But when my sons watch the Underworld movies, I don’t mind watching her perform acts of ultra-violence in a tight leather catsuit. Since I’m old, though, I save my fantasies for the way she says “monster.” I’d just love to have Kate Beckinsale call me “monster” in that posh accent.
In a similar way, I enjoy reading David Thompson report on eurenviroweenies:
Note how those who don’t share Mr Hundal’s “hardline†enthusiasm for environmentalist vandals are waved away contemptuously as “Middle England.†But a dislike of Plane Stupid’s disruptive methods and freewheeling approach to facts isn’t confined to uptight ladies of the shires. The Sun – hardly a paper of choice for the bejeweled bourgeoisie – referred to Plane Stupid as “upper crusties,†with readers describing the group as “morons,†“wasters†and “pampered useless objects†who deserved “six months in jail†and “a bloody good thrashing.†The group’s spokeswoman, Lily Kember, was singled out for attention as a “snotty little cow.†So at what point exactly does the Sun readership become “Middle England� Is it perhaps the point at which they start to disagree with Mr Hundal and his fellow Guardianistas? Is that when the working class becomes the enemy of the left?
At the WSJ, Holman Jenkins should stop blithering and just spit out what’s on his mind:
Never was it a good idea to have a financial crisis in the middle of a presidential election. Involving Congress was a mistake. Letting the technical matter of keeping the banks afloat become a political football was a terrible idea. Letting our willingness to deploy giant sums of taxpayer money become the measure of credibility was a disaster. Letting all this be sold on Capitol Hill amid shrieks about the country collapsing into a Second Great Depression was a confidence killer across the economy, which until that point had held up well. (h/t Gerry G.)
Wagyu!
David responds: “I’m ever so slightly unnerved by the comparison with Kate Beckinsale in a tight leather catsuit.”
Let me make clear that it’s a matter of enunciation. Delicious, heteronormative enunciation.
Comment by Joe on 2/18 @ 9:07 am #
Vampires don’t do it. They just do that rave escasty shit and rub on each other. Now werewolves? They like to get it on!
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/18 @ 9:12 am #
Yeah, but who wants to see otherwise hot chicks with hair on their chests?
Comment by Joe on 2/18 @ 9:19 am #
That can be a problem. And by the time you go through the grooming, plucking, and waxing–you are both too tired to get it on anyway.
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/18 @ 9:22 am #
My heart is with the Lycans, really. They seem so Irish. But I’d rather live in the mansion and get it on with teh hot Vampyre ladies.
Comment by Bob Reed on 2/18 @ 9:23 am #
Jenkins better wacth it,
He’s coming dangerously close to criticizing the democrats and the one!…
Doesn’t he realize that’s borderline hate speech?
Or blasphemy, or something like that…
Just anither exhibit for Bill Press and his fairness doctrine crew to extend it to encompass racists, h8ter papaer like WSJ…
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/18 @ 9:23 am #
Except for the hickeys, of course.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/18 @ 9:23 am #
No. Kate and Scott did it in the second one that wasn’t as good as the first one… it was gratuitous and awkward and it had that sort of icky gloss of her being filmed by her husband.
Comment by geoffb on 2/18 @ 10:04 am #
Yes but it makes a wonderful excuse for a picture. Dan, PW’s Theo.
Comment by cranky-d on 2/18 @ 10:09 am #
She isn’t in the latest Underworld movie. I’m still trying to figure out why they made it.
Comment by cranky-d on 2/18 @ 10:11 am #
I mean, if she isn’t in it, why would I watch it? Marketing, people! It’s like putting Summer Glau in the Terminator teevee show; I first started watching just because she was in it.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/18 @ 10:15 am #
It’s actually doing fairly well, cranky. I was kinda surprised. It’s been huge on video, but I really would’ve thought the second one had sort of not done the franchise any favors. Maybe it was just me.
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/18 @ 10:17 am #
I swear, it was the way she says “monster,” hf.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/18 @ 10:19 am #
The first one was brilliant. But yeah her monster is just like Angelina’s absolutely in the first Lara Croft I think.
Comment by cranky-d on 2/18 @ 10:26 am #
I thought “Underworld Evolution” was okay, but then again, I have a really low threshold for those kinds of movies. Or any movie that is made these days, really. It’s much easier to find something really good on TCM than it is to try to find something good at a theater.
Comment by Sdferr on 2/18 @ 10:31 am #
I forget where it was I saw it but there was a side-by-side of films that made the Oscar nomination lists in the years 1981 and 2007. Just kinda made me shake my head in wonder at what happened.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 2/18 @ 11:15 am #
She makes me feel funny in the pants.
Comment by McGehee on 2/18 @ 12:21 pm #
Well, you’d look pretty funny in those pants.
What…?
Oh. Sorry.
Comment by Christopher Taylor on 2/18 @ 12:36 pm #
I preferred this Kate Beckinsale a lot more than the surly, angry version in the cheesy Underworld movies
http://www.movieforum.com/movies/titles/muchadoaboutnothing/images/heroclaudio.jpg
Comment by JD on 2/18 @ 12:43 pm #
That new show with Eliza Dushku is supposed to be good. Actually, I have no fucking idea if it is supposed to be any good, but if Sweet Eliza is in it, I am going to watch it.
Comment by cranky-d on 2/18 @ 1:01 pm #
Dollhouse, JD. I’ll watch it a few more times to be sure, but the first episode was meh.
Comment by JD on 2/18 @ 1:06 pm #
Clearly, you are blind. She could read me every post and comment from Day 1 of the Koz Kiddiez, and I would be spellbound.
Comment by cranky-d on 2/18 @ 1:11 pm #
She doesn’t click for me. I really don’t know why.
Comment by JD on 2/18 @ 1:16 pm #
Good, less competition for me ;-)
Comment by mojo on 2/18 @ 1:41 pm #
I liked her better in “Alice in Wonderland”.
But then, I’m a sick little puppy.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 2/18 @ 2:14 pm #
Christopher Taylor — Oh, that was a good movie. I didn’t even have any objections to Keanu Reeves’ acting!
Comment by JD on 2/18 @ 2:18 pm #
Christopher and Rob C - Could not agree more. I enjoyed Senor Branaugh much in that one.
Comment by Christopher Taylor on 2/18 @ 3:27 pm #
Actually Canoe’s crappy acting was perfect for the part, the entire play is about crappy acting, lame plots, and weak, overwrought, pretentious, and contrived plays. He was perfect for the role, like having an obviously black man brother to the whitest guy in the play. And Kate never looked so good.