Just click your heels together...

[gwyn]

How did I not know that Close My Eyes was available in region 1 DVD??? How has this escaped my notice? Full-frontal (young) Clive Owen! (While he's definitely creamy dreamy, I admit I like his new cragginess these days.) Incest! And tormented Alan Rickman (young!)!! The weirdest denouement in history! Did I mention nekkid Clive? And god only knows how long it's been available and no one told me! I had the power to get this, all this time, just like Dorothy did to get home, but I never knew!

Whew, I'm tired from all the exclamation points. But there I was, poking around looking at used prices on Second Sight, which is now out in R1 for both series one and two and I figured I should buy it while I still had a contract, and there was Close My Eyes on disc. I had to pony up a $250 deposit to rent it at Scarecrow, Seattle's cool specialty video store, because apparently none of us knew it was out in R1. Dammit, so much wasted time. I mean, I loooove this movie. It's totally weird and people act so bizarrely, but it's so cool. Brother-sister incest! And tortured Alan Rickman!

I seem to have a weird fondness for brother-sister incest stories. I do not know what this means. Maybe that I never had a brother, let alone a hot brother. One thing about being adopted is that you always wonder, if you're macking with someone, could I be macking with my long-lost brother? It's always a question. One of my favorite strange French movies (I realize that is a redundancy) is called Invitation au Voyage (I really should rent it again, dammit), and it's about a set of fraternal twins who have an incestuous relationship, and she dies, and they were going on a trip, and so he packs her body in a cello case or something like that, and takes her on the road trip. No, really, it's kind of cool!

And also, I saw Hellboy last night, and what a charming, fun movie. Much better than any of the action pics I saw this summer, and didn't fall into the every-15-minutes action/slow/action/slow crap that's driving me nuts. And I had no idea Guillermo del Toro was such a fan-shaped fan boy -- he looks like the Simpsons' comic book guy. Really, really liked it, and what the hell is wrong with stupid asshats MGM that they can't release Magnificent 7 on DVD when Ron Perlman is riding high on Hellboy and Eric Close is hot on Without a Trace and Michael Biehn has a new (admittedly crappy sounding) show starting next week called Hawaii? Fucking fuckballs. Cretins.

But Close My Eyes and Second Sight! Wheee!!

Comments

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

The sister is Saskia Reeves, but you know, now that I think about it, she does kinda look like Greta.

I know. I loved poor widdle Jason, but he killed my baby! And left him to die in a field! Sniff.

[mlyn.livejournal.com]

Michael Biehn! *Drools*

I KNEW I recognized people in that commercial.

Have you seen Dark Harbor? Also a really weird movie, also with Alan Rickman, and also with full frontal nudity. It's ALL good. You should get both and have a set.


You know I've been bored when I read khaleesian's Horatio Hornblower fic just for the hell of it. I see that movie is on your list of good stuff.

So you'll tap me into more of the fandom, right?

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

I seem to have a weird fondness for brother-sister incest stories.

Oh, glad I'm not the only one.
::has never had a brother either::
::that she knows of::
You've probably mentioned it before, but humour me by telling me again: Did you read The Secret History by Donna Tartt?? Got a truly awesome story to pimp, then...

One of my favorite strange French movies (I realize that is a redundancy)

So. Very. True.

And shh...wanna browse back two posts in my lj and tell me what you think, either in mail or in the comments? It's nothing big, just...Spuffy. But only one person commmented... & :-(

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

I've never read The Secret History. I probably should, but I have this weird ambivalence towards people who get published because they know someone, and even if they are good writers, there's this part of me that hates them for it when I know so many talented people who can't get arrested because they don't live in NY and know someone. Childish, I know.

But yay on the incest! YOu should so totally try to find Invitation au Voyage if you can. Totally freaky!

[tir.livejournal.com]

I should be commenting with something intelligent about Second Sight or the fact that Hellboy was indeed a lot of fun, but I'm having a hard time getting past the first few lines of your post. How did I not know about the film sooner? Guh.

Oh, and www.dvdpricesearch.com is a good place to comparison shop for dvds. So I did come up with one useful thing.

Naked Clive. Guh.

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know. He's really young, and it's quite delightful. Plus he has his clothes off in a number of scenes, varying levels of disrobing, so it's all quite nice.

[fishsanwitt]

Ron Perlman is my boyfriend - LOL! Okay, he's *not*, but I have met him at a con, spoken with him, sung *to* him, watched him drink his manly drink and hugged him :)

So, yeah, maybe he *is* my boyfriend :)

Did you know that a 3-disc 'Hellboy' DVD is coming out in October/November? I am *so* excited!!!

And I agree completely - they should be releasing 'The Magnificent 7' on DVD - it was so wonderful seeing Michael, Eric and Ron! together). Who are those asshats who run the studio?

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

I love Ron. I've always loved him, but especially after he played Josiah on Magnificent 7. A lot of people didn't like the character, but he had fabulous lines and was just great at droll delivery. They really tapped into that in Hellboy -- the way he dropped great lines was so understated and amusing. What a sweetpea.

Don't close my eyes

[namastenancy.livejournal.com]

I knew that you were a woman of taste but I didn't know that your taste was this exquisite. Oh yes - Clive! Clive in angst over his sister! Clive Nakked! Clive two-timing Alan Rickman. I adore the scene where Alan and Clive are on that boat, going through the gorgeous English countryside and Alan is giving Clive the once over. And over. And again. I thought that there was more chemistry between Alan and Clive than between Clive and Saskia. But I see that I'll have to watch the movie again just to be sure.
I think that Rickman was at his most gorgeous in this move. It's delicious and decadent and absolutely de-lovely.

namaste nancy

Re: Don't close my eyes

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I always thought there was much flirting going on between Alan and Clive in that movie. As if he hadn't been so in love with his wife, he'd have jumped ship for the brother any day. And Clive always seems so wary of him, but fascinated. And Alan in a white suit being mysterious and provocative... yum!

[cy-girl.livejournal.com]

I have Second Sight on DVD waiting at home for me!

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

I'm still so desperately searching for another song for that show so I can do another vid. Sigh. The only one I've heard that works comes from Staind, though, and I just don't want to go there. At all.

[cy-girl.livejournal.com]

Loved Second Sight and we had also rented Sharpe's Rifles as well. I went back and read your "men who make me happy" entries about Clive and Sean and you've really nailed what I find so appealing about them. Very masculine but capable of tenderness and vulnerability. Well, they're both gorgeous, too, which helps.

[thisisbone.livejournal.com]

[I friended you, hope that's okay. Between Clive and F&F, it sounds like we have some common ground!]

I got all of the Second Sight DVDs from Netflix. I still have the last one, have had it for a month, but can't bear to watch it because then it will be OVER, and I can't stand it. So it sits there, tying up one of my three DVD slots, because I'm a wimp.

After reading your story last night, I added F&F to my Netflix queue so I can watch it yet again. Yeah, I should just buy a copy.

I'm kind of excited about Hawaii -- I like ALL the guys in it, and I know from Sentinel experience that a crappy show can still spawn much in the way of slash.

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Cool! Hey, it looks like we might have crisscrossed mails, but I sent one to you last night at a different email account and now I wonder if it was correct; it was the one from your web site? Anyways, in there is the username and PW for the vids site. If you didn't get it, let me know, and I'll give it to you again.

I am nervous as hell about Hawaii because the clips I've seen were just awful, but any time MB's running around with guns, I'm happy, and yeah, it looks to be very, very guy-heavy, so there's always potential. I've had my heart so broken lately, though, with potential dramas, even bad ones. My heart still aches for a terrible show called MDs two years ago, because the slash potential was enormous, and of couse it was on A(lready) B(een) C(ancelled). I have to be careful with MB, too, because he might break my slashy heart -- Mag 7 only lasted 23 eps.