crimsonfire Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 Hmmm I mulled it over for a minute and even had a cigarette (that always signifies when I'm at optimal mulling conditions) but I still can't abide an A-lister in the cast. I mean RDJ rocked the shit as Tony Stark but I never really had any problem with him to begin with. He's a solid actor for the most part. Tom Cruise is very much hit and miss, surprise cameo in a certain movie notwithstanding. The mere fact the cast are all relatively unknown (apart from The Comedian, I've seen him somewhere else and I can't quite remember where. Maybe its cos he looks like Javier Bardem.) just lends this kind of ground floor, grassroots vibe to the film that I dig. PS Only exception to my point being Ron Perlman would be great as The Comedian. C'mon I know you can see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Jax Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 The problem with an A-lister as Ozy with no-names in the rest of the cast is that Ozy is basically scenery until the last 2 chapters, when it's revealed he's the mastermind. Having a A-lister play him attracts attention to why he's not a major player throughout most of the story. It makes you think "why would Tom Cruise or Jude Law accept such and uninteresting role...unless there's more to him than meets the eye!" If it were Jude Law in a star-studded cast, that would be different, but as the only A-lister, it's draws attention to Ozy when the story is much better (to someone who hasn't read the book) if he doesn't attract any attention until the end. It's the reverse of the stroke-of-genius casting of Drew Barrymore in Scream, where is was included in the posters and in the top billing, only to be killed in the first few minutes. That was big name actor that turned out to be surprisingly unimportant. We expect big name actors to have significant roles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iambaytor Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 Well yeah but who would be more convincing as a fanatical two-faced self-obsorbed prick than Tom Cruise? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Jax Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 Cruise could work in an all-star line up, just not as the only star. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iambaytor Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 Ah come-on they've got the pedophile from Hard Candy and that one guy that I think used to be on Grey's Anatomy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crimsonfire Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 Greys Anatomy! Thats where he's from! Thank you baytor that was annoying me. and yes I watch Greys Anantomy from time to time. Guys can watch it too...... What do you mean "No they can't"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iambaytor Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 I flip by it every once in a while in case there's implied Sara Ramirez nudity, otherwise I recall seeing the end of one where somebody blew the fuck up. That's about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crimsonfire Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 If Sara Ramirez is the hot busty latina one then yes yes and a thousand times yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Jax Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 Yes, she's like a plump Betty Page. I'm looking at her Wikipedia page and she has some fun facts! She's a quarter Irish, three quarters Mexican. She was in the Broadway versions of The Vagina Monologues, Dreamgirls and Spamalot. ABC liked her performance in Spamalot so much, she was offered a role on any ABC show she wanted. She was the voice of Lammy in both UnJammer Lammy and Parappa the Rapper 2. She was a cop in the first Spider-Man movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crimsonfire Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 Quarter Irish eh? The whole "Have you any Irish in you?" pick up line is redundant then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Jax Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 Do you have any Irish in you? Why yes, I do. Well would you...oh, um...that's good. Um, I like your...hair? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
90sKid Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 Eh, Sara Ramírez is from Sinaloa - my home state, full of beautiful women. Sadly, she's fugly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crimsonfire Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 Eh, Sara Ramírez is from Sinaloa - my home state, full of beautiful women.Sadly, she's fugly. If I had a large glove I would slap you heartily, sir. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Jax Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 I smell a Sara Ramiez poll in the not-too-distant future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
90sKid Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 That poll is necessary! I will prove my point - with pictures. Pictures of hot women, from Sinaloa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thelogan Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 Going back a dozen posts or so, Robin Williams as Rorschach would have been a fucking atrocity. I know he's done all these "dramatic" roles the last few decades, but I never buy it. It always seems like he's doing a character to me, I never forget that it's Robin Williams pretending. That's not good acting. Don't get me wrong, some of the movies have been great but there is no way in hell he has the chops to play Rorschach. I would have said the same thing about Jackie Earle Haley ( "wtf...is that the kid from The Bad News Bears?!?" ), but I recently saw Little Children and it totally redeemed him in my eyes. The dude can seriously project some quiet intensity. Incidentally Patrick Wilson is in Little Children too, which is kinda weird. My only complaint is that I would have liked Dan Dreiberg about 30 lbs schlubbier. Get a little double chin thing going. Like an athlete that hasn't done shit for 15 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crimsonfire Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 I think I read something about Nite Owl not having let himself go as much in the film in a movie magazine last week heh. Hell if the dude can still pull Silk Spectre during his autumn years then I take my hat off to him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jables Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 Shane- We're on for this next Wednesday night, possibly at the Imax. Women's participation is entirely neglible, but a few mates from work I've put onto the movie are lilely coming, so we can maybe have pintage before and/or after. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaterpillarScheme Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 People keep saying the cast are no names and it's kinda bugging me... I mean, most of them aren't huge, but at least are recognizable. Billy Crudup at least a lot of people would know from Big Fish and Almost Famous, and Matthew Goode was in Match Point which was pretty big, so he's recognizable from that. A ton of people watch Grey's Anatomy and are gonna know Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Wilson and Malin Akerman are lesser known, but wasn't Haley nominated for an Oscar for Little Children? I just wouldn't say they pulled a bunch of complete unknowns or anything. And I totally think Jude Law would've worked. Brilliantly. But fuck Tom Cruise, that would have been awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crimsonfire Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 They aren't exactly no names but they sure as hell aren't A-listers. You would have to do a bit of searching in the old noggin for where you last saw them.The only familiar face I saw was Jeffrey Dean Morgan and I had to wiki him to find out where I'd seen him before (Greys Anantomy). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jables Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 WHy has noone mentioned Supernatural yet? JDM appears every other fucking episode in that because he's the main characters' goddamned father!! Sure it's a terrible show and I doubt anyone wishing to be taken seriously by their internet friends isn't gonna admit it, but it's been an elephant in the room for 3 pages now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaterpillarScheme Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 Lol. Tiny damn elephant. I didn't even know it was there. I did see an episode of Supernatural once... it didn't seem that bad, but didn't seem that good either. I know they aren't A-listers, but I'm just saying they're recognizable people, for the most part. Or at least, I recognized most of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thelogan Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 Patric Wilson is in Lakeview Terrace and that's renting like crazy. I completely agree that they aren't unknowns for the most part. I also agree with being completely unaware of the Supernatural connection. I've never watched that show and I don't care about being taken seriously. I've never watched Grey's Anatomy either. I guess I'm just too damn cool! Or maybe I'm just a filthy liar. I haven't decided yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jables Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 Either way you're too charming for me to quit. Since we has no midnight viewings here in soviet russia, I'm thinking of taking a sickie to go see it first thing thursday... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HypnotizinChikns Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 http://www.aintitcool.com/node/40214 The reviews are out, full of spoilers tho. I am totally looking forward to seeing this now. a qoute, for those of you who don't want to see the spoilers! you can see Snyder knows this is his one shot to get it absolutely right, a sequel is not going to happen - there will be no room to expand upon themes, or up the ante on action ever again...so he just goes for it. You can almost hear him saying 'fuck it, why not? it's in the book, so it's in here'...and that is something to be applauded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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