Worst Film Accent?
 

I loved Brotherhood of the Wolf, but you have to watch it subtitled.

Are you a Metrosexual
 

Has Jayson Blair been hired by all of these publications?

Bottled water
 

Do you mind repeating the instructions for my edification. I don't wear lipstick, but it sounds like a cool skill to have in my bag of party tricks.

;)

Worst Film Accent?
 

You mean, in addition to number 6? What about his southern lawyer in the Devil's Advocate? Whoa. In a southern Keanu way.

Bottled water
 

Okay, attaching anything to your belt makes you a dork. There are no exceptions. I don't care if you have no pocket for your phone or pager or whatever. You look like a dumbass if you attach it to your belt. Don't do it.

TM

Bottled water
 

OK, take this for what it's worth, but a friend of mine from law school said that Nalgene was a hypocritical company who was NOT animal friendly. She said the fact that there was a mountain lion or some such animal on the bottle was hypocrisy at it's highest form. Nalgene did some sort of animal testing - geez I wish I could remember what it was, but my friend is a real animal activist - no meat, no leather ( I felt bad when she sat in my leather seats - but oh well). Anyway - that's her story about Nalgene - take it or leave it.

Bottled water
 

Is this why these are so popular? My teenaged niece just requested that one be sent to her at camp (with very specific instructions about which colors are acceptable). I was trying to figure out what advantage they have over other water bottles, besides some kind of camping chic that alludes to being one who kayaks.

Edited to add that I wrote this before I saw Burger's post with colors and kayaking joke.

Drinking w/out getting lipstick on the glass.
 

Do Metrosexuals ever wear lipstick? There may be a whole new market for instruction on how to drink w/out getting lipstick on the glass.

Worst Film Accent?
 

Off the top of my head:

Robert Redford in Out of Africa (someone named Dennis Fynch Hatton really should have a British accent)

Keanu Reeves in Dangerous Liasons

This will make people put down the cookies
 

I think the Nobel Prize for Advertising goes to the guy who dreamed up the ingredients on the side of the box of Wheat Thins:

Ingredients: Whole wheat flour (contains riboflavin, thiamine, potassium, folacin, folic acid, vital gluten, filtered water, etc.), sugar, . . . .

Bottled water
 

Okay, but don't come after me. We were taught this in dancing school between cha-chas so we would be able to be good executive arm candy at hubby's office parties. When taking a drink, verry slightly lower your lower lip and place the tips of your lower teeth against the rim of the glass. Sip without touching your upper lip to the glass. Voila! No lipstick mark. Now, of course, they have these newfangled long-wearing lipsticks--but as I prefer gloss, it still comes in handy.

And in other news, now you can download music without getting ratted out to the feds!:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/interne....ap/index.html

Not that I'd ever do that. :seenno:

Bottled water
 

According to these sites, the bitch against Nalgene is that it makes other products that permit others to engage in animal testing.

http://www.nalgene-outdoor.com/about/whitepaper.html
http://www.geocities.com/veganfreedom/nalgene.html

*Posted for your info only with no personal comment.

Worst Film Accent?
 

Don Cheadle in Ocean's 11.

Bottled water
 

Here's their statement: Nalgene link. I'm not quite sure what it says, but they seem to claim they don't use animals to test. That said, they are a chemical company selling products used to contain food and water. I'd rather know if something leaches out of their containers by testing on rats than on me.

Bottled water
 

http://www.karstsports.com/nalprod.html

I found this link with all kinds of nalgene bottles. Lexan, Poly, Film.

Do they have a plasticky smell to them?

Bottled water
 

Did you ever get this to work? Not that I'm wearing (or ever wear) lipstick, but I'm trying this on a cup at work, and have quickly come to the realization that the lower lip performs the critical function of keeping the liquid in your mouth.

As for the nalgene, since I don't carry a purse either (no need for one, what without my need for lipstick), I'm not too worried about having it spill over anything of value. I'll just clip it to my belt, and head to work.

Bottled water
 

What would animal testing of a Nalgene bottle entail? "Let's see how many hamsters we can fit inside it." "The bottle completed its passage through the elephant's digestive system without causing apparent discomfort." "Day 47. The polar bear continues to ignore the Nalgene bottle."

Bottled water
 

In a big city, it's dorky.

In Escalante, well...it's probably still dorky, but practical (at times)...

