i dont know whether to go for best bridges perf. or best movie--hes the best thing in a bunch of mediocre movies
― :) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Sunday, 30 November 2008 15:55 (fifteen years ago) link
The best American actor of the last 35 years?
Chose Fearless over half a dozen possibilities: Last Picture Show, Fat City, Cutter's Way, Wild Bill, The Contender.
Morbs and I once fantasized about Brokeback Mountain starring a young Dennis Quaid and Bridges.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 30 November 2008 16:18 (fifteen years ago) link
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/050609/123545__critic_l.jpg
^probably watched this film once a year, every year since it came out.
― DavidM, Sunday, 30 November 2008 16:29 (fifteen years ago) link
This is easy: The Big Lewbowski
I do like him as a baddass liberal president (in The Contender) better than most actors trying on that role, but Bridges and the Dude were made for and ennoble each other. The visionaries, naifs, villains, victims, and opaque blanks in the other movies are a pretty amazing assortment though.
― Pete Scholtes, Sunday, 30 November 2008 23:29 (fifteen years ago) link
The best American actor of the last 35 years?― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, November 30, 2008 11:18 AM (11 hours ago)
chris walken is pissed
― k3vin k., Monday, 1 December 2008 03:27 (fifteen years ago) link
used to be super-dreamy. this is difficult!
― horseshoe, Monday, 1 December 2008 03:27 (fifteen years ago) link
anyway, fucking impossible, so i'm going with the boring choice of Lebowski cuz it's one of my faves ever
i really love the fabulous baker boys even though nothing really happens in it.
― horseshoe, Monday, 1 December 2008 03:28 (fifteen years ago) link
"used to be"??
― dat dude delmar (and what), Monday, 1 December 2008 03:28 (fifteen years ago) link
http://images.allmoviephoto.com/2008_Iron_Man/2008_iron_man_010.jpg
― dat dude delmar (and what), Monday, 1 December 2008 03:29 (fifteen years ago) link
i dunno, the most recent thing i saw him in is Stick It and he finally looks like a dad. not a hot dad; just a dad.
― horseshoe, Monday, 1 December 2008 03:29 (fifteen years ago) link
one of the best speaking voices.
― horseshoe, Monday, 1 December 2008 03:30 (fifteen years ago) link
When all those cover stories praised Robert Downey, Jr.'s comeback in Iron Man a few months ago, I was a little pissed that no one mentioned that the movie's also Jeff Bridges' highest grosser.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 1 December 2008 03:31 (fifteen years ago) link
he looks like billy joel in that iron man picture :-/
― horseshoe, Monday, 1 December 2008 03:40 (fifteen years ago) link
one of my favorite actors. kind of splits the difference between paul newman and harrison ford (cooler and more detached than ford, shaggier than newman). lebowski ftw, but i voted fearless. could have easily gone for last picture show, baker boys (just watched that again last week), maybe tucker. he's really good in starman. and against all odds too. and jagged edge. never seen american heart, been meaning to for 16 years.
― tipsy mothra, Monday, 1 December 2008 04:06 (fifteen years ago) link
American Heart is really good. This is a tough poll.
― Nicolars (Nicole), Monday, 1 December 2008 05:20 (fifteen years ago) link
could have easily gone for last picture show, baker boys (just watched that again last week), maybe tucker. he's really good in starman
this
― gabbneb, Monday, 1 December 2008 05:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Dude Runner.
― DavidM, Monday, 1 December 2008 17:21 (fifteen years ago) link
short list:
The Last Picture ShowFat CityCutter's WayStarmanTuckerAmerican HeartWild Bill
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 1 December 2008 17:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Never seen American Heart.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 1 December 2008 17:36 (fifteen years ago) link
he's also funnier in Hearts of the West and Nadine than in you-know-what.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 1 December 2008 17:37 (fifteen years ago) link
max takes out Hearts of the West and Rancho Deluxe & leaves in THE LAST UNICORN
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 1 December 2008 17:39 (fifteen years ago) link
(hint: always drop the recent crapola and voiceovers)
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 1 December 2008 17:40 (fifteen years ago) link
hint: no
― :) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Monday, 1 December 2008 17:47 (fifteen years ago) link
then just watch Rancho Deluxe.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 1 December 2008 17:49 (fifteen years ago) link
no
― :) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Monday, 1 December 2008 17:51 (fifteen years ago) link
W'happen, someone steal your inauguration minicamper?
