Alexander Skarsgård XIV
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Finally some GQ iPad caps! Special thanks to Sherry2227 for sharing these with me.
(Source: GQ iPad app., Caps courtesy of Sherry2227)
Oh wow!! Thanks Santress! So there's a better video out there somewhere then, if these caps were made?
Totes agree - that hair - eek. Ohva called it. And he looks awfully thin at the beginning of the season.
It's filming in Maine and I still think they'll kill her off in the first few scenes (someone has to be fodder for the giant killer lobster or whatever) and she'll come racing back to be seen. Oh well, please prove me wrong..i mean it..
and thanks Santress! TBFan, do you have an iPad? The video is from a GQapp especially for iPad and renders on there in HQ, I saw it on someone else's today. Otherwise, we can only hope they let us mortals take a look at it eventually in better quality..
Totes agree - that hair - eek. Ohva called it. And he looks awfully thin at the beginning of the season.
It's filming in Maine and I still think they'll kill her off in the first few scenes (someone has to be fodder for the giant killer lobster or whatever) and she'll come racing back to be seen. Oh well, please prove me wrong..i mean it..
and thanks Santress! TBFan, do you have an iPad? The video is from a GQapp especially for iPad and renders on there in HQ, I saw it on someone else's today. Otherwise, we can only hope they let us mortals take a look at it eventually in better quality..
No, don't have an ipad yet. Do you know that the ipad2 is all sold out here? My partner has ordered one from the US, will probably be here in a few weeks though, but I saw the video someone uploaded onto youtube yesterday, i think they used their phone to video it off their ipad. But these pictures sure make up for it anyways
Thank you Santress! You've been delivering the goods three days in a row.
This much be Pap week for Alex.
This much be Pap week for Alex.
^^And you know how that goes. We'll probably get a Joan's or another Equinox sighting before the end of the week...
Here is a movie review for Straw Dogs Imdb
STRAW DOGS Kicks Ass!, 19 May 2011
Author: savannapink from United States
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
I caught a screening of STRAW DOGS last week. Rod Lurie directed a tight film that kicks major ass.
"Firstly, Lurie has assembled a dynamite cast: James Marsden, Kate Bosworth, Alexander Skarsgard, James Woods and even Walton Goggins (who is absolute nitro-glycerin in FX's Justified) has a small role. The fact that Lurie was able to attract this cast speaks volumes for his reputation. Is this an award-worthy film? No. Is it a good time at the movies? Hell yes!
"A Hollywood screenwriter (Marsden) and his wife (Bosworth) are moving into a home in his wife's small rural hometown so he can write his new script, Stalingrad, in peace and tranquility. She had a small role in a TV show he once wrote but we get the impression she's washed up now (she's one of the many Straw Dogs in the film, a.k.a people who peaked to early but are now hollow and easily knocked-around and broken).
"Marsden is fantastic in the film. In fact, he's never been better. He exhudes kindness and decency. He plays the soft city boy with a heart. "The happy couple settle into their countryside mansion in the middle of a very isolated forest. In town, they run into Bosworth's old flame (Skarsgard). Skarsgard is everything that Marsden is not -- tall, rugged, manly and dangerous. The quintessential bad boy that all girls are attracted to in their teens but eventually grow out of... or do they?
"There are two themes running through the film. The first (and I'm not too sure I agree with this) is that a man can only be a man if he resorts to violence in order to defend his wife. Lurie also straddles a dangerous line in the film by presenting us with a wife who is a provoker.
"Marsden kindly hires Bosworth's ex-boyfriend to fix the roof of the barn... and then Bosworth proceeds to jog around the forest in skimpy clothing (no bra, barefoot). She then complains to her husband that her former flame and his crew of roofers are eye-raping her. Marsden ever so kindly (and he could've been an ass but wasn't) suggests that maybe she should consider wearing a bra next time. Bosworth is obfuscated by this suggestion. So what does she do? Goes upstairs, opens the bedroom window and proceeds to strip in front of Skarsgard and his crew. It's an ambivalent, tough scene that says a lot about feminism, power struggles in couples and highlights that actresses (in real life and on film) are a loopy bunch. Bosworth shines in this film. Playing both beautiful, sexy and aloof. A tough combo but she pulls it off admirably.
