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Post by Starry_MelC on May 25, 2007 11:40:54 GMT -5
I've just watched Marie Antoinette. Eh... Rose was awesome, though. How exactly does she steal the thunder every time she's onscreen? It's so odd. She made me laugh, though, and she's got a really animated face. It's probably because of my own bias reasons. She was funny and I looked forward to hearing all of her lines. ;D I'm not really a Dunst fan. Same here, I'm not really a Dunst fan either... Rose is just really wacky there, and gosh, I love her accent... Earlier today, I saw a video in YouTube, mainly with Hiro's photos and with his songs at the background. It was the first time I heard him sang, and he sounds great! Also, I found a clip in YouTube with him learning tango!!! Talk about a man with many talents!!!!
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Post by brittany on May 26, 2007 9:53:34 GMT -5
Also, I found a clip in YouTube with him learning tango!!! Talk about a man with many talents!!!! I saw that one, too! Very cool.
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Post by nimue on Jun 26, 2007 21:26:16 GMT -5
Here is one of my reviews: 28 Days LaterThis is by far the best and most eerie zombie movie I have ever seen. Well, technically, the monsters aren't zombies in the traditional sense, but please, spare me. That's like saying Teen Wolf wasn't really a werewolf because werewolves don't play basketball. If it grunts and howls, travels in a pack, walks upright and eats people, it's a zombie. The plot is engaging. In a top secret British lab, peace activists release a monkey infected with a highly powerful and contagious test virus. 28 days later, the infection has gone from one monkey to the majority of the UK, the host of the virus is lost in a murderous state, losing all logic and instinct. Jim, a courier, wakes up from his coma in an empty hospital, to find that the streets have been heavily littered and are empty. His fear began when he saw no one. His terror erupted when he realized he wasn't alone. The end gives a very reflective twist between the characters. Transforming Selena from a I'll-Kill-You-In-A-Heartbeat sass to an attached humane person and Jim from a humane person to It's-All-About-Survival killing machine. Making a sort of exchange. The actors are brilliantly casted. Cillian Murphy alone is pure genius. With those haunting blue eyes, awesome cheekbones and sexy full lips to be paired up with equally unbelievable acting range (when he's onscreen, he totally becomes his character... actor barely recoginizable). But he shows off more than his great acting skills in this one (oh my gawd, he went completely nekked! ) Ahem. Anyway, they played their characters almost to perfection although I wasn't quite enthusiastic with the romance between Jim (Cillian) and Selena (Naomi Harris). A little too rough and agressive for my taste. I think he would have had more chemistry with the sequel's star, Rose Byrne (also his co-star in Sunshine - whose original draft included a romance between the two). Still. Best zombie movie ever. But don't take my word for it. Go watch. Yarr!
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Post by kaliszewski on Jun 26, 2007 21:52:42 GMT -5
This does NOT belong here-- okay, I know that-- sort of-- BUT-- The more I think about the nudity and what happened to Jim's parents, the less one or the other makes sense. See, in Garland's original screenplay, we find Jim in pajamas in the coma isolation ward. Fine. As though he's been out of it for some time. In the filmed version, it looks to me as if the post-surgery trauma team had just gotten Jim out of the operating room and were tubing him when they got called away-- presumably to the emergency room, to deal with incoming wounded and/or infected. This implies that Jim's injury just happened, or happened within hours. Why, then, would Jim's parents kill themselves after leaving that "we left you sleeping" note-- when Jim had yet to do any serious "sleeping"--? Granted, the nudity emphasizes the fact that he's being reborn in this horrible post-apocalyptic world-- but suddenly, it's beginning to make less sense.... Oh, dear. Not that I mind a bit of Cillian-based nekkidity. No. That's, uh, that's okay. Really. Yeah. Just wait'll y'all get a look at "Watching the Detectives." Most blushingly silly--! (And-- just to toss another spanner-- WHO, ME?!?-- I think that Jim and Selena complement each other VERY well. He humanizes her; she toughens him up.... Conversely, I would've liked to have seen more interaction between Scarlett [or Major Levy-- there's Rose Byrne sporting another first name in a military/action part!] and Sergeant Doyle in 28WL.... )
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Post by nimue on Jun 26, 2007 23:12:16 GMT -5
Now that you mentioned it, the nudity does bewilder me too. But what if he was in a coma for, let's say, month or weeks now. And then something happened in the middle of his state... something that the hospital neglected to detect or maybe something that may be the hospital's fault. That something needed operation, so they followed through. But then, the infected invaded. Possible, yeah?
