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[thehefner]

I really didn't hate THE PRESTIGE, nor do I want to, but the more I hear folks heap praise upon it (and the more I just can't get my brain around understanding why, really seeing what they see in it as much as I try)... boy howdy, I'm getting there. I sorta feel the same way about SCARFACE.

That said, I think Hugh Jackman would make an excellent Harvey Dent/Two-Face. It's not a choice that comes to mind immediately, but watching him work with Bale, thinking about how he can be handsome and charming but also dark, vicious, and haunted... wow, he would actually be great. Much, much better than the current general rumors of Ethan Hawke, Ryan Phillippe, and even Jake Gyllenhaal. Those actors are too damn boyish, damn it! And as much as I love Liev Schriber as an actor, he's just not that good-looking and charming.

I doubt they'd cast Hugh, nor do I think he'd want to be associated with two comic frachises (if only we could have him as Two-Face and get Willem Dafoe for Joker!), but it sure would be nice to dream.


Oh, and CASINO ROYALE was excellent. A truly superior action movie and one of the finest Bond movies I ever seen. Craig nailed it (although I was still distracted by his muscular-but-still-caved-in chest), playing him in a way that really seperates him from all the other film Bonds by being truer to the actual book character.

The chase scene early in the movie is damn good too (that dude was limber!), and kkglinka made a good point, it really does put one in mind of what if they did that kind of chase between Batman and Catwoman in an upcoming movie. Man, that'd be sweet.

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[sabine42.livejournal.com]

I really didn't hate THE PRESTIGE, nor do I want to, but the more I hear folks heap praise upon it without really understanding it... boy howdy, I'm getting there.

See, I had to go back and read your previous post on it to get what you're saying, because assuming people who like it "don't really understand it" is kind of a bold statement.

I enjoyed it, if nothing else for fine performances by the cast. But that’s not the only thing I liked. I agree with many of the points in the other commentaries that what I found interesting was the obsession. You’re watching it destroy too people, and the twist is that from the beginning it does look like Christian Bale is the more obsessed one—and, when you find out that they’ve done to do that, it’s true, he follows that concept of living the show to a T. But trying to follow that level of obsession destroys Hugh Jackman in a different way, I think.

I, too, was looking for the “real magic” of Bale, so I think that the fact that his trick was explainable but obsessive and Jackman’s is the one that turns out beyond fantastical. . . it just makes for an interesting surprise in my mind.

Just saying. I saw it once, was surprised by a few of the twists, and will see it again to watch them interweave from the beginning. But that’s just me, and to each his own.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

*looks back at what I wrote*

GAH!

Nononononononono! I meant that *I* didn't understand what folks saw in the movie, not that I thought THEY didn't understand it! Yikes, no!

Gah, I should never write LJ when I'm exhausted. *goes to edit*