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Resurrecting the Movies thread...
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on February 06, 2010, 06:50:22 am ---Beth Grant played Dwight's occasional carnal partner on The Office. She's funny.
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She appeared on My Name is Earl as the mother of a friend of Earl's with whom Earl, for reasons I can't remember, was forced to have an affair. Again, the joke was that it was horrifying for Earl to have to sleep with such an old woman, and he kept trying everything he could to get out of it. At least in that case, though, she actually was older than Earl (Jason Lee will be 40 this year; Beth Grant 61), and she was the mom of his friend (Giovanni Ribisi).
I liked MNiE, but I hated that particular episode.
Who knew that out of all of these men, the one with the most acceptable attitude would be ... Dwight? But then, the very fact that Dwight finds her attractive is a backhanded compliment -- yet another slam at poor Beth Grant.
--- Quote ---K, do his friends actually call him, "Bad?" Does the name come across as dumb in the movie as it does to me?
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Yes, and sort of, but you get used to it. It's an issue in the movie -- someone asks his real name, and he won't give it, but then at the end of the movie he does.
Not like it's some big spoiler, but I won't tell you what his real name is. However, I will tell you that it was the name of my great uncle, and also a name that my then-husband and I actually bandied about as a possible name for one of our sons. When we mentioned to some relatives -- people related to my great uncle -- that we were thinking of naming him (X), they all in unison said, "DON'T NAME HIM (X)."
Also, a former neighbor had a bull dog named (X).
Ellemeno:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on February 06, 2010, 12:11:03 pm ---
Not like it's some big spoiler, but I won't tell you what his real name is. However, I will tell you that it was the name of my great uncle, and also a name that my then-husband and I actually bandied about as a possible name for one of our sons. When we mentioned to some relatives -- people related to my great uncle -- that we were thinking of naming him (X), they all in unison said, "DON'T NAME HIM (X)."
Also, a former neighbor had a bull dog named (X).
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Hm, of everything I've heard about this movie so far, this (the name of your great uncle and almost name of your baby) most makes me want to see it.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on February 07, 2010, 04:56:44 am ---Hm, of everything I've heard about this movie so far, this (the name of your great uncle and almost name of your baby) most makes me want to see it.
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Front-Ranger:
I slogged through The Last Station today. Despite brilliant acting by Helen Mirrin, I didn't feel sympatico to her throughout the movie. Terrific chemistry between her and Christopher Plummer, who played her husband Leo Tolstoy. Even a great scene of them in bed. But, honestly, who wants to see two old people in bed??
James McAvoy's acting was just as good as Mirren's, I thought. He played a young secretary to Tolstoy who is sympathetic to the Countess (Mirren) and becomes her confidante. Another great actor was Paul Giamatti as Tolstoy's friend Cherkov. After the first few minutes I didn't even see him as the sideways guy!
So if great acting's your thing, you might like The Last Station. Me being a writer, the plot's the thing for me, and this one was pretty thin.
Front-Ranger:
Oh, and one other thing about The Last Station. It was plagued with those extreme closeups that are so popular now. Sometimes you wonder how the actors can do their jobs with a camera lens right in their faces! Plus, jittery hand-held camera work. The combination made me a little seasick. A Single Man had extreme closeups too, but they didn't bother me because the camera was blissfully still.
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