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Marwood Checks Out Gillian Anderson in STRAIGHTHEADS!!
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Marwood wrote in with a look at the first screening of Dana Scully and Danny Dyer's new film STRAIGHTHEAD.
The screening happened last night in Soho -- where a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand was looking for a place called Lee Ho Fook's. Sorry, couldn't resist.
.Here's Marwood...
Last night I went to screening of ‘Straightheads’ in Soho, london.
Its a British film staring Gillian Anderson and Danny Dyer (Human Traffic, The Business). This was the first audience test screening so the sound and music had not be finalized.
Anderson plays Alice, a business woman who hires Adam (Dyer) to fit a hi-tech security camera system in her home (cue naked Anderson). She then invites him to a huge party in a country mansion where Adam feels totally out of place.
Adam wanders off outside where Alice finds him and they make love there in the garden. Driving home form the party down country lanes they encounter a jeep driving really slowly in front on them. After flashing the lights and beeping the horn Alice, who is driving manages to pass them while Adam gestures to the Jeep out the window.
Driving on quickly down the dark road a dear jumps out in front of the car and smashes against the window. They decide that they must put the dear out of its misery and after dragging it to the side of the road Alice hands Adam a wrench to smash its scull in. At this point the jeep appears and 3 men jump out and what happens next is a horrifically violent attack first on Adam and then on Alice.
The film then turns into a revenge thriller, with a few unbelievable scenarios but some sick violence thrown in.
Not a Gillian Anderson fan myself I found her portrayal of this woman-on-a-mission convincing but even though I like Danny Dyer he still only has one mode of acting which is ‘Danny Dyer’. It has a nice use of the English country side but it ain’t no Dead Man’s Shoes. And answers on a postcard if anyone can tell me what the title is all about……
Thanks for the review, Marwood.
I've never been a huge Gillian Anderson fan. She's truly beautiful, but there's often a hollowness to her performance (as far as I'm concerned.)
None the less, I know she's popular as hell amongst X FILES fans, and I'm intrigued by some of the roles she's taken recently -- so I'm interested to see where her career goes from here...
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neat
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You killed my dear!
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He said 'scull.' Heh.
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SCULLY...!!!
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they just sold one ticket right there. in fact, i think the whole advertising campaign should be based on "Naked Scully"... the trailer should just be a headshot of Gillian Anderson and the words "She's Naked!!!" for two minutes.
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Gillian Anderson is gorgeous. If she gets naked, I will see this film.
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Gillian Anderson has to be one of the better actors to have been spat out of genre TV. Having been lucky enough to see her in a play here in London, as well as in a recent BBC version of 'Bleak House', I can assure you there was nothing hollow about her performance in either. The X Files required Scully to be a little more grounded and perhaps show more reserve at times, in order to make the subject matter believable, which is one of the reasons it worked so well, until, of course, it stopped working... And yes, she is an extremely attractive lady.
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Then you must not have seen any of Duchovny's work outside X-files. He personifies "hollowness". DAMN YOU ROTHMAN!!!
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What's up with the next movie??? Is the Chris Carter lawsuit still holding it back??? Gillian said she want's to get knocked up, and soon, and if they want to do the flick, there asses better hurry. Of course thats not a direct quote. :P DYR!!!
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After a long night playin', the unbelievably awesome Metal Gear Solid Online, a few grammar errors is to be expected. DYR!!!
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that simple. And is she gets nekkid, then I will only be watching 10 seconds of this film on yahoo.......
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she was great in bleak house and house of mirth-never got a chance to see "what the night is for" but head good things. and whilst she is tres fuckable-shes as boring as fuck in real-life....
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There is hate.
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From 'a certain point of view', surely?
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cuz you know once its out on dvd or cable I will crank one out to naked Scully)
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she was only 24 when the X-files started! Can you believe that?
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What did I miss?
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hehehe, well from mine anyway! just go to her official site and read the pretentious drivel she spouts on her blog. Charity? -go and sip your moccha lates elsewhere ye hippy beeyatch
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You don't even have a good tag line. Merrick here...
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...affects your perception of her age. Spurred by scrumdiddley's statement that Anderson was only 24 when x-files started, I checked the imdb, and astoundingly, Gillian Anderson is only about 6 months older than Jennifer Aniston. Gillian turns out to be younger than 4 of the 6 Friends. For some reason that makes my head spin....... Next week, I will present my argument about how Mathew Perry is looking increasingly like Kyle Maclachlan as he ages. While Maclachlan looks increasingly like Bruce Campbell.
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I agree. Open to suggestions.