Bottled water
 

No--that's what makes them better than regular water bottles--that and they don't absorb the taste of whatever you put in to them, so it doesn't get condemned to be used i.e. as solely a Gatorade bottle for all time.

P(not a paid spokesperson unfortunately)J

Bottled water
 

They also avoid the "bacteria in the refilled bottle" problem the local news reported during sweeps. Those plastic water bottles are bad, bad, bad no matter how often you run them through the dishwasher.

For Love or Money
 

Paige was pissing me off last night. I really was hoping that Doofus brain would bounce her from the show. Just way to immature and needy. The whole eating with the sunglasses on thing just made me want to smack her pathetic ass right off the show.

Given that Rob has absolutely no charisma or charm, I'd take the money. He is not worth giving up $1million. My vote is for Erin.

For Love or Money
 

Maybe I'm just a conservative dater, but I don't think I've ever met anyone that after 3 or 4 dates I would be willing to forgo one meeelyun dollars to keep dating that person.

Why should any of these amazing girls feel otherwise?

Worst Film Accent?
 

Brad Pitt should additionally be nominated for his New Orleans in "Interview with the Vampire," and Winona Ryder should get a nod alongside Keanu for her role in the 1992 "Dracula." Heather Graham could get a lifetime achievement award for her Austin Powers role.

I don't think it's really fair to include Peter Postlewaite for "The Usual Suspects," in light of what happened in that movie. What accent was he supposed to have, given the ending?

Keeping with the predominant vampire theme, the TV award should go to the chick who played Drucilla on "Buffy." That was excruciating, because the effort was so obvious and the result so terrible.

But the all-time winner is Harrison Ford, for his Russian in "K-19."

Bottled water
 

It does work, with practice. Try it on a *glass*, not a cup, and again, not with anything that stains til you get it. Perhaps you missed this lesson in your Stepford-wife training?;)

And Thurgreed's wrong (of course)--most stuff clipped to belts does look dorky, but I have a tiny little purse that fits over a belt through loops on its back that looks tres chic for evenings out dancing/carousing without carrying a bag.

Worst Film Accent?
 

Television: David Boreanaz when he's doing his "old country Irish"

Film:

The entire cast of Hope Floats. None of them sounded like they came from Smithville. No one bothered to tell the dialect coaches that that part of Texas has a German accent.
Keanu Reeves, Much Ado About Nothing.
Johnny Lee Miller, Hackers.
Kevin Kline, French Kiss. I thought that he was an American using a cheesy accent to scam Meg Ryan through most of this movie.
Most non-southern accents who've been in John Grisham movies based in the south.
Liv Tyler, Cookie's Fortune.
Heather Graham, From Hell.


Doesn't try to hide accent:

Ewan MacGregor.
Holly Hunter. (Though her cheerleader mom movie was a very good Baytown, the subtle distinctions between the different parts of Houston (city geographically the size of Rhode Island), could be difficult for someone to pick up).
Antonio Banderas.

Very good with accents:

Toni Collette. It was years before I realized that she was Australian. Every movie she does a different accent (and in the otherwise forgettable Velvet Goldmine, two), and they're all fairly good.

Christian Bale. With the exception of Newsies.

Daniel Day Lewis, Gangs of New York.

Best accent ever:

Miranda Richardson in Evening Star. Had I not known that she was British, I would have assumed her to be a native of River Oaks.

Worst Film Accent?
 

Hold the phone. Heather Graham actually spoke in that role?

Between that role, and her appearance in Boogie Nights, I don't really care if she uttered a single word.

Worst Film Accent?
 

Just to add to the do not rent list, do not rent "the Transporter", unless you want to see a very bad movie (although there is one inspired fight scene where there is oil all over the floor and everyone is covered in it and slipping and sliding all over the place - and our hero finds a way to get traction and fight off about 20 opponents). It is also set in France but not dubbed and everyone that is supposed to be French has a British accent (except the Asian characters, who have asian accents and bad plastic surgery).


Edited to add that you may have seen a copy of Brotherhood of the Wolf that was dubbed into English for the UK market - if the Brits heard the sound with an American accent, they would have thought - that makes no sense, why are the characters talking like Americans? Just a thought.

Worst Film Accent?
 

Brad Pitt gets to be forgiven for bad accents because of his performance as Mickey in Snatch. Friends of mine who live in the UK around Pikeys were absolutely amazed at how well he pulled that off.

