Hugh Grant really ought to annoy me by now
With the exception of his role as Lord James D'Ampton in The Lair of The White Worm (1988), which I also watched for him (but ended up eying the yummy Scotsman Angus Flint(Peter Capaldi) with the sexy legs at the end), he really plays the same roles over and over again.
As the Family Guy episode I happened to be watching puts it, where Lois was in the theatre and the Hugh Grant in the screen was like "I don't know what to say, I'm just so charmingly befuddled!", that pretty much sums up his genre.
...but I do find him charming! Over, and over, and over, again. It's like, cinematic comfort food I guess. Speaking of comfort, I totally need to watch Notting Hill(1999) again, and find someone to see his new movie Music and Lyric with. Drew Barrymore is in it, and I thought she was kinda cute even though Charlie's Angels was an absolutely puerile movie. Some of the humour in Mickey Blue Eyes (1999) was very contrived, like that joke about Englishmen when it was clear that both of them still have their pants on, the movie as a whole was still...charming, because it was the sort of things you sit and watch with your girlfriends, relax. Whereas Charlie's Angels did somewhat try to sell itself as feminist, *head-desk*.
...and how does Hugh Grant pull off that boyish thing when he's like, 45 now? Without it being pathetic? Perhaps it's because he /is/ aware of his age after all, like, in About a Boy (2002), where instead of picking up the distasteful habit of dating teenage girls in a desperate attempt to 'feel young', he dates instead single moms in his look for non-commitment.
Depending on your definition, I also find that a lot of Hugh Grant's characters, more adorable than Alexander Siddig's, which seem to be on the side of angsty and serious, which is good, but sometimes I need my sentimental fix. DS9's Dr.Bashir was really, really, cute in the beginning, but in the light of later revelations, I just can't find him plain cute anymore, because in the light of the whole Julian had to act his whole life thing, you have to wonder how much of that 'innocence' was real. Siddig's characters, Bashir in DS9, and from what I heard, Prince Nasir in Syriana and Ibhn in Spooks, are the more lovely, but definitely 'not so boyish anymore'.
That said, I really love the way babel writes Bashir, especially in Tryst/Casual, Mr.EmotionalBlackHole. I also like the way Mark (mrs260) writes Julian as the conscious tease.
As the Family Guy episode I happened to be watching puts it, where Lois was in the theatre and the Hugh Grant in the screen was like "I don't know what to say, I'm just so charmingly befuddled!", that pretty much sums up his genre.
...but I do find him charming! Over, and over, and over, again. It's like, cinematic comfort food I guess. Speaking of comfort, I totally need to watch Notting Hill(1999) again, and find someone to see his new movie Music and Lyric with. Drew Barrymore is in it, and I thought she was kinda cute even though Charlie's Angels was an absolutely puerile movie. Some of the humour in Mickey Blue Eyes (1999) was very contrived, like that joke about Englishmen when it was clear that both of them still have their pants on, the movie as a whole was still...charming, because it was the sort of things you sit and watch with your girlfriends, relax. Whereas Charlie's Angels did somewhat try to sell itself as feminist, *head-desk*.
...and how does Hugh Grant pull off that boyish thing when he's like, 45 now? Without it being pathetic? Perhaps it's because he /is/ aware of his age after all, like, in About a Boy (2002), where instead of picking up the distasteful habit of dating teenage girls in a desperate attempt to 'feel young', he dates instead single moms in his look for non-commitment.
Depending on your definition, I also find that a lot of Hugh Grant's characters, more adorable than Alexander Siddig's, which seem to be on the side of angsty and serious, which is good, but sometimes I need my sentimental fix. DS9's Dr.Bashir was really, really, cute in the beginning, but in the light of later revelations, I just can't find him plain cute anymore, because in the light of the whole Julian had to act his whole life thing, you have to wonder how much of that 'innocence' was real. Siddig's characters, Bashir in DS9, and from what I heard, Prince Nasir in Syriana and Ibhn in Spooks, are the more lovely, but definitely 'not so boyish anymore'.
That said, I really love the way babel writes Bashir, especially in Tryst/Casual, Mr.EmotionalBlackHole. I also like the way Mark (mrs260) writes Julian as the conscious tease.