The France NSR Thread

[jambon-beurre]

I thought I had to start this "Non-Soccer Related" thread that every forum has, but I had nothing to start with, here it is :
Surfing on the net, I've found a non-exhaustive list of all the recent Hollywood films where the bad guys are French :

Matrix Reloaded
Swat
Ocean's Twelve
Catwoman
Master and Commander
Atlantis
Sahara
Brothers Grimm
Legend of Zorro

Impressive, uh ? :p

[SportBoy333]

You couldn't pay me enough to sit and watch Catwoman.

[jambon-beurre]

Isn't it the film that had so many Razzie Awards ?

But all the films in the list are not crappy, e.g. Master and Commander was great ...

[blackjack]

Master and Commander was great ...
Can't touch the books though.

[jambon-beurre]

Well, the movie made me want to read the books but I haven't had the time yet ...

[blackjack]

Find the time. They're incredible.

[ilv2]

I thought I had to start this "Non-Soccer Related" thread that every forum has, but I had nothing to start with, here it is :
Surfing on the net, I've found a non-exhaustive list of all the recent Hollywood films where the bad guys are French :

Matrix Reloaded
Swat
Ocean's Twelve
Catwoman
Master and Commander
Atlantis
Sahara
Brothers Grimm
Legend of Zorro

Impressive, uh ? :p

same guy played the baddie in sahara and matrix reloaded correct? annoying in both esp. with his whole deal about causality.
monica bellucci did a little to recover the film.

[Pierre-Henri]

They had to find someone to replace the Russians, I guess. Personnaly, i find rather encouraging that some people consider us as threatening. I wish we had that kind of power.

"Surpraïse and Terror, you fridome lovingue amériquane hiro. Surennedaire nowe or i distroye ze Ouaïtouse".

"Your wine and cheese conspiracy will never succeed, fiend ! Universal values of the American dream will always prevail !"

[Boom, paf, crak, vlan !]

"Oh no, aï ham difited..."

[lefutur]

The evil archeologist in Raiders of the Lost Ark was french too. I think his name was Beloque or something. He exploded in the end.

[Pierre-Henri]

In "godzilla", the monster was created by the french, too.

[jambon-beurre]

Saw that the other day :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4353794.stm
And the age-old French stereotypes appear to show no signs of disappearing in the UK. Seventy-two percent of Britons questioned in a recent survey believed the French warranted their negative stereotype, while only 19% of French believe the Brits deserved their "Rosbifs" tag.

And that doesn't surprise me at all, I've to say, you'll never see that kind of article in France about the English :
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/17/wfran17.xml&ssSheet=/news/2005/05/17/ixnewstop.html
(but you'll it about the Americans :p :o)

[guignol]

Can't touch the books though.i was a big hornblower fan as a lad. when those books were all read and reread i started some pseudohornblower series, they weren't nearly as good. i can't judge these books, but if you like master & commander you owe it to yourself to get to the source!

[guignol]

monica bellucci did a little to recover the film.a little?

[ilv2]

yea...not nearly enough of her, and the rest of the movie was absolutely atrocious.

[lefutur]

yea...not nearly enough of her, and the rest of the movie was absolutely atrocious.

any movies of hers with nude scenes? ;) :D

[blackjack]

i was a big hornblower fan as a lad. when those books were all read and reread i started some pseudohornblower series, they weren't nearly as good. i can't judge these books, but if you like master & commander you owe it to yourself to get to the source!

I've read the first in the Hornblower series, I quite liked it. I started the second, and haven't finished it. I stopped once they started fighting land battles in France, I didn't find that nearly as interesting as the more sea-based sections. I'll get back to them eventually. Over winter break I'll finally have time to do some leisurely reading again, and that will be high on my list.

[Nanbawan]

any movies of hers with nude scenes? ;) :D

Any movies of her without nude scenes ya mean ? :D

The first Amican movie that comes to my mind is Coppola's Dracula, she's one of the three female vampires harassing 'poor' Keanu...

I think there might be plenty of those scenes in 'Combien tu m'aimes' ; it's just been released though...

[ilv2]

any movies of hers with nude scenes? ;) :D

haha

well the ones i've seen where she's nude are 'le pacte des loups' and also i think 'irreversible' (although the latter is definately...more serious subject matter)

but yea, nanbawan is right, she has absolutely no qualms with nude scenes which is all fine with me :)

[guignol]

I've read the first in the Hornblower series, I quite liked it. I started the second, and haven't finished it. I stopped once they started fighting land battles in France, I didn't find that nearly as interesting as the more sea-based sections. I'll get back to them eventually. Over winter break I'll finally have time to do some leisurely reading again, and that will be high on my list.land battles? actually it's just a raid if you're talking about lieutenant H... i think the only pitched battle HH ever fought on land was one in russia in commodore H, and of course the ones with his first wife... the only volumes that aren't strictly nautical are the last chronological one, where he's lord of the admiralty, and the last one written, hornblower during the crisis, where it turns out he's the real hero of trafalgar! who'd have thought that? ;)

[guignol]

any movies of hers with nude scenes? ;) :Djudging from pics in télérama, there's a decent eyeful of her in the latest one. mind you she doesn't need to be naked to bring out the jungle animal! ça, c'est de la pétasse!