And, ok, after watching it a couple of times, I have to admit that the Jim/Selena thing has grown on me. But still, I think it's the actors. I dunno... couldn't see the chemistry between them (although I'm a fan of both). I just think that Byrne and Murphy has more chemistry... although I doubt Byrne could have played Selena as well as Harris could.
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Post by kaliszewski on Jun 26, 2007 23:35:22 GMT -5
Yeah-- Naomie just NAILS that part!
Other thoughts: Just how far had the infection spread when Jim was hurt? His needing-- or listening to-- Selena's explanation in the newsstand doesn't seem a product of amnesia: it seems he would have corroborated her reports of rioting. So-- did the first wave of infection-related casualties hit the hospital right after he was brought in...?
Creepy addendum: I wonder if they toyed with the idea of Jim finding his parents mauled and murdered AT the hospital. I would hope not: one of my favorite scenes in 28DL is Jim reminiscing in his parents' kitchen.... Just speculating!
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Post by nimue on Jun 27, 2007 1:03:58 GMT -5
Watching the movie, I was thinking the entire time that maybe Jim got into the accident long before the rioting started. But now that I think about it, again (thanks to your insights), maybe it was already happening. Maybe it was an infected that drove that truck which hit him. Although, I can't really picture out an infected driving a truck. Lol. Ok, cancel out that possibility.
I still think that he was already in a coma long before the first scene in the movie. Maybe that's why his parents had that kind of hopelessness. They committed suicide thinking there's no more possibility of him ever waking up because he has had no consciousness for a very long time now.
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Post by kagerou on Jul 29, 2007 1:10:22 GMT -5
Very odd treat for Saturday late-night: my niece, who sells far too many movies on eBay, lent me a copy of "Roaring Fire," a VERY early Sanada-san flick, in which Our Future Stalwart Captain Kaneda travels from Texas to Hong Kong (yep!) to avenge the death of the twin brother he never knew he had. Sonny Chiba lends a hand as an intrepid and mysterious detective who moonlights as a magician. Abdallah the Butcher takes Sanada-san under his wing and calls him "Little Tarzan." A Chinese Bogie impersonator runs a restaurant called "Casablanca." Sanada-san's long-lost blind sister is a stick-fighting expert. Oh, and there's a twenty-minute footchase involving ninjas, and another chase involving a horse and a helicopter. I am not making this up. And Sanada-san, who, at the age of twenty-two, was obviously out to become the Next Hardest-Working Guy in Action Cinema, sings the ending song, too. Holy carmelized cats on French toast, Batman.... Dude, I want to go watch that now. :3
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Post by chero on Aug 7, 2007 12:40:00 GMT -5
Alright, here's my complete list of movies that I've seen each Sunshine actor in. I've included the link to their IMDb filmography page to make research easier for those people who want to make their own list. I ordered mine by the first viewing to the last (you don't have to get that crazy) and I bolded the movie title that I saw first for each actor. Cillian Murphy - Batman Begins (2005), Red Eye (2005), At Death's Door (1999), The Silent City (2006), Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003), Filleann an Feall (2000), Eviction (1999), 28 Days Later... (2002)
Rose Byrne - Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002), Troy (2004), Marie Antoinette (2006)
Chris Evans - Not Another Teen Movie (2001), Fantastic Four (2005), 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)
Michelle Yeoh - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), Royal Warriors (1986)
Hiroyuki Sanada - The Last Samurai (2003), Royal Warriors (1986)
Cliff Curtis - Six Days Seven Nights (1998), Three Kings (1999), Blow (2001)
Mark Strong - Tristan + Isolde (2006), Syriana (2005)
Paloma Baeza - A Kid in King Arthur's Court (1995) My 'Sunshine' only actors: - Troy Garity- Benedict Wong
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