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Our Reviewer Goes BEYOND BORDERS With Angelina Jolie!!
Hey, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab.
This one’s had a long, slow road to theater screens. The development alone took something like 300 years... or a decade... depending on how much hyperbole you like with your news. A number of movie stars were attached at one point or another, and now, finally, Clive Owen and Angelina Jolie have starred in the film with Martin Campbell at the helm. So how did they do? Let’s see what new spy Gandolfino has to say...
Saw Beyond Borders with Angelina Jolie and Clive Owen last night ,and went in the theatre knowing next to nothing about it – we were told it was an epic love story set in the world of global relief efforts, and I have to say I was moved and surprised. The heart of this film is a story of tragic romance, not what I expected from director Martin “Mask of Zorro” Campbell. Halfway through the films I was hooked. Here’s my review:
PLOT: Comfortable, bourgeois wife Sarah (Angelina), deeply inspired by Doctor Nick’s (Clive) renegade and sometimes hamfisted efforts to end world hunger in Africa, dedicates herself to global relief, meeting Nick in Ethiopia and Cambodia, and eventually rescuing him in Chechnya. All the
while, Sarah is torn between her stuffy English husband and family, her deep passion for Nick, and her efforts as a global relief worker (and her wardrobe – she is a star after all!)
Cinematography: Excellent composition and capture of light, the film is full of brilliant burnished desert brown hues, Cambodian greens and blues, and grey and white sepia tones of snow covered Chechnya.
Clive Owen: Clive fulfills the promise he showed in Croupier and Gosford Park – he smoulders with the usual Owen intensity, but really captures the tormented intensity of Nick.
Angelina Jolie: I think this is her best part since Girl Interrupted, or arguably Gia. She really seems suited to this kind of emotionally conflicted, complex character, and I think she does justice to a difficult part. She even wears an eye-popping mélange of 80’s and 90’s (film leapfrogs several times over fifteen years) hairstyles and clothes with surprising grace.
Editing: Needs some work, it felt a little too long in the beginning, but once the Nick and Sarah’s romance comes into focus, the pace quickened and the story engaged me.
Overall: This movie has resonance, heart and genuine adult message, something that 99% of all Hollywood movies will never have. While there were some peripheral plot points that need to be cleared up, including a shadowy CIA character (I was told this screen is still very much a work-in-progress), the heart of the story is about emotion, romance, and saving the world, and is a refreshing change from the usual cartoon violence and lowbrow humor of most movies out today (especially this past summer. Ugh!)
-GandalfinoVery interesting. A lot of people have pinned the hopes of future James Bond films (post-Brosnan, who may not be going anywhere for a while based on early response to DIE ANOTHER DAY) on Clive Owens, so it’s going to be important to see how people respond to him as a lead. He’s got charisma, no doubt about it. And this is the film that led to what Angelina Jolie has described as a personal awakening. For her, this and the travel involved in the TOMB RAIDER films has been transformative.
Let’s see if the film can have the same impact for viewers when it hits next year.
"Moriarty" out.
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has nice boobies. I'm just saying...
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That's a funny handle. Imagine James G. as the grey wizard. Balrog would never have been able to drag him down that ledge. This pic? Dunno, with Campbell helming it could go either way.
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Maybe its just living in London, but I can't turn around without seeing him. Somewhere there has to be a world without Bond, where one of the longest running and most successful franchises in the world is not a mysogynistic cardboard cut out with some techno toys and an improbable bevy of female admirers. This film sounds mildly interesting though...
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Sounds interesting. We'll see.
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Isn't that obvious? Love in the time of bowel-splitting ebola. Self-important egostitic trash. Hmmm. Today, apparently, I hate everyone.
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for you guessed it. For once HP could say this line and be dead on accurate.
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Nov 22, 2002 2:26:05 PM CST
What is it about anal sex that immature geeks (such as myself) f
by neofromthematrix
Ah, it is the sweet nectar of the forbidden fruit. (HETERO) Anal sex is simply one of the best things life has to offer (but anal sex with Angelina Jolie = an existential religious experience. If I ever got to ass-fuck that sweet sociopath Angie, I would probably shoot myself in the head immediately afterwards. My life simply wouldn't get any better, it would be all downhill from there. But I wouldn't have any regrets. Oh, and Billy Bob Thornton is a total morron.) - I know Kung Fu.
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And shouldn't it be Gandalfini?
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Anal sex is great for the man because a woman's sphincter is incredibly tight. The resulting orgasm is beyond description. Anal sex for the woman can be a bit more problematic. Fingers, butt plugs and even tongues are the way to get her warmed up, and I guarantee along the way she will have a far bigger orgasm than she is used to from front-door stimulation. Save the salami until you have sufficiently loosened her up. A glass or two of wine proffered beforehand can help. Angelina Jolie does not have to be warmed up. She is ready at a moment's notice. Naomi Watts is, too. As is Kirsten Dunst and Eliza Dusku. It goes without saying that Jaime Pressly is always ready, but I think I would save her for oral sex. Anyone catch her masturbation scene in the bathtub in NOT ANOTHER TEEN MOVIE? It is inspired if brief (but that's what freeze frame and slo-mo replay are for).
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Angelina Jolie is one of the sexiest women out there today apart form her amazing ass and
big flapjacks she has the sexiest lips I have ever seen.
ITS YOUR THING, DO WHAT YOU WANT TO DO, I CANT TELL YOU, WHO TO SOCK IT TO.
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