stateside wrote:
Can't explain why State of Play did not fair well, didn't see it but decided to wait until it hits DVD. I LOVED the original too much and not because of James. My main reason for seeing the series was to see Bill Nighy. He was fantastic in that. James was good but for me served as the "eye candy" of the series LOL!

BTW - Helen, I don't know if you intended to post the entire article, but there are scroll bars in your post and it cuts the article off?

No, I didn't intend to post the whole article.

The thing I'm really sorry about the failure of 'State of Play' is that it has made studios very skittish about making adult dramas. So now we're going to have comic book movies for the next two years. image It wasn't as good as the original, but it wasn't bad and I think it deserved to do better. Not sure why it didn't either. Now I'm thinking maybe I need to support certain movies that I may not be gung-ho about if I'm not a fan of the actor or something because I want H'wood to make more of those kinds of movies. I guess it's kind of like voting with your pocketbook.

BTW SoP was the first thing I saw James in after I saw BJ and decided I needed to see more of what this guy had done. At first I was disappointed that he wasn't in it more, but I soon got lost in the story and loved the ride. I thought it was brilliant. I also saw that whenever James was on screen, you just couldn't take your eyes off him. And not only because he was wonderful to look at, but also because his charisma was like an electric charge that jumped off the screen. I think that was when I realized this really was someone to watch.

Edited 1 time by Helen M Oct 7 09 11:52 AM.