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Mar 17, 2006 5:03:27 PM CST
I'm glad other people are confused as to who Merrick is
by zikade zarathos
because I certainly am.
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or trying to be blasphemous. LOL.
Marwood, did you sleep during the film? Gillian and Danny's characters are Straightheads, you know, normal people caught in violence, isn't that obvious? -
I await your next argument with high expectations after reading the first.
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Spell check will be the death of society as we know it.
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HypeEndsHere....
"...I am a Human Being!!!!!"
p.s.
That was a pretty weak review.
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I'm thinking VIVA LA MERRICK is the an excellent idea!
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Or p'raps, "Hello to the undeformed! Merrick back with another peek under the sideshow tent..." Then again, you could always just go with "Non-animal Merrick back again, that's right, NOT an animal. Human being here. No shit. Now, as I was trying to say..." ;)
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I'm really liking "Hello to the undeformed!", or variations there of. Someone would undoubtledly complain about it, but it's really tempting. VERY tempting. Lemme think about it. STILL OPEN TO SUGGESTIONS!!!
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I'm really liking "Hello to the undeformed!", or variations there of. Someone would undoubtledly complain about it --in this age of PC, but it's really tempting. VERY tempting. Lemme think about it. STILL OPEN TO SUGGESTIONS!!!
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I mean, I'm a pasty, middle-class whiteboy with a neanderthal cranium. That, my friend, is deformed. And I will not feel left out by your greeting! Don't fall prey to the PC bastidges, Merrick! Don't do it!! ;)
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......"Proteus Syndrome Man to the rescue" or "The Proteus Syndrome Man never forgets". Or not... oof, lacking sleep here.
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..."Michael Jackson's osseous fuckhole here..."?
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..."It's all about the trunk, folks".
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I may never think of the human sphincter in quite the same way now, OMIM, say thankya! Owwwwwww... "Oh no, it'll be fine. Rub awhile, and once the blood starts to flow it lubes right up! NO, BUBBLES, BAD BUBBLES!" Brrrr... Merrick, how about opening w/ a variation on that poem Rocky Dennis wrote in MASK: "Hello, undeformed, Merrick here with things that are good..." or "Hello undeformed, Merrick here with things that are a drag..." Man, I always loved MASK. Just a sucker for Cher in biker togs, and Laura Dern was blind, so she couldn't see us all laughing at her hideous kabuki-mask facial contortions... ;)
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"These things are good: / ice cream and cake, / a ride on a harley, / seeing monkeys in the trees, / the rain on my tongue, / and the sun shining on my face. // These things are a drag: / dust in my hair, / holes in my shoes, / no money in my pocket, / and the sun, shining on my face." Don't know if the poem was real, or something written for the script... but it's one I've never forgotten. Peace to ya, o lion-sized heart...
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Oh well
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It was Duchovny I wanted to see relegated to putrid, C-list roles in straight-to-Skinemax crap, not Anderson. She brought dignity and believability to the show. Duchovny brought the kind of acting we haven't seen since... well, when's the last time a wooden log acted? One more reason to vilify Chris Carter and his loser cronies for ruining the last 3-4 seasons of THE X-FILES -- they gave Anderson little more to do than weep and wander around behind Doggett and Reyes, while Duchovny sashayed off to hang with fellow tree-person Tea Leoni (and the jagoff forced the move from Vancouver to Los Angeles that helped speed the show's demise... and then didn't even stay w/ the series after the move!!). Go, Gillian -- find your success. Then smile at all the desperate, groveling phone messages from Duchovny that pop up on your machine... Hope everyone else is soon doing it too. Nyaah.
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It comes from my city of Liverpool/ Merseyside and it basically means someone who hasn't broken the law or been involved with criminal activity. Hope that helps!
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Do they fuck in the garden for 80 minutes and then get revenge? I would KILL to see that version. Straw Dogs rules but this movie is already better. NAKED SCULLY! WOO!!!
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There's nothing straight about Gillian Anderson, if you know what I mean.
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Merrick: "The Mod that doubleposted and didn't bother to delete the second post" :P DYR!!!
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they meant "dear". Some old lady is running around in the woods looking for a spot of tea when she comes barreling out from behind a tree strait into their windshield. So, of course, beating her to death is the only humane thing they can do. Unfortunately, the car they passed doesn't realize this is a mercy killing and so the abuse Scully and Dyer take is an unfortunate, yet understandable, mistake. Of course, our two anti-heroes, being masochists as well as sadist-exhibitionists, go in search of their well-meaning attackers to repay the exquisite torture they just enjoyed. Hilarity ensues...
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