Why is it a place has a salespaper if the stuff in it isn't in the store? I'm talking about new stuff... DVDs and CDs are all released on Tuesday. And the Best Buy paper said House Season 3 would be available yesterday.
It Frackin' wasn't
It wasn't sold out; they didn't have it. They did the same to me on Tomb Raider: Anniversary and at least two other movies. But they, an electronics store, had a frackin' copy of Harry Potter the day it was released. Now, I hate Wal-Mart but it's just down the road from the Best Buy and always has what Best Buy advertises. Frac you, Best Buy.
While in Wal-Mart I went through the toys (after picking up House Season 3 ), couldn't find a model replica of the Battlestar Galactica (notice all the Fracs up there 
) and came across Jesus Action Figures. I can't remember who makes them but they have everyone: Jesus, Noah, Moses, Samson, some little figures and the deluxe line about a foot tall. The most eerie thing about them: I looked at two slightly different, robed, bearded, white haired figures and said to myself that's moses and that's noah. Then I saw the names and the accessories (one had stone tablets, the other surrounded by animals two by two) and I was right! It's freaky how you can tell two robed, bearded, white haired action figures apart.
The one thing I could find at Best Buy was 300. Because it's Frank Miller's story and there's no way they'd allow it to be bad following Sin City (and preceding that movie's sequel) I knew it would be phenomenal, but I wanted to see it to support an amazing actor.
Gerard Butler.
As King Leonidas
He is amazing in 300. I usually see an actor in a role and they become one of my actors, the type I'd like to cast (and I have to admit, when I write I sometimes look to them as the characters I weave together, visual representations of what's in my mind). Since he's a favorite, my appreciation for his skill goes back a bit. It also helped they cast him as...
The Phantom of the Opera
I'm a big "Phan" and though I still question using him for the greatest opera Tenor in literature/stage he played the role beautifully. Before that he entered another longstanding favorite of mine, opposite Lara Croft...
as Terry Sheridan in Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life
Ah, methinks of Angie and remember the first time I saw her... Rolling Stones video for "Anybody Seen My Baby" and then in Meat Loaf's "Rock'n'Roll Dreams Come True." I digress. Might as well, I missed most of Gerry's work through this time. Which leaves only one question... what was that first movie I saw him in and thought, wow, what an amazing actor? Funny, really. Like playing the Phantom, he was in a movie version, sequel actually, of another work of literature. And it was risky because the movie tried to make certain ties between the character and his weaknesses. The first role I saw Gerard Butler in...
(disturbs me a little how much he favors Bono circa Achtung Baby)
As Dracula in Wes Craven's Dracula 2000. Wow. He amazed me as much as Legosi, Langella Gary Oldman (Coppola's was a questionable film but Oldman was amazing) or even Mac Schreck (from Nosferatu). I won't say much else because the ties of Dracula and, as I said, his weaknesses weren't gimmicky, they made sense the way they went.
I found out that Mr. Butler had a small role in Tommorow Never Dies, which is ironic, because since Dracula 2000 and finding out he's Scottish I always thought him a great replacement in the James Bond lineage. The only thing I worried about was he seems like he could be a total ass (watch his movies, you can see that quality, that smirk). But apparently he's a down to earth, approachable guy. He hangs out with fans and crew more than he does with costars. While filming his first film a boy was heard screaming from the nearby lake. Gerard jumped in without a thought to save him and was given an award of bravery... he didn't understand why; he was just doing what he thought anyone would do in that situation. And, he broke down when he talked to Joel Schumacher about the lonesomeness of the Phantom.
He found a little bit of the Phantom's isolationism within himself. If a tall, dark and handsome man can find the stunted soul of a deformed genius within himself he's not only a good actor, he's a good man.
Much respect for you, Gerry. Don't let me down like most of Hollywood has.
It Frackin' wasn't
It wasn't sold out; they didn't have it. They did the same to me on Tomb Raider: Anniversary and at least two other movies. But they, an electronics store, had a frackin' copy of Harry Potter the day it was released. Now, I hate Wal-Mart but it's just down the road from the Best Buy and always has what Best Buy advertises. Frac you, Best Buy.
