Reed Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 http://nymag.com/movies/profiles/66284/ I am both impressed with this woman and terrified by her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Those black, dead eyes of hers are the only thing more terrifying than her personality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 We proceed to her astrologer. She is a svelte six-foot-tall woman who operates out of a musty room at the corner of Bowery and Delancey. “You were definitely Marilyn Monroe in a past life,” she tells Paz. “You have a Venus in Libra. I wish I had a Venus in Libra. The best thing is to have a Venus in Libra. Second best is Venus in Taurus. “What does that mean, again?” Paz asks. Give this woman a reality show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Also, admittedly, I don't know much about astrology but I'm pretty sure 90% of the time you're just telling people they were Marilyn Monroe or Cleopatra in a previous life. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabe Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 http://nymag.com/movies/profiles/66284/ I am both impressed with this woman and terrified by her. She's waaaay, waaaay, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay below the line for me. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 http://nymag.com/movies/profiles/66284/ I am both impressed with this woman and terrified by her. She's waaaay, waaaay, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay below the line for me. Barney's "hot-Crazy" bit lasted maybe 30 seconds and is still maybe one of the funniest bits ever in that series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabe Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 I totally agree. His riff on the three day rule, tying it into Jesus and the resurrection is a classic as well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Magnificent 7 Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 I read in the paper today that Billy Idol has an autobiography coming out, and James Cameron really wanted him as the T-1000 in Terminator 2, but he hurt his leg in a motorcycle accident and couldn't do the running scenes. So Cameron went with Robert Patrick. Idol would have been interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 I read in the paper today that Billy Idol has an autobiography coming out, and James Cameron really wanted him as the T-1000 in Terminator 2, but he hurt his leg in a motorcycle accident and couldn't do the running scenes. So Cameron went with Robert Patrick. Idol would have been interesting. Between that and the OJ Simpson anecdote (he auditioned for the role of the terminator in the first movie, came close but was ultimately turned down because they didn't think he'd be convincing as a stone cold murderer) the Terminator franchise has the greatest 'What if' possibilities ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingus Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Also that they wanted Michael Biehn to come back and be the T-1000 in part 2, which would've made it an entirely different (but pretty interesting) movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Both of those ideas are interesting as hell, but I'm not sure either would have actually been better than Patrick's creepy emotion free performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 We would have missed out on Patrick's elf ears too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Didn't Cameron pitch the original Terminator movie with Lance Henricksen in the room being the Terminator? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabe Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Both of those ideas are interesting as hell, but I'm not sure either would have actually been better than Patrick's creepy emotion free performance. I honestly can't imagine anybody else playing that role. He was awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
APO Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Man, I can't wait to be in the theater when people react to "the twist." Turning over to page 200 or so in the book and seeing that floored me. Saw it yesterday. My jaw literally dropped to the floor when the twist happened. Sure it was something I'd considered, but it happening out of the blue like that had my face looking like something from an internet meme, hahahahaha. Enjoyed the hell out of it. May go see it again next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.K.o.S. Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 I'm assuming there's no thread for next year's Oscars yet. They released the long list of all countries that have submitted movies for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar - 83 of them, which is a new record, surpassing last year's total of 76. http://www.oscars.org/news/83-countries-competition-2014-foreign-language-film-oscarr I've seen 3 of those: Finland's Concrete Night, Russia's Leviathan and South Korea's Haemoo. Thought Concrete Night was a waste of time, Leviathan was good (some people are super high on it though) and Haemoo was great (but not sure if it's something the Academy would be into). From what I've heard about some of the others, Belgium and Turkey should be strong contenders. Possibly Iceland and Sweden too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 Gone Girl: I quite liked this. It works very well as a satire, with the Nancy Grace spoof (Ellen Abbott) being the highlight. Tyler Perry and Ben Affleck give pretty much the best acting performances they probably ever will. My only complaint is that Fincher might be talking the whole thing a bit too seriously. It's essentially a black comedy, and some of the plot points are so preposterous it even gets brought up by the other characters, but it's like he keeps wanting it to be a serious thriller and a proper look at sexual politics and a dysfunctional marriage. Is it possible for a director to do a great job on a film, which Fincher does here, but maybe miss the point? The movie is good but it does seem to be a bit all over the place tonally. Also: Pike's character just got too cartoonishly psycho by the end of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 Anyone watch The Counselor? The movie is ridiculous -- SERIOUSLY ridiculous -- but for the fact that it's that loopy it's that much more enjoyable. Helps to be drinking; somehow the Cormac McCarthy (!) dialogue goes down better that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 All I know about The Counselor is: 1) It's a terrible movie that somehow managed to get Cormac McCarthy on board 2) Something about Cameron Diaz having sex with a car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuetsar Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 Anyone watch The Counselor? The movie is ridiculous -- SERIOUSLY ridiculous -- but for the fact that it's that loopy it's that much more enjoyable. Helps to be drinking; somehow the Cormac McCarthy (!) dialogue goes down better that way. Another of the Netflix movies I turned off about 30-45 minutes in. Just awful. . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 I was laughing way too hard to change the channel. Some of you guys freak out over utter horseshit like Showgirls; get over the nostalgia trip and get with some new awfulness. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 Anybody seen Cold in July with Michael C. Hall? Hall's character is the victim of a home invasion and kills the intruder. This leads to the perpitrator's ex-con father stalking Hall's family. This is the first act of the movie; after that, the story shifts into one about mistaken identity and police conspiracy. The action was really tense thanks to an awesome score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 Did they remake that with Sam Jackson, or am I racistly misremembering something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Comedian Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 ^you're probably thinking of Lakeview Terrace, where Jackson was the psycho cop neighbor screwing with a young couple...which was kind of a racially-charged update of Unlawful Entry...which was kind of like Pacific Heights but with a cop instead of a grifter... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 This has been bugging me, so I looked it up. it was Reasonable Doubt (not a home invasion, but a hit & run) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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