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Post by joanie on Sept 23, 2005 16:10:02 GMT -5
Strange Days (1995) Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore. A Black-marketeer who sells virtual-reality experiences tries to save his ex-flame from a sadistic gangster in 1999 Los Angeles.I saw this movie for the first time this morning on Tivo. Definitely not one of D'onofrio's best movies, but he did play deranged psychopath and all out bad guy very convincingly. Not much to say about this movie except there is one laughable scene at the end when D'Onofrio's character is physically overpowered by the female heroine half is size. Not even Vincent could make that scene look believable! I must admit there was a part of me that enjoyed watching Vincent face down taking orders from a female while she was handcuffing him. This got my dirty little mind thinking ..... Would Detective Goren agree to be dominated in an erotic game of cops and robbers?
Would his alpha male personality allow this? I realize that I am a just a L&O/CI 101 student. I was wondering if any of the more advanced students have any character insights that would shed light on this question I was pondering. Of course, I was just wondering on a purely intellectual level.
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Post by Metella on Sept 26, 2005 11:49:41 GMT -5
ha ha ha fun topic - My take on it is .... most people have many facets .... so I think he would go for a cuff-me game once in a while. But who's he gunna trust that much?
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Post by Patcat on Sept 26, 2005 11:58:41 GMT -5
Just check out some fanfiction for the answer to this. (G)
Patcat
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Post by wendywoo on Sept 26, 2005 13:56:32 GMT -5
Hmmm.... I must watch this movie. I'm always looking for new inspirations for my fiction, and this sounds very interesting! Personally, I see Goren as a man who'd be open to all sorts of experiences, games, and stimuli... love Wendy
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Post by blucougar57 on Oct 23, 2005 18:14:53 GMT -5
If you're really interested, have a look at the Amorous Intent website. There are some very interesting 'what if' takes on that subject.
As for this particular movie, I saw it for the first time this weekend. Interesting watching Vincent play a bad cop for once. I'm curious, though, at the number of films where his character ends up being killed. Ie, Strange Days, Thirteenth Floor, The Salton Sea, The Whole Wide World, Feeling Minnesota, Taking of Phelam One Two Three...
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Post by Duet on Nov 1, 2005 2:47:55 GMT -5
Nicole comes to mind........If she wasn't a murderer I could see Goren really enjoying the freakier side of that woman, but only if it was played out one on one with equal domination.
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Post by NicoleMarie on Nov 3, 2005 23:04:21 GMT -5
I'm curious, though, at the number of films where his character ends up being killed. Ie, Strange Days, Thirteenth Floor, The Salton Sea, The Whole Wide World, Feeling Minnesota, Taking of Phelam One Two Three... I read an interview where he was asked about that. His exact reasoning is fuzzy now but he said something along the lines of that the characters get what's coming to them. Or something like that!
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Post by joanie on Nov 5, 2005 21:37:23 GMT -5
If you're really interested, have a look at the Amorous Intent website. There are some very interesting 'what if' takes on that subject. Where is "Amorous Intent"? Can anyone direct me to CI fanfic websites? Thanks, Joanie
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Post by blucougar57 on Nov 6, 2005 17:25:50 GMT -5
Where is "Amorous Intent"? Can anyone direct me to CI fanfic websites? Thanks, Joanie I can help there, though hopefully I'm not just shooting myself (and whatever shred of credibility I have) by posting this. For some really good Criminal Intent fics, go to www.fanfiction.net/l/1433/3/0/1/1/0/0/0/1/For the Amorous Intent website, go to amorousintent.com/Enjoy....
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Post by digresser on Nov 17, 2005 13:00:17 GMT -5
Ouch. This one just keeps cutting. Me thinks someone is jealous. The Thirteenth Floor (1999) Week of November 16, 2005 By Mike Seely www.riverfronttimes.com/Issues/2005-11-16/film/blindphyllis.htmlThe Thirteenth Floor (1999) Vincent D'Onofrio stars in one of those TV detective shows, CSPD Cold Case or whatever. They're basically all the same. That's noteworthy here, in that it doesn't leave him as much time as it once did to bring his particularly grating brand of overacting to the big leagues.
After an uncharacteristically brilliant turn as Private Gomer Pyle in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, D'Onofrio became one of independent film's foremost It-boys back when you could still evoke the term "independent film" with some sense of intellectual honesty. If you wanted to give your '90s indie instant cachet, you booked D'Onofrio for fifteen minutes of eccentric screen time. He was the male counterpart of the once-ubiquitous Parker "One Note" Posey. Now that independent film's not so independent, D'Onofrio's talents, or lack thereof, have been laid bare (watch The Velocity of Gary sometime; it's "lack thereof").
Here, coupled with a classic phone-it-in performance from a bearded Dennis Haysbert — who barely hits his marks while grinning out of character toward a fat paycheck — D'Onofrio's bleach-blond 1930s bartender helps turn The Thirteenth Floor into a critical and commercial bomb that sunk the career of the gorgeous Gretchen Mol, a competent, humble actress who deserves better.
To atone, perhaps Vinnie could throw her a recurring role on Monk & Order: Special Victims Street Blues. Or whatever. — Mike Seely
Each week the author treks to the Schlafly branch of the St. Louis Public Library, where a staff member blindfolds him and escorts him to the movie shelves. After selecting a film at random, Seely checks it out and reviews it.
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Post by trisha on Nov 17, 2005 15:32:46 GMT -5
Am I the only one who imagined blindfolding Seely and escorting him to a busy intersection? What a shmuck
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Post by digresser on Nov 17, 2005 19:15:42 GMT -5
Trisha, how well you sum it up!
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Post by amberlight on Nov 18, 2005 0:13:06 GMT -5
I'm with you Trisha - I invision him marinating slowly in his own venom and then put that shrimp on the barbie for all to enjoy. Against my better judgement, I needed to put a pin in that gas bag and sent him an answer
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Post by DNA on Jul 5, 2006 11:12:30 GMT -5
UK satellite viewers can catch this flick on:
THURSDAY 06 JULY - 1:10am - 3:40am Sky Movies 2
If unlike me you DONT suffer from chronic insomnia and sticking matchsticks in your eyes doesn't work (or maybe you don't subscribe to the movie package) you could just wait a few short weeks and catch it on:
MONDAY 17 JULY - 10:30pm - 1:10am Sky One
TUESDAY 18 JULY - 10:30pm - 1:10am Sky Two
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Post by sarahlee on Jul 9, 2006 15:19:19 GMT -5
I haven't seen "Strange Days" yet, but after reading that poisonous review, I will. I love sci-fi, and I will always read or watch anything that proposes scantily clad men in another dimension/era/planet/spaceship. Hate to see VDO killed off AGAIN, but maybe he'll have a great (scene-chewing) death scene.
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