Friday, December 21, 2007

Hot Studs and Hot Action: My Trip to The Golden Compass

Is it weird that I found Sam Elliott the hottest piece in the whole movie? I mean, the flick had Daniel Craig who is something of a manimal (naked picturezzzz!!!) although didn't really get that big of a role in this particular film. I think it's my addiction to crows feet aka laugh lines aka hot hot hot. Sam Elliott is like a million years old (okay 63) but he is Yum! Looking on the interweb I see that he has been in all sorts of movies since Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, but I don't really remember him in anything. Where have I been? According to IMDB his trade mark is "his deep commanding voice," but I think it is clearly the fact that he is a senior sex machine.

Other thoughts: I enjoyed it, and the CGI was a lot better than I had expected. The armored bear fight scene was pretty off-the-hook (it didn't hurt that the voice of Iorek Byrnison was Sir Ian McKellen), and Pan was adorable (Freddie Highmore!) Actually, according to the end credits there were more celebrities doing voices than actually acting. I feel like there were some pretty broad generalizations in the movie, and a lot of time missing (in the book the journey takes forever but in the movie it seemed to be happening in like a week). These were my favorite books as a kid, so I came in with high expectations. They weren't met exactly, but they were at least danced around. For $3 that was enough for me.


Also, Nicole Kidman has serious Botoxface, and injecto-lips to boot. Au Naturale? Yeah right!

Um, p.s. searching for those naked pics led me to this amazing gossip: I love Judi Dench, what a dream.

1 comment:

illenion said...

Sam Elliott deeply commands me to eat beef on a regular basis (and... I love it), but I guess I didn't know he was still acting. Thanks for the protip!