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Posted by: cinekat at June 24, 2010 9:38 AM
I really enjoyed Sherlock Holmes so I hope that they don't get Sean Penn to play Moriarty as I'd like to see the sequel.
And: of course they're bringing NPH back. They wouldn't be able to make a third movie without him. He steals every scene that he's in.
Posted by: admin at June 24, 2010 9:49 AM
They morphed an ad for "Knight and Day" into a "SportsCenter" ad (at least as well as I could figure it out from watching in the bar with no sound on) and Cameron looks ... kinda rubbery in the face. I may actually have said "ewww" under my breath. I have no interest -- zero -- in watching a rubbery faced 38-year-old woman acting stupid for 90 minutes, unless she's wrapped around the stripper pole in my bunk.
Posted by: , at June 24, 2010 10:07 AM
So, go see Knight and Day this weekend, folks, otherwise the Mission Impossible franchise (which I still very much like) may have Rob Pattinson or Zac Efron in a major supporting role.
Or, you know, they may manage to make a Mission Impossible film closer to the show, instead of "Tom Cruise's Bond Audition, with Special Guest Stars (blank) and Ving Rhames as Da Chief".
Sorry, it still irks me, especially after seeing that damn marathon.
Although a bunch of films about Ving Rhames' character wouldn't be hated too much...
Posted by: Vermillion at June 24, 2010 10:20 AM
Thanks, Dustin, get me all excited for a new book to read (We Bought a Zoo), and then none of the local libraries have it--that includes the five-college library system too. Harrumph.
But, the movie sounds quite interesting. So at least I have that.
Posted by: tamatha at June 24, 2010 10:23 AM
Re: Sherlock Holmes II - DDL would, of course be perfect for Moriarty, but if you can't get him, I'll take Gary Oldman anytime.
Re: Tom Cruise - Crazy? Being a sometime community theater actor, my theory of acting is that actors are like airplanes. Just as the more unstable an aircraft is, the more maneuverable and hence better in a dogfight it is, the more unstable a personality is, the easier it is for that person to go outside himself to assume another identity. Thus, the brilliance of Tom Cruise. See "Collateral".
I may not agree with Tommy in his personal life, but I'll see his movies anytime.
-Ralphie
Posted by: Ralphie at June 24, 2010 10:23 AM
You can never have enough NPH, in my book.
Harold and Kumar 3 is now officially NPH balanced.
NPH is part of a balanced breakfast.
All right, I'm done with that. But I stand by my point. Which is: NPH should be in everything.
Fun fact: Did you know NPH was originally cast as Dr. Simon Tam in Firefly, but they couldn't get the scheduling right (I believe, actually, due to the first Harold & Kumar)? It's a fact! Sorta.
Posted by: RobP at June 24, 2010 10:31 AM
Oh, and Gary Oldman should absolutely be Moriarty. He and RDJ squaring off would be epic.
Posted by: RobP at June 24, 2010 10:32 AM
AAAAAHHH! Megan Fox, you keep your filthy hands off my Gen13! Don't you have a recent project or director to slander? Shoo! SHOO!!
Posted by: MelBivDevoe at June 24, 2010 10:44 AM
I dunno. Gen 13 was pretty strongly tied to the 90s/early '00s, an era of comics that featured a lot of tattoos, angst, ridiculous (and poorly drawn) female anatomy, big-ass shoulder pads and pouches. So. Many. Pouches. There was a character named "Grunge" for chrissakes. I guess one could make a Gen 13. The question is why?
Posted by: Tracer Bullet at June 24, 2010 10:45 AM
I would rather not see it turned into a movie, Tracer. Especially if Megan Fox is gonna have her hands all over it, given her track record with adaptations.
Posted by: MelBivDevoe at June 24, 2010 10:55 AM
and then none of the local libraries have it
Got one right here, over at 590.73. Nanny Nanny Boo Boo.
Posted by: Jay at June 24, 2010 10:57 AM
Ok, I'm not trying to be one of those terrible people who go around correcting people on the internet for the hell of it, but the book is Mr.Popper's Penguins. As a book that I very much enjoyed in early childhood, I have to note that the book contained far more than one penguin. Also, I shudder to think what a Jim Carrey adaptation of the book would look like.
Posted by: Ruby at June 24, 2010 11:01 AM
Gah! Can you imagine if NPH HAD been Dr. Simon Tam? He would have actually had a personality, and the interactions with the other members of the crew would have been so memorable.
The only thing I remember about Dr. Tam was in the movie, when Capt. Mal asks him if he's showing emotion, and he says that he is but he's flat as a pancake in delivery. I can't even remember the scene well enough to remember the lines.
Posted by: BWeaves at June 24, 2010 11:23 AM
Ah...come on, Gen 13 was awesome in an earnest sort of way, like a guy showing you with pride his model train collection, and it's not like comics are especially renowned for their accurate portrayals of the human physique. Plus, it just made me happy to see a girl leading a superhero team from the get go. Aaaaaaaand Alicia Witt whom I just realized I should totally include on my freebie list did the voice for the otherwise awful Gen13 animated movie. Hey, now that I think about it, how did Alicia Witt not make the gingers list, huh, Dustin???? She's even been on FNL, yet she's left to rot in a bar ditch! Ack, my point sort of escaped me, but since it originated in Megan Fox, I'm more than happy to have it end with Alicia Witt.
