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I saw the commercial for August Rush last night and said aloud, "I need to buy that." My family all looked at me oddly, but again, they were watching "Flip This Restaurant" on TLC.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers = yum.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers = yum.

He was so hot in Bend in Like Beckham, I love a nice Irish accent. Being in Dublin this past fall was torture, it was like being a diabetic in a candy store...if the candy were gorgeous Irish men with panty melting accents.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers as a musician = double yum.

I saw a poster for "Sleuth" in the window of the video store near my house. Looks, well, like all recent Jude Law movies look--lame. But it is Michael Caine, so...yeah, might rent that.

Oh, and No Country For Old Men is one of those rare films that left we sitting frozen in awe in my seat at the theater. And as much as Javier Bardem was chilling, I thought Josh Brolin did just as brilliant a job with a role that wasn't nearly as flashy as Anton Chigurh.

Though I must say, my favorite scenes were ANY featuring my Deadwood pal Garret Dillahunt, and the scene between Chigurh and Kelly MacDonald's character.

"You don't have to do this."
"Everyone says that."

Shudder/i>

Julie:

Really? Despite the fact that I desperately miss my homeland, one of my pluses living over here is that the eye candy quotient has increased significantly. With all due respect to my fellow country men, the boiled-with-the-cabbage-this- morning face doesn't do much for me. Any chance you were checking out the Polish immigrant workers by mistake?

That left ME. My mental decline continues!

Ha! Paddy, one of the things about Dublin that took me by surprise was the high colume of foreign (non-Irish) accents I heard walking through the streets. Perhaps I was checking out Polish men after all :)

Though there were certainly some lovely specimens of Irish men with the dark black hair, which is my kryptonite.

VOLUME. Gah!

Johnathan Rhys Meyers would be cute if it weren't for his eyes. They look like they want to devour my soul.

Sleuth is like that stupid JLo movie El Cantante. I had no idea it had even been released into theaters, which is why I was surprised that it had been released on DVD.

Look, Captain Falls Down a Lot (aka Goollea), I think you need a nice cup of tea and a lie-down.

I, too, fell in love with JRM because of Beckham.

I am going to admit something, and I hope that y'all don't revoke my Pajiban card. (Do I have to do a shot?) I will not watch No Country for Old Men. I can't stomach gratuitous violence and bloodshed. I've dissected cats, a cow's eye, and a sheep's brain, but I can't watch people being blown apart. I left Saving Private Ryan ten minutes in. I'm a puss.

Aw, thanks Paddy. In this modern world of transatlantic internet fandom and such there is a definite trade deficit in the women coming here for *us*. I know the accents got power though, I'll give em their due!

Bastards.

Nicole, ain't no shame in that. Mrs. TK is a veterinarian, and she's done all that and worse, including euthanizing kittens and puppies. But she almost cried at the end of True Romance when she though Clarence was gonna die.

And I confess, I have a bit of a man crush for Johnathan Rhys Meyers. Though his watery devil-eyes are a bit creepy.

(Mental note: develop panty-melting accent)

I'm headed over to Best Buy on my lunch break to pick up the new Black Crowes album (please-oh-please be gooder than the previous couple albums, please-oh-please-oh-please, I've waited sooo long) and more than likely, I'll pass a display of "No Country..." Am I safe to assume that this is a film to purchase vs. rent? DON'T LIE TO ME DAMMIT!!

...wow... gotta check my rage there. Sorry.

I need a good beating, is what I need.

And I am warped, because I didn't think NCfOM was that violent. Brutal yes, but violent...eh. It takes a lot to affect me...I blame an obsession with Poltergeist as a child.

holy crap, this may be the first time I have EVER heard of Polish immigrant workers described as hot.

Are we talking about the same demographics? The only Polish immigrants of the male persuasion I have seen are the stereotypical Eastern Bloc, bad clothes, beer-gutted, chainsmoking, non-English speaking hoodlums that call any female with a brain "laska" (!!).

Granted, Polish guys visiting from Poland can sometimes be AMAZING. But outside the motherland?? Wow. Color me amazed. I thought the women were the ones with the looks.

