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Huh. That looked pretty good. Shit yeah, let's go stomp some puppies.

I love The Picture of Dorian Grey (I'm a huge Oscar Wilde fan in general, really; the snark always wins me over), and am cautiously optimistic about this movie, which is more than I can say for a lot of OTHER coming attractions, so hopefully it won't let me down. Fingers crossed. The "His life spooky! His curse sexy! His sentence fragments melodramatic!" nonsense strikes me as awfully silly and sounds more like rejected romance novel titles than a proper tagline, but that's a trailer marketing thing, not a movie thing, so I'm not going to hold it against the movie.

(And yeah, the trailer music is definitely made of sexytime)

So Dorian Gray will be played by a Lesbian Parochial School Headmistress?

Interesting.

Colin Firth in a movie that doesn't look like complete shit? It happens so rarely you must cherish those moments. seriously dude, you do have legions of swooning fans but get a fucking grip, that's so much a girl can take. if you keep raping my brain i might walk out, so let's hope you keep up with this happy trail

I can always abide by a period piece. Especially British ones. The best are the ones that are so serious, they're edging on campy. This movie looks like it's going that way, and I'll probably love it.

Is Ben Barnes' face really so exquisitely unthinkable that the world is just... his? I don't know.

Scep.
Ti.
Cal.

You had me at Colin Firth. Bite me, haters.

Plus, serious gay vibes from Colin Firth. Alls I'm sayin.

Okay...so I know you hate the book, but in it, Colin Firth's character is clearly an older gay man.

Stomp puppies? It kind of makes me want to hop in on that mass blindfolded orgy... sans puppies...
Anyone know the music being used? Cuz, you know, I'm going to an or- a party this weekend...
:drool:

But LAME to the "If I told you, I would have to kill you."

I love the book. Read it three times. But the trailer is cut like this film is an action movie when it's really an action movie. And by action I mean "Dorian Gray getting lots of ass."

Not a bad thing, necessarily, just misleading.

Colin Firth was born for this role. If you look at some of his non-commercial stuff, he really does sinister very well.

The real question is: Given, the costumes and the accents, and the hair and the creepiness, how the hell did Johnny Depp miss this one?

Also, Carmina Burana anyone?

That is some epic trailer music. It makes me want to invite a woman over for dinner, and then as the seduction begins and I change into my velvet robe and ascot (don't diss the Hefner look...it works) this is what shall be piped into the study. Not Mozart or Beethoven, not Miles Davis or John Coltraine, not even Sinatra or fucking John Mayer. No, "Puppy Kicking Orgy in D Minor (Rave Remix)" is the music that is made for the consumation of one's firey passions.

I think it begs to be told, that when I emerge from the red velvet curtains wearing "the Hefner" the woman is usually not there. (And the ones that are I report to the authorities, because they MUST be serial killers to stick around.)

So yeah...movie looks good, lame one liners aside, and Colin Firth has made up for being in Mamma Mia!

Colin Firth in period dress. SOLD.
Bonus points for it being Wilde and having the ridiculously lovely Ben Barnes. I have no expectations of this other than that there will be prettytimes for all.

Y'see, the thing is that Colin Firth (in period setting) is hot because he is so reserved. So proper, so correct.
He is Mr. Darcy.
He restrains himself, holds out against the temptations of carnality, until his reserve is quite overpowered by overwhelming desire, and then...

Like I said,
*BUNK!*

And then rip all our clothes off and writhe around naked in their carcasses!

I was with you up 'til that point. Ew.

Genny/Rusty:

That was my point: Carmina Burana lite, if you will.

It's my only quibble with an otherwise excellent trailer. I think the whole "let's trot out something that sounds like Carmina Burana whenever we do something scary" approach needs to just go away.

Now, before TK gets all ragey on our asses for stomping his precious puppies, how's about we restrict the stomping to chihuahuas (especially talking ones) and add punting evil cats to the list. Other talking animals and noisy toddlers can be added on an as-needed or -deserved basis.

Have fun!

" TheGreasedScotsman " I'm sorry, but I read your alias as "The Greased Scrotum."

This trailer didn't so much remind me of "classic literature" as it did "Underworld IV: The Fanboy Masturbationing." Unless I hear there's some good sexin' in it, I'll pass.

Reasons I'm psyched about this:

1. Colin Firth (still hot!)

2. I was probably not going to finish the book anyway.

3. It looks promising?

4. Its a dark, adapted period piece that Tim Burton and Johnny Depp are NOT part of for once.

*--chihuahua puppies

Bweaves, I laughed so hard a booger might have shot out and landed somewhere sight unseen.

Rainbow Hooker and Sarah Palin are fit for stompin' in my book. Just leave the puppies alone. Even Chi-wow-wows.
As for cat puntin', I have a candidate. My cat crapped on my bed today. Let the punting commence.

I've gotta go with jasper -- physically speaking, Ben Barnes is the epitome of meh. He's like an inferior Timothy Olyphant, inferior due mostly to being entirely devoid of TO's exquisite manliness.

I saw it last night and thought the film was fantastic. I'm a big fan of Wilde's work, and I thought they did a great job of bringing it to the screen.