Sean Penn-classic...or dud?

http://omg.yahoo.com/most-of-humanity-not-caring-that-robin-and-sean-no-longer-divorcing/news/8090?nc

ultimate hardman

his wife gets better looking every year

was at Mailer's memorial yesterday

Carlito's Way, Sweet and Lowdown, Fast Times = classsssic

everything else is pretty bad. ESPECIALLY I AM SAM.

boy, I'd forgotten how good he is in Dead Man Walking.

Well then.

http://www.stylebistro.com/Daily+Dish/articles/3f6vUI79wsK/Sean+Penn+Channels+Robert+Smith+NYC+Set+Must

More like Nikki Sixx, lol

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00386/Nikki_Sixx_Motley_C_386928a.jpg

I'm glad it's not from the Wilson-Plame film coming up.

the falcon and the snowman is kinda dope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOgF4xrx_h0&feature=player_embedded

http://i.imgur.com/CUpz0.jpg

About that Cure wannabe role:

It’s not subtle: in his forthcoming movie, “This Must Be the Place,” Sean Penn resembles Robert Smith, the goth frontman of the Cure. The resemblance was intentional; the Italian director Paolo Sorrentino, known for the political biopic “Il Divo,” idolized the Cure growing up and decided to make his English-language debut about a rich, depressed ’80s rocker married to a no-nonsense woman (Frances McDormand) who’s a firefighter.

“He’s a child, and she’s the man of the family,” Mr. Sorrentino explained, adding that the story was based on his own relationship and also that of Mr. Smith, who is still with the same woman he began dating as a teenager and married at 29. Iggy Pop was another source of rock inspiration, and David Byrne supplies music and makes a cameo. Mr. Penn even sang a Cure-like song in the movie, but the scene was cut because his co-star for the scene, a dog, didn’t behave, Mr. Sorrentino said.

Oh Lord how have I not seen this before now?

http://www4.pictures.zimbio.com/bg/Sean+Penn+Sean+Penn+set+Must+Place+wNbKZik2wlUl.jpg

Someone find the "Cure-like" song that was cut. I think I need to hear that.

Mr. Penn even sang a Cure-like song in the movie, but the scene was cut because his co-star for the scene, a dog, didn’t behave, Mr. Sorrentino said.

Mr. Penn even sang a Cure-like song in the movie, but the scene was cut because his co-star for the scene, a dog, didn’t behave, Mr. Sorrentino said.

Mr. Penn even sang a Cure-like song in the movie, but the scene was cut because his co-star for the scene, a dog, didn’t behave, Mr. Sorrentino said.

So this is basically Robert Smith fan fic?

x-post lol

I need to see this.

So this is basically Robert Smith fan fic?

If it is, Sorrentino has some odd fascinations:

...some audience members gave Mr. Penn a standing ovation at the premiere, but others said they found his performance mannered and the story bizarre. It certainly takes an unexpected turn when, with the help of an expert played by Judd Hirsch (a casting choice Mr. Penn suggested), his aging rocker, Cheyenne, becomes a Nazi hunter on a quest to avenge his father. A journey across the American West, another of Mr. Sorrentino’s cinematic inspirations, and into self-discovery follows. Mr. Sorrentino thinks of it as a comedy, Mr. Penn less so.

All those arena tours were just a cover operation for...ROBERT SMITH: NAZI HUNTER.

Which, if the movie was called that, would be the greatest movie ever.

This sounds insane. Also, Judd Hirsch!

yeah this sounds incredible

plus: Nazis!

this movie was great, didn't anyone else see it?

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/08/07/sean-penn-campaigns-hugo-chavezs-reelection-venezuela#ixzz22rtWu69E

Okay so Robert Smith: Nazi Hunter comes out tomorrow.

I am so excited about this for some reason.

Can I just repost the pic I posted upthread because um

http://www4.pictures.zimbio.com/bg/Sean+Penn+Sean+Penn+set+Must+Place+wNbKZik2wlUl.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/40/This_Must_Be_the_Place_film.jpg

OMG

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.

The performance is a fascinating one, tho frequently more of an exercise, and there are smatterings of '70s European road movies and sitcom.

