He's one of the most talented rising British actors I believe.
I've heard his name first when he was up for James Bond (with the LOVELY Henry Cavill) and they both lost out to Daniel Craig.
Actually I doubt Hugh would be a great Bond. He's too short and too thin. He's also looking too intellectual. But Henry owuld've been a great young Bond... well next round, I believe, he'll age a bit till then (he was considered too young).

As for Dancy I saw many of his works by now. Ella Enchanted, well that didn't impress me much.
King Arthur, the movie was just as monumnetal as Arthur himself I loved it - I just love period pieces - and Dancy did a good job.

As I wrote somewhere here, I realized I have dedicated "viewing days"... a few days ago I watched Elizabeth 1 (two eppys, mini series from 2005 with the wonderful Helen Mirren as the aging queen) and King Arthur and Blood and Chocolate, it was a Hugh Dancy day :)
Well, the two unseen left me questioning some parts of the storyline... Elizabeth was portrayed as someone waying for male attention which I doubt she did. Blood and Chocolate just wasn't that interesting of a story, also there was little-to-none chemistry between Dancy and Agnes Bruckner, who played the female lead.
Hungarian "actress" Kata Dobó was involved in Blood and Chocolate. Some consider her an actress, I'd just say she could manage to ruin what could be the best hungarian movie since the glory days of the hungarian film business with her talentless bad acting. The girl made love on the exact same tone as she went to die, she talked about freedom or love the with the same facial expressions as she talked about her parents being killed and her being raped. She's useless, I wonder how Andy Vajna let her taking the role.. even after he kicked her out of his life.
Sorry she may be a nice girl but she should leave films alone. They're better without her.

Anyways her part in B&C was like, walk around in a tiny dress and kiss two men.... sorry, 1 man since she was declined to kiss Dancy.

The man - he's above 30 - has the looks of an innocent boy, intellectual, artistic, especially with his hair so carelessly worn.
And he's humble, he's not living up to the growing fame, which is always impressive.

What makes me even more excited are his upcoming projects, especially the one called "Evening".
He's supporting as Buddy Wittenborn, Claire Danes plays lead (she's currently with Dancy, they're really cute) in a woman's story, told by herself on her dying bed (old played by Vanessa Redgrave).
The fact that Meryl Streep is in the movie means to me that it'll be fantastic - she has a good sense in picking roles. And she's one of my longtime favorites, ever since I saw Far from Africa as a kid.
Also, none else is directing than Lajos Koltai.
He's hungarian (hence the excitement), Oscar winning cinematographer. His directing debut was Fateless, I loved that movie and how he recreated the story, even though the screenplay wasn1t that well written as it could be... Imre Kertész, who wrote it, wrote the original novel and won the Nobel literature prize for it in 2003. There were much buzz and the movie was sort of a victim to that. Especially the boy playing lead... you could see how "out-of-space" he was at the start, even though he grew with the role and at the end he did a better job scene by scene.
Evening is Koltai's second and the first with English cast. I'm glad he could work with such big names as Redgrave and Streep, also glad they picked Claire Danes (I like her) and interesting actors like Dancy.
I really look forward to this.

Another projects coming up for Dancy are "The Jane Austen Book Club" (it's after a novel I guess, sounds strange, we'll see) and the Julianne Moore-film "Savage Grace" which was shot only within a month... maybe it's a surprise like Lost in Translation was.
Well that's it for my excitement for Dancy... well the excitement is surely a bit overrating word right now, but I'm curious how afte rall these movies his fame will grow. He is talented, interesting, so hopefully these will be his defining films.

Hey hey...

I still think about what to write into my Sunshine review, so this is kinda like, part1 :) That was so intense, I loved it. I just couldn't understand what was people's problem with the end.. go and see those "old" save-the- world movies like Armageddon and Independence day or what. THis was nothing, they just had to include the earth saved, and compared to those movies where you suffer through the last 15-20 minutes just so they can show you how everything went right for everone... this was done well.

Rose Byrne was fantastic, and Cillian Murphy delivered to the promise as always, however Chris Evans "stole" the show if it could be stolen. THis leads to another strength of this movie.
The fact that there is no favorite character leads to you being surprised at every loss, even though at the start you can probably guess who'll make it till the end of the first hour. It's ensemble but still there are six important characters. When losing one of those (Kaneda, the shrink) you'll be prepared to losing them all.

Still their deaths are unexpected and very well done.
Unexpected may not be the right word though... you may expect things happen when there really is nothing happening. When the guy (Harvey?) finds the oxigen room on Icarus one you'd expect something to happen to him, and still everything's fine. The time they spend there you'd like some monster to appear, still nothing happens till the end.

Beautiful storytelling, but this and the missing of the lead characters - though overall a great idea - leads to the two weak points of the movie.

