Resurrecting the Movies thread...

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RE: Life: I have a copy of Stark's book so I'm a bit worried about the casting of Dane Dehaan as James Dean. I don't mind that he doesn't look like him, it's just that he looks like a teenager – a kind of Gilbert Grape Dicaprio - while Dean looked older for his age. We'll see. I never did see James Franco's James Dean but I suspect he was pretty good in the role.

Sure enough, when I glanced at your post before reading the text I thought for a sec those were pictures of stars when they were younger and the middle one was LD. Then I noticed Pattinson and Dean and saw that they weren't younger. Both of them, in those three pictures, look about 10 years older than the middle guy.

[Front-Ranger]

I'm not sure a person's age should matter in the movie business. It's acting, after all. And in this age of makeup and special effects, it should matter even less. I'm remembering that Anne Bancroft did a good job as Dustin Hoffman's mother even though she was only six years older than him in The Graduate. And I could cite many other examples, including our own Heath Ledger, who convincingly aged 20 years in Brokeback Mountain.

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I haven't seen Dehaan in anything but with that baby face he better be a great actor if he wants to emulate James Dean.

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James Franco (didn't see it)


James Preston (saw it and wished I hadn't)


Dane Deehan (who knows?)

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I'm not sure a person's age should matter in the movie business. It's acting, after all. And in this age of makeup and special effects, it should matter even less. I'm remembering that Anne Bancroft did a good job as Dustin Hoffman's mother even though she was only six years older than him in The Graduate. And I could cite many other examples, including our own Heath Ledger, who convincingly aged 20 years in Brokeback Mountain.

His lover, but of his mother's generation. Anyway, yes, that worked, partly because her bone structure makes her look oldish and because she actually was practically playing her age -- the mother of an 18-year-old could pretty easily be 36 or just a year or two above. But he ... well, at 30 he was very convincing as a recent college graduate.

Another example: Sally Field played Tom Hanks' mother and is only 10 years older.

[Jeff Wrangler]

His lover, but of his mother's generation.

Thank you. If she had played his mother, that would have made for an awfully kinky movie! 

[Monika]

Has anyone seen Jupiter Ascending? The trailer looks good but ithas gotten really bad reviews over here.

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Has anyone seen Jupiter Ascending? The trailer looks good but ithas gotten really bad reviews over here.

The local reviewer gave it zero out of four stars.

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SC,  I hope you will do the BetterMost review of Magic Mike 2.  I stumbled on MM1 quite innocently.  I thought, "OK, 2 hours of eye-candy-- I can handle that."  Then they started talking, and I realized I couldn't stand 2 hours of it.  Then I saw Matt Bomer, looking disoriented and wondering "What in hell am I doing here?"  Good question Matt.  Go back to White  Collar and your hunky FBI boyfriend and the kinky slave anklet he makes  you wear.  You don't belong in this movie!  I can't believe a bunch of men, even straight men, would behave like that.  Does Magic Mike 2 promise even more of this bizarre behaviour?  Or was MM1 all just a gigantic send-up that I stupidly missed?

I don't really understand this objection. Of course men behave like that. Never heard of the Chippendales? I think I read somewhere that the movie was based on a magazine article about such a place.

I'm not a big male-stripper enthusiast, but I thought the movie was pretty good. As for MM2, I'll wait and see what the reviews say.

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Still another question, x: why would you be so surprised that men would do that? Surely you're aware that women do it all the time, even if you've never been to a strip club yourself they are a familiar setting in movies. Why is it so hard to believe men would do the same thing as a way to earn money?