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| tirebiter |
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| Marj My Sweet: I'm dense. What was the clue? |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 2:13 am |
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| You mean that you missed the significant distinguishing characteristics? |
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| tirebiter |
| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 4:12 am |
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| Should have worn my glasses! Damn! |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 7:23 am |
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tirebiter wrote: Marj My Sweet: I'm dense. What was the clue?
Me too. Give, people. What's with the ellipticism?
Tim--Amazed you left William Hurt off your plaudit list for A History of Violence. IMO he and Viggo gave the best perfs. |
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| Mr. Brownstone |
| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 9:38 am |
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Billy:
It was nice to see Hurt, one of my favorite actors, but I didn't see anything significantly special in his performance. But I hope his critical success in History leads to more Hurt appearances.
gromit:
Difference in what? What? Does Viggo have a vagina or something? What's going on? AHHHH!!!!!
marj:
You better spill the beans before I gnaw off my own foot. |
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| tirebiter |
| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 9:43 am |
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| Now I remember that headline in Variety: VIGGO VAGINA SHOX HIX IN STIX. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 9:57 am |
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Mr. Brownstone wrote: Billy:
It was nice to see Hurt, one of my favorite actors, but I didn't see anything significantly special in his performance. But I hope his critical success in History leads to more Hurt appearances.
gromit:
Difference in what? What? Does Viggo have a vagina or something? What's going on? AHHHH!!!!!
marj:
You better spill the beans before I gnaw off my own foot.
Tim--From everything I've ever heard, Hurt's personality (which turns many fellow actors off, reportedly) has had more to do with his lessened career than anything else. When they made a sequel (Blue in the Face, absoolutely terrible) to Smoke (good), they pointedly didn't ask Bill Hurt to join the party. It was reputedly a deliberate snub since he had been so poisonous on the Smoke shoot. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 10:03 am |
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| Well Hurt was in my town for a couple of months a couple of years back, playing Richard III and apparently he was very gracious. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 10:09 am |
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marantzo wrote: Well Hurt was in my town for a couple of months a couple of years back, playing Richard III and apparently he was very gracious.
Great to hear. |
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| Mr. Brownstone |
| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 10:19 am |
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Billy & Wade:
Not to disparage a great actor, but people I've met who have worked with him (mostly on-stage, not film) have mentioned his issues with sobriety as a major life obstacle for him.
The varying opinions on his personality as either likeable or not may have something to do with how successful he is in battling his personal demons. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 10:50 am |
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Mr. Brownstone wrote: Billy & Wade:
Not to disparage a great actor, but people I've met who have worked with him (mostly on-stage, not film) have mentioned his issues with sobriety as a major life obstacle for him.
The varying opinions on his personality as either likeable or not may have something to do with how successful he is in battling his personal demons.
I had deleted my addition to the "Great to hear" post with an observation that he may not have been drinking at the time. But I figured that might be experienced as me once again pushing my sobriety agenda and let it go. However...Tim to the rescue once again. |
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| bart |
| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 10:57 am |
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| Being late to the 3rd Eye party, I didn't know you had a sobriety agenda, Billy. I will say I never hear anecdotes about actors drinking that go, "He often had a glass of wine with dinner, and then became the life of the party." I guess that wouldn't make much of an anecdote. |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 1:08 pm |
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Tire, Tim and Billy,
I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you since I don't remember the actual dialogue. But during the cheerleading scene, Tom's character said something to the effect of not having much of memory of his high school days, and that the kind of high school experience that his wife had --cheerleading and the like - was something he knew nothing about. I wish I had the actual dialogue to present this better.
I saw this scene as not only a contrast to the later sex scene on the stairs, but it also told me, that there was some mystery to Tom Stall that was yet to be revealed. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 1:18 pm |
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Tim was right on about the sex scenes (mind you, I found the first one pretty corny, but I guess it was supposed to be), being one of the few that were effective and meaningful etc. as opposed to 99% of the graphic sex scene which are completely unneccessary and for me, embarrassing.
That's a good topic for our specialty forum; Sex scenes, valid/invalid, hot/cringe-worthy? |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 2:09 pm |
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| Saw my first Thai film, Tropical Malady (2004). The first half is a buddy movie with the depiction of a deep homoerotic relationship of two young men. The second half shifts into an allegorical or folk-lore mode, with one of the two young men seen in a forest pursuing a demonic spirit (spoiler : the demonic spirit is the other young man). The shift in genre from the first half to the second half is difficult to take. The movie is visually beautiful and has a great sense of place. |
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