"Therein lies the second theme of the film: Do women want the stable, dependable good-guy or do they have deep subconscious yearnings for a bad boy? "So far the film is great. Fun set-up and it's fun to see Marsden create his writing workspace - - chalkboard with scenes and notes in a lovely dream office, etc. Marsden is once again great in the film, despite his thankless role -- the pussy-fied husband who must grow a brass- coated set of testicles by the end of the film so his Southern Wife can finally respect him... and he eventually does, in a realistic, believable fashion to boot. I won't go into spoiler territory. There are a few nifty surprises and great performances all around. "The siege-like ending is gangbusters. Violent and very un-Lurie-like. Marsden rises to the occasion and all the plot strands come together. Woods is great as a drunken high-school football coach who doesn't want his teenage daughter flirting with the local developmentally delayed man (Dominic Purcell).
This is a remake of the Pekinpah classic that is famous for it's ambivalent rape scene. Therefore, I'm not spoiling anything by saying that -- "Yes, there is a fairly graphic rape. Yes, Bosworth is ambivalent in the scene. Does she fight off her rapist as hard as she could during the rape? Nope. Does she kinda like it? Sure seemed like that to me (which will surely infuriate the feminists out there). There's also an incredibly satisfying final kill that involves a bear- trap.
"Straw Dogs is a good, solid movie with great, crowd-cheering moments."
STRAW DOGS Kicks Ass!, 19 May 2011
Author: savannapink from United States
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
I caught a screening of STRAW DOGS last week. Rod Lurie directed a tight film that kicks major ass.
"Firstly, Lurie has assembled a dynamite cast: James Marsden, Kate Bosworth, Alexander Skarsgard, James Woods and even Walton Goggins (who is absolute nitro-glycerin in FX's Justified) has a small role. The fact that Lurie was able to attract this cast speaks volumes for his reputation. Is this an award-worthy film? No. Is it a good time at the movies? Hell yes!
"A Hollywood screenwriter (Marsden) and his wife (Bosworth) are moving into a home in his wife's small rural hometown so he can write his new script, Stalingrad, in peace and tranquility. She had a small role in a TV show he once wrote but we get the impression she's washed up now (she's one of the many Straw Dogs in the film, a.k.a people who peaked to early but are now hollow and easily knocked-around and broken).
"Marsden is fantastic in the film. In fact, he's never been better. He exhudes kindness and decency. He plays the soft city boy with a heart. "The happy couple settle into their countryside mansion in the middle of a very isolated forest. In town, they run into Bosworth's old flame (Skarsgard). Skarsgard is everything that Marsden is not -- tall, rugged, manly and dangerous. The quintessential bad boy that all girls are attracted to in their teens but eventually grow out of... or do they?
"There are two themes running through the film. The first (and I'm not too sure I agree with this) is that a man can only be a man if he resorts to violence in order to defend his wife. Lurie also straddles a dangerous line in the film by presenting us with a wife who is a provoker.
"Marsden kindly hires Bosworth's ex-boyfriend to fix the roof of the barn... and then Bosworth proceeds to jog around the forest in skimpy clothing (no bra, barefoot). She then complains to her husband that her former flame and his crew of roofers are eye-raping her. Marsden ever so kindly (and he could've been an ass but wasn't) suggests that maybe she should consider wearing a bra next time. Bosworth is obfuscated by this suggestion. So what does she do? Goes upstairs, opens the bedroom window and proceeds to strip in front of Skarsgard and his crew. It's an ambivalent, tough scene that says a lot about feminism, power struggles in couples and highlights that actresses (in real life and on film) are a loopy bunch. Bosworth shines in this film. Playing both beautiful, sexy and aloof. A tough combo but she pulls it off admirably.
