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Thu Nov 16, 2006 9:38 pm  |
It was so much fun talking about scary movies last month, but Halloween's over now. I can tell there are some film buffs on the forum. Anyone care to talk???
Anything's allowed, and let's promise not to scold or condescend! Except -- if "Larry The Cable Guy: Health Inspector" is your favorite film, be prepared to defend yourself. Then again, there've been films I wasn't crazy about after the first viewing but later fell in love with: "The King of Comedy", "Raising Arizona", "Napoleon Dynamite", and even "The English Patient"! So maybe Larry still has a chance.
Last night, I watched "The Age of Innocence" on TV and was once again annoyed by the narration (Joanne Woodward). For instance, in the scene where Newland (Daniel Day Lewis) walks down to the dock and waits for Ellen (Michelle Pfeiffer) to turn and look at him, their acting and body language expressed more emotion than any narration ever could. Why did Scorcese do this to his otherwise great film? And while watching it, I was reminded again how excellent Daniel Day Lewis is. Too bad he's not in more films! I thought he should've gotten the Oscar for "Gangs of New York" instead of Adrien Brody in "The Piano". Mr. Brody was excellent too, but there's no question in my mind which was the more compelling performance. And I couldn't believe "Gangs" was beaten out of Best Picture that year either. "Chicago" was a great film too, but... I can never predict Oscar winners. |
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Fri Nov 17, 2006 3:15 pm |
Hi...good idea for a thread. 
I found Gangs of New York hard to watch in that it was so gory and to me there wasn't any sympathetic characters--especially Daniel Day Lewis's character. Maybe that's why it didn't do better at the Oscars? But maybe I'd appreciate this film more if I saw it again. Sometimes if you're not in the right head space it's hard to enjoy a film.
About the Age of Innocence...I liked it. Gorgeous cinematography and sets, costumes, art direction and all that. My favorite part was when DDL and Michelle were riding in the carraige together and he unbuttons her glove at the wrist so he could kiss it! Now THAT is sexy!   But at the end, when he didn't want to go in to her apartment to see her again...I was like, "What's the MATTER with you?" I never get that, when the person backs off like that and doesn't do what I would consider "the romantic thing." Oh well! |
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Fri Nov 17, 2006 3:17 pm |
P.S. I am going to check out the new Bond film this weekend.  Anybody else? |
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Fri Nov 17, 2006 3:34 pm |
| Great thread! I watched Monster the other evening and can still feel the chill of it. |
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Fri Nov 17, 2006 3:39 pm |
She is a great actress, that Charlize Theron. I couldn't believe it was the same person! I agree with what you said--after I saw "Monster" it stuck with me for days. Very compelling. Can you imagine waking up tied up in a car and finding yourself lying on plastic that's been laid out to protect the upholstery???  OMG.... |
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Fri Nov 17, 2006 3:49 pm |
| PocoLoco wrote: |
| P.S. I am going to check out the new Bond film this weekend. Anybody else? |
Uhhhh, YEAH! My best friend and I are going to see it together, no boyfriends allowed! We want to drool over Daniel Craig. I'm in LA and there are huge billboards for the film on every block and he just looks so danged luscious! Love a man in a tux! 
Her boyfriend (who is also a Brit, like Craig), being a guy and all with his mind mostly in the gutter , says we just going to oooh and aaah over Daniel Craig's huge weiner (not that we'll be able to see it, even though he does a nude scene) ... apparently Dame Judi Dench got a look at it and says "its a monster." Guys ... they just think "body parts," don't they? 
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Daniel Craig's trouser "monster"
30th October 2006 12:30:02
James Bond actor Daniel Craig has a large penis, according to his 'Casino Royale' co-star Dame Judi Dench.
The British actress caught a glimpse of the hunky actor's impressive appendage as he was getting dressed in his trailer which was situated opposite her own.
Dench, who plays secret service boss M in the new movie, told Britain's Daily Star newspaper: "It's an absolute monster! Maybe I shouldn't have said that. How uncouth of me!"
Craig does bare all in 'Casino Royale'.
The 38-year-old actor - who is playing the suave secret agent for the first time in the movie - agreed to shoot racy sex scenes with co-star Eva Green in the nude to make the sequences more realistic.
In one scene, Craig is seen naked on a yacht with French beauty Green - who plays double agent Vesper Lynd - in just a sarong. |
Source: http://femalefirst.co.uk/celebrity/Daniel+Craig+s+trouser++monster+-12255.html
ETA: I stand corrected - we just might actually catch a glimpse of the "monster" ... from the same website:
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Daniel Craig's naked Bond
20th March 2006 15:20:03
Daniel Craig is set to bare all in new Bond film, 'Casino Royale'.
The hunky actor and co-star Eva Green have agreed to shoot full frontal sex scenes in the movie - dubbed "moonie-raker" by the crew because of the amount of flesh on show.
In one scene, Bond is seen naked on a yacht with French beauty Eva - who plays double agent Vesper Lynd - in just a sarong.
Craig, 38, then gets to whip off the skimpy garment before the pair go skinny-dipping.
An insider is quoted in Britain's Daily Star newspaper as saying: "Another scene is set in a hotel room. The script simply says: 'Bond and Vesper make reckless love and destroy the room'.
"It's frenzied and very, very passionate. Bond fans won't have seen anything like it before."
The move to make 'Casino Royal' the sexiest 007 film ever has come from Barbara Broccoli, 45, who runs the Bond franchise.
The insider added: "She wants to show the world that Craig is all man. He has no problems with full-frontal nudity and it shows. Prepare for some jaw-dropping love scenes." |
After reading all this, no wonder he had no problems with full-frontal nudity! |
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Fri Nov 17, 2006 7:40 pm |
It seems Daniel Craig has quickly dispatched all of the criticism and anxiety, and ironically it's because of his physicality! I'm reading over and over about his abs, butt and thighs -- and now apparently his magnificent hang-down -- and the scene where he emerges from the ocean in small blue swim trunks is being likened to another iconically-erotic Bond moment: when Ursula Andress emerged onto the beach in "Dr. No". That's quite a feat!
My husband won't have to drag me kicking and screaming to this Bond film.
Daniel Craig hooked me and reeled me in from the first film I saw him in -- "Road to Perdition". His face and blue eyes convey all at once weariness, vulnerability and steel. He's a great actor.
PocoLoco, I agree with how erotic the glove scene was in "A of I" -- I nearly held my breath! Unfortunately, books by Edith Wharton and Henry James both chronicle an Age of Repression -- so incomprehensible for us who live in the Age of Hedonism. But when Newland chooses not to see Ellen at the end, it's another example how his wife thwarted him once again, this time from beyond the grave. When I read the book, I cursed him chapter after chapter! |
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Fri Nov 17, 2006 9:14 pm |
Smoothskin - I thought Charlize Theron acted her heart out in "Monster". What a gutsy performance! Her transformation into a paranoid, homocidal maniac was chilling yet still heart-breaking. She deserved an Oscar and a half! I wonder if any man who dallies with such rough trade could continue after seeing this film. Lordy!
And how did they ever make such a beauty resemble the real life Aileen Wuornos (sp?)??? It must've taken hours and hours every day. |
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