I'm The Only One Who Hates...

[Moony]

Originally Posted by dissention

You haven't seen it?! I would have thought you OWNED a copy. He strips down to nothing in one scene and jiggles his bits for the camera and they zoom in on it for, like, a full 30 secsonds. And he has a sex scene with Bale.

good gawd.

I HATE BEING BROKE!@#%@#@!%

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by dissention

Just for you.

I suffered through Velvet Goldmine for the second time on Monday night because my lovely Christian Bale was in it and I actually came away with a different opinion of Ewan. He wasn't bad in that movie. Jonathan Rhys Meyers, though....woof, he was just as awful as I remembered.

VG has been airing on IFC for awhile now -- it is a pretty good movie if you like that Brit alternative scene thing and, of course, three of the hootest male stars around today in gay nude sex scenes Bale choking on the broach in the beer was a little to far out for me though and I am not a huge fan of his

[dissention]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

VG has been airing on IFC for awhile now -- it is a pretty good movie if you like that Brit alternative scene thing and, of course, three of the hootest male stars around today in gay nude sex scenes

Bale is the only hot one in that movie, the rest gross me out. I think the movie itself is poorly made. Bad script (for the most part), badly acted by Meyers, and too self-conscious (the music video scenes are just too absurd). Toni Collette is a hoot in it, though, and I love the opening title sequence. I saw it in the theater back wehn it came out and thought it was just putrid.

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

Bale choking on the broach in the beer was a little to far out for me though and I am not a huge fan of his

For that you shall get 50 lashes with a wet noodle. I should post a fantastic article from Premiere that picks apart all of his performances, it's a great read.

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by dissention

Bale is the only hot one in that movie, the rest gross me out. I think the movie itself is poorly made. Bad script (for the most part), badly acted by Meyers, and too self-conscious (the music video scenes are just too absurd). Toni Collette is a hoot in it, though, and I love the opening title sequence. I saw it in the theater back wehn it came out and thought it was just putrid.

I was speaking from popular opinion of hot - not your absurd notions about it

Originally Posted by dissention

For that you shall get 50 lashes with a wet noodle.

I'll be right over - please have the front door ajar and be waiting upstairs nude with the fur restraints!

Originally Posted by dissention

I should post a fantastic article from Premiere that picks apart all of his performances, it's a great read.

I do not mind him, but I am just not a huge fan. I did not American Psycho because I thought it was meandering and silly. I did like him Empire of the Sun - in fact, he was brilliant in that. He was also pretty good in Metroland - which was okay. Of course, he was best as "Thomas" in Pocahontas

Also - Toni Collette is always great IMO!!!!!

[dissention]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

I'll be right over - please have the front door ajar and be waiting upstairs nude with the fur restraints!

I'm not that accommodating, dear.

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

I do not mind him, but I am just not a huge fan. I did not American Psycho because I thought it was meandering and silly. I did like him Empire of the Sun - in fact, he was brilliant in that. He was also pretty good in Metroland - which was okay. Of course, he was best as "Thomas" in Pocahontas

You didn't like American Psycho?! It feels like you just stabbed me in the heart...! Empire of the Sun is one of the few Spielberg movies I like and it's mostly because of Bale. He captured the character brilliantly, exactly as it reads in the book, which is stunning considering he was only 12. You should rent All the Little Animals with him and John Hurt, too. Not only is it a fantastic and beautiful movie, but he's amazing in it. He could play any role, I'm convinced of it.

Here's that article, too. http://www.christianbale.net/article.../salon2004.htm

My favorite part?

About three DVDs into my bale of Bale, I began genuflecting deeply to my laptop, a changed harridan. I watched, over hours, the proverbial sword get pulled from the stone. Hear ye, and believe it or not: Christian Bale is the Arthur Rex of leading men -- the Once and Future King, born to rule the light-projected dimension of the silver screen in a natural, inalienable, yes, maybe even holy way; a real honest-to-God ****ing star, with a frightening load of multiple talents, dazzling instincts, deadly beauty, cannonball cojones, a killer sense of comic timing, deeply empathic humanity and effortless authority that no actor in this country could get within 1,000 miles of, even in a Hummer.

It alarms me to say it, but I can't even think of an American actor in any era who, in his heyday, had as much mojo going on as many different cylinders, as Christian Bale ... Judy Garland? Nope, too screwed up; she didn't own herself. Marlon Brando? Nope, too flawed, too egomaniacal, too limited ... Frank Sinatra? Same ... Fred Astaire? Not sexy enough .. Buster Keaton? Not chameleon enough ... It's scary, but true. I think Bale is legitimately superhuman -- an advanced, evolutionary leap into Future Movie Stardom. He's the Michael Jordan of film actors -- the übermensch who takes the sport so much further than it was possible to conceive of its being taken, in one generation, that it changes the face of the game forever. And nobody really knows it yet.

Bale has done the more or less impossible: He was a child star who successfully became an adolescent star (while avoiding becoming a teen idol, incredibly) who successfully made the turn into being a serious adult actor. He is a virtual shape-shifter, shamanic and stealthy -- he comes and goes, he leaves a hook in your consciousness with some druidic act of goose-bump-raising screen voodoo, he vanishes; he reappears years later, wholly transformed, doing something completely different, but equally mind-boggling. I realized, re-watching the films I thought he sucked in, that even when he looks like he's sucking, he's brilliant -- once you've seen two or three other examples of his possibly limitless range, you realize that in roles where he isn't obviously hurting your eyes with his ultra-bright Apollo gleam, he is transmitting his role from the dark part of a distant planet, doing the kind of hard thespian thinking that is a real privilege to see, in a dunced-out medium like the movies.

