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― vic, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

bo-day-shus!

― Ron, Sunday, 28 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought this thread was about Liz Hurley in Bedazzled.

― nabisco, Sunday, 28 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

it can be, its a multitask thread

― Chupa-Cabras, Sunday, 28 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

IT HASN'T EVEN BEEN POOBLISHED YET

― bc, Sunday, 28 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Please Nabisco, please don't tell me you've seen and enjoyed Bedazzled. I'm begging you. I consider you a man of taste and this will shatter my imag

― Anna, Sunday, 28 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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Oh for crying out loud, I hate my home browser for always eating teh last few characters of my posts. ******

― Anna, Sunday, 28 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think hes talking more about Liz Hurley tahn the movie itself, wich i had the good sense of not watching

― Chupa-Cabras, Sunday, 28 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Okay: I watched 2/3 of Bedazzled because I accidentally slept through most of the 6:30 am World Cup final and needed to kill time until it reaired at noon. I also watched Loverboy, which features Patrick Dempsey as a pizza-boy turned gigolo. Due to these circumstances, I never developed an opinion as to its enjoyability -- only that it was more than adequate for when you've only had an hour of sleep and need to speed the time along. That said, its makers had the very good sense to keep Liz appearing in cute naughty outfits every fifteen minutes or so, making even the truly wretched parts (e.g. the bit where he's gay) tolerable: it's harder to change the channel when you know the gag will end momentarily and Liz will appear in a metermaid / schoolgirl / nurse outfit. Also, there were possibly two decent gags in it: (a) B.F. discovering that he speaks Spanish, and (b) B.F. discovering that he is a drug lord and balking at a major sale ("It's just that I don't know if you're going to sell it to kids or around schools or whatever, so the whole thing makes me a little uncomfortable"). I apologize for saying this. Like I said, one hour of sleep, fine, I'll look at Liz Hurley dressed up as a cheerleader. I'm so sorry.

― nabisco, Sunday, 28 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh okay, if it's only for Liz Hurley. And strange things happen after one hour of sleep

― Anna, Sunday, 28 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks for understanding, Anna. It was a very trying time in my life.

― nabisco, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

do british people really pronounce "sloth" with a long o? because when liz does it in that movie, it's hilarious.

― bc, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Bedazzled was pretty lousy in the original version (Mssr Cook & Moore) but does have a fantastic theme tune. Nevertheless the Fraser/Hurley attempt was high concept comedy gone mad. Fraser showed himself to be very adept at this, its just a pity that the comedy and the plot (ie man sells soul t get girl and finds out he could have got her anyway) and its very strange ending made the whole thing rather incoherent. Top marks for production design and Fraser, but a lousy script and far to self indulgent direction. This is the devil we are talking about here, make her nastier.

― Pete, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah dress her up as a *CENSORED* and show her sticking *CENSORED* in her *CENSORED*.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes yes, that ending: it's revealed in the end that, what, Fraser is in fact psychopathic and/or shallow and was only obsessed with this woman based on her facial features and bone structure??? Having missed the beginning, I mistakenly assumed he had, like, interacted with her at some point, and had some actual reason for being interested that would prohibit him from immediately transferring his affections to a differently-styled double.

― nabisco, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No, he'd basically idealized this girl to a ridiculous extreme and had given her absolutely no reason to be interested in him. The girl at the end had the bonus of a) being much closer to him in temperament/value system and b) actually liking him back. So, one could argue that the initial infatuation was the creepy superficial one.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That's what I mean, Dan. I tuned in during the drug-lord bit and just assumed he had a good reason for liking the original one.

― nabisco, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dan and Nabisco...AT THE MOVIES!

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm starting to worry again.

― Anna, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

One thing that pissed me off about the movie (among others) was that the first fantasy was the best and they got progressively worse from there.

― Vinnie, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

has anyone actually seen the scene where the devil gives him a sandwich and tricks him into wishing for it? they make reference to it at the end but i've never seen that part and suspect it might not be in the film!

― bc, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What are you talking about? That happens almost immediately after she tells him she's the devil!

― Dan Perry, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

!!!

― bc, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

One great thing about Liz Hurley is that she will look better and better as she gets older and older.

WARNING, CREEPY: it's my opinion that English women age quite spectacularly.

― nabisco, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

what a controversial opinion, nabisco! you'll win no friends here with that kind of talk!

― bc, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

BC: After they leave the club and she tells him she's the devil, she tells him to wish for something. He wishes for a sandwich; the next scene shows them sitting in a diner eating burgers and him saying, "Well, since you bought me this sandwich, I'm _really convinced_ you're the devil" complete with sarcastic eye-rolling.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You know, these days I have absolutely no idea which of my comments will earn me weird looks and which ones will earn me "duh."

― nabisco, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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