Critical darling, Closer, doesn't deserve the praise. As an adaptation of a play, it fails on nearly every level to be a good movie: its characters are unlikable, its dialog not even vaguely resembling real life, and its emotional outbursts carefully manipulated until they have only a tenuous connection to ongoing events in the movie.…
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26 - zombyboy
Now, back to the natural wonder that is Natalie...
27 - Phillip Winn
Okay, this is about to get so radically off-topic that I really feel I should ask for permission from Zombyboy. Then again, he did seem to imply permission in his last comment, so....
Eric, blondes? Really? Blonde hair? I'm feeling queasy. I know I'm supposed to call you in a few minutes, but I don't know if I can now.
I mean, Dawn is sounding hotter and hotter as she lists Natalie's amazing qualities, which is already something I need to put out of my mind, but that you don't find Natalie overwhelming sexy is just mind-boggling.
I only accepted my wife becoming a vegetarian because Nat is a vegan. She makes wish I was Jewish (as she is), and younger, and thinner, and heck, looked like Jake Gyllenhaal.
I normally fixate on red-haired actresses, but Nat is exceptional.
And blondes? Not for me!
28 - zombyboy
Crazy man, it has nothing to do with hair color (except for redheads, of course). It's all about the shape of the face, the allure of the eyes, and, well, a few other things, too, but I'll try to not run too far off the path.
Blondes, brunettes, redheads, Sinead in her no hair phase--yep, I could be happy with any and all of the above.
29 - Eric Olsen
I am genetically inclined toward blond-haired blue-eyed lean and curvy, but I am not limited by genetics
30 - Richard Porter
Eric
How about Anna Kounrikova?
31 - Richard Porter
Sorry about the spelling, Anna Kournikova...aw, hell...Anna K
32 - Phillip Winn
zombyboy, well, as a man, of course my "limits" are far wider than my expressed preference, but for me I'm afraid it really is mostly about the hair.
33 - dbcooper
Zboy,
Nice Comment #25 and some fine points. I disagree with much of what you said, but I will say the comment was quite a bit more interesting than your post and many of the creepy comments that followed.
34 - Phillip Winn
Having now seen this movie, I liked it quite a bit. Not for everyone, sure. Some of the actors did better jobs than others, too. But I thought Clive Owen and Natalie Portman came out the best, while Julia Roberts did the worst of all.
I was a little worried by the opening, as Natalie Portman was just odd, but after that first scene with her introduction to Jude Law, she settled down.
I gave it a B+, and my wife gave it a B-. That's pretty good on the scale we rate movies. :-)