First, the characters are a bit plain. Too easy, too one-sided. Cassie is the vulnerable, emotional pilot. Capa is the racional physicist. Mace is the emotionless racional pilot, also a bit too agressive. And the other chick (forgot her name) she's the desperate byologist. They all believe in the mission though. The shrink is the plainest, he's obsessed with the sun, kind of leads us towards what comes after his passing. he gets kinda "replaced".

Secondly and this was when I first got taken out of the whole thing and it never quite recovered for me the way it was before is Pinbacker.
How the hell should I believe, that he survived seven years with all his body burned 3rd degree? I can believe he went insane, pain can cause that, but I'll never believe he survived. And quite strongly! He can bruise Capa? And Cassie? He can kill the other girl? Come on this was silly.

I loved how Mace died. Maybe this is why I sympathise with his character the most, he never got in touch with Pinbacker. He got a bit lost at the start, but he got himself together, made a promise never to question their mission again, and that is what he did. He literally killed Kaneda so the ship didn't get damaged even more. He was the one who realized that one person's life - one useless in the mission, lying intoxicated - should not stop the mission. If he is holding them back, they should get rid of him. He could even kill him, but you can see (good work Mr. Evans) when he finds him dead he's rather glad he doesn't have to do it with his own hands. And last he died for the mission. He died so the ship could go on even though he failed to repair the ship he gave his life for it...

Another good point. There's always a love story. I don't know why filmmakers feel the desperate need to have some nudity, some love in these type of stories.
Thank God Danny Boyle and Alex Garland realized there should not be a kissing scene when everything's lost.
Cassie (Rose Byrne) and Capa (Cillian Murphy) brings up the question. Are they friends? Or are they more? But you'll never know. And at the end they both decide the mission is more important than to reveal the truth for us :) It was good to see there are people on this ship who care for others, but it was also good they didn1t show more than that.

I don't want to mention the special effects. THey're well done, but as expected :)
After all ,I loved the whole thing, I'd love to see it again... maybe I'll correct some things here after seeing it again. I'd give 8 stars out of 10, and it was certainly a good evening, and a good experience.

Well I thought I'll include my MySpace entries here as well.
Not that I post there so frequently (this was my second probably) but I think I'd need to post here too and writing down the same - since the smae things are on my mind - twice would make me bored. So I'll write on one of the two and copy it to the other :-D
So...

Henry Cavill's greatness and The Tudors' betrayal to history

I started watching The Tudors with huge skepticism. I watched coz I saw Jonathan Rhys Meyers in Match Point and Natalie Dormer in Casanova, both were interesting choices for Henry 8 and Anne Boleyn, I couldn't really imagine what would come out. Then again, Michael hirsh wrote the show who wrote Elizabeth starring Cate Blanchett... that made Cate a star and Oscar nominee.
I remember when I've heard 22 year old Henry Cavill is amongst the final few to be considered as the lucky one playing James Bond I tohught he's way too young and unexperienced to do so, and I couldn't recall that I saw him acting in Count of Monte Cristo.
I have to say, Cavill's Charles Brandon is slowly stealing the Tudors. Not the first time that I post this today somewhere, but JRM as Henry 8 isn't that captivating, isn't that intense as Herny Cavill as Brandon. His looks do great help but it's the passion in acting that makes him the true star of this show.
I hope he'll have his breakthrough with The Tudors and we'll see lot more of him later. I consider it a good sign that he's the guy who replaced Jesse Metcalfe (I have no idea of who he is...) in Joel Schumacher's Town Creek. My other underrated favorite, Michael Fassbender is part of that too, so that is double joy for me. Hopefully there'll be more high profile projects to come.
Also have to mention that I just learned Cavill was up for Batman (Batman Begins) and Superman (Superman Returns). Ouc this is so crappy they begin and return... anyways, I seriously believe it'll do better for his career that he didn't get those roles.
I just saw Superman Return (half of it...) and I didn't like it at all, I found it boring. I like Kate Bosworth but she wasn't believable as Lois at all (I remember the series where Teri Hatcher played Lois, probably too well) and I must admit I saw more talent in 5 minutes of I Capture The Castle-Henry action than the hour of Superman-Brandon Routh that I saw. Maybe Herny could make it better but it's also the script that was so useless that only Sranger Than Fiction could override it (I couldn't watch that for more than half hour).
I didn't see Batman Begins and I consider Christian Bale as one of the best actors out there even though I don't list him as a favorite of mine. But if the script was this crappy that thank whoever you can Henry for escaping from these. As for James Bond... Herny was really too young. Even though this is where Bond starts as 007, he's with MI6 for years, it's not a few-months period to reach 00 status I believe, so picking Henry would sortof destroy the background story. Also I just cannot picture him with Eva Green. (I like Eva Green, she's so identical and talented, a real femme fatale even if she'd hate to be called that, as she states in interviews). If Henry would've been James Bond than Scarlett Johansson would have been needed for Vesper's role, or someone from her generation. And it'd be a whole different film. I liked Daniel Craig.

