Showing posts with label The Haunted Airman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Haunted Airman. Show all posts

Blast from the Past: Robert Pattinson in the Haunted Airman

A real Blast from the Past with this post! I remember seeing the Haunted Airman on TV and thinking "Wow! That guy is good looking!" I didn't know then the good looking guy was Robert Pattinson and that years later we'd all be admiring 'that jaw'!!

Were these the images that first caught you attention too?

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The Haunted Airman was a BBC movie where Rob played a British airman:
"Robert Pattinson was in a  wheelchair for the Haunted Airman, a made for TV movie, based on Dennis Wheatley’s ‘40s occult thriller, The Haunting Of Toby Jugg.At the time, it was a fresh, riveting idea. A disabled British airman recovers from his time in battle. Pattinson’s version was funded by the BBC and aired on BBC4 in October 2006. His performance won fans in The Stage mag, who credited his performance, which incorporated “youthful terror and world weary cynicism”."
If you're interested you can read the review here

Anyone else remember seeing Rob in the Haunted Airman on TV all the way back then??

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New/Old Pics Of Robert Pattinson From "The Haunted Airman"

 New/Old Pics Of Robert Pattinson From "The Haunted Airman"

I don't recall posting these before but if we did please forgive me. They're doing the rounds online so for those that haven't seen them already here are some new/old pics from The Haunted Airman. Definitely a Rob movie worth checking out if you haven't seen it but be warned if you have a problem with spiders (like me) be careful watching this ;} I had to watch it in 3 sittings!
On with the pics........................

There's no mistaking those eyes

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You can catch glimpses of him wearing the airman costume in the trailer.



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365 Days of Robert Pattinson: October 29th ~ Haunted Airman Still

365 Days of Robert Pattinson: October 29th ~ Haunted Airman Still

Oh My..........

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Kat

"Smirk and dimple - smirple?"

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Tink

"I’m cheating because Toby is beautiful. crazy. but beautiful. look at that bound-beauty. sigh. and the gif. LAWD the gif. he’s just writing a letter. how does someone look like this just writing a letter????"

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Kate
"Totally cheating here and picking 3 but I think I'll be forgiven. Just look into Toby's eyes and all will be forgotten ;-D"

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365 Days of Robert Pattinson: June 5 ~ Sexiest pic of Rob pre-Twilight

365 Days of Robert Pattinson: June 5 ~ Sexiest pic of Rob pre-Twilight

Even though Twilight really put Rob on the map as a sexy beast, he was already smoldering and sizzling pre-Twilight. Case in point.

Kate:
"This one of my favourite pics of Rob and I think you can see why! Don’t you just want to lick him? Get in line, I’m first! It’s from the Hollywood Film Festival in Oct 2008 where he actually won an award. Wanna see MORE Hollywood Film Festival Rob? Check him out HERE."

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Tink:
"HELLO SIR. damn. what even. i mean…..LOOK. every inch. every inch is DELICIOUS. so handsome and sexy and UNF. the eyes, the lips, the jaw, the cheekbones, the flush, the neck, the adam’s apple, the chest, the sternocleidomastoid, nose, chin, brows, ears, hair, forehead…..am i missing anything??? sigh. he’s gorgeous. Those Toby Jugg days… "

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Kat:
"I loved the hair of Dali… with Rob’s eye colour he really can pull off the dark locks."
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"I couldn't believe someone could be so beautiful." New/Old Robert Pattinson encounter + the rare CleanShaveRob

"I couldn't believe  someone could be so beautiful." New/Old Robert Pattinson encounter + the rare CleanShaveRob

CleanShaveRob....a rare breed.

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This article was so amusing. The writer starts out with some fiction that seems pretty real to me. Rob IS a god sooooo....

From The Age (Au):
Stubble is a crime when a man looks this good clean-shaven, writes Maggie Alderson.

