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As Good as Dead
Andie MacDowell has scored a role as a vengeful preachers wife in the film As Good As Dead. We get the following skinny from our friends at the movieweb:
As Good as Dead stars Elwes as Ethan, a left-wing extremist who goes on the run after killing the reverend (Cox) behind a white supremacist group. MacDowell plays the widow who hunts him down with two redneck accomplices (Frank Whaley, Matt Dallas). Jess Wexler plays Ethan’s estranged wife, and Laura Harring plays his neighbor.
Andie MacDowell avenging the death of her racist Klan/Preacher husband is certainly a break from the moisturizing commercials that she’s been doing! I miss seeing Andie around, she has a “kind lady next door” look about her. Which makes this casting all the more “left field,” and I like it.
It’s about time we had some left wing extremists on the screen. The right wing always hogs the best extremist roles, and that’s a shame. You have to share, fair and square. I am personally waiting for a horror film about a fur activist that hunts seal trappers in the Canadian north (and makes opera slippers from their hides).
No hot fudge, no hot chocolate.
you should have done this picture in a name that torso thing
matty as a redneck!?
OMG. to laugh or cry….
I must say, for a woman of her age, she has some exceptional floatation devices on her chest.
Remind me what this post is about? You lost me at the picture.
uuuuuh…how do you seem to find the hottest pictures of women nobody EVER thinks of as sexy?? damn!
you do manage to always find the hottest pictures of anybody.
man she is terrible. almost ruined groundhogs day… almost.
You absolutley must consider making that PETA/Trapper Horror movie! Maybe after John finishes “The Anniversary” you can convince him to use the moneys made from it to make that Horror film.
She should just do Hudson Hawk 2. I’d rather go watch that.
It looks like Andy has got herself some big girl boobies now! Did she get implants or do my eyes deceive me?
Either way she was always attractive to me, of course that photo of excessive cleavage doesnt hurt her cause either.
I think she just decided to take the girls for a walk.
I think it is great that Andie Macdowell is playing a dramatic roll. It is about time.
I just saw as good as dead… and Wow… what a great little movie. I still can’t believe how brave Andi macdowell is being a beauty queen to take on a role that half her body is burned by fire and play a neo nazi’s wife. It has been almost a week now since I saw this movie and I still can’t get it out of my head… It is just great.
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I also saw the movie as good as dead. It’s okay. It is very much like Reservoir Dogs or Shallow Grave.
Let see if it even gets into the theaters.
I saw As good As Dead at a screening. Andie did a great job, Frank Whaley was amusingly evil. Film is so so although the music really helps it – kinda retro orchestral, 50s thing – great score. Lets hope this film doesn’t die on the shelf, Andie really stretched her acting abilities. She deserves credit.
I just saw this movie by chance last week in NYC. I teach film studies and I asked the producer for a copy of this film so I can show my students how suspense is so much better the gore. The Idea is worst then the act. Graphic portrayals of violence are effective but not as much as true suspense the moments before the act, waiting and knowing something horrible is about to happen. I really loved this film and I don’t say that often.
Although there is something reminiscent in the characterization and music which harks back to the work of: Hitchcock, Polanski and Nicholas Ray, “As Good as Dead” quickly finds it’s own voice, taking you on a psychologically terrifying journey through the past of Ethan Belfrage, (Cary Elwes.)
Reverend Kalahan’s (Brian Cox) fateful words resonate throughout the movie, “It takes one match to burn a forest, one bullet to start a war, one shepherd to lead a flock!” We learn only later, the true meaning of those words and the horrors Kalahan has unleashed on America.
The America that, “As Good…” represents is like a microcosm of Israel. Occupied by Right Wing Preachers like Reverend Kalahan, who insight unstable people to kill abortion doctors and people who differ from them and left wing groups, who use the press and guns to stop them. As Ethan Belfrage correctly remarks, “Violence solves nothing,” both in the world of this movie and in the world at large.
This movie is also in the true spirit of film noire, in so much as everyone who inhabits this world is a sinner. Helen, the widow of Kalahan played by Andie Macdowell is a very compelling femme fatal, who even in her darkest hour sheds light on her surroundings. Aaron played by Frank Whaley, is an ex-con, whose life was saved by the Reverend Kalahan. He stalks the shadows like a true killer and explodes with witty outbursts that you can not help laughing along with. Matt Dallas for me is the stand out, as the silent but mentally tormented son of Kalahan, who longs for justice.
The Tarrantino reference is interesting. I did find it violent at times, but unlike Tarrantino, the violence was always motivated and revealed a psychological truth rather than being for entertainment sake. All in all it was a truly great experience that has stayed with me.
It is hard from me to say it is a great movie. So I will say it is a very very good movie. I love Matt Dallas:-) he is such a hottie
I just saw the As good as dead. A very powerful movie. Worth checking out.