I'm in my hotel room, working (can't you tell?) and the movie "Eragon" is playing in the background. I saw this movie when it was in theaters, and remember liking it fairly well. No, I haven't read the books, so I don't have an opinion there. But for sheer entertainment, I didn't feel my money was wasted.
I remember being pleasantly surprised that John Malkovich, one of my all-time favorite actors, was in the movie. But I remember being most intrigued by the character "Durza," henchman of the king (Malkovich) and wizard/shade/generally creepy bad guy. I remember wondering who the actor was who played Durza...I thought he was incredibly good, and vaguely familiar. Here's a Durza Tribute from YouTube. Unfortunately there's no dialogue but you can get a gander at him:
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I like Robert Carlyle too - he's been on quite a few things over here - always very good and quite adaptable. Don't work too hard and have a good evening x
He does have a Peewee-esqueness about him in that movie.
I never saw the movie and never read the book. I'm slightly tempted. But not completely. Maybe I'll start off with the movie since you think it isn't too bad.
Robert Carlyle is an amazing actor with a huge range being able to pull off leading man, villain, guy next door and just about anything else. You may have seen him recently in 24 Redemption as Jack Bauer's former spy buddy who had left the life of Operative for the relative peace of a boys orphanage in some generic war-torn African country. He was good in that too.
As for Angela's Ashes well he played Frank McCourt's drunken useless father with such depth that he was quite sympathetic in the end. For me the best part of the film was the setting. I'm from Limerick y'see. He went to school with my Dad and I personally knew several of the people in the book.
But as for Robert Carlysle - I'm a big fan!
I love Frank McCourt & didn't know there was a movie made of Angela's Ashes (that's how tuned in I am!). But I might see it now, I loved Robert Carlyle in the Full Monty.
Interesting post, Mama!
He made a great Hitler — and also a very good weirdo killer in an early episode of Cracker with Robbie Coltrane.
I really did think it was Pee-Wee. Weird
I didn't know there was an Angela's Ashes movie either. Not sure if I'd watch it though because I really liked the book.
I don't know this actor, but from the looks of the photos he appears very chameleon like.
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