Eye candy, mmm

[jmc_bks]

Now that Drive has been cancelled, where will I get my Nathan Fillion fix?  By going to see Waitress, it seems.  Just caught a preview for it.  Looks sort of average, but still I'm willing to find a matinee somewhere so I can ogle Captain Tightpants.  ETA:  It's playing at the Landmark on E Street, but now I have a dilemma because Snow Cake is also playing there, along with Offside and Away From Me.

And NYT thinks his performance in Waitress is one to watch. 

Nathan Fillion In “Waitress” (May 2) 

Nathan Fillion plays the funny-Valentine love object of Keri Russell’s pie-baking genius, and does it so deftly you wonder why more directors of romantic comedy haven’t snapped him up. The last film by Adrienne Shelly, who was murdered in her Greenwich Village office last November, “Waitress” spices its humor with some decidedly tangy elements. For one thing the romance between Ms. Russell and Mr. Fillion is highly inappropriate, yet he carries it off with a light touch, quirky enough to feel just right. 

Mild mannered and good looking — with a nose that suggests ski jump without quite being one — Mr. Fillion is a realistic romantic lead. Unlike the pretty hunks or brooding glamour boys women are usually invited to lust after, he seems like the sort of cute-guy-down-the-block you might actually end up with. Not that Ms. Russell’s Jenna is likely to. A waitress and chief pie-maker at the local diner, she is newly pregnant by an abusive husband she badly wants to leave. Mr. Fillion’s Doc Pomatter is the new obstetrician in town, having traded life in Connecticut for this tiny Southern backwater where his wife, also a doctor, is doing her residency. 

A married ob-gyn who sleeps with an unhappy patient? Yikes. What’s funny about that? Mr. Fillion is, not least because he’s so good at looking blindsided by Jenna’s beauty and charm. When she suddenly leaps into his arms, he catches her with the stunned look of a man who can’t believe his luck. But that’s all he does. 

No face-pulling or exaggerated double takes. Mr. Fillion is funny precisely because he’s a minimalist. His double takes are so tiny they’re a joke in themselves. His quiet just-folks presence on screen is a magnet; you watch to see what he’s up to. 

Among the things Mr. Fillion lets us see before the movie ends is the subtle fault line — selfishness — in this sweet and caring man. It’s not a lot of selfishness, just a little. Kind of like sneaking a second piece of pie.

I'm having a hard time writing my review of Lord Sin, in part because when I went back for a reread I liked it much less.  I'm appreciating the even pacing and the language but am irritated by the h/h and unconvinced by their HEA.

Comments

[dogzzz2002.livejournal.com]

Dang, I wasn't really all that enthralled with seeing this movie but now I want to. Apparently they will air the last two Drives in the summer. Whatever. I'm sick of starting a show to have them cancel it. Ugh.

CindyS

[jmc-bks.livejournal.com]

I've been really fickle with my tv watching lately. Liked Drive for Fillion. Used to watch Grey's Anatomy, but don't anymore. Used to watch Lost, but don't anymore (missed a few episodes and felt lost -heh- when I tried to catch up. Tried watching Bones, meh. Tried watching House, another meh. I'll just stick to watching CSI on cable.