and not going down. So it was like she had a special ninja knockout leg sweep, but a burly guy's fists couldn't do shit.
There are ways to make women fighting look interesting. Start with casting, for instance. Then, from there, consider the choreography.
My issue with Scarlett is that her attempts to look serious and businesslike came across to me as a bad botox job - there are ways to look like a badass that don't involve completely immobilizing your face.
I haven't seen Iron Man 2 yet so I skippity skipped to post that I just re-watched Winchester '73 . Man I love that movie but I never realized Rock Hudson was in it. I watched the whole movie trying to figure out who he was. Then I looked it up, laughed and watched it again. oh Hollywood! You're so silly sometimes.
Iron Man 2 made $134 million.
Nightmare on Elm St. made $9 million.
Nightmare on Elm St. made $9 million.
I feel badly for Jackie Earle Haley. He's one of my current favorites and I want him to succeed. While I would not see an Elm St. movie on a bet (not my speed) and I was sad to see a clip that proved his performance was not up to the original (Even HE says Robert Englund is Freddie), I wish it had done better.
Englund's turn as the creepy high school janitor on a recent Bones was very funny.