But the second half goes on kinda forever, and God do I hate Judd Hirsch.

really, Glenn Heath otm

http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/2011/05/cannes-film-festival-2011-day-10-drive-the-day-he-arrives-this-must-be-the-place/

this film is also set in 2008 election season and thank Christ, Penn turns the TV channel before we see Obama.

thank Christ

i can't remember what it's called but this guy is in the shittiest looking mob movie ever, i saw a trailer, he's hilarious

he's mickey cohen! i forget what it's called too. i want someone to make a youtube that's just every second of the movie w sean penn as mickey cohen and i'll watch that.

there's something so terrible about sean penn's persona. like the bob dylan moustache & the kinda scrunchy aloof & wizened expression. he sorta reminds me of johnny depp, in having some of the mannerisms of, & affording himself the dramatic space occupied by, really great male actors, but w/o really having the facts to back this. i probably need to see him in something he really kills in but he is not so interesting afaict.

this must be the place is okay. i like the line about that's life

it looks so bad. like he is snarling & he is doing a sorta christian bale batman voice?

it looks like it was made in 1995

it looks like a Moonwalker remake that the studio cut michael jackson, dancing & robots out of

lolololol it's called "gangster squad"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpCsOnJS0p4

i like sweet and lowdown and the falcon and the snowman and i dunno prob something else. i could probably still get some lols out of hurlyburly, a movie i've always been kind of proud of for its sheer level of repugnance. at the end sean penn doesn't fuck anna paquin and that's how you know he's had an epiphany.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0Be-t8MPQI

sweet & lowdown's a good call, yeah. i always have this argument about johnny depp & have to concede a few, but even still you can end up being all "is that all you got, dead man & arguably donnie brasco but really not donnie brasco?"

the unwatchables xp

wow thread went south fast

lol
xp

He insisted on smoking on Letterman sometime in the 90s, even as a teen I thought he looked a complete dick. C overall tho

the recent defamation suit where both he & madonna attest it never happened, also stuff like

http://gawker.com/did-sean-penn-beat-up-madonna-an-archaeology-of-hollyw-1748746261

Matthew Broderick seems like an odd omission from that list

― Οὖτις, Friday, 15 January 2016 23:46 (Yesterday) Permalink

did not know about this, wow.

Did not know what?

that time in 1987 when he was driving in Ireland and swerved into oncoming traffic and killed two ppl in the ensuing accident

Not sure these are the established facts tbh

yes they are

there seems to be a few ppl who want to know the estabilshed facts

http://i.imgur.com/53qssIw.png

fucking disgraceful that broderick should escape justice for such grave offences

also the car crash thing

http://deadline.com/2016/01/sean-penn-el-chapo-don-winslow-response-the-cartel-1201685328/

On the Media was both fair and ruthless about Penn last episode.

Penn has been cropdusting the American moviegoing public for 35 years.

― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 15 January 2016 18:47

I still think about this every once in a while and laugh.

Heartfelt thank you.

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/sean-penn-bob-honey-who-just-do-stuff-review_us_5ab9a1bee4b008c9e5fa89a2

“Behind decorative gabion walls, an elderly neighbor sits centurion on his porch watching Bob with surreptitious soupçon.” ― page 71

You have to admit that it's a kind of perverse accomplishment to have written prose that awful. I'm not sure I could write anything that ugly either on purpose or by mistake.

Where did all the laughs go?
Are you out there, Louis C.K.?
Once crucial conversations
Kept us on our toes;
Was it really in our interest
To trample Charlie Rose?

think I know who the real author is

https://i.imgur.com/E4WGxTn.jpg

Maron really wants to be his friend

the fraternity of late-middle-aged white guys with questionable facial hair, rage issues and a barely-repressed taste for cocaine

omg, just heard some of this on the radio. And some posters give me shit on here for blanket disparaging celebz.

norm macdonald won the "all memoirs are fiction" celebrity memoir battle

Never one for psychosexual infantilism or paedophilic fantasy, after their sex he said, ‘Good vagina. Maybe more Vietnam.’

Bob hastily exited and breathed the new morning’s Muslim air.

I thought it was just Eastern European drug dealers that were laundering money through Amazon publishing.

Couldn't find a better thread for this, so here it is. "At Close Range" has haunted me for long enough, ever since I was a kid, that even though I haven't seen it for a few years that probably makes it one of my favorite movies. I have no idea why I ever saw it in the first place. Was it a staple of cable? I didn't have cable. Were there scenes from it in the Madonna video? I don't remember the video. At the time I definitely was not a fan of either Sean Penn or Christopher Walken, and even though the based-on-a-true story movie is set 20 minutes from where I grew up, I didn't learn that until much later. Anyway, this movie has an intensely ethereal vibe unlike many others. The closest I can think of is "Near Dark," but of course that is a slightly different beast. "At Close Range" is just such a dark depiction of people at their worst, with this air of menace hovering over it like a shroud.

Never got around to seeing it, always meant to. I had to check my memory, but the "Live to Tell" video has lots of clips from the movie. James Foley directed a bunch of House of Cards episodes; he's most known for Glengarry Glen Ross.