I did something this weekend I bet none of you did

[finishthehat]

I went and saw some movie called "The Last Legion," an epic the studio obviously had high hopes for but which was ignominiously dumped on the market.

Starring Ben Kinglsey, Colin Firth and the kid from "Love, Actually" as a young Julius Caesar.

You didn't miss anything, by the way.

 

[Ace]

Damn. I figured you finally finished the hat.

 

[Platyrhynchos]

If you would have said, "Walked naked on stilts down Main Street Saturday night while drunker than 700 dollars," I'd have had to call you on it.

 

[slappy4428]

Damn. I figured you finally finished the hat.

Nice

 

[pressboxer]

I was betting he got Maria Sharapova to make some noise.

 

[finishthehat]

Quality stuff, all -- and certainly better than the movie.

 

[CentralIllinoisan]

To turn this thread into a worthwhile discussion, what the hell is up with Ben Kingsley? He does solid work in most every one of his movies (especially, Schindler's List, House of Sand and Fog and Sexy Beast, of recent vintage), but since his pseudo "comeback" with Sexy Beast, he's latched onto some stinkers.

The Last Legion
Lucky Number Slevin
BloodRayne
Oliver Twist
A Sound of Thunder
Suspect Zero
Thunderbirds

 

[slappy4428]

To turn this thread into a worthwhile discussion, what the hell is up with Ben Kingsley? He does solid work in most every one of his movies (especially, Schindler's List, House of Sand and Fog and Sexy Beast, of recent vintage), but since his pseudo "comeback" with Sexy Beast, he's latched onto some stinkers.

The Last Legion
Lucky Number Slevin
BloodRayne
Oliver Twist
A Sound of Thunder
Suspect Zero
Thunderbirds

Yes, but he will be deeply kissing an Olsen twin in his next movie... not bad for a guy in his late 60s...

 

[Buck]

Working.
Grocery shopping.
Trying to figure out why my truck is making the world most heinous noise.
Hiking in and around Lost Grove.
Seeing 'Superbad.'
Wishing I'd had time to play poker.

 

[finishthehat]

To turn this thread into a worthwhile discussion, what the hell is up with Ben Kingsley? He does solid work in most every one of his movies (especially, Schindler's List, House of Sand and Fog and Sexy Beast, of recent vintage), but since his pseudo "comeback" with Sexy Beast, he's latched onto some stinkers.

The Last Legion
Lucky Number Slevin
BloodRayne
Oliver Twist
A Sound of Thunder
Suspect Zero
Thunderbirds

He's got Michael Caine disease, where you never turn down a paycheck. Remember how Caine couldn't be there to get his Annie Hall oscar because he was on location shooting Jaws 4?

 

[bigpern23]

To turn this thread into a worthwhile discussion, what the hell is up with Ben Kingsley? He does solid work in most every one of his movies (especially, Schindler's List, House of Sand and Fog and Sexy Beast, of recent vintage), but since his pseudo "comeback" with Sexy Beast, he's latched onto some stinkers.

The Last Legion
Lucky Number Slevin
BloodRayne
Oliver Twist
A Sound of Thunder
Suspect Zero
Thunderbirds

He's got Michael Caine disease, where you never turn down a paycheck. Remember how Caine couldn't be there to get his Annie Hall oscar because he was on location shooting Jaws 4?

Wow. That's not even close to being true. "Annie Hall" was released in 1977. "Jaws: the Revenge" came out in 1987.

 

[Precious Roy]

To turn this thread into a worthwhile discussion, what the hell is up with Ben Kingsley? He does solid work in most every one of his movies (especially, Schindler's List, House of Sand and Fog and Sexy Beast, of recent vintage), but since his pseudo "comeback" with Sexy Beast, he's latched onto some stinkers.

The Last Legion
Lucky Number Slevin
BloodRayne
Oliver Twist
A Sound of Thunder
Suspect Zero
Thunderbirds

[blue] How dare you say BloodRayne sucked! [/blue]

 

[CentralIllinoisan]

To turn this thread into a worthwhile discussion, what the hell is up with Ben Kingsley? He does solid work in most every one of his movies (especially, Schindler's List, House of Sand and Fog and Sexy Beast, of recent vintage), but since his pseudo "comeback" with Sexy Beast, he's latched onto some stinkers.

The Last Legion
Lucky Number Slevin
BloodRayne
Oliver Twist
A Sound of Thunder
Suspect Zero
Thunderbirds

He's got Michael Caine disease, where you never turn down a paycheck. Remember how Caine couldn't be there to get his Annie Hall oscar because he was on location shooting Jaws 4?

The movie was "Hannah and Her Sisters"

 

[bigpern23]

To turn this thread into a worthwhile discussion, what the hell is up with Ben Kingsley? He does solid work in most every one of his movies (especially, Schindler's List, House of Sand and Fog and Sexy Beast, of recent vintage), but since his pseudo "comeback" with Sexy Beast, he's latched onto some stinkers.

The Last Legion
Lucky Number Slevin
BloodRayne
Oliver Twist
A Sound of Thunder
Suspect Zero
Thunderbirds

He's got Michael Caine disease, where you never turn down a paycheck. Remember how Caine couldn't be there to get his Annie Hall oscar because he was on location shooting Jaws 4?

The movie was "Hannah and Her Sisters"

I should take back my statement that it "wasn't even close to being true." It was close to being true. It wasn't quite true, but it was almost there. :)

 

[Ace]

I had had a certain truthiness to it.

 

[Perry White]

I went and saw some movie called "The Last Legion," an epic the studio obviously had high hopes for but which was ignominiously dumped on the market.

Starring Ben Kinglsey, Colin Firth and the kid from "Love, Actually" as a young Julius Caesar.

You didn't miss anything, by the way.

Isn't Aishwarya Rai in it too?

 

[finishthehat]

Yes. She plays a hooded Persian assassin, who easily takes out five or six bad guys, before it is revealed -- SPOILER ALERT FOR ANYONE WHO HASN'T SEEN ANY MOVIE MADE IN THE PAST 20 YEARS -- that she is a woman.

Her and Colin Firth have, possibly, the least on-screen chemistry since Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in either Eyes Wide Shut or Far and Away, take your pick.

 

[TigerVols]

At least Kingsley turned down the starring role in Cleaver.


...and at least he accepted the starring role in You Kill Me. It's one of the best movies of the year -- strongly recommend it once it comes out on DVD in 6 weeks. Costars Tea Leoni and they combine for one great flick.

 

[Armchair_QB]

I went and saw some movie called "The Last Legion," an epic the studio obviously had high hopes for but which was ignominiously dumped on the market.

Starring Ben Kinglsey, Colin Firth and the kid from "Love, Actually" as a young Julius Caesar.

You didn't miss anything, by the way.

I was going to guess you tried to have sex with a bear in a Serbian zoo but I guess that's not it.