I am a fucking idiot.

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I'm a total, absolute, complete and unutterable fucking idiot.

For ages and ages I've been going "I recognise him" every time I see Robert Shaw in a movie. He's the blond dude in From Russia With Love and he's in a million bloody war films...

but it's only tonight watching my new DVD of The Battle of Britain that I thought to look him up on the imdb.

He's fucking Quint. FUCKING QUINT FROM FUCKING JAWS. NO FUCKING WONDER I RECOGNISE HIM ALL THE FUCKING TIME. APPARENTLY I CAN'T EVEN READ FUCKING CREDITS ANYMORE.

The assassin in From Russia With Love is the same as Quint. This would be forgiveable in anyone else, perhaps... but I've seen Jaws since watching From Russia With Love. For fuck's sake, who the fuck am I?

ETA: The very young Ian McShane in Battle of Britain looks oddly like that Stuart Townsend dude. Weirdness abounds.

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[nightfalltwen.livejournal.com]

Indeed.

:>

And him in Reign of Fire... where he was all dirty and scruffy and deliciously scottish with Christian Bale?

mrow!

[apolla.livejournal.com]

Dirty, scruffy, deliciously Scottish? True.

But that was such a bad fucking movie I'm never fucking watching it ever again, unless it's a choice between that and Glitter. I swear to God, I will watch TR2, I will watch the Attila movie and that Dracula 2000 thing because he's OMGFABULOUSANDTHAT but Reign of Fire was just fucking awful.

And of course he fulfilled the Gerard Butler Rule, which is that one must always die before the credits roll. I think POTO is the first movie I've seen him in where he DOESN'T die.

But yes, dirty and scruffy. He's those things in TR2 and I don't have to put up with Matthew McConaugheugyeueghey or stupid dragons or a script that sounds like it was written by a committee of FF.net twelve year olds.

[nightfalltwen.livejournal.com]

OMG I am so not praising the movie. No way. Ewwww bad script! bad! *smacks script with rolled up newspaper*

The only good thing was seeing Gerard... but there's pretty much no point to watching it after he dies.

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Yeah. I watched it last week when I was ill... I swear, I never knew the strength of my willpower until I was able to watch to the end after the one good moment- where him and Christian Bale (who was so good I don't remember his character's name) realise he's about to die. And then he does.

I quite like Matt McC in that one with Kate Hudson, How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days, but I'm never going to be able to watch any of his films without recalling this godawful waste of film ever again.