Review: State Of Play

Did someone show a picture of Justin Lee Collins to Russel Crowe, and say, "we want you to look like that guy."

Helen Mirren was very shouty and English.

It was alright. There are worse ways I could have spent a couple of hours.

EDIT:

Oh, and the Orange guy is really distracting. You just expect him to start talking about mobiles everytime he's on the screen.

Edited at 13:45 on 19/11/09

I liked the ship one, but you could get the entire film from the last 5 minutes.

Russell Crowe doesn't belong in talky thrillers. He needs to be avenging stuff, he's best then. LA Confidential, Gladiator...er...that one where he plays a CGI Serial Killer and Denzel Washington has to stop him. "Future CGI Killer" or something.
Angry moody Crowe = Excellent.
Thoughtful Crowe = Wank.

And that Hornblower film he did was pants too, fat Maximus on a big ship. Like somebody had swapped Captain Jack for a gluttony Sharpe.

I heard pushes Little John out a tree because he interrupts his ye old poetry.

I just can't take Russel Crowe seriously unless he's Gladiator.
And seeing Maximus tubby with a woman's hair at a keyboard just isn't on.
He looks fucking ace as Robin Hood though, same hair, beard and moody.
Wonder if he throws an arrow at an innkeeper for not letting him use the restroom?

I have the exact same thing. It was just the other day I was watching some tech thriller thing and I remarked "It's bullshit - they never use a mouse, all they do is hit the keys," at the very point they cut away to a mouse. Harumph.

Also wanted to add that SoP contains my biggest pet peeve in movies - people sending emails by hitting the carriage return key. There's not a SEND key, idiots.

It's a film. 3 words. First word, sounds like...

Huh. Online charades is hard.

The Lovely Rachel is very perky in this. Little perky furrowed brow, little perky pennies dropping, little perky typing.

I don't even know what this is, but who cares it's got Rachel McAdams in it.

There's a scene with Aflleck, Daniels and the guy from the Orange ads, where I really hoped he'd suggest mobile-video conferencing the sex scandal... he didn't. Lost a star for that.