I loved him in Pearl Harbor and Bunraku. The latter is really stylized, and he plays a sort of cliched character, but it was great fun, and there's lots of action and a strong chemistry between him and Gakt,(not sure of the name) the Japanese actor who stars with him. The actor is very big in Japan, and I think he might have started out in music, but I never paid him any mind until I saw him with Josh in this movie. Another is "I Come With the Rain." It's set in Japan too, and my DvD is one I found at Amazon, released in Germany. It has no subtitles or dubbing, so I don't even understand the dialogue but I think his performance is good, and great gods, he has a scene shirtless that will make you lose your breath.
I don't care for any of the fairy tale shows either, but the premise of PD sounded right up my alley, and even I wasn't prepared for the power of the writing and directing, or the quality of the production values. I never read Frankenstein, so I had no idea of what the creature would be like. Rory Kinnear just blows me away. He's such a tragic monster. And Eva Green can do no wrong in my eyes. Just a great show with a great cast.
AHAHA, Pearl Harbor. What a cheesefest. Josh was very cute in that film, and I do love Ben Affleck, but sheesh. However, the commentary the two of them did on the special edition is FUCKING HILARIOUS. If you haven't heard it, you must pick up a copy. It goes quite cheap at Amazon, and is totally worth just to hear these two snarking all the way through it. (You'll fall over at the shit they say during the parachute scene.) Haven't seen Bunraku or I Come With the Rain, but I have them downloaded and will probably watch them this week sometime. Looking forward to him running around in samurai garb, which I've always found incredibly sexy. Shirtless, you say? Okay, THAT ONE'S NEXT.
(By the by, if you know how to do conversions from DVD to .avi or .mp4, you can pick up subtitles to almost any movie online. There are some excellent subtitle sites that I frequent because I get most of my movies through torrents, and often end up with stuff that needs them.)
Frankenstein is a really interesting book. It's a bit challenging for modern palates, but it's surprisingly deep and quite tragic. Kinnear does capture the Creature's personality with a great deal of depth and empathy. And this version works the original material really well, and manages to massage it into the main story in a way that doesn't betray the book. Quite a feat. There've been so many different film treatments of the story, many of them really good. One of my favorites was Frankenstein: The True Story, from the 70's, which ironically enough deviates from the book in some ways, the biggest of which is that the Creature is not ugly at all - he becomes ugly, bit by bit, so on top of everything else, you have the poor guy not understanding why everyone loved him at first - because they really, really did on account of him being really, really beautiful - but now scream at his approach and want him dead. It was very sad. And the cast was yummy: Leonard Whiting as the doctor, Michael Sarrazin as the Creature, Jane Seymour as the Bride, her first film role. Definitely worth checking out.
Okay, I just got the subtitles for I Come, and flipped through the film to make sure they worked. That looks like one seriously weird-ass movie. But Josh looks lovely, and I'm looking forward to seeing it. (If you'd like me to upload it with the subs for you, I'll be happy to do that. The one I have is original language, so English with some Japanese in there. Just let me know.)
So this is what he's been doing - working in strange indie films. Okay! I figured he had to be off doing not-Hollywood stuff, since I hadn't really heard much about him for a long while. Gotta respect him for that, hell yes. And it looks like he's been picky, too. His imdb list shows only about one movie every year or two. Always good to see actors who don't give a shit about big money or popularity.
If you wouldn't mind doing it, I would love to have a copy with subtitles. Thank you so much for offering to do that.
I respect him for doing what he wants to do and not buying into the Hollywood scene too. The movies he's done have been obscure, but you can tell he's benefited from working in Indies.
By the way, do you have a copy of HJSplit (PC) or MacHacha (Mac)? You'll need one of those to put the pieces together. They're both little bitty programs that split and join files. They're free online. :)
No, I don't have a copy. I have a PC, so I'd want the HJSplit, right? If I just type in the name into my address bar, should take me to the site to download it, I guess.
Download the five files into the same file folder. Open HJSplit and hit "join". The dialog box will only show you the file ending in .001. Click that file and hit start. Let it do its thing, it'll take about a minute or so. Then go to the folder and find the complete file, which is titled rain.abc. Rename the file "I Come With the Rain (2007).avi". (The media file and the subtitle file have to have exactly the same name for the subs to work.) Once the two files have the same name, it's done and you can watch the film.
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I don't care for any of the fairy tale shows either, but the premise of PD sounded right up my alley, and even I wasn't prepared for the power of the writing and directing, or the quality of the production values. I never read Frankenstein, so I had no idea of what the creature would be like. Rory Kinnear just blows me away. He's such a tragic monster. And Eva Green can do no wrong in my eyes. Just a great show with a great cast.
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(By the by, if you know how to do conversions from DVD to .avi or .mp4, you can pick up subtitles to almost any movie online. There are some excellent subtitle sites that I frequent because I get most of my movies through torrents, and often end up with stuff that needs them.)
Frankenstein is a really interesting book. It's a bit challenging for modern palates, but it's surprisingly deep and quite tragic. Kinnear does capture the Creature's personality with a great deal of depth and empathy. And this version works the original material really well, and manages to massage it into the main story in a way that doesn't betray the book. Quite a feat. There've been so many different film treatments of the story, many of them really good. One of my favorites was Frankenstein: The True Story, from the 70's, which ironically enough deviates from the book in some ways, the biggest of which is that the Creature is not ugly at all - he becomes ugly, bit by bit, so on top of everything else, you have the poor guy not understanding why everyone loved him at first - because they really, really did on account of him being really, really beautiful - but now scream at his approach and want him dead. It was very sad. And the cast was yummy: Leonard Whiting as the doctor, Michael Sarrazin as the Creature, Jane Seymour as the Bride, her first film role. Definitely worth checking out.
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So this is what he's been doing - working in strange indie films. Okay! I figured he had to be off doing not-Hollywood stuff, since I hadn't really heard much about him for a long while. Gotta respect him for that, hell yes. And it looks like he's been picky, too. His imdb list shows only about one movie every year or two. Always good to see actors who don't give a shit about big money or popularity.
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I respect him for doing what he wants to do and not buying into the Hollywood scene too. The movies he's done have been obscure, but you can tell he's benefited from working in Indies.
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Download the five files into the same file folder. Open HJSplit and hit "join". The dialog box will only show you the file ending in .001. Click that file and hit start. Let it do its thing, it'll take about a minute or so. Then go to the folder and find the complete file, which is titled rain.abc. Rename the file "I Come With the Rain (2007).avi". (The media file and the subtitle file have to have exactly the same name for the subs to work.) Once the two files have the same name, it's done and you can watch the film.
Enjoy!