Now, *That's* My Idea of Junk Food
 

New Pot-Flavored chips (well, almost):

http://www.boston.com/news/daily/01/odds_chips.htm

Worst Film Accent?
 

I will support this film review. It was possibly the worst film I've seen in a theater, notwithstanding the general hottiness of Jason Statham (and the aforementioned oil slick scene). Luc Besson should have insisted that his name be removed.

Worst Film Accent?
 

Worst accent:

Robert DeNiro playing "Master Chief Leslie W. 'Billy' Sunday" in Men of Honor.

DeNiro trying to impersonate a southern accent??? HAHAHAHA!!

Bottled water
 

Use a straw.

In other news...
 

Even though I no longer do this for a living, I'll give it a shot. Objection, compound question, or in the alternative, assumes facts not in evidence.

Move to strike, non-responsive. Question calls for a yes or no answer.

str(litigation free in '03)8

For Love or Money
 

Needy people suck. I also hate people who wear sunglasses indoors. If he ends up with her, I will die! I wonder though, if he does pick Erin, whether she'd pick the money. Were you surprised he booted Kelly off? She wasn't that bad, esp. compared to Paige. I liked when she was making fun of how Paige wanted to buy a Hermes scarf with the money.

Goddammit, I can't even believe I'm watching this garbage. I hate reality TV! I'm so disappointed in myself! :P

Worst Film Accent?
 

This illustrates that Robert De Niro is not a great Movie Actor no matter how many times James Lipton tells him he is. De Niro is a great Movie Star. Some people are such magnetic personalities on-screen that they could play the same basic character again and again and people would pay to see it again and again. De Niro is no longer handsome, but he's still a Star. That does not make him an Actor, however.

Jim Broadbent, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and Bill Macy are Actors. Harrison Ford, Clint Eastwood and De Niro are Stars. One is not better than the other; the world needs Stars more than it needs Actors, and no one would have infinite patience to watch Bill Macy be himself in 110 minute stretches for his entire career.

Of the original list, it's probably only really fair to criticize the Actors. Olivier, Postlewaite and Streep should have done better (with the caveat that it's unfair to Postlewaite, who was playing a character that was, um, quite inventive). The rest have an pass, I guess.

Bottled water
 

Yes, like this:

http://www.champagneswines.com/image...pPOPbottle.jpg

Classy!

Worst Film Accent?
 

Robert Duvall, generally, and especially in Tender Mercies.

Worst Film Accent?
 

Ok, now we're on to something really important, and I think it's something I can safely discuss without leaving Spoiiler Space. But if you haven't yet seen Usual Suspects and plan to, you can stop reading now. Ok. Are you suggesting that Kobayashi, and not Verbal, is the real Kaiser (Keyser?) Sose? Although a case can be made either way, I think that the film more readily lends itself to the interpretation that it's Verbal who is the Kaiser, because he's such a great and entertaining liar/actor/faker, and that Kobayashi is just his trusted right hand man. Or maybe it's a Dread Pirate Roberts kind of thing?

God I love that movie. I went to that movie with a gf planning on doing the sex in the movie theater, and we soon ditched that plan because the movie was so good.

stratu

For Love or Money
 

Yeah, Paige is bad, but I just think it is immaturity. Kind of sad that she'll have to look at how stupid she was on the show at some point. I think that if it wasn't for the money thing, Rob would totally pick Erin. All I was saying before was that his only chance of getting someone to pick him over the money was to pick Paige. No way Kelly or Erin would take him over the cash...

Rob with Paige is a pretty creepy thing to watch anyway because of the age/experience level gap. She acts like a high school kid. Not that we need to rehash that discussion here...

A CD that I'm very happy I finally bought
 

Do you think you might like artsy pop music, but don't know how to start listening to it? I'd recommend going out and buying The Flaming Lips' "Transmissions from the Satellite Heart." I finally got around to getting this (Jack Manfred is probably laughing at me right now for this admission) and DAMN is this a great album. I can't believe they were doing this stuff 10 years ago. It sounds fresh as all hell.

Another good place to start would be Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, or Radiohead's Kid A/Amnesiac, or either New Pornographers' album, but that drum has been well-beaten here. But the Lips are kick ass. Their "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" album is also genius.

S(slow)t(work)r(day)8