cowboys, dragons, and boys in bands
Sep. 10th, 2007 08:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
molly_oMovie seen: 3:10 to Yuma: This was good. I don't know that I'd want to have a beer with Russell Crowe, but the man can act, and Christian Bale is more than a match for him. Really, everyone in it did a fine job, and I was on the edge of my seat at times (and cheering at others). It's really a movie about people -- how they know who they are and whether they have what it takes, how they earn the respect of others and come to respect themselves. The plot is simple and streamlined, while the characterization is thick and meaty.
After the movie, RM and I were talking about Christian Bale's crazy intensity in every role and his apparent inability to take a role anything less than seriously (see, for example, Reign of Fire, which had a certain promise until Bale and Matthew McConaughey decided to make totally different movies) -- and I suggested the closest Bale had ever come to a comedy was American Psycho.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
natlyn reminded me that he was in Newsies, which I still find difficult to fathom.
On a different topic: Despite having read a half-dozen Pete/Patrick stories, I don’t consider myself a proper participant in bandom -- it's more that, being a slasher, and also being someone who likes Fall Out Boy enough to buy a couple albums and see them live, of *course* I'm gonna read a few stories.
Having said all that? Songs like "The Take Over, The Breaks Over" (video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJIbKU23Oew, lyrics here: http://www.metrolyrics.com/the-take-over-the-breaks-over-lyrics-fall-out-boy.html) make it hard for me to believe Pete is dating not Patrick, but Ashlee Simpson.
(Note: I am not saying Pete is dating Patrick, or is not dating Ashlee, I am merely expressing the difficulty I have BELIEVING in that situation.)
After the movie, RM and I were talking about Christian Bale's crazy intensity in every role and his apparent inability to take a role anything less than seriously (see, for example, Reign of Fire, which had a certain promise until Bale and Matthew McConaughey decided to make totally different movies) -- and I suggested the closest Bale had ever come to a comedy was American Psycho.
natlyn reminded me that he was in Newsies, which I still find difficult to fathom.On a different topic: Despite having read a half-dozen Pete/Patrick stories, I don’t consider myself a proper participant in bandom -- it's more that, being a slasher, and also being someone who likes Fall Out Boy enough to buy a couple albums and see them live, of *course* I'm gonna read a few stories.
Having said all that? Songs like "The Take Over, The Breaks Over" (video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJIbKU23Oew, lyrics here: http://www.metrolyrics.com/the-take-over-the-breaks-over-lyrics-fall-out-boy.html) make it hard for me to believe Pete is dating not Patrick, but Ashlee Simpson.
(Note: I am not saying Pete is dating Patrick, or is not dating Ashlee, I am merely expressing the difficulty I have BELIEVING in that situation.)