*snork*
Must not have impressed me much because I don't remember it at all. In his defense, I think I was too busy enjoying Rafe's nakedness (full frontal, even, in one fleeting shot) to be bothered.
Heh. I thought I was the only person who *snorked*. It was a fleeting scene, but I was like, 'Wow, the guy's been working out.' Hmm, come to think of it, was this movie before or after 'Fight Club'? Last time I saw Norton shirtless, it was in that movie with Richard Gere and he was the typical geeky toneless skinny white guy.
I had trouble with Ralph's manly body in this movie. I always like Ralph as the fine-boned Englishman, into fencing and riding to hounds - he's a cricket man, not a rugby player. So to try to get into his working-out-on- a-weight-bench-shirtless/wife-beater persona, the type to intimidate with his physical presence...he wasn't convincing.
I thought Phillip Seymour Hoffman was very good, if underused, as tabloid scumbag (is that redundant?) Freddie Lounds.
Perfect. But OMG, his toenails in that one scene have haunted me ever since. Now whenever I see the guy, I see his gnarly toenails. Gross.
I know it's silly, but I cannot forgive Norton for fucking up that character. Before Jack and Ennis, Will Graham was the first and only fictional character with whom I've ever had any kind of lasting obsession.
I understand perfectly. My friends and I on another fandom board will never forgive George Lucas for his multiple sins.