It's no Gervais. Really nice on Bill Cosby, possibly wanted more on civil rights movement with all the insanely racist stuff going on though.

That Grand Budapest Hotel was brilliant though - it could have so easily been a disaster with the pacing and the atmosphere and style.. Ralph Fiennes gets huge, huge kudos from me.. Daniel Day-Lewis level stuff.

You're trolling... it won't work... must resist trolls.

AUGH! Ralph Fiennes plays the role of Voldemort!

>pant< >pant<

I feel dirty now. Someone hand me a wet-wipe.

>> ^Payback:

>> ^jmd:
>> ^Payback:
...but Ralph Fiennes really does look like Voldemort.

Thats the joke

blank stare

>> ^jmd:

>> ^Payback:
...but Ralph Fiennes really does look like Voldemort.

Thats the joke


**blank stare**

>> ^Payback:

...but Ralph Fiennes really IS Voldemort.


fix't

...but Ralph Fiennes really does look like Voldemort.

>> ^RadHazG:

Anyone else just watching Ralph and wishing his agent a painful death? He is not so far gone an actor that he should be on some ridiculous show in his pajama's reading fan fiction porn about one of his characters. He's way to good for this tripe.


True he's one of those guys that plays a bad guy so well that he's on my list of people to brutally murder with a lead pipe. Him in "In Bruges" was simply amazing...the hate in me broiled practically the whole movie.

>> ^spoco2:

@gorillaman There's no real point getting into semantics and legal statures, the point is this is porn written about an old man touching up a boy, the language of the piece itself uses those terms... so I don't care particularly if it's 'legal' or not, it's creepy and smacks an awful lot like child porn.


Oh it's just some words you big baby. Christ next you're gonna start getting all flustered about "Nigger Jim" in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Now onto the real crux of the matter...you have fucking Voldemort on your show and you don't tackle him and start beating the crap outa him?! I don't get it...people just don't take the defense of our magical world seriously!

>> ^spoco2:

You know... that was pretty much child porn fan fiction, so I can't say I find that particularly amusing.


Harry Potter ought to be of age in the UK by the fifth book. If I remember the movies correctly, Voldemort doesn't come back until the fourth and they don't get any private time together until the fifth.

However, according to Wikipedia the books are set before the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act of 2000, which equalised the ages of consent between homosexual and heterosexual sex. Which means, unless this story took place during Deathly Hallows, Voldemort could be in trouble with the muggle authorities. Except he's probably dead; I haven't seen that one yet.

But I think what we should all remember most of all is that Harry Potter isn't a real person.

just before this clip, Ralph Fiennes' character gets shot right near the sniper rifle. it doesn't make any sense that a soldier would crawl up there when he knows the opposing sniper has his sights trained right on that spot. it also doesn't make sense that when he does crawl up there, he isn't killed immediately. what the fuck was the other sniper doing? it nearly ruins the whole film for me.

Here we go again, the never-ending whiners' argument. UK actors always cast as villains by Hollywood? Puhh-leaz.

Forgot your own cinema legend Laurence Olivier, did you? Oh, we're in the 21st century now? What about Jack Bauer? Huh? Forgot Hugh Laurie, America's No.1 male sex-symbol, too? Christian fucking Bale? Gerard Butler? James McAvoy? Starting to remember some, are you now? Jude Law. Idris Elba. Sir Ian McKellen. Patrick Stewart. Ralph Fiennes. Michael Caine. Clive Owen. Ewan McGregor. I bet I could name thrice as much if I started googling.

If you want to whine about Brits occasionally being cast as baddies, first acknowledge that Arabs, Russians, and Chinese have long had it way worse. Wankers.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
No one wants to defend the Oscar noms?

Hmmm, well since no one else will do it, I guess I'll have to.

-Babel

While this was almost certainly Alejandro González Iñárritu's weakest film, considering the fact that I find Amores Perros and 21 Grams to be near-masterpieces (Amores Perros in particular), that was pretty much a forgone conclusion. The stories don't tie together quite as nicely as you'd hope, and it felt a tad long long, but it was really well made and superbly acted.

-Crash

Yes, it's heavy-handed; there's no denying that subtlety isn't a word in this film's vocabulary. But there were some surprisingly powerful moments, and it featured (mostly) very good performances.

-The Aviator

This was definitely one of Scorsese's weaker films, but there were a lot of things I liked about it. I liked the visual style, and how it tried to mimic the look of movies of the various eras. Cate Blanchett was really good. Ummm... well look, it wasn't a great film, but it certainly wasn't so bad as to be a waste of celluloid.

-A Beautiful Mind

Again, not great, but not awful, either. It was a competently made, entertaining Hollywood film. No more, no less.

-Titanic

I'm going to admit that I really liked this one. Though this isn't exactly the kind of thing James Cameron became famous for, I still think he's at his best here. This film manages to be a very good romance, and a good disaster movie, without one element ever eclipsing the other. Yes, it is schmaltzy, but I think an unabashed romance like this is allowed to have a bit of schmaltz. I still remember seeing this opening weekend, when the only buzz around it was "how hard is this film going to FLOP??" and walking out completely stunned. I know it isn't "cool" to like this film because of the way it was embraced by teenage girls, but you know what? I don't care. I think it's great, old-fashioned movie-making. Also: if you can remain dry-eyed during the sequence in which the string quartet plays while various passengers make their final preparations, then you sir are made of stone.

-The English Patient

I can't defend this one too vigourously, as I thought it was horribly overrated, but I will admit that it wasn't terrible. I honestly don't remember much about it... Ralph Fiennes was very good, though, as he always is (and go see In Bruges if you want to see a very different, and very hilarious, performance from him).

>> ^ant:
What's "James Joyce Award"?


From the college website:

"Previous recipients of the James Joyce Award include: former UN weapons inspector, Hans Blix; author, Bill Bryson; philosopher, Professor Richard Swinburne and actor, Ralph Fiennes. Over the years, every Taoiseach and President has addressed the society.

“Mr Ferrell receives the James Joyce Award for his tremendous contribution to the field of comedy entertainment, as a comedian, writer and actor,” said Michael McGrath, Auditor, 153rd Session, Literary and Historical Society, UCD.

Hollywood actor Will Ferrell recieving the James Joyce Award from Michael McGrath, Auditor, 153rd Session, Literary and Historical Society."


Which doesn't clear up what the award is for exactly, but possibly they just give it to someone they like.

This is the intro to Strange Days, underrated cyberpunk film. More info from Wikipedia:

"Strange Days is the title of a 1995 science fiction film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and produced and co-written by her ex-husband James Cameron with the assistance of Jay Cocks. It stars Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Michael Wincott, Vincent D'Onofrio and Louise LeCavalier. The film is notable for its dystopian view of the future, and the moral ambivalence of many of its characters; which added to the technological and social issues raised make it an example of the cyberpunk genre in film."

- Strange Days on Wikipedia