Louis: Congratulations... you have completed the Hong Kong award for Best Actor Line-Up for 2004 Tony Leung, Stephen Chow, Alex Fong, Daniel Wu and Jackie Chan.
Your thoughts on these 2004 films? I was surprised by your decent ratings for the first two as I thought they'd be lower based on your ratings for their leads.
The Passion of the Christ The Phantom of the Opera A Series of Unfortunate Events
Louis: I agree for the most part, I will defend Alex Fong as a reliable character actor getting a meaty part however, even though he should have been nominated in Supporting. BTW could have been worse... you could have seen the Hong Kong 2004 Supporting line-up which Daniel Wu (despite losing) was the favorite to win.
All three I haven't rewatched in some time and really didn't desire to re-watch them during this time, which says something.
The Passion of the Christ - (I think Caviezel probably would be well cast typically but this depiction of Jesus is so limited to his suffering that it limits his performance. Anyway, my rating is based largely just on the striking nature of the overall aesthetic/vision even though I honestly find other depictions of the crucifixion far more powerful with far less violence)
The Phantom of the Opera - (The original rating was a mis-click, it's a 2.5 for me. Which it is mainly the musical which is pretty clunky, but maybe clunkier than it had to be given Butler's miscasting, though I don't hate it either, and one should note that Patrick Wilson has such a great singing voice.)
A Series of Unfortunate Events - (Found it occasionally annoying, occasionally slightly enjoyable but on the whole didn't fully grip me in its dark twist on a children's tale.)
Louis: Yeah, I just went back to "All I Ask of You", which is not a song I have any affection for at all, but I actually fully forgot or just plain didn't realize how good a singer Patrick Wilson is.
I actually just watched Ray today. I didn’t hate it, I didn’t even hate Foxx, but it was just as mediocre as Walk the Line. Granted, Walk Hard’s parodying of both films has made it nigh impossible for me to retroactively take either seriously.
21 comments:
1. Stewart
2. Ryū
3. Hawkins
4. Boyer
5. Hasegawa
Louis: Congratulations... you have completed the Hong Kong award for Best Actor Line-Up for 2004
Tony Leung, Stephen Chow, Alex Fong, Daniel Wu and Jackie Chan.
1. Ryū
2. Stewart
3. Hawkins
4. Boyer
5. Hasegawa
RatedRStar:
I see. That is almost to a comical extreme of how much Leung is in a wholly different league compared to his competition.
Your thoughts on these 2004 films? I was surprised by your decent ratings for the first two as I thought they'd be lower based on your ratings for their leads.
The Passion of the Christ
The Phantom of the Opera
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Louis: I agree for the most part, I will defend Alex Fong as a reliable character actor getting a meaty part however, even though he should have been nominated in Supporting. BTW could have been worse... you could have seen the Hong Kong 2004 Supporting line-up which Daniel Wu (despite losing) was the favorite to win.
I have seen mostly every Hong Kong acting line-up, 2004 Supporting Actor might actually be the worst ever lol.
1. Stewart
2. Ryu
3. Hawkins
4. Boyer
5. Hasegawa
1. Ryu
2. Stewart
3. Hawkins
4. Boyer
5. Hasegawa
The actress who plaid S***n in Passion of the Christ was who Psifonian chose for this runner-up in 2004.
Louis, your double-features for the 1953 BP nominees?
1. Ryu
2. Stewart
3. Hawkins
4. Boyer
5. Hasegawa
Harris:
All three I haven't rewatched in some time and really didn't desire to re-watch them during this time, which says something.
The Passion of the Christ - (I think Caviezel probably would be well cast typically but this depiction of Jesus is so limited to his suffering that it limits his performance. Anyway, my rating is based largely just on the striking nature of the overall aesthetic/vision even though I honestly find other depictions of the crucifixion far more powerful with far less violence)
The Phantom of the Opera - (The original rating was a mis-click, it's a 2.5 for me. Which it is mainly the musical which is pretty clunky, but maybe clunkier than it had to be given Butler's miscasting, though I don't hate it either, and one should note that Patrick Wilson has such a great singing voice.)
A Series of Unfortunate Events - (Found it occasionally annoying, occasionally slightly enjoyable but on the whole didn't fully grip me in its dark twist on a children's tale.)
J96:
From Here to Eternity/The Thin Red Line
Julius Caesar/Jesus Christ Superstar
The Robe/The Mission
Roman Holiday/It Happened One Night
Shane/Unforgiven
Louis: Yeah, I just went back to "All I Ask of You", which is not a song I have any affection for at all, but I actually fully forgot or just plain didn't realize how good a singer Patrick Wilson is.
It always boggles my mind that Banderas didn’t get to play the Phantom.
Robert: Ooooooooh man.
Yeah that's kind of what I suspected regarding your rating for Phantom.
To the best of your memory, how would you have improved Million Dollar Baby, Ray and Finding Neverland as films?
I think Million Dollar Baby is great *shrug*
I actually just watched Ray today. I didn’t hate it, I didn’t even hate Foxx, but it was just as mediocre as Walk the Line. Granted, Walk Hard’s parodying of both films has made it nigh impossible for me to retroactively take either seriously.
The most damning thing I can say about Ray is that Booger from Revenge of the Nerds gives the most layered performance.
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