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Post by Freelance Exorcist on Mar 16, 2011 7:56:30 GMT -4
ITA. And he's not funny either. Seriously, does he have any other schtick besides "drugged up and obnoxious?" I suspect this new Arthur won't be much more than a collection of farts and penis jokes.
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Post by BoroKat on Mar 16, 2011 9:11:31 GMT -4
Dear Hollywood, Well, I finally saw a trailer for the new Arthur remake. Screw you for taking a hilarious, touching movie and turning it into yet another brotastic shitfest to pander to 13-year old frat boys in training. Then again, I should have expected this when I saw that Russell Brand was cast in the lead role. Even Dame Helen Mirren won't be able to class up this stinker. Yes! Absolutely. Arthur works because of Dudley Moore. I don't know if any working actor could pull it off today, but I sure as hell know that Russell Brand cannot.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2011 11:21:04 GMT -4
And Greta Gerwig ain't no Liza.
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Post by kanding on Mar 16, 2011 13:33:21 GMT -4
Susan: "A real woman could stop you from drinking." Arthur: "It'd have to be a really big woman." The only actor today I can see pulling off Arthur's lines is Matthew Rhys. * sigh* He could pull off anything, couldn't he? Including my clothes if he wished.
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Post by badtzmaru on Mar 16, 2011 16:15:03 GMT -4
Arthur worked because Dudley Moore was charming and charismatic. Russell Brand is neither. Although the bath scene might result in him being cleaner than he's been in years. One of the many reasons why I dislike Russel is because he looks greasy and I think he probably smells bad. Also, I do not think he's funny.
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Post by Mutagen on Mar 22, 2011 9:08:07 GMT -4
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Post by OnyxRose on Mar 22, 2011 9:24:53 GMT -4
Seriously, I saw that list and was WTF? I'm not even familiar with Akira and I realized this was wrong, wrong wrong.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2011 10:27:30 GMT -4
Dear Hollywood:
Ignoring the total racefail, how on earth do Michael Fassbender and Justin Timberlake end up in the running for the same role?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2011 11:32:31 GMT -4
Funny how John Cho and Ken Watanabe weren't in the running for the roles of Professor X and Magneto. Color-blind casting mostly seems to go in one direction only.
Dear Hollywood (Movie Division mostly): We are not scared of Asians. We like Asians. Some of our best TV and movie friends are Asians. If you haven't noticed, there's a minor explosion of South Asian actors on TV right now (The Office, Glee, Outsourced, Parks and Rec, Detroit 187). The Asian actors were the best part of "Heroes". People cheered when Sulu kicked ass in the Star Trek reboot. Jackie Chan helped make The Karate Kid one of the few resounding hits you had last year. Stop whining that the audience won't go see unknowns. You cast unknown white actors all the time. You're launching "Sucker Punch" this week, which looks like it cost a ton of money, with an actress I can't recall ever seeing in anything. But she's blonde so that's okay, I guess? "The Last Airbender" was ludicrous and "21" was just as bad. Stop it. You're supposed to be liberal and progressive but you're looking more and more like the a society garden party circa 1949.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2011 14:41:16 GMT -4
I know! Everytime something like this comes up I just want to punch George Clooney right in his smug smug face.
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