Edward Norton, Daniel Craig, Hugh Jackman

Mmmmmm. Men. Screen men, that is. Droolicious.

Saw The Illusionist. ( Read more... )

Edward Norton was way fuckable as the illusionist. (He's a great example of why I love (neatly trimmed) facial hair on men.)

While I saw the Illusionist, I saw a preview for The Prestige with Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale... omg,stfu. ( Read more... )

HJ and Bale in the same film. Fuck me.

And Daniel Craig is on the cover of Esquire in an article about the new Bond film.
http://www.esquire.com/features/articles/2006/060807_mfe_September_06_Bond.html
I don't give a rat's ass what Bond purists claim. ( Read more... )

I could see any of the speculative guesses (Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Colin Farrel, etc.) as Bond 'til they settled on Craig. And after they settled on Craig, I just rewatched Layer Cake and thought, "He's perfect." He seems to be even more like Fleming's Bond from the novels than any of the previous cinematic incarnations (except the very, very old ones).

One of the problems was that the franchise films were so campy and cheesy. But then, that was one of the things that makes them so fun. My top five favorite things about the pop-culture Bond film franchise have always been

1. The often cheesy yet always eye-catching opening credits featuring naked or scantily clad chicks in a variety of graphical contexts: gun barrels, oil droplets, fire and ice... guess my ex-art student roots are showing... sometimes when Spike TV or another station is having a marathon, I just tune in for the opening credits;
   
2. The unabashed hairy chests of Connery and Brosnan (so unlike our waxed American movie stars, sadly...)... praise the lord for masculine sex characteristsics!
   
3. To paraphrase rotten.com's take on Bond, Bond the character as a combination of "unsophisticated female masturbatory fare" (oh yes...);
   
4. The many interesting takes on Bond theme songs (from Paul McCartney & Wings' "Live And Let Die" to Garbage's "The World Is Not Enough" -- least favorite: Madonna's "Die Another Day," which surprised me because usually I like her stuff)
   
5. The frequent portrayal of Bond in restraints of some kind (cuffs, rope, whatever), about to be tortured (sometimes unspeakably), in multiple Bond films -- reaching its pinnacle in the actual on-screen torture of Brosnan-as-Bond at the beginning of Die Another Day (provided me as much unsophisticated female masturbatory fare as any of the Bond girls (especially the femme fatales who got nasty deaths) provided male masturbatory fare.
   
   I simply can't resist the visual of a man restrained by the wrists, whether it's Anthony LaPaglia tied to the bed by his wrists in Bulletproof Heart (probably the only good movie Mimi Rogers ever did), or RayK cuffed by Fraser in DS ep Asylum, or Angel or Spike manacled to the wall in BTVS or Angel, or Ryan Reynolds manacled to the floor about to get his ass kicked by Parker Posey in Blade: Trinity. I'm not sure where this fetish came from -- possibly Avengers or original Star Trek re-runs I watched with my elder siblings in the 70s -- but I happily enjoy this whenever I see it... Strangely (perversely?), the more mainstream the movie or TV show, the better!
   
   So, I hope they take Daniel Craig in the upcoming Casino Royale Bond flick and tie him up for my viewing pleasure. I'm totally up for that.
   
   RL sucks. ( Read more... )
   
   
   Movies & TV are so much better than RL. Ran out & bought the Veronica Mars 2nd season the morning it came out. Couldn't resist. There's still some slashiness to Logan/Weevil. Would love to write it, but RL interferes yet again (or still; either term applies).

bdsm imagery in mainstream movies/TV

Actually this is just a question: does anyone else get off on seeing male characters restrained and/or abused (or about to be) in mainstream movies or TV shows? (or even indie or foreign films) Would love examples. I gave a few in the last post, but I'll repeat some of them:

1. Any portrayal of Angel or Spike in BTVS or AtS restrained, manacled, etc. Especially shirtless.
   
2. The BTVS dream sequence where Buffy dreams she's handcuffed Spike's wrists above his head and is having sex with him, her on top.
   
3. Anthony LaPaglia (shirtless) tied by wrists (& feet, I think) to the bed by Mimi Rogers in the movie Bulletproof Heart (rose above its plot & genre, believe it or not)
   
4. Mel Gibson hanging from his wrists about to be tortured in the first Lethal Weapon (and naked to the waist)
   
5. Weevil hung by his wrists about to be beaten by his own gang in Veronic Mars ep "Rashard & Wallace Go To White Castle" (sadly, not showing the slightest bit of bodyflesh)
   
6. Russell Crowe in Gladiator, restrained by his wrists so evil Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) can "soften him up" before the big gladiator competition (sadly, entirely clothed)
   
7. Spock breaking his bonds in the original Star Trek ep "Amok Time" (again, clothed... booo...)
   
8. Oh, pick any Forever Knight episode where Nick is restrained and breaks his bonds... or LaCroix, too, for that matter (all, lamentably, clothed as far as I can remember).
   

Now that I think about it, writers/irectors/producers must get off on this too, or must know some of us in the audience do. Why else would they constantly show these guys shirtless while restrained and/or abused??

Now, some people would call me sick, and I suppose I wouldn't argue because it's just an opinion and everyone's entitled to theirs. But if I'm a sick fuck -- and I'm not saying I'm not, I just feel I'm a rather well adjusted one -- at least I've never done anything like this to anyone... at least, not to anyone who didn't want it or specifically ask for it, and I don't mean that figuratively, I mean they asked literally. Yay consensual adult behavior.