Rob. Pattinson. ROBERT. PATTINSON. Rarely do the heavens bestow such a bone structure on a human. He looks like something Zeus and his daughter Aphrodite dreamt up on a wet afternoon on Olympus.

Aphrodite: ''Daddy, I'm boooooooored.''

Zeus: ''Are you, my little honeybun? Let's play a game.''

He pauses to think, scratching his head with the end of his lightning bolt.

Zeus: ''I know - we'll create a human so beautiful it makes the others go mad.''

Aphrodite: ''Ooh, that would be so fun. Hmm, let me think … Got it! We'll make a young man with such a perfect face all women go soppy and mad with lust and longing when they see him.''

KERPOW! Zeus throws a bolt of lightning down to Earth, which lands in a suburb of south west London. We hear a baby's cry. Cut to poster for Twilight.
 Ah yes...clean-shaven Robward...

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The author continues her campaign for more cleanshavenporn from Rob:
I can also vouchsafe that Rob is even more astonishing in real life. The director of his first film (The Haunted Airman) is one of my friends and I went to see him on set, happening to walk past Rob's trailer when he was coming out of it in his WWII RAF uniform. I nearly fainted. My director pal had told me he'd cast ''a very interesting young actor'' in the lead, but hadn't prepared me for this. I couldn't believe someone could be so beautiful - and I've interviewed a lot of stars and supermodels. But I do wish he would shave more.
I'm adding a quick visual aid of Toby Jugg for us :)

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This picture is a still from his new film Cosmopolis and he's wearing a Gucci suit. Doesn't he look fine? (Tink: I used a different still for this...it's at the top and he looks SO fine.) And the marvelous thing is that since discovering what an immaculately cut suit can do for a chap, Rob pretty much always wears Gucci for public appearances. Now he just needs to catch up his face grooming.

What makes this picture so striking is that it combines his new suit style with the clean-shaven face demanded by the character he plays in the film. The only other time I've seen him like that is the prom scene in Twilight.

What? Hello? Sorry, just had to pick myself up off the floor here.

So, knowing what he looks like without it, it's such a waste of that improbably perfect jawline to besmatter it with scruffy stubble, the way he does. I can only think it's his way of coping with his shocking beauty.

From my brief experience of him (and that wasn't the only time I met him, oh joy), I can report that he's very nice and very shy. It must have been bewildering to have suddenly become such a focus of obsession. So I reckon the face fur is a small barrier between him and the all-staring world, when he's on the promotional roll and can't go the sunnies/baseball cap celebrity hideout shell.

So other men, please take note. There are some blokes - Tom Ford springs to mind - who can work the almost-beard, but most chaps (and I hope my husband is reading this) just end up looking a bit dirty.

I can see that shaving every day is a bore, but if Rob Pattinson looks a bit rough stubbled up, can you really afford to go there?
The lady loves her some smooth skin. While it's not often, Rob has given the trusty razor a workout and freed his jaw for all to drool over. I collected some samples over the years. They may not be the cleanest shave because let's face it - ChiaRob gets a five o'clock shadow at noon. He's a MAN! But these are some of the cleanest we've seen from a man who can rock anything from baby face to mountain man and the scrufftee and stubble in between.

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I wish I was the light that gets to kiss this face...

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Or a water bottle. I could be the water bottle. *entering the DR*

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MORE CleanShaveRob (or close) after the cut!

Fear.Net Includes Robert Pattinson in Their Top 10 Twilight Horror Stars List

Fear.Net has a special list for Halloween. They listed the Top 10 horror movies the Twilight Saga stars appeared in and of course Rob got a mention. Don't watch the video if you are afraid of spiders :)

BONUS: Robert Pattinson in The Haunted Airman
We couldn't leave off without mentioning RPattz's one and only foray into the realm of spooks and spiders and creepy crawlies, could we? In this 2006 BBC film, Pattinson plays a wheelchair-bound WWII pilot who descends into madness while recuperating after the war. Released for the first time in the U.S. this month, The Haunted Airman is a must-see for you hardcore Pattinson fans, and one of the most demanding and sophisticated performances we think he's given.