Jeff looked bloated and coked up in Kong '76.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 1 December 2008 17:53 (fifteen years ago) link
i think he's taking a boxcar
― gabbneb, Monday, 1 December 2008 17:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 1 January 2009 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Finally saw The Last Picture Show since this thread started, and what an amazing erotic movie--except Bridges hasnone of it! His sexuality is so non-aggressive or traditional in film that maybe it's been neglected.
― Pete Scholtes, Thursday, 1 January 2009 18:07 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah this poll is impossible. He is a great actor and has played like every character, even though a lot of times its "jeff bridges as a ___", it doesn't matter -- cause its Jeff fuckin' Bridges!!! That said, I have to vote for Tron, because I have vote for Kevin Flynn, my inner 10 year old would hate me if I didn't.
― Viceroy, Thursday, 1 January 2009 19:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 2 January 2009 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Tron in second!
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Friday, 2 January 2009 00:03 (fifteen years ago) link
woah wait Jeff Bridges is in Tron? I have vivid memories of that film, and that face belongs to Jeff Daniels...
― Merdeyeux, Friday, 2 January 2009 04:04 (fifteen years ago) link
and that, folks, is how eyewitnesses have put thousands of people in jail for crimes they didn't commit
― TOMBOT, Friday, 2 January 2009 04:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Tron is no crime!
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Friday, 2 January 2009 05:52 (fifteen years ago) link
I saw him on Rollins' show a couple of years ago. He talked about Moondog and how he wouldn't be averse to playing him. . . .
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, 2 January 2009 08:02 (fifteen years ago) link
another five years or so and he'll be able to!
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 2 January 2009 10:16 (fifteen years ago) link
next Bridges poll w/ all '70s films so Lebowski and Tron can fuck right off
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 2 January 2009 17:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Lebowski is a truly great performance (and I saw that as a skeptic of the film at large), but Tron in second is some prime ILX/fanboy bullshit.
― Eric H., Friday, 2 January 2009 18:04 (fifteen years ago) link
this dude is basically the only guy who could get me to sit through a movie about a washed-up country singer and his late in life redemption
― max, Thursday, 19 November 2009 13:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I'll be seeing that FOR MY CONSIDERATION. didn't you see Rip Torn's washed-up country star movie?
(forgot to do the poll of the films max left out)
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 November 2009 14:16 (fourteen years ago) link
i clicked to make sure lebowski won and morbs got mad itt. as u were :)
― luol deng (am0n), Thursday, 19 November 2009 15:33 (fourteen years ago) link
American Heart is some excellent performing, from Bridges and one of those Edwards I always confuse (Norton? Furlong? one of them) Good luck finding it, though.
― Hey Jude, Thursday, 19 November 2009 23:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Lebowski is excellent, but Fearless is underappreciated, so my vote, if I'd voted, would have gone to it, just as a shout out to a great film and great performance.
― Aimless, Friday, 20 November 2009 05:08 (fourteen years ago) link
woulda voted last picture show
― Danny Duberstein (hmmmm), Friday, 20 November 2009 07:49 (fourteen years ago) link
really, watch Cutter's Way
― Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 November 2009 14:52 (fourteen years ago) link
he could certainly win the Oscar for Crazy Heart, and it wouldn't be a disgrace.
― Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 December 2009 06:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Can't believe Arlington Road got no votes!! Amazing movie, amazing performance.
― one boob is free with one (daavid), Friday, 4 December 2009 07:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Even better than digital jazz.
― I found him in a Bon Ton ad (Nicole), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 12:19 (eleven years ago) link
looking fwd to Hearts of the West tonight, haven't seen it in 30+ years.
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/hearts-of-the-west-slither
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 February 2013 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
unavailable on DVD either
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 21 February 2013 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
well yeah that's why im going, w/ a cold
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 February 2013 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
You can get a dvdr of HotW from Warner Archive.
