[MyPantsAreOnFire]

Maybe if she had seen the originals and saw how the quality slid way the fuck down by the time ROTJ ended, she would have wised up and saved herself the ordeal.

[Gobbler]

Every kind of publicity is good publicity. Plus, she got paid for it. Plus, people will remember her face.

Not really what I would call an ordeal.

[johnnycancer]

Every kind of publicity is good publicity. Plus, she got paid for it. Plus, people will remember her face.

I don't know, I found her pretty forgettable in the PT movies, which, for me at least, is what's most disappointing. I mean, basically you could have inserted any actress into the movies and gotten a similar performance.

johnnycancer

[Cobnat]

Pathetic. What do you guys think?

Give the girl a brake, she gives me a boner!

[StarWarsIsUs]

Should have known you would come in here and say something like that, Cobnat. Sheesh.

[Cobnat]

Should have known you would come in here and say something like that, Cobnat. Sheesh.

Im only stating what ever guy is thinking.

[MyPantsAreOnFire]

Meh.

[Cobnat]

Meh.

Meh intead, the last time she was on TV my boner flew out of my pants, onto the street and killed a guy.

[MyPantsAreOnFire]

Feh.

[diligent_d]

Well, that's kind of funny. But then, Marlon Brando had never read Heart of Darkness when he was cast to play Kurtz in Apocalypse Now (which was basically just Heart of Darkness set in Vietnam), and, that didn't seem to make too much of a difference. Of course, Apocalypse Now is a good movie with a well written script and you can't really say the same for the PT movies.

Just read this now. Are you kidding? Brando was brilliant as Kurtz - I can't think of a better person to play the role. The pure insanity, the sloven comfort within his own power. It was a beautiful performance.

Oh well, each to their own.

[johnnycancer]

Just read this now. Are you kidding? Brando was brilliant as Kurtz - I can't think of a better person to play the role. The pure insanity, the sloven comfort within his own power. It was a beautiful performance.

Oh well, each to their own.

Well, that's how I feel. But, this isn't an Apocalypse Now forum so I didn't feel justified in trying to argue this too much. Incidentally, I believe Coppola actually took Brando out onto a boat and read the book to him once he realized that Brando had no background for what was going on in the movie.

Think anybody took Natalie Portman out on a boat and had her watch the movies?

johnnycancer

[CowboyCurtis]

I'd just like to get Natalie on a boat... heheheheh.... Of course, she'd be disappointed with my little dinghy... er... um...I mean...

[StarWarsIsUs]

It's okay, Curtis. We can't all have large lightsabers.

[civilian_number_two]

Just read this now. Are you kidding? Brando was brilliant as Kurtz - I can't think of a better person to play the role. The pure insanity, the sloven comfort within his own power. It was a beautiful performance.

Oh well, each to their own.

Brando invalidated Kurtz when he read from TS Eliot's "The Waste Land," a poem written with Heart of Darkness in mind. It just becomes silly and circular referencing, a movies based on a book citing a poem based on the same book. APOCALYPSE NOW is a great big mess of self-important wankery.

But I liked the bit with Colonel Kilgore.

And the factoid still doesn't say that Natalie Portman didn't watch the movies before going to camera on Episode One. She just hadn't seen them when cast, making her typical for her age.

[Cobnat]

Feh.

Your just jealous becouse my boners kill people and cause mass suffering.