The Movie Thread

[mshray]

am i getting old? i just realised hayden christiansen and topher grace are two different boys. i was reading hayden's bio on wiki and trying to figure out why it didn't mention that awful movie he did with dennis quaid.

that was a great movie! (In Good Company)  Plus it had Scarlett Jo.

yeah, well i'm sick of scarlett jo and her lackadaisical acting. i liked dennis in the movie, but that was it.

Scarlett didn't have hardly anythign to say in that movie, but Topher & Dennis were really good (despite what Topher said in Ocean's 12).  Did you ever see him in Traffic?

[RGMike]

am i getting old? i just realised hayden christiansen and topher grace are two different boys. i was reading hayden's bio on wiki and trying to figure out why it didn't mention that awful movie he did with dennis quaid.

that was a great movie! (In Good Company)  Plus it had Scarlett Jo.

yeah, well i'm sick of scarlett jo and her lackadaisical acting. i liked dennis in the movie, but that was it.

Scarlett didn't have hardly anythign to say in that movie, but Topher & Dennis were really good (despite what Topher said in Ocean's 12).  Did you ever see him in Traffic?

Topher has more acting talent in his little finger than Ashton Kutcher has in his whole body.

[mshray]

Topher has more acting talent in his little finger than Ashton Kutcher has in his whole body.

Ashton is not Topher's equal in my book, either, but he gets a bad rap because of Demi & Punk'd & residual typecasting from his Kelso character.  I saw him in Butterfly Effect, very much a B-movie, but he has some chops.  I predict that one of these days he's gonna do something of quality that gets people's attention and winds up with a career path similar to that of Demi's first husband.

[princessofcairo]

am i getting old? i just realised hayden christiansen and topher grace are two different boys. i was reading hayden's bio on wiki and trying to figure out why it didn't mention that awful movie he did with dennis quaid.

that was a great movie! (In Good Company)  Plus it had Scarlett Jo.

yeah, well i'm sick of scarlett jo and her lackadaisical acting. i liked dennis in the movie, but that was it.

Scarlett didn't have hardly anythign to say in that movie, but Topher & Dennis were really good (despite what Topher said in Ocean's 12).  Did you ever see him in Traffic?

Topher has more acting talent in his little finger than Ashton Kutcher has in his whole body.

yes, but what of hayden christiansen?

[RGMike]

am i getting old? i just realised hayden christiansen and topher grace are two different boys. i was reading hayden's bio on wiki and trying to figure out why it didn't mention that awful movie he did with dennis quaid.

that was a great movie! (In Good Company)  Plus it had Scarlett Jo.

yeah, well i'm sick of scarlett jo and her lackadaisical acting. i liked dennis in the movie, but that was it.

Scarlett didn't have hardly anythign to say in that movie, but Topher & Dennis were really good (despite what Topher said in Ocean's 12).  Did you ever see him in Traffic?

Topher has more acting talent in his little finger than Ashton Kutcher has in his whole body.

yes, but what of hayden christiansen?

I tend to confuse him with Ryan Philippe :wink:

[princessofcairo]

am i getting old? i just realised hayden christiansen and topher grace are two different boys. i was reading hayden's bio on wiki and trying to figure out why it didn't mention that awful movie he did with dennis quaid.

that was a great movie! (In Good Company)  Plus it had Scarlett Jo.

yeah, well i'm sick of scarlett jo and her lackadaisical acting. i liked dennis in the movie, but that was it.

Scarlett didn't have hardly anythign to say in that movie, but Topher & Dennis were really good (despite what Topher said in Ocean's 12).  Did you ever see him in Traffic?

Topher has more acting talent in his little finger than Ashton Kutcher has in his whole body.

yes, but what of hayden christiansen?

I tend to confuse him with Ryan Philippe :wink:

who i always confuse with jude law!

[RGMike]

I just saw Borat -- it is just freakin' HILARIOUS!

"High five!"

[princessofcairo]

i saw the queen. i fell asleep. the characters were spot on - with the exception of charles. i didn't know hottiepants jimmy cromwell was in it! sigh. i still fell asleep, though. i'm having a hard time seeing "oscar" for mirren, but she. was. fabulous. she was supposed to put me to sleep. waaaay too hollywood, though. would have been better as dry, british humour.

[RGMike]

i saw the queen. i fell asleep. the characters were spot on - with the exception of charles. i didn't know hottiepants jimmy cromwell was in it! sigh. i still fell asleep, though. i'm having a hard time seeing "oscar" for mirren, but she. was. fabulous. she was supposed to put me to sleep. waaaay too hollywood, though. would have been better as dry, british humour.

wow, that's the first negative review I've seen anywhere. Seriously.  Mirren is considered the Oscar front-runner at the moment, no one else is even close, tho' no one has seen The Dench in Notes on a Scandal yet.  The point, I think, is that you start out hating E-2 and end up feeling a bit sorry for her.  Even Tony Blair realizes there's a human being beneath the facade. I thought it WAS dryly, humorously British. And Michael Sheen as Blair -- damn, he was amazing, IMHO.  

"hottiepants jimmy cromwell"? girlfriend, y'all need help.

[RGMike]

nice piece in the LA Time about Cate Blanchett:

http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/cl-ca-cate5nov05,0,2829258.story?coll=cl-movies-features

she's doing an Elizabeth sequel with Clive Owen as Sir Walter Raleigh! Rrrrrrrrrrrrrowr!

[princessofcairo]

wow, that's the first negative review I've seen anywhere. Seriously.  Mirren is considered the Oscar front-runner at the moment, no one else is even close, tho' no one has seen The Dench in Notes on a Scandal yet.  The point, I think, is that you start out hating E-2 and end up feeling a bit sorry for her.  Even Tony Blair realizes there's a human being beneath the facade. I thought it WAS dryly, humorously British. And Michael Sheen as Blair -- damn, he was amazing, IMHO.  

"hottiepants jimmy cromwell"? girlfriend, y'all need help.

but, see, we don't need mirren to make us sympathize with the queen. the queen does a good job of that, herself. michael sheen was great as blair, especially since we've almost forgotten how love and exciting he used to be. but, all in all, too gushy and predictable, even considering its historical basis.

what's wrong with jimmy cromwell? "that'll do, pig."

[princessofcairo]

just saw wim wender's don't come knockin' with sam shepard and jessica lange. sort of a tamer, more canadian version of broken flowers.

[Gazoo]

Highly recommend the Dixie Chicks doc, Shut Up and Sing.  Best scene: Natalie Maines is watching TV footage of George Bush responding insipidly to the Chicks boycott.  She yells to the TV, "He's a dumbshit," and then immediately turns to look straight at the camera and address him directly, "You're a dumbshit."  I LOLed.

[RGMike]

Highly recommend the Dixie Chicks doc, Shut Up and Sing.  Best scene: Natalie Maines is watching TV footage of George Bush responding insipidly to the Chicks boycott.  She yells to the TV, "He's a dumbshit," and then immediately turns to look straight at the camera and address him directly, "You're a dumbshit."  I LOLed.

It finally opens in SF this weekend. On my "must see" list!

[RGMike]

Casting coup of the month: Meat Loaf plays Jack Black's father (in flashbacks) in the "Tenacious D" movie.