Originally Posted by Nowitness41Dirk
Ides of March looks real sharp.
Just saw that preview, yeah, Fracture meets Michael Clayton should be good. Not to mention the added players from Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.
Johnny, you're going to love Chocolate for several reasons, A, you're review for the purposes of what we're doing in here, B, strong girls in movies (though, this is slightly different) and C, you wanted a good martial arts movie. One movie, all 3 topics taken care of for you.
I'm surprised a little that no one mentioned Jolie for strong women roles.
From jump, Gia, The Bone Collector (though Denzel helped) Girl Interrupted, Lara Croft movies (underrated) Life or Something Like It, Taking Lives (Loved this) the movie that probably changed everyone's views on her, Mr and Mrs Smith, A Mighty Heart, Wanted and then Salt. Everything, the girl can do everything. Crazy, Gorgeous, kick your @#$, cry on command, slutty, or classy, clean or dirty, the girl can pull it off. She can be a diplomat, or she can be a spy. She has a better resume than even I remembered. And I left off movies that she's done that were good, but were the more male dominated films, Gone in 60, The Good Shepherd, Sky Captain, Alexander, Pushing Tin, the Tourist......now she has Cleopatra coming out possibly. I hope she nails that, and I think she will. And talk of them extending Salt into sequel(s) What more can she do?
Another show strong for female casting, Desperate Housewives. Probably not many of you watch that, but I've seen a lot of it with the wife, and damn it, it's not half bad. Great writing, little overly dramatic (soapy), but I noticed QUICK, that Felicity Huffman can act, and so can the crazy chick from Melrose, and Eva and Terri Hatcher hold their own pretty good too. They need to get Huffman some roles on the big screen though is the major thing I notice.