[dissention]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

Also - Toni Collette is always great IMO!!!!!

Porpoise Spit!

I truly love her. Another one of my favorites.

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by dissention

Porpoise Spit!

I truly love her. Another one of my favorites.

ITS MAAAAAARIAL

and when she was being unzipped for her first encounter

She was also good in Emma

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by dissention

. . . You didn't like American Psycho?! It feels like you just stabbed me in the heart...! . . .

It was really the way ot was shot and I just thought it was silly. I am not saying it was a bad movie, it just did not appeal to me, plus gore is not my fav. thing. Fargo is another one - I just did not like it, though FM was brilliant in it. I though Fargo was just too slow for me to like, even though I get that its tepid pace was the point. I did LOVE when the bimbo was having sex on top of WH Macy and the scene opens with her in that dialect screaming something like "HAAAHHHHHRRRRIIIEEE - wwhheerrree arre youuuuussee"

[sparky]

Originally Posted by The Tower

Hmmmm....................

Celine Dion
Rod Stewart
Britney Spears
Rap/hip-hop
Bobby Brown
Whitney Houston
White trash ala Jerry Springer
Dyke drama
Cheapness/tightwads
Bruce Springsteen (too sanctimonious for me)
Girls Gone Wild
American Idol
Reality Tee-Vee
Conservatives
Texas
Religious nuts
African dictators
Beans
Stinky cheeses (gorganzolla is the WORST, with goat cheese running a close second)
Female porn stars
Cockroaches
Walmart
Target
Tom Cruise
Brad Pitt (!!!!!)
Lou Diamond Phillips
Edward James Olmos
Yoda
Ted Nugent
Insane Clown Posse
Ronnie James Dio
Lil Kim
Dennis Miller
Seinfeld (!!!!!!)
Full House (!!!!!!!!!!)

Well, that's a start......

With the exception of beans and target, I am with you all the way.

[amber]

Originally Posted by sparky

With the exception of beans and target, I am with you all the way.

I feel really, really, alone, in that I love both Dennis Miller and Tom Cruise. Although, of course, I like old Dennis Miller better than new Dennis Miller, but he is always extremely clever, and I have a super crush on his scorpio ass. Even though I see he has become insufferably repub. *sigh*.

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by amber

I feel really, really, alone, in that I love both Dennis Miller and Tom Cruise. Although, of course, I like old Dennis Miller better than new Dennis Miller, but he is always extremely clever, and I have a super crush on his scorpio ass. Even though I see he has become insufferably repub. *sigh*.

I like Ton Cruise's movies I though I liked him personally via his media appearances until he started showing the "real" side of himself in the last few months. I still like his movies though.

As for DM, I do not find him funny and to me, he comes across as an idiot.

[dissention]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

It was really the way ot was shot and I just thought it was silly. I am not saying it was a bad movie, it just did not appeal to me, plus gore is not my fav. thing. Fargo is another one - I just did not like it, though FM was brilliant in it. I though Fargo was just too slow for me to like, even though I get that its tepid pace was the point. I did LOVE when the bimbo was having sex on top of WH Macy and the scene opens with her in that dialect screaming something like "HAAAHHHHHRRRRIIIEEE - wwhheerrree arre youuuuussee"

Damn, I adore both of those movies. I think American Psycho is a riot and his performance is just chilling and hilarious at the same time. That scene where he kills Leto has me in hysterics every time. And the Whitney Houston monologue!

Frances is soooooo good in Fargo, as is Macy. How about when she talks to the two bimbos about the kidnappers?

"Yah."
"Yah!"
"Yah."
"Yah."
"Yah!"
"Yah!"
"Yah."
"Yah!"

[dissention]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

As for DM, I do not find him funny and to me, he comes across as an idiot.

His show is insufferable. He had Yeardley Smith on his panel one night and every time she would try to speak (and she is one smart ****ing cookie, too), he'd interrupt her and make the worst joke in the world. I almost blocked CNBC after that particular show. He's so unfunny and smarmy, I hate it.

[amber]

Originally Posted by dissention

His show is insufferable. He had Yeardley Smith on his panel one night and every time she would try to speak (and she is one smart ****ing cookie, too), he'd interrupt her and make the worst joke in the world. I almost blocked CNBC after that particular show. He's so unfunny and smarmy, I hate it.

But have you seen his old HBO specials? Omigod!!!! Sesly, even in his new garb, I think he is extra Clevah. He is an aquired taste, though, in that he references things, and is so fast with his wit, that everyone might not get it. Heck, even I don't get every thing he talks about. I haven't seen his new show, though. But I almost always think he's funny - he's so razor sharp. But I like sarcastic smarm. I love how he can reference fifty different media things in one second, and it all applies.

[sparky]

So late to this, so I will have repeats of others...


Chocolate
Cats
Soda(Coke, Pepsi, all of that gutrot)
Star Wars
Seinfeld
All reality television
99% of all rap
Beck(that slack jawed stare, and he's a Scientologist)
The White Stripes(unlistenable)
All fragrances people put on
Small yippy dogs
Star Trek
Bryant Gumble
Katie Couric
Minivans
Hummers (the vehicles, get your minds outta the gutter)
Springsteen
Counting Crows


This is making me grouchy. I must stop.