Movie Rec: Warrior
I know I've been horribly absent lately and may well have missed mention of this movie on your own pages at any given point in the last 6 months so I'm probably late to the party. But, in case some of you are as well, I must highly, highly, highly recommend Warrior, starring Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton and Nick Nolte.
( Click for more of my rec and nearly nekkid Hardy & Edgerton )
Something went wrong with the marketing. Maybe people had already seen The Fighter and assumed this was a band-wagon movie and would therefore be inferior. It wasn't AT ALL IMO.
I believe the brothers became a family again. I like to imagine Tommy being the wonderful uncle to his nieces and maybe, just maybe finding someone of his own. Awwww. :)
Awww, me too! Have you read any Warrior fic? I found one that creates a lovely, hopeful future for the family. It's here if you want to check it out. I see Tommy becoming an awesome uncle and he and Brendan becoming friends as well as brothers. ::melts:: LOL
Joe Manganiello (he of True Blood)
Charles Mesure (currently on Desperate Housewives)
Chris Hemsworth
I'm right with you with Joe. He is a magnificent specimen of a man. I had to look up Charles but recognize him now from V. He doesn't quite turn my crank the way the others do but I can certainly see why he appeals to you. And Chris... OMG, what a smile!! He lights up the room on screen the way Jensen does in person. I can't even imagine what witnessing Chris' smile in person would be like ;) I haven't seen enough of these 3 gents' work to put them at the top of my list -- yet -- but, to look at (and listen to). Yeah, I'm there ;)
I'm actually having a hard time coming up with more for my own list. I can be so fickle too... love 'em with a certain "look" and if they stray from it, I'm meh about them. See, I can be very superficial too LOL. I love JDM, am partial to Chris Evans... Hmmmm, I know I'm leaving out others but they've escaped my brain ATM. It sure is fun thinking about them though :)
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I haven't read any Warrior fic. I'll have to check out that link! :)
Joe is MAGNIFICENT. I love that he's tall. Mmmmm!... I met Charles Mesure at a Xena convention eight years ago and was duly impressed. I got into him again when he arrived on V. Suddenly I had to watch as much of him as I could and I found his Kiwi/Aussie work online. He's delicious... Chris H. made me cry in Star Trek, so yeah, that's why he's in the top 5. Oh, and he's tall!
JDM and Chris Evans are in my bottom five of my Top 10:
Chris Pine
Karl Urban
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Ryan Gosling
Chris Evans
Karl and Ryan are mostly there because I've loved them since their Xena/Herc and Young Herc days (respectively). Chris Pine plays a wonderful Captain Kirk and actually made me care about him. JDM, well, don't have to explain that one to you I'm sure. Or Chris E.
See what happens when I talk about the fellas? I just go on and on and on. LOL!
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I enjoyed The Fighter but had some problems with it too. It felt a little disrespectful to me in how it treated Micky Ward's family of colorful characters. I don't feel that way at all about any of the characters in Warrior. My husband is a fight fan and thanks to osmosis I've learned to appreciate fighting (boxing and MMA) and can hold my own quite well with the guys when conversations turn to fighters. Osmosis has nothing to do with my love and admiration for Micky Ward and Arturo Gatti though, whose trilogy of fights will be the basis of The Fighter's sequel if Mr. Wahlburg finally gets it off the ground. *That* movie worries me because if it doesn't treat their friendship and bromance the way it should, it'll break my heart. Put it this way, I genuinely feel that the final Gatti/Ward fight played a part in inspiring The Warrior. That you could cheer for both of them and not want either to lose. Watching their last round and the fight's conclusion had me nearly as choked up as I was for Tommy & Brendan's last round and, I bet with a soundtrack, I would've been in tears LOL.
Yikes, so sorry for my segue LOL, getting back to your gorgeous men, I definitely appreciate those on your list. I am a fan of Chris Pine too as well as Karl Urban (though didn't enjoy him as McCoy, I'm afraid). With Gosling, I don't know what's wrong with me. His face just doesn't appeal to me. I'm growing to love him more and more thanks to his body of work though. And of course his body of body LOL.
See what happens when I talk about the fellas? I just go on and on and on. LOL!
Preachin' to the choir, girl. I could - and obviously have - go on and on too ;)
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I might have to check out The Fighter one of these days. Hmmm...
I love my gorgeous men. I thought Karl Urban did a great job as McCoy but I'm super biased since the first thing I usually think when Karl enters a scene is "Ohhhh, he kissed me!!!" (Well, he kissed me the cheek. And then I kissed him on the cheek. He's a cheeky fella. LOL!) Ryan Gosling was another that didn't impress me much before I met him (he took over the role of Young Hercules from a different actor and I liked that actor better). In person, Ryan is a sweet charmer. At least he was when he was 18 and I don't see how that could have changed much. ;) It's actually hard for me to think of him as "hot" but after Crazy, Stupid, Love, I can totally see it now. Rarr!
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I know! That "PhotoShop" line of Emma Stone's after he takes his shirt off for her was just priceless. And so very true ;)
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My recording of Tinker Tailor only lasts 48 hrs so I must rewatch Tom's scenes once more tonight... to breathe in such sweet emotion before it gets deleted tomorrow ;)
I placed an order with Amazon tonight. Bought Warrior plus RocknRolla plus a few non-Tom things LOL
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I bought RockNRolla recently on blu-ray but have yet to watch it. Why am I waiting? I'm not sure. LOL!
I've watched our blu-ray of Warrior twice. I should watch it again soon. ;)
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http://youtu.be/rjH68C6TY2M
That last image at the end melts me into a pile of goo. Yet again LOL.
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Yeah, that's all I can say at the moment.
Oh, and I just want to hug him and kiss him and tell him it's going to be okay!!! LOL
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He's done that to me in Warrior, TTSS and this damn commercial. I'm so done for LOL
You know I'm hooked when I start making icons ;)
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And I knew I was hooked when I started looking for Tom Hardy icons. LOL!
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Of course that makes me long for an actual cradling scene. What we got though was pretty special ::sigh::
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