Henry and Ally's Video Vault II

[Voodoo Lady]

The mouth ewwww was definitely vile, but in kind of a funny way, I thought. It was just so ridiculous that this terrifying person would resort to gumming. lol

EDIT: Started to talk about Battlestar Galactica: The Plan here, as it's a TV movie, but have moved it to the TV thread, as that's more appropriate.

[girl]

I watched Sherlock Holmes not too long ago and I loved it. Loved it with a capital Love heart. It was witty and clever and and and...Go see it!

[ratgirl]

I went to see Sherlock Holmes last weekend, and I quite enjoyed it too. This was probably partly because I was determined not to expect too much and be finicky over detail, though I did say beforehand that the one thing I wouldn't forgive was an unshaven Holmes (a man who can magically be clean-shaven when camping out on Dartmoor)... and he spent the entire bloody film being unshaven! At least that meant I simply had to get over it quickly or walk out of the cinema. Anyway, I thought they dealt with the obligatory-these-days love story fairly well so that it wasn't too intrusive or un-Holmes-ian (though I prefer the way Billy Wilder dealt with it in Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, cos Holmes is colder and cooler).

I thought the boxing sections were really good, and an aspect which is rarely brought out, though a part of Holmes I love (especially in the Solitary Cyclist where he's all excessively cheerful after getting into a fight and goes a bit braggy: "The next few minutes were delicious. It was a straight left against a slogging ruffian. I emerged as you see me. Mr. Woodley went home in a cart."). And I really liked the Holmes-Watson interplay - I love it when Holmes manipulates Watson, which he does rather frequently. Jude Law was quite good as Watson, but I couldn't quite believe Robert Downey Jnr was Holmes. There were, however, aspects of it that reminded me how much I love Holmes. And, all in all, it was a good, fun adventure story.

Victorian London looked lovely too.

[Voodoo Lady]

Thank you for chiming in, Sarah! You are the only person I know who is a (much) bigger Holmes fan than myself. I have been adamantly opposed to the film, but on the strength of your review alone, I think I shall give it a shot. I will turn off "critical brain" and just enjoy the loveliness of RDJ.

[DevilWalksInTheSand]

I thought Sherlock holmes was a great way to spend an hour and half, nothing too taxing and just lots of fun.....obviously i'm not a holmes purist so I don't know the ins and outs of the character himself, but very enjoyable all the same. I was gonna spend a few paragraphs bumming Avatar but I got distracted by The A Team movie trailer again.....if you haven't seen it go youtube it right now!!! Me and the mighty viper have been discussing it at length via twitter (obv not just perving on sharlto and bradley....nope not us!)

[ratgirl]

Thank you for chiming in, Sarah! You are the only person I know who is a (much) bigger Holmes fan than myself. I have been adamantly opposed to the film, but on the strength of your review alone, I think I shall give it a shot. I will turn off "critical brain" and just enjoy the loveliness of RDJ.

A plan I would highly recommend! To be honest, I have been happily recommending the film to everyone, and another Holmes fan I know enjoyed it also. I hope you like it now!

I think the main reason I don't quite feel RDJ is Holmes is because I would never have even thought about husbanding him. I might have to go back and watch "Private Life of Sherlock Holmes" again at the weekend just to up the husband-quotient...

[Papa's new wife]

http://www.four-lions.co.uk/
Click on the trailers.
Ok this looks utterly hilarious but I'm scared for Chris Morris. I don't want him hunted down!
I am SO going to see this
Oh and I hurt myself laughing at the 'Bleach clip'.

[serafina pekkala]

Four Lions looks fracking hilarious. The trailer had me in stitches - especially the Saxon style face shaking. I shall not look at crows in the same way. Why is the word 'crow' funnier in a Sheffield accent?

"I don't need some tramp up a mountain telling me how to light a fuse!"

[Voodoo Lady]

In case anyone wants to look for me in Iron Man II (assuming I'm even in there!), here are the scenes I filmed. I don't know that they're very big spoilers, but as someone who hates even the teeniest spoiler, I'll smallify them in case folks don't want to know. Oh, and my hair was done differently than normal. It was straightened and sort of curled under in a bob. Makes me look totally different.

I did three scenes, but there are only two in which there's any chance you'll see me.

The first is a medal award ceremony presided over by Gary Shandling's character. I was told this happens at the end of the film, but who the hell knows. I play a senator, and I'm standing in the middle of row after row of other senators, about five or so rows back, near the far left if you were standing at the podium, looking out at the crowd. They did a bunch of crane shots over our heads and around us, so I might be on screen for a nanosecond or a collection of nanoseconds, but it'll probably be really hard to spot me. (Unless, of course, they choose to use the take where a bee flew right in my face and I instinctively freaked out. Hahahhhahaha! Somehow I doubt it. )

The second is a scene outside a convention center. A woman is reporting on the convention (I have no idea what she is saying; we couldn't hear her). We filmed two scenes with her reporting. One is crazy with screaming and us waving gloved hands with little Iron Man lights on them, screaming for Tony Stark. This is not that scene. This one was more sedate with people drifting past in the background in ones and twos. I'm with a Mexican-looking guy who had his arm around my shoulder, if I recall. We stop right by the reporter and the fella rests his arm on the structure behind her as we look at the camera with "Hmmm...I wonder what they're filming" faces on. We mime a little conversation and then we continue on our way. This is the one I'm really excited about because this is the one that Jon Favreau like enough that he asked us to do it the same way over and over. If it made the final cut (please, oh please, oh please!), I'll be right there on camera!

Thanks for being excited with me, gang! I know it's not exactly a "name in lights" moment, but it's frickin' Iron Man. There are some shows, some films I would be excited to be a part of, even in the smallest of ways.

[astrid]

Going to go see it again to check out these scenes!!! Eeeep!

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[Voodoo Lady]

I'm going to see it today, and hopefully after that I can better direct people. Again, assuming I made the cut. Really can't take that for granted, you know?

Watch me get so caught up in the movie that I forget to pay attention to those scenes.

[Voodoo Lady]

Well, it turns out the scene where I might have had screen time got cut. Naturally they kept the two other scenes. But like I said before, in one scene I'm so far at the back of the crowd, I'm completely hidden. And while I'm visible once or twice in what turns out to be the very last scene of the film, they didn't use any of the shots which gave a good view of the crowd. I barely spotted myself, and the only reason I could see where I was was because of my very red hair. Ah well, 'tis the nature of the business. It was still great fun to be there, to be able to say I was involved with such an awesome film.

[astrid]

Bugger, bugger, bugger. That is such a shame babe. Although I can't wait to get the DVD and be screen capping away!
Like you said an amazing thing to be a part of. I can't even imagine what the set must have been like and you were in stealing distance of RDJ!!!
Here's to your next big Hollywood project. *hugs*
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[ratgirl]

Aw, dammit, that's so gutting that scene was cut! I'll be scanning the screen for very red hair at the end, though...

Off to see Four Lions tomorrow. Can't wait to see new Chris Morris stuff! Iron Man's next on the list...

[Voodoo Lady]

Has anyone out there seen Mystery Team? Frickin' BRILLIANT movie. Utterly, utterly hysterical. There were points where we were laughing so hard we couldn't hear the next line of dialog. A definite must-see!

EDIT: Plus, it's very quoteable, and I want to say stuff!