Shadows, you speak two languages, that's just as enticing as an accent.

Mrs. TK is a saint. For as much as violence against people in films I can stand, any animal violence has me muffling my screams in a pillow. And to deal with sick/dying animals in person as your profession? Eeep. Can't fathom.

Stella:

Okay, maybe I'm missing something here (I'm fighting a migraine so the humor sensor is a little off), but if a Polish man is a visitor he can be really hot, but if he's an immigrant worker, he must be a boor?

Am I safe to assume that this is a film to purchase vs. rent? DON'T LIE TO ME DAMMIT!!

Well, I thought it was very good, and I don't want to experience it again soon. It develops very, very slowly, but it's certainly not dull on first viewing. BUT, I think its replay value will vary a lot between people. Certainly not, you know, *fun*. You might want to just see it first. I'd recommend just about anyone to at least see it once.

if a Polish man is a visitor he can be really hot, but if he's an immigrant worker, he must be a boor?

I think the difference was Polish man vs. U.S. man of Polish descent?

I dunno, I guess Michigan Poles just slipped into the mainstream faster. I'm Polish and there's exactly zero way to tell. Except for how much Grandma used to bitch about the Dutch neighbors.

I don't get the JRM love. Sure he's alright looking but he's in no way hot. His lips just bug the hell out of me and his eyes are seriously creepy. I'm more of a Taylor Kitsch kinda lady.

I actually ripped out an article about him from the airplane magazine "En Route" this weekend. Now he is double yum AND Canadian!!

jonathan rhys meyers (in velvet goldmine) = yum!

i am going to buy august rush too. i love me some felicity.

Hooray for hot Canadian boys!

When I was working one of my retail jobs, a bunch of guys in their early 20s and suits (!) came in and they all had Australian accents. I'm.. fairly intelligent, but I suddenly turned into a two year old who had something shiny waved in front of them. "Dur hur.. we sell cards here.. You're pretty.."

We actually started a conversation, and my co-worker and I thought "Oh god, please keep speaking. Talk about anything."

And first time we got my Irish friend on the phone, I made him say "They're always after me lucky charms." And even -that- sounded sexy. Mrrr.

Well, I, for one, am no great fan of Jonathan Rhys Meyers. I don't find him attractive in the least. Maybe it's because I don't normally list after skinny, wussy-looking dudes. I don't know. I guess I just can't get worked up over a man I could probably bodyslam with little effort.

Mara;

Motto to that. Irish accent = instant 100+ point i.q. drop while I madly think of a way to keep them talking. I listened to two Irish contractors talk about putting up a wall for the better part of the hour, and I was glued on every word.

JRM is so hot. Hottest in 'Gormenghast' or 'Titus' IMO, where he got to be both hot and evil.

LUST! I don't normally LUST after skinny, wussy-looking dudes. Damnit.

Hee...Kolby, you caught my typing disease.

The Mr. and I watched No Country For Old Men last night (I had it at the top of my Netflix for a week so it would arrive right away).

Skittimus- please rent before you buy.
I love the Coen Bros. madly, but No Country (although very good) had a disappointing downturn. Not saying where and how. And that's just my opinion there.
During many scenes, I was thinking, "That's right from Blood Simple," and "That's directly from Raising Arizona."
Javier Bardem was terrifying. I expect to see a lot of Anton Chigurhs this Halloween.

I give more points to There Will Be Blood. I really wanted NCFOM to be better, but no.

And say all you want about how "OK" Bee Movie turned out to be. The promo campaign has soured me forever to the extent that I can't even look at Jerry Seinfeld's smug stupid face.

The promo campaign has soured me forever

Wait, you mean you didn't like Seinfeld being horribly abused in a giant bee costume while Eddie Izzard ordered more pain? My god, now that would have made for a great full-length movie.

JRM looks like a venereal disease waiting to happen, but oh God wouldn't that be a fun one to catch?

Word, Kolby. WORD.

In general, I wouldn't describe Irish looks as "hot", but I'll give the accent it's due. For a true panty-wetting brogue, however, you need a Scotsman... and I know whereof I speak, being married to one!

And when he works late, there's always Craig Ferguson ;-)

As an American girl currently studying in Ireland... I'm leaning towards PaddyDog's view of the male situation here. When even my Irish roommates are telling me that I'm better off trying to find a cute guy among other international students than among their country men, I know I'm screwed. Bonus: the international students ALSO have sexy accents! That are far more intelligible than some of the irish accents I've heard!

Oh yeah, I need to see No Country... but that might happen via a website of questionable legality before I buy a DVD.

Sleuth was the greatest goddamn movie I have seen so far this year, save There Will Be Blood. It is fairly mannered, but hey, it's Branagh, and adapted from the stage. To not expect it to be mannered would be like expecting Daniel Day-Lewis to do a bedroom farce.

Ordered No Country last night from Amazon. Counting down the hours till it arrives. Hitman has been added tot he queue. I will need to shut my brain off for an hour-and-a-half sometime this week and it seems like a way to do it

David Tennant = Hot Man.

em - if you're weighing the merits of a Michael Caine movie vs. a Jude Law movie, go rent the OLD version of Sleuth. It creeped me out. Michael Caine is the younger man (played by Jude Law in the remake).

And I agree on the Scots and Irish accents being panty-melting. We had one Irish exchange student at my university, not that cute, but I think he got more tail than the entire freshman class that year just because of that accent.

Nicole = correct on all counts. I loved David Tennant as Dr. Who but when I heard him speaking in his real accent I about fell out of my chair. And about No Country - rent it first, I say. I watched it and thought it was a good movie and now I am so done with it. Yes, it was good, now I never want to see that level of violence again. I know it's not torture porn, I know it's a good movie, I just don't want to look at it. At all. Ever again. Clearly I don't know how to get this across. Oh well.

Oldbabe knows...If it's not Scottish, it's CRAP!

I also admit to a shameless love of Hugh Laurie, in equal parts because of House and the fact that he's British.

I would like to have David Tennant read the phone book to me while naked, wearing only the glasses.

I think that A History of Violence is a good movie, but the violence turned me off of ever seeing it again. BUT, the stair sex scene was hot. I don't feel the JB love, so I'm going to skip No Country.

I didn't feel that the violence was even that bad in No Country. I felt it was effective yet not gratuitous. And a lot of it was implied.

My Dad (Who I think would love that movie) said that he wouldn't see it because he likes "funny Coens not serious Coens"

As for Jonathan Rhys Myers. I liked Match Point but I think he is kind of a one trick pony.

I didn't feel that the violence was even that bad in No Country. I felt it was effective yet not gratuitous. And a lot of it was implied.

Tanner- my thoughts exactly. Though don't get me wrong, there was violence in it.

Anne you took the words right outta my mouth. Em and Sarah need to see the original Sleuth to see the movie in it's proper glory. I was obsessed with that film in college! Truly a masterpiece!

Julie: My kryptonite is also men with dark black hair. Accents included reduce me to stuttering embarrassment mostly!

My ex-boyfriend's roommate is English, and my ex stuck him on the phone with me when he had to do something else, and I think I asked him what his major was about three times. I totally lost the power of coherent speech; it was pretty embarrassing.

JRM is very handsome. Cillian Murphy, however, is to-die-for. Just gorgeous. Jay-sus. Also seems like a decent dude.

I read your review for No Country for Old Men, so I rented it yesterday and watched it.

I couldn't be more disappointed. It was gore and little plot, a psychopath and a man who stays in various hotels while he's covered in blood. I don't see how to received the honor of best picture when compared to a film like Gone Baby Gone. I'm not recommending this to anyone.
A true waste of time.

Nicole, I don't even have a response for that David Tennant suggestion beyond "Yes, please".

And even if you do feel the JB love, No Country is not the place to see it. I had only seen him in that and when I saw him at the Oscars I almost didn't recognize him.

And I like Hugh Laurie but have seen him as Bertie Wooster for too long to ever think of him as hot.