"Therein lies the second theme of the film: Do women want the stable, dependable good-guy or do they have deep subconscious yearnings for a bad boy? "So far the film is great. Fun set-up and it's fun to see Marsden create his writing workspace - - chalkboard with scenes and notes in a lovely dream office, etc. Marsden is once again great in the film, despite his thankless role -- the pussy-fied husband who must grow a brass- coated set of testicles by the end of the film so his Southern Wife can finally respect him... and he eventually does, in a realistic, believable fashion to boot. I won't go into spoiler territory. There are a few nifty surprises and great performances all around. "The siege-like ending is gangbusters. Violent and very un-Lurie-like. Marsden rises to the occasion and all the plot strands come together. Woods is great as a drunken high-school football coach who doesn't want his teenage daughter flirting with the local developmentally delayed man (Dominic Purcell).
This is a remake of the Pekinpah classic that is famous for it's ambivalent rape scene. Therefore, I'm not spoiling anything by saying that -- "Yes, there is a fairly graphic rape. Yes, Bosworth is ambivalent in the scene. Does she fight off her rapist as hard as she could during the rape? Nope. Does she kinda like it? Sure seemed like that to me (which will surely infuriate the feminists out there). There's also an incredibly satisfying final kill that involves a bear- trap.
"Straw Dogs is a good, solid movie with great, crowd-cheering moments."
Thanks TBSter - strange, there are parts of this review that look familiar, almost like this is patched together from someone else's thoughts. Weren't we commenting on the odd use of the words "fun set up" and nifty in another review? But other parts I don't think I've seen before. I'm wondering if this person ever saw the original...
It does sound like a paid movie reviewer wrote this bit up. I doubt this person saw the original or they would be more critical of the remake.
Who the h-e-l-l uses the word nifty?
Agree with you guys. This is an awfully chipper review for such a grim subject, it sounds pieced together from what someone read elsewhere. And no mention of Alex's performance since he is the other lead? That's odd. I have not understood the no film festival stance on this one other than it doesn't allow Lurie to build buzz around whatever gossip he wants to use at the time to position it. If people saw it early and were like meh, it wouldn't fly.
This line was also def in another review:
"It's an ambivalent, tough scene that says a lot about feminism, power struggles in couples and highlights that actresses (in real life and on film) are a loopy bunch"
thank you Santress!!
lol giant killer lobter, i think we have a gaint lobster somewhere in australia...i think its a shrimp actually but we have alot of big things!!
isnt Maine over on the east coast like near martha's vinard??
its a weired review, it feels like a cut and paste review.
the writer is such an ass kisser
it didnt look like that type of movie in the trailer....
but this is the first review someone actually mentioned her acting
Totes agree - that hair - eek. Ohva called it. And he looks awfully thin at the beginning of the season.
It's filming in Maine and I still think they'll kill her off in the first few scenes (someone has to be fodder for the giant killer lobster or whatever) and she'll come racing back to be seen. Oh well, please prove me wrong..i mean it..
and thanks Santress! TBFan, do you have an iPad? The video is from a GQapp especially for iPad and renders on there in HQ, I saw it on someone else's today. Otherwise, we can only hope they let us mortals take a look at it eventually in better quality..
lol giant killer lobter, i think we have a gaint lobster somewhere in australia...i think its a shrimp actually but we have alot of big things!!
isnt Maine over on the east coast like near martha's vinard??
its a weired review, it feels like a cut and paste review.
the writer is such an ass kisser
it didnt look like that type of movie in the trailer....
but this is the first review someone actually mentioned her acting
so true!!
they would of mentiond already if it was entering a festival as the premier date is only afew months away.
why was it delayed for 2 years. there was no news of doing re-shoots so they only had what they filmed in 09 to edit and make it to a film.
i dont rememer this beining tweeted here
i just saw it on tumblr
http://alligator-tearz.tumblr.com/post/5839613304
i just saw it on tumblr
http://alligator-tearz.tumblr.com/post/5839613304
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