While in Wal-Mart I went through the toys (after picking up House Season 3
), couldn't find a model replica of the Battlestar Galactica (notice all the Fracs up there ) and came across Jesus Action Figures. I can't remember who makes them but they have everyone: Jesus, Noah, Moses, Samson, some little figures and the deluxe line about a foot tall. The most eerie thing about them: I looked at two slightly different, robed, bearded, white haired figures and said to myself that's moses and that's noah. Then I saw the names and the accessories (one had stone tablets, the other surrounded by animals two by two) and I was right! It's freaky how you can tell two robed, bearded, white haired action figures apart.The one thing I could find at Best Buy was 300. Because it's Frank Miller's story and there's no way they'd allow it to be bad following Sin City (and preceding that movie's sequel) I knew it would be phenomenal, but I wanted to see it to support an amazing actor.
Gerard Butler.
As King Leonidas
He is amazing in 300. I usually see an actor in a role and they become one of my actors, the type I'd like to cast (and I have to admit, when I write I sometimes look to them as the characters I weave together, visual representations of what's in my mind). Since he's a favorite, my appreciation for his skill goes back a bit. It also helped they cast him as...
The Phantom of the Opera
I'm a big "Phan" and though I still question using him for the greatest opera Tenor in literature/stage he played the role beautifully. Before that he entered another longstanding favorite of mine, opposite Lara Croft...
as Terry Sheridan in Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life
Ah, methinks of Angie and remember the first time I saw her... Rolling Stones video for "Anybody Seen My Baby" and then in Meat Loaf's "Rock'n'Roll Dreams Come True." I digress. Might as well, I missed most of Gerry's work through this time. Which leaves only one question... what was that first movie I saw him in and thought, wow, what an amazing actor? Funny, really. Like playing the Phantom, he was in a movie version, sequel actually, of another work of literature. And it was risky because the movie tried to make certain ties between the character and his weaknesses. The first role I saw Gerard Butler in...
(disturbs me a little how much he favors Bono circa Achtung Baby)
As Dracula in Wes Craven's Dracula 2000. Wow. He amazed me as much as Legosi, Langella Gary Oldman (Coppola's was a questionable film but Oldman was amazing) or even Mac Schreck (from Nosferatu). I won't say much else because the ties of Dracula and, as I said, his weaknesses weren't gimmicky, they made sense the way they went.
I found out that Mr. Butler had a small role in Tommorow Never Dies, which is ironic, because since Dracula 2000 and finding out he's Scottish I always thought him a great replacement in the James Bond lineage. The only thing I worried about was he seems like he could be a total ass (watch his movies, you can see that quality, that smirk). But apparently he's a down to earth, approachable guy. He hangs out with fans and crew more than he does with costars. While filming his first film a boy was heard screaming from the nearby lake. Gerard jumped in without a thought to save him and was given an award of bravery... he didn't understand why; he was just doing what he thought anyone would do in that situation. And, he broke down when he talked to Joel Schumacher about the lonesomeness of the Phantom.
He found a little bit of the Phantom's isolationism within himself. If a tall, dark and handsome man can find the stunted soul of a deformed genius within himself he's not only a good actor, he's a good man.
Much respect for you, Gerry. Don't let me down like most of Hollywood has.
raen:
ha, glad to hear you are enjoying Galactica... how much have you seen? don't know if I mentioned season 3 is on iTunes. I missed watching the podcasts or commentaries for Season 3. I do not recommend "Galatica Watercooler" fyi, sad very sad.
raen:
awesome... i'm sure you can find a galactica model somewhere. it is a fracking good show ain't it? and you can say, yeah I'm a big dork, I watch battlestar galactica all the time and I say frack. so whatev, frack you! it's prob the best show on tv and you're missin' out if you don't watch it. season 2 is my fav, although the whole thing is like one great movie. the end of season 3 drags a bit for me, but it is a courtroom trial they had to do.. and it is pretty well done. one of the reasons it is so good is because the actors have a lot of freedom (and they're really talented of course). there's this speech that Edward James Olmos gives about Earth and it's something he just did. it wasn't even in the script. so it's interesting to hear the commentary and how the story lines develops (cuz they really had no idea where the frack it was going).