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Re: Resurrecting the Movies thread...
« Reply #2030 on: October 12, 2013, 06:03:19 pm »
I really want to go see 12 years a slave when it opens, but I'm afraid it will be this decade's Amistad for me.

Same here. I don't think I can miss it, but I will approach it with deep dread.

I held out against Fruitvale Station, though I heard it's good.






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Re: Resurrecting the Movies thread...
« Reply #2031 on: October 12, 2013, 09:12:46 pm »
Same here. I don't think I can miss it, but I will approach it with deep dread.

I held out against Fruitvale Station, though I heard it's good.

I heard Fruitvale Station is tremendous, but it's going to be a rental for me as the tension will probably make me sick.  :-\

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Re: Resurrecting the Movies thread...
« Reply #2032 on: October 13, 2013, 01:58:53 pm »
Like I posted earlier, I watched Stuart: a life backwards and the two actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Tom Hardy did a great job together.  Guess it's a sign of a good acting that the actors can go from playing everyday folks to mythical villains  ;D


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Re: Resurrecting the Movies thread...
« Reply #2033 on: October 14, 2013, 10:27:31 am »
So I heard and read that Charlie Hunnam has dropped out of playing Christian Gray (as in "Fifty Shades of"). I also hear that some book fans want Matt Bomer to play the role. Since, if I understand correctly, the book is basically soft-core hetero porn, seems to me it would be really something to have an openly gay actor play the male lead.

Or maybe the fans who want him for the role live in caves and don't know he's gay?  ???
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Re: Resurrecting the Movies thread...
« Reply #2034 on: October 14, 2013, 07:26:59 pm »
So I heard and read that Charlie Hunnam has dropped out of playing Christian Gray (as in "Fifty Shades of"). I also hear that some book fans want Matt Bomer to play the role. Since, if I understand correctly, the book is basically soft-core hetero porn, seems to me it would be really something to have an openly gay actor play the male lead.

Or maybe the fans who want him for the role live in caves and don't know he's gay?  ???

I heard either dropped out or fired.  Not sure.  The story is trash, so I imagine only up and coming actors will want the role for the - ahem - exposure it will get them.

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Re: Resurrecting the Movies thread...
« Reply #2035 on: October 15, 2013, 10:59:15 pm »
So I heard and read that Charlie Hunnam has dropped out of playing Christian Gray (as in "Fifty Shades of"). I also hear that some book fans want Matt Bomer to play the role. Since, if I understand correctly, the book is basically soft-core hetero porn, seems to me it would be really something to have an openly gay actor play the male lead.

I agree! That would open some new doors. That alone -- and I really do mean that alone -- would make me root for the movie. Not see it, probably, but root for it.

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Or maybe the fans who want him for the role live in caves and don't know he's gay?  ???

Possibly, though hard to believe in this day and age that anyone interested enough in popular culture to care about a fairly obscure actor being cast in a movie that hasn't even started production yet would not know something like that.


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Re: Resurrecting the Movies thread...
« Reply #2036 on: October 15, 2013, 11:11:46 pm »
I'm kind of glad that Charlie Hunnam backed out/got fired despite the fact that his involvement had me interested in the project. Apparently Alexander Skaarsgard (Yum) and Jamie Dornan (double yum!)  are the frontrunners to replace him.

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/oct/15/fifty-shades-of-grey-movie-crisis-new-lead-actor
« Last Edit: October 17, 2013, 08:05:48 pm by oilgun »

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Re: Resurrecting the Movies thread...
« Reply #2037 on: October 16, 2013, 11:43:35 am »
(Re: Matt Bomer possibly playing Christian Gray)

Possibly, though hard to believe in this day and age that anyone interested enough in popular culture to care about a fairly obscure actor being cast in a movie that hasn't even started production yet would not know something like that.

Yes, it does seem difficult to believe, but I suppose fans of that TV show he's in--which I've never watched--wherein, I gather, he plays a flaming hetero  ;) might conceivably not know. He played a flaming hetero stripper in Magic Mike.

I wonder how "obscure" he is? Granted, he's not Brad Pitt or Matt Damon, but I really don't know.  ???
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Re: Resurrecting the Movies thread...
« Reply #2038 on: October 16, 2013, 11:54:48 pm »
Matt Bomer would be a terrible choice.  He's handsome and all, but he's not very charismatic and lacks that dangerous bad-boy appeal that I feel the role requires.  Remember Mickey Rourke in 9 1/2 Weeks?  Now that was good casting.  IMO Matt was the weakest character in Magic Mike despite Alex Pettyfer's stunned deer in the headlights performance.


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Re: Resurrecting the Movies thread...
« Reply #2039 on: October 17, 2013, 07:22:04 am »
Possibly, though hard to believe in this day and age that anyone interested enough in popular culture to care about a fairly obscure actor being cast in a movie that hasn't even started production yet would not know something like that.


(Re: Matt Bomer possibly playing Christian Gray)

Yes, it does seem difficult to believe, but I suppose fans of that TV show he's in--which I've never watched--wherein, I gather, he plays a flaming hetero  ;) might conceivably not know. He played a flaming hetero stripper in Magic Mike.

I wonder how "obscure" he is? Granted, he's not Brad Pitt or Matt Damon, but I really don't know.  ???


The only thing I've ever seen him in is the TV show Jeff mentioned (White Collar, which I like btw).
And if it weren't for BetterMost, I wouldn't know he's gay.