Favorite Movie

[SuzeQuze]

Originally Posted by gretchen

hmm, Interview was good, but a bit too Hollywoodish with the casting choices and not darkly brooding enough for me

I thought Brad played Louis quite dark and brooding. Cruise was okay as Lestat but I would've loved to see someone else in that role. He just didn't have the stature for it but he did a decent job. Although now that I know how psycho he is that is hard to admit. Antonio was great as ... crap, what's-his-name? Perfectly cast as seductive and cunning.

[Stew_Matthews]

Originally Posted by SuzeQuze

I thought Brad played Louis quite dark and brooding. Cruise was okay as Lestat but I would've loved to see someone else in that role.

Of course the film had to be changed a bit when River Phoenix died as he was due to be in it - in fact didn't they begin filming with him in it? I can't remember now what part he was slated for but I recall they rewrote some of it after his death.

I always thought that Pitt and Cruise would have been better swapping roles in the film.

My favourites change but I tend to keep watching

The Pianist (favourite sad one)
The Unforgiven (favourite cowboy)
Chinatown
Apocalypse Now
Dogville


I tend to watch those most months.

[carrie721]

Originally Posted by Stew_Matthews

Apocalypse Now

oh man. good movie but once in this lifetime was enough for me

[gretchen]

Originally Posted by SuzeQuze

I thought Brad played Louis quite dark and brooding. Cruise was okay as Lestat but I would've loved to see someone else in that role. He just didn't have the stature for it but he did a decent job. Although now that I know how psycho he is that is hard to admit. Antonio was great as ... crap, what's-his-name? Perfectly cast as seductive and cunning.

Well, you're right Antonio Banderas was right on as Armand, but I would have liked to see Julian Sands as Lestat and someone lesser known as Louis..but I did like the movie.

[GardenStateGirlie]

Originally Posted by CelticGypsy

The Great Gatsby

forgot this one. also a favorite of mine as is the novel.

[SuzeQuze]

Originally Posted by Stew_Matthews

Of course the film had to be changed a bit when River Phoenix died as he was due to be in it - in fact didn't they begin filming with him in it? I can't remember now what part he was slated for but I recall they rewrote some of it after his death.

I always thought that Pitt and Cruise would have been better swapping roles in the film.

My favourites change but I tend to keep watching

The Pianist (favourite sad one)
The Unforgiven (favourite cowboy)
Chinatown
Apocalypse Now
Dogville


I tend to watch those most months.

Christian Slater took the role River was slated for - the interviewer. I'm not sure if they started with River or changed anything, I can't remember. I think I might have to watch that one again soon. I agree, I thought Brad would've made a better Lestat. He wasn't a big enough star at the time though. Depp probably would've been excellent as he is so talented, dark, and nearly pretty.

[Stew_Matthews]

Originally Posted by carrie721

oh man. good movie but once in this lifetime was enough for me

......yes it aint really Walt Disney is it

Sadly my best friend and I can do the entire dialogue for about the first hour and a half cos we watched it so much. Even now we do bits of it but with better American accents. A classic film but I don't find it as stomach churning as say Goodfellows. I can cope with people being shot but all that beating people to a pulp is very unpleasant! Dogville is the one I have to get psyched up for. A really tough film!

[David]

Originally Posted by Stew_Matthews

Chinatown

Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.

[buckymcnix]

My Life as A Dog
Brother from Another Planet
I've Heard the Mermaids Singing

[TheBlueLamp]

Carrie
Psycho
Dawn Of The Dead (both versions)

[gretchen]

okay since we're doing more than just one:

A Perfect Murder
Wall Street
Romancing The Stone
The American President
Wonder Boys
The Game
Disclosure
The Ninth Gate
The Jackal (Richard Gere)
Scent Of A Woman
Some Kind Of Wonderful
The Abyss
Salem's Lot
Underworld
Ladyhawke
Wolf
Heat
Unfaithful
The Omen (Gregory Peck)
...and so many more

[dnightshade]

Originally Posted by gretchen

Well, you're right Antonio Banderas was right on as Armand, but I would have liked to see Julian Sands as Lestat and someone lesser known as Louis..but I did like the movie.

Are you kidding??? Did you read the book? Armand was supposed to be a very youthful (teenage) vampire. Don't get me wrong, I love Antonio Banderas - he is damn hot!! But Armand was not Latino neither. It was total miscasting. That whole movie sucked 'cuz the casting was so bad. Louis was suppose to be a tall slim dark-haired man. Lestat was a blonde - Tom Cruise bit!!!! Julian Sands was Anne Rice's initial choice but they waited so long to make the movie JS had gotten too old. That whole movie was a total letdown to Anne Rice fans who had read the book. Worse book-to-film ever! I was living in NO when they filmed it - my house is in the movie - and everyone was saying how horirble it turned out. 13 y/o Kirsten Dunst as Claudia?? Claudia was supposed to be 5 years old. It sucked!

[mylittledemon]

Originally Posted by gretchen

okay since we're doing more than just one:

A Perfect Murder
Wall Street
Romancing The Stone
The American President
Wonder Boys
The Game
Disclosure

Yer a Michael Douglas fan! I think "The Game" is awesome. And "Wonder Boys" is pure class.

[David]

Originally Posted by dnightshade

That whole movie sucked 'cuz the casting was so bad.

Oh, the problems with that film run far deeper than the casting!

[strandinthewind]

AND NOW IT'S SPRINGTIME FOR HITLER AND GERMANY!



Yes, perhaps not as good as this one:



but, John Barrowman is without flaw to these eyes and ears~!

Also -- the Ziegfeldesq girls with sausages and pretzels in their headdresses are sublime.