h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I guess that means that Natalie Portman didn't play Anakin's mother in a Star Wars prequel and use it for a career launch leading to an Oscar.

Well *didn'T* play Luke and Leias mother surely?

If she hadn't played Anakin's mam that would have been even more disturbing thing to have not happened!

FB

Indeed, Natalie Portman's career was launched very effectively, thank you very much, over five years earlier with her part in "Leon".

And no, she didn't not play Anakin's mother. It was Pernilla August who actually never played Anakin's mother. Portman didn't play Anakin's WIFE.

I'm sorry that my inaccurate facts actually *were* inaccurate. I won'tlet it happen again.

What was the opening post about again?

Mol

Yes, feel free to return to the original topic. After all, making or not making a whole movie (le alone three movies) is a pretty BIG change, whereas I was talking about SMALL changes that would have made a BIG difference.
About the biggest I was thinking was, for instance, that 'Total Recall' should have starred Bruce Willis instead of Arnie. I don't know if it was ever a possibility - I daresay Willis was working on something else at the time - but I just think he would have fitted the multiple facets of the character better.

If the Lord of the Eagles had been present at the Council of Elrond, we could have saved ourselves about 6 hours in the cinema.

There are some things that you can't change because the source material is too well-known and popular. For instance, the nonabduction of Helen of Troy would have rendered the Trojan War unnecessary.

Maybe some little change like kicking Martin Lawrence's dad hard in the nuys about 9 and a half months before he was due to be born? I'd miss Bad Boys but a small price to pay for obliterating the rest of his ouvre



FB

However much satisfaction that might give you, it nevertheless would require the existence of a workable time machine. I'm rather glad that this thread can only deal with hypothetical situations.

If David Tennant's Doctor had been *prevented* from bringing Madame la Pompodour into the rather than saying "hang on a mo, I'll be back" then I'd not have lost my temper with the sloppy narrative values and I would have continued to watch Dr Who thereafter.

Oh, and someone, anyone, ANYONE AT ALL, other than Andy McDowell should have played the love-interest in Four Weddings and a Funeral. Ideally though, Cameron Diaz.

B

Cameron Diaz would have been wonderful in that part. But I'd have taken Kathy Bates before McDowell.

One thing Mrs. Z - you did see "Blink", right? It happened after the sloppy Pompadour ep, but if you've not seen it, I need to post the DVD to you tonight...

Kathy Bates is one of my favorite people. There's a film clip from the soon-to-be-released 3D version of "Titanic" that has her saying "God almighty!" as she watches the Titanic sink from the safety of her lifeboat. She was playing the unsinkable Molly Brown.

Meanwhile, in New York, destiny was giving John Jacob Astor III (or was it the fourth?) the inheritance that his father [who died on the Titanic] had spelled out in his will. Also in New York, another claimant to the Astor riches was in utero, but it no longer mattered, as the Astor paterfamilias would not live to rewrite his will. The Astor who *did* inherit it determined to give away hundreds of millions of family money for the benefit of New York, with Brooke Astor [his wife] stepping in in the late fifties to lovingly look for ways to make the money do the most good.

Ripples. They are probably still spreading out from the Titanic disaster that happened almost exactly 100 years ago [as of April 15, 2012]. I've been trying to think of ways that the 1998 Cameron "Titanic" could have been changed to make it better. As much as I like Kate Winslett, there is something about her casting that I can't quite get my mind around. Leonardo DiCaprio is great; I just wish that he'd had a more -- volupruous? -- leading lady.

Please feel free to tell me that I'm all wet about this. I feel guilty about not feeling Ms Winslett was right for the part, as great as she was and is....

This is for Hoo.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FanonDiscontinuity

TRiG.

Ben:

>>Oh, and someone, anyone, ANYONE AT ALL, other than Andy McDowell should have played the love-interest in Four Weddings and a Funeral.

*Malcolm* McDowell?









(Bonus points for spotting the Robert Altman reference.)

@paulh:

Actually, at other points in her career La Winslett carried a few more pounds - and looked all the better for it.

I thought it was odd that they used CGI for the nude scene in 'Titanic'. She showed the full muffage in 'Holy Smoke'

but wore one of those wig-things for lady parts in The Reader apparently

An Angela Merkin.

I am not laughing at that






oh alright then...