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Rick Bowes and I went to see Eastern Promises, the new David Cronenberg movie this afternoon. It opens very violently and there's a lot of violence throughout but I loved it anyway. At this point, I'll go see anything Viggo Mortensen is in --I thought he and Maria Bello were terrific in Cronenberg's last movie, A History of Violence.
I only became aware of Mortensen in LOTR, although I recently realized I'd seen him in A Perfect Murder, with Gwyneth Paltrow and Michael Douglas. After LOTR I rented A Walk on the Moon, a movie about the late 60s taking place in the Catskills, with Diane Lane and Liev Schrieber --he's good in those, but not all that memorable. It was in LOTR that I said--wowie!! Who IS that guy? Rick thinks he can't act very well but is a good movie star. I think he's a good actor.
Anyway, Eastern Promises had very good acting all around--it's a pretty horrifying movie about the Russian mob in London. If you're ok with violence, check it out.
I only became aware of Mortensen in LOTR, although I recently realized I'd seen him in A Perfect Murder, with Gwyneth Paltrow and Michael Douglas. After LOTR I rented A Walk on the Moon, a movie about the late 60s taking place in the Catskills, with Diane Lane and Liev Schrieber --he's good in those, but not all that memorable. It was in LOTR that I said--wowie!! Who IS that guy? Rick thinks he can't act very well but is a good movie star. I think he's a good actor.
Anyway, Eastern Promises had very good acting all around--it's a pretty horrifying movie about the Russian mob in London. If you're ok with violence, check it out.
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that's where i first saw mortenson, too.
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What I was anticipating with great joy was Alatrist. It's never opened here.
The Spanish audiences seemed not to like it, but the impression I got from their boards was they objected to the collapsing of the novels and so on.
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I still want to see it very much.
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VIGGO
In A PERFECT MURDER, the art work that was in the movie, was all done by Viggo.
Here is a link to a page called Viggo Works.
It also lists the movies he has done.
http://www.viggo-works.com/index.php?page=243
Enjoy!
Ren
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