October 8 movie: Lemony Snicket's a Series of Unfortunate Events. Georg already wrote about this but I can add my wholehearted agreement that the movie would have been a lot better if Jim Carrey hadn't been in it. I really cannot stand Carrey, and Count Olaf unfortunately seemed to be an open invitation for him to indulge in his worst mugging and clowning.
When this movie first came out I heard an interview on the radio with the author. The interviewer confronted him with a previous quote in which he had said, "as long as they don't cast someone like Jim Carrey as Count Olaf." Whoops!
He covered well, saying that of the choices they had, Carrey was the best, and that the movie had gotten too big to cast someone interesting like Richard E. Grant. I'm kind of sorry I had heard that interview, because I spent the entire movie thinking about how much better it would have been with Richard E. Grant. Also admiring Violet's clothes. You just know that gothlings around the world have run up copies of her outfits. Hell, that's not my look at all and I want her clothes.
"Withnail and I" is one of my favorite movies, for no apparent reason.
I just saw (actually heard) Richard E Grant in "The Corpse Bride" as well...
Withnail and I is on my "I can't believe I haven't seen this yet" list. In a good movie, Richard E. Grant is great. And he's often the only good thing about a bad movie.
Withnail and I is in my official top two movies, ever.
Richard E. Grant would have been so much better than Jim Carrey - and I didn't even see the movie!
If you are a goth who wants to copy Violet's clothes from the movie, you can buy a pattern to knock off her coat: http://www.hotpatternsstore.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=HP&Product_Code=ad_vc&Category_Code=ad
Nice looking pattern. I'm tempted by it, even though it's not my style and I already have a good coat.