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Check out the whole list at Fear.Net and if you like scary movies I would highly recommend Hide and Seek (Dakota Fanning) and The Messengers (Kristen Stewart). Dakota scared the crap out of me at the end of the movie :))

And if you haven't seen The Haunted Airman:

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Robert Pattinson "The Haunted Airman" DVD Review *Updated*

Gozde's update note: Lex Walker, the unfortunate "movie critic" that wrote the below review went back and edited some parts of it after the comments posted on his so called review pointed out that Rob made The Haunted Airman years before Twilight. It would have been nice, if, instead of going back and editing the piece, he would have written a correction but I guess it's too much to expect. Critics should be able to critic themselves when they make a mistake, unfortunately they are usually too full of themselves to do so... The additions he made to the review afterwards are in red. He also deleted one part, that's in bold.

Shame on you Mr. Walker...


From Just pressplay.com
Robert Pattinson finds himself facing the same mountain that Daniel Radcliffe has begun to successfully scale: living down the pop-culture mantle cast upon him. Unlike Radcliffe however, Pattinson has wisely chosen to start the process with all due haste so as not to be forever known as “that Twilight vampire guy”. (the following part in red was absent in the original review)However, before Twilight was even a twinkle on his horizon, he made The Haunted Airman, a made-for-television movie first aired in the UK in 2006 and canned until this 2009 release when the American audience will get another taste of pre-Twilight Pattinson. Unfortunately, there's a strong parallel between the two roles. It may help show that he can do more than brood and talk wistfully about a romance he can't let himself have (although there is an element of that here as well) but there's still one distracting drawback: he still looks like a vampire.The Haunted Airman follows the right path to help Pattinson to that effect save for one thing: he still looks like a vampire. So much so that it outshines an unfortunately dim narrative which never fully establishes itself because of its stunted 70 minute run-time. You can see the plans for a good feature-length story, but the whole thing just peters out instead of climbing to the fully deserved dramatic climax. What a shame.(the following part in red was absent in the original review)Consequently it does little to help convince non-Pattinson fans of his range (which does exist).

Grounded flight lieutenant Toby Jugg (Pattinson) has taken psychological refuge in the care of Dr. Hal Burns (Julian Sands) who proposes a unique style of treatment (for all his patients) to get people back on their feet. As Burns treats Jugg and forces him to confront facets of his fears, he also denies his patient communication which begins to make Jugg doubt the good doctor’s intentions. The object of Toby’s written affections, Julia (Rachael Stirling), seems to mirror his sentiments but her compliance with Burns’ doctrine causes the patient a growing sense of unease. Eventually Toby begins to doubt his senses and eventually begins to wonder if the things he sees are real or hallucinations of his mania.

The familiar thriller skeleton was reanimated in the time of a world war to give the well-worn material a new spin – but it still feels all too old. The parts of The Haunted Airman that seem worthwhile in their own right never receive the development they deserve. Instead, it spends all its time rehashing the very generic story and consequently becomes just another lazy psychological playground. There was ample opportunity to tie Toby’s delusions into the unique time period setting and explore it fully from that angle, but it just never happens. Writers Chris Durlacher and Dennis Wheatley taunt us with the story they could have told and then just yank it away with no remorse.

