Smokin' Aces

[angstbunny]

I saw the second half of Smokin' Aces awhile back. Made no sense, but it seemed cool, and this is a movie that's built on the premise of cool, so that's fairly acceptable to me. I've always wanted to see the whole thing, if only maybe perhaps with the first half, I can finally understand wtf was going on with the ending

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[angstbunny]

HEY CHRIS FINE

I think when you watch it, you'll be intensely reminded of the sixteen bazillion overly complicated FBI AU plots I've told you about in the last, oh, five years.

AND OKAY, I know you have a WAY higher standard than I do by this point, but I fucking LOVED this fic. Pinto. IT'S ADORABLE AND PERFECT AND SQUEAL. I hope you like it too 'cause I wanna squeal about it with somebody. It's TOTALLY how I see them in my head.

[angstbunny]

RITE RITE RITE RITE

OMFG IT'S SO FUCKING PERFECT. IT'S TOTALLY HOW I SEE THEM IN MY HEAD. JUST. OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG. THE TEXTING. AND THE "STALKING." THE ENDLESS ADORABLENESS.

[barometric]

What about his role in Blood: Trinity? You know, the one where Ryan Renolds used to be a vampire's boytoy, and his former mistress's brother (played by Callum Keith Rennie) captures him, ties him up with chains, in a cage, and then talks about... I don't actually remember what he talks about. I wasn't paying much attention to dialogue at that point. I think it was basically "now you're mine, bitch."

I know you saw this movie, because I was there. Me, I found that scene slashy. It was the one, lonely high point of that movie.

[angstbunny]

Yeah, actually, I was thisclose to saying OH WAIT NO, there's Blade 3! Hazzah! But then I really thought about it, and when the chips are down, I actually don't slash Hannibal King with anybody. I totally remember what scene you're talking about. But it's all about the Talos siblings for me in that movie, coffcoff. I feel like Asher has no interest in Hannibal outside of the fact that Hannibal is his sister's playtoy. So technically, it doesn't count. But then again, I'd take slashing somebody with CKR over Ray Liotta any day of the week. So.

[barometric]

And something I was going to add but didn't: any scene with a vampire in it kind of gets a pass on being slashy. Super sexy creature of the night is fixated on having a sexual metaphor* with someone. It doesn't exactly take chemistry, you know?

And I totally agree that Asher's only interest in Hannibal King is because of the connection to his sister. Didn't stop the scene from being hot like burning, but did kind of kill the plausibility of any follow-up.

*Because blood drinking is totally metaphorical sex.

[angstbunny]

YES, that is a very good point, another reason why I didn't count it. Vampires are super-sexualized creatures.

Mmmm, hot like burning...

PRETEND THIS IS MY ICON OKAY

[pensive1]

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[angstbunny]

Clusterfuck is the perfect word for this movie. But I have a fondness for clusterfucks. It's pretty much a hot mess. I think years of watching really bad movies for actors I like have severely downgraded my taste level.

I tend to forget Nazis on purpose.

LOL YOU AND ME BOTH

But I just can't take him seriously.

YES. I just can't take Piven seriously.

I just remember thinking they should have done WAY more with Ryan's character

Agreed x 100000000000. Him and Ray Liotta were the most interesting characters in the whole movie, the ones who actually resembled characters and not caricatures. I wish the whole movie were about them.

so he seemed less running-on-adrenaline and more wasted-exhausted-desperate.

I actually liked that he was exhausted-desperate. Made him rather more tragic, and I do love my tragic men.

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[pensive1]

//years of watching really bad movies for actors I like have severely downgraded my taste level.//

LOLOL!!!! I have learned to appreciate subtlety.

//the ones who actually resembled characters and not caricatures. I wish the whole movie were about them. //

THIS. We need like, a U.S. Marshasls sequel/prequel, with just those two.

The desperate was good, but it wasn't pushed enough. I just felt tired, not tragic.

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[angstbunny]

SUBTLETY? WHAT'S THAT?

We need like, a U.S. Marshasls sequel/prequel, with just those two

OMFG THAT WOULD RULE. WANTS.

I may perhaps be writing something like that. Possibly. IDK.

The desperate was good, but it wasn't pushed enough.

I grade on a scale haha.

HAY

[pensive1]

http://community.livejournal.com/clez_icons/40944.html?mode=reply

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[angstbunny]

OH EM GEE

TY <3333333333333

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[pensive1]

NO I HAVE NOT BEEN ON A RYAN ICON D/L SPREE TONIGHT

WHY DO YOU ASK

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[angstbunny]

OF COURSE NOT WHY WOULD YOU DO SUCH A THING