― Big Sambola & The Tailspinners (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 21 February 2013 21:15 (eleven years ago) link
picture quality could be better, especially since they claim it's been "remeastered"
― Big Sambola & The Tailspinners (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 21 February 2013 21:17 (eleven years ago) link
yea, also "rent"/stream-able from amazon for $2.99
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 21 February 2013 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, I don't stream. Saw a decent 35mm print.
Alan Arkin: "You're fired, pissant, fired!"
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 February 2013 05:19 (eleven years ago) link
whenever i can't figure out what to watch, i watch cutter's way.
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 23:27 (eleven years ago) link
only seen it once
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 00:57 (eleven years ago) link
I watched The Last American Hero the other night for the first time in 30+ years. (It played on TV here regularly through the late '70s.) It's good, but I don't think as good as Kael writes ("The casting, the acting, and the milieu seem effortlessly, inexplicably right"). I think Heart Like a Wheel, where she wasn't especially enthusiastic, is the much better film. I wouldn't doubt that Tarantino's use of "I Got a Name" in Django was partly a nod to The Last American Hero.
― clemenza, Saturday, 4 May 2013 13:08 (eleven years ago) link
― Dr Morbius, Monday, December 1, 2008
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 4 May 2013 13:16 (eleven years ago) link
yeeesh - can't believe someone voted for anything having to do w/ the American remake of The Vanishing (aka Spoorloos!)
― i push more weight than giles corey (Pillbox), Saturday, 4 May 2013 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.dreamingwithjeff.com/
― polyphonic, Thursday, 29 January 2015 21:13 (nine years ago) link
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeff-bridges-met-wife-photo_5661ef65e4b072e9d1c61223
― Boz Scaggs was Adele back in 1976 (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 19:34 (eight years ago) link
that is fantastic
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 20:00 (eight years ago) link
http://www.fubiz.net/en/2015/04/02/pictures-taken-by-jeff-bridges-on-the-set-of-his-movies/This is widely known already, I assume? Not?
Some seriously amazing shots in there.
― the european nikon is here (grauschleier), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 20:51 (eight years ago) link
Cutter's Way Bluray has come out
http://www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/review/cutters-way
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 May 2016 16:07 (eight years ago) link
woo
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 May 2016 16:11 (eight years ago) link
Bridges seems to be trying to outgrizzle Old Kristofferson in HoHW, but it goes beyond that, esp in the last 20 minutes. Chris "Nu-Kirk" Pine is the revelation here, as it's a less showy role than Ben Foster's; Pine has the slump of a beaten man throughout.
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/08/hell-or-high-water.html
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 28 August 2016 00:48 (seven years ago) link
thoroughly enjoyed
― chicken lit (rip van wanko), Sunday, 28 August 2016 03:20 (seven years ago) link
i wanna see this
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 28 August 2016 05:54 (seven years ago) link
"hell or high water" is great btw, prob deserves its own thread
― have you ever even read The Drudge Report? Have you gone on Stormfron (k3vin k.), Monday, 5 September 2016 17:55 (seven years ago) link
probably at least David Mackenzie's best film
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 September 2016 17:56 (seven years ago) link
Ok (I haven't seen it yet), but has anyone seen Perfect Sense?
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Monday, 5 September 2016 18:12 (seven years ago) link
this was indeed a pretty excellent film, and pine was a surprise, although i suppose i could have done w/o the fashionable roots-rock that the characters would probably not have been caught dead listening to (except for waylon).
― wizzz! (amateurist), Monday, 5 September 2016 21:40 (seven years ago) link
Rather good.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 11 September 2016 17:40 (seven years ago) link
Agree that the final scene's tops. My review.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 11 September 2016 18:32 (seven years ago) link
I'm a bit surprised to see Bridges getting so much awards season notice for Hell or High Water, mostly because it seems like the kind of movie whose critical love was as much a result of it having been released in the slim pickings of summer than anything else. I thought it was reaching for No Country For Old Men but landed a lot closer to Shotgun Stories--hicksploitation cliches delivered with a straight enough face to convincingly fake Significance. Possibly the most overrated 2016 release I've seen so far.
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 11 January 2017 04:51 (seven years ago) link
You're right about everything except the hicksploitatin part. It's smarter than that.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 January 2017 11:31 (seven years ago) link
Stay Hungry is one odd