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Monday
May232016

Beauty vs Beast: Cillian Time

Howdy and Happy Monday, folks, Jason from MNPP here with your "Beauty vs Beast" for the week - this time around we're wishing the great and still somehow under-rated Cillian Murphy a happy 40th birthday! He hits the milestone on Wednesday, and we couldn't be happier to watch him age - his smooth-skinned preternatural prettiness was kind of too much to look at once upon a time. Time has made him seem more human, less alien and terrifying, which on the one hand is a loss, but I think that he's a great enough actor that it's one he can overcome with ease.

Anyway in his honor we're stepping back to a role that, contrary to everything I just said, showed him at his most human and his most terrifying all at once, with Wes Craven's terrifically entertaining 2005 thriller Red Eye. Cillian Murphy plays Jackson Rippner (yes really!), the viscious cat to Rachel McAdams' determined little mouse Lisa, and they Tom-n-Jerry each other all over an airplane. S'good times!

PREVIOUSLY We put on our best brave face to face off the mother-daughter team of Terms of Endearment, and in the end it was "Big Momma" MacLaine who stuck her head through the sunroof to victory, taking about 64% of the vote. Said Suzanne:

"Aurora is winning because Shirley MacLaine is one of the great screen actresses but somehow doesn't seem to get enough credit. Also because I voted for her on each of my electronic devices."

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Reader Comments (11)

Team Lisa easily. She could teach Sydney, Laurie, and other final girls how to be resourceful and handle stressful and claustrophobic situations.

May 23, 2016 | Unregistered Commentertom

His name can't possibly be Jackson Rippner, shut the fuck up

May 23, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterJeremy

Oh, I forgot all about this movie! I've never seen Wes Craven so subdued.

May 23, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterMojo

Considering i remember nothing about Lisa and so much about Jackson I have to vote for the psychopath.

May 23, 2016 | Registered CommenterNATHANIEL R

I voted for Aurora Greenway like crazy

May 23, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterPeggy Sue

Agree with Nathaniel. Wasn't a big fan in the first place, but Murphy was the standout.

May 23, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterSawyer

Team Lisa because she was quick and resourceful. They had the oddest chemistry going on to the point where if he wasn't all terroristy, it would have been nice if they went out for a drink at the end of the movie. But you know, murder and all tends to get in the way of that. Always the years, always the love, always the murder.

May 23, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterDerreck.

I mainly remember that Lisa either always or never ordered Bay Breezes. What a goofy movie, but in a good way.

May 23, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterDave S.

I also don't remember a lot about RED EYE. Just that I enjoyed it and I liked the chemistry between Cillian and Rachel

May 24, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterMirko

Underrated movie!

May 24, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterBD

I'm not ashamed to admit that I own this movie on DVD and have watched it on more than a few occasions. It's always seemed like one of those ideas held over from the 1990s when films like this were more popular. At any rate, I'm team Lisa if only for the fact that movies never can be too abundant with female leads who (literally) kick ass.

May 24, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterTroy H.
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