As was said before, what really makes the film significant is the performances within and whether or not they help Pattinson distract from his pop-culture rampant appearance in the Twilight series (the following part in red was absent in the original review)- even retroactively. For most, this will be the second film they see Pattinson star in, making Twilight their frame of reference for the actor's abilities. Pattinson’s Toby Jugg easily has more depth than the brooding and terse vampire Edward, but thanks to the makeup effects and the black and white sequences in the film we’re reminded all too readily of the bloodless cheeks he sports in the other franchise. At least Radcliffe didn’t go on to play a young magician or facially scarred youth in his first non-Potter features, he at least had some sense of the distance he needed to place between his fame and his long-term career. (the following part in red was absent in the original review). The film's rerelease almost four years later for mass consumption does little to bolster his credibility. His performance may be stronger but it screams an unfortunate theme of dull characters. Even Little Ashes, in which he portrayed Salvador Dali, offered little variation in his distant and aloof style which has pervaded both Toby and Edward.Pattinson seems ignorant to this.(Gozde: He deleted the Pattinson seems ignorant part since the only person that's ignorant is Lex Walker here.)

Then we have Julian Sands, an actor it’s nigh impossible to say anything good about without adopting the same tongue in cheek attitude you think he’s using for all of his parts – even though he’s not. That’s just how he acts. His smarmy overacting affects every scene and after awhile you either learn to laugh along with his performance or it just bugs you. The former is recommended for The Haunted Airman, or the 70 minutes will feel like forever.

Visually the film has a very interesting aesthetic. On one hand the black and white treatment wanders too close to the Twilight feel that Pattinson needed to evade, but outside of that influence the film has definite appeal. The direction of Chris Durlacher (known for a string of made-for-television movies just like this one) lacks any real subtlety and as a result the hokey spider and spider-web visuals feel childish instead of creepy.

DVD Bonus Features:

You would like to think that they’d try to supplement a too-short film with some sort of padding (an interview or even a production piece) but it seems that’s just not the case


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The Haunted Airman On DVD Tomorrow!

The Haunted Airman FINALLY hits the shelves in US tomorrow. Here is a brief synopsis of the movie from Amazon.com. Don't forget to pick up your copy :)

Flight Lieutenant Jugg (Twilight's Robert Pattinson), confined to a wheelchair after being wounded in action, arrives at a remote mansion in Wales to recuperate. Suffering from terrible nightmares and visions, he suspects the methods of his psychiatrist, Dr. Hal Burns (Julian Sands). His beautiful aunt, Julia (Rachael Stirling) seems to be the only person he can trust – until circumstances make him doubt even her intentions. Based on the novel “The Haunting of Toby Jugg” by Dennis Wheatley.


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New Robert Pattinson 'Haunted Airman' Still



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The Haunted Airman Available For Pre-order on DVD in US



The Haunted Airman is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com for $12.99. The movie will be released on October 13th 2009.



Thanks to Robert-Pattinson.co.uk.

The Haunted Airman is already available for order on Amazon.co.uk for Europe.

Blast from the Past: Haunted Airman Review



Harry Venning at TheStage.co.uk reviewed The Haunted Airman in 2006 when it first aired and thanks to our lovely Phosphorus we got our hands on it :) Here it is:

All of the BBC’s blue filters must have been requisitioned for The Haunted Airman, a very disturbing, beautifully made and satisfyingly chilling ghost story.

Set in a convalescence home for shell-shocked servicemen during World War Two, it starred Robert Pattinson as a wheelchair-bound RAF pilot suffering from trauma, guilt and paranoia. Either that, or he’s actually imprisoned in a private hell run by the devil himself, who sends spiders, birds and the spirits of the dead to torment him. Make up your own mind.


Pattinson - an actor whose jawline is so finely chiselled it could split granite - played the airman of the title with a perfect combination of youthful terror and world weary cynicism. Julian Sands provided creepy support as the oleaginous Dr Barnes, with Rachael Stirling as the airman’s solicitous and attentive ‘aunt’.


Gozde: Mr. Venning had no idea that the "chiselled jaw line" would be famous one day and the photos of the said jaw would be lovingly called "Jaw Porn" :))


You can order The Haunted Airman from Amazon.cu.uk :) (The DVDs ordered from Amazon.co.uk are Region 2. Check this post for more info on region codes and how you can get the DVD outside of UK)



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