Posted by: megaera at June 24, 2010 11:40 AM
There is nothing that would make me pay money to see Knight and Day. Tom Cruise doesn't look too bad in the trailer, but I hate Cameron Diaz with the strength of a thousand stars about to go super nova.
Posted by: Teresa at June 24, 2010 11:56 AM
FUCK Tom Cruise. Fuck him and the beard he rode in on.
I hate that creepy, chiclet-toothed (crooked and off center), Joker-grinned, bugnuts/batshit crazy, lift-wearing, closeted garden gnome with everything I have in me.
And he is not MY crazy. You can keep him. Not even the fact that he is gay makes him acceptable and I loves me some family. Yeah, I said it, "GAY." I'm not even gonna bother with allegedly. Come get me, Tommy boy! FUCK. YOU.
God DAMN why do people bother casting him in anything anymore? He's just TOM CRUISE in everything he does. It's like watching a bear dance or Madonna "act:" Just 'cause they are sort of doing it doesn't mean they're any good at it.
The last time he was good in anything was "Risky Business" and that was because he was just that cute kid from "Taps." (Which is a lot better watching now that he is TOM CRUISE because he gets shot multiple times and dies at the end. Woo hoo!) "But, Shonda, he was so good in Tropic whatsitsface." "No. No, he wasn't. He was TOM CRUISE in a fat suit. Please see 'dancing bear.'"
I swear to jeebus if he had a less pedestrian first name he'd be all Oprah-izing it. I'm surprised he hasn't done it anyway. "Oh!!! It's, it's...'TOM®!'"
"IN A WORLD..."
::motorcycle and/or sports car, speeding::
::big guns, knives, macho shit::
::shit blows up::
::awkward kissing scene with starlet o' the month::
"Starring TOM® as Jack McAction!"
Fuuuuuuuuucccccckkkkkk you.
Oh, NPH? Nothing but rainbows and unicorns and freeze booze (the good shit, mind you) and no hangovers, and strippers (the good shit, mind you), and money falling from the sky where he is concerned. If he goes crazy, I'll keep him. Yo, TOM CRUISE, take a good look at my boy, NPH. THAT is how you do it.
And did I say, "FUCK TOM CRUISE?"
I really don't like him.
Posted by: Shonda at June 24, 2010 12:13 PM
Oh yes Gary Oldman as Moriarty would be ideal. He would have smouldering gaze matches with RDJ on screen while fondling various inanimate objects...
Posted by: Vi at June 24, 2010 12:30 PM
I for one am concerned about the shear *amount* of "energy drinks"
that Shonda has consumed this morning.
Epic rant though ! :D
Posted by: Ms MoMo at June 24, 2010 12:33 PM
Please let it be Gary Oldman
Please let it be Gary Oldman
Please let it be Gary Oldman
Please let it be Gary Oldman
Posted by: figgy at June 24, 2010 12:54 PM
Am I the only one no longer drinking the NPH kool aid?!? Christ, this guy's had two 15 minute sets of fame. Enough is enough people. There are other gay best friends for you hag's to fawn over. Sure, the guy is talented, but...for God's sake, he's not THAT talented. In his adult career, what's he proven? That he can successfully act like a hetero slut and can do a nice song and dance number. As endearing and entertaining as this may be, there is a limit to just how much we should be asked to tolerate. He is the Michael Cera of gay, musical theater. I say enough! Rise up fellow citizens! Demand more! It's high time BP is held accountable for perpetuating the limitless talent of NPH...wait. Shit. I'm getting my protest pamphlet's confused again. It's frustrating as hell when this happens. Be right back...
Posted by: CreativeDeath at June 24, 2010 1:11 PM
C'mon, Charlie Sheen, aim higher with your big screen comeback. America wants to see you in a real blockbuster -- like The Avengers movie! You're perfect for Hank Pym, what with your wife-beating experience and general douchebaggery.
Posted by: Bates at June 24, 2010 1:21 PM
He's not a douchebag. He's the Ma-Sheen.
Posted by: Lucas at June 24, 2010 5:52 PM
Thank you CreativeDeath for opening up the NPH door, allow me to come in. They act like he’s De Niro or somebody, that fucking guy couldn’t act his way out of a hand bag, he’s been in more shit than Andy Dick. Hold the fucking presses! It’s official folks, he’s coming back for Harold and Kumar#3, whoa!, that was close. And in related news, a fucking whale took a shit of the coast of somewhere.
Posted by: Pookie at June 24, 2010 8:44 PM
It'*s been a decade or two since Jesus and I agreed on anything, but the fact that he loves NLP - and not just cause the Bible tells us so - may just bring this blackest of sheep closer to the fold.