Armchair Audience

Friday, February 11, 2011

Frozen

I like these endurance-test movies, and this was a pretty good one. It's a simple plot. Three college students talk a ski-lift operator into one more ride up the mountain and through a series of contrivances they get trapped 25 feet up in the air with the resort closed for the next five days. The good: the acting and dialogue is pretty sharp, and it's nicely filmed and scored. The not so good: I needed a little more strategy from the protagonists about how to get out of their predicament. It's never good when the audience can come up with ideas that they don't try. In the picture is Emma Bell, who was the film's standout as the unplucky heroine.

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

The 50 Most Beautiful Women in Film

The Los Angeles Times just compiled a list of The 50 Most Beautiful Women in Film. It was an odd list, leaving out some obvious actresses like Ingrid Bergman and Lauren Bacall, and including relative newcomers like Blake Lively (seriously, if you're going to pick an actress from Gossip Girl then it would have to be Leighton Meester). Anyway, instead of staying up all night worrying about who got left out I decided to do my own top 50.

Some criteria:

The actresses must be in movies and not just in television, otherwise Mariska Hargitay would be on here.

They must be film stars, meaning they've starred in a film and not just appeared in one. If that were the case then my list would have to include the girl Otter picks up from The Emily Dickinson House during the road trip scene in Animal House. Don't even know her name.

This is no reflection on acting ability.

Lastly (and obviously) this is a subjective list. Except for Aishwarya Rai who has been scientifically proven to be beautiful.

Enjoy.