From I Capture the Castle and Count of Monte Cristo there is real development there, till The Tudors. In Castle he often seems far from the role and Romola, at least for me, he's often too cold. He tried to make Stephen a bit geek (which he is) and surely he could make the character naive enough to get into an affair with an older woman. He also was like "a greek god" as Romola's character Cassie referred to him, with that hair... in Monte Cristo, he was really young. That role was fitting, he did it great.
In the Tudors, the role is moch older, more experienced, and Cavill is like someone else compared to the roles he played before (maybe except Melot in Tristan & Isolde). Brandon seems to have more sides to him, more to develop and work on and in my opinion Henry did a great job in showing every aspect and depth. Of course there are 5 more eppy and Brandon's story just starts to grow, but he provides far the best acting in my opinion. While I don't really believe JRM gives 100% (he seems too cold for me at times when he'd need to be more emotional) and the rest of the cast fell out of character one time minimum (well the ones I payed attention for) he's always in there. I like Maria Doyle's work too. Natalie Dormer's appearance in the first two eppy was disappointing for me, but she starts growing on me as she has to show more emotion now. Even though she's not the best cast for Anne Boleyn who was recognised for her dark brown eye and darker skin tone, that was her trademark, along with the long dark hair.

I can picture Henry Cavill in war epics and dramas and lovely easy comedies. Hollywood please cast the guy! Don't miss out on him coz he's just too good to miss out on, not to mention his butt, on that Tudors eppy, and everything he revealed there;)

As for The Tudors, although I'm so into that, just like I was into it as a child when learning about Herny 8 and Anne Boleyn and that era... not only the Tudors, but Hungarian history and all these dinasties and the intriques and complications and connections between them. The Tudors shows that onnly slightly.

Even though they'd say it's not trying to tell the history, it's a fiction about what could lead to Anne Boleys's beheading, I'm really dissapointed in the errors it includes.
First, it was anne refusing to sleep with the king.
Secondly, Henry Fitzroy the king's bastard son died as teenager, after marrying the cousin of Anne Boleyn.
Third, and this leads back to Mr. Cavill, the Charles Brandon character is totally "redesigned". He was there in the court, he was Herny 8's childhood best friend and he wasn't of royalty, that is true.
Then the changes: When Anne Boleyn arrived in the court to become lady-in-waiting for Catherine of Aragon, Charles Brandon was already married. The story's the same, just the not with that Tudor girl... it was the other one.
Mary Tudor, the younger sister of Henry 8 married the French King, was unhappy in her months-long marriage when the king passed (of natural causes probably). Henry 8 made Brandon Duke of Suffolk to be able to send him to France, bringing her sister back. Brandon fell in love with the beautiful Mary and they married secretly while on their way home. Later Henry wanted to behead Brandon for Marrying a member of the royl family without his permission. He only changed his mind after Cardinal Wolsey asked him so (Brandon asked Wosley for help). Brandon and his wife remained together until her death almost 30 years later and they had three children. When Anne Boleyn arrived, Brandon was present in the court without any political aspect, which later changed when Anne Boleyn became enemy with C. Wosley and Wosley eventually fell and had to leave court. He never came really close to politics though.
As for Margaret Tudor, she married three times, the first two not really important. The third was the Scottish prince, and she became the Scottish Queen (just like Mary Tudor being referred to as the French Queen). Margaret was the mother of Mary, the Scottish Queen executed by order of Elizabeth 1, daughter of Anne Boleyn and Henry 8, after charged with treason.
(Here Michael Hirsh probably failed with following history when writing the 1998 Cate Blanchett-movie Elizabeth...)

I guess there'll be more of these errors. I'm not really pleased with that coz it's like they rewrite history. The only thing making it respectful is that this way Brandon's character really develops throughout the 10 eppys, by eppy 5 we can say his character is the most alive and most likeable. Way to go Henry (Cavill).

And after all, this isn't as disappointing as the end of Season 2 in Prison Break was. I'll probably won't watch prison break season 3 - you guys at WB can fire the guy who told you Scofield has to be captured again to enter yet another prison. It's so boring now, always the drama, always the crying, always his whispery voice. You needed to give the guy some happyiness and relief with Sara but you didn't give anything. That's disappointing also coz in a prison like that he wouldn't last a week. So good luck with that.

That's it for today.
I'll go and watch Sunshine tomorrow. I'll try to write a review afterwards (if I'll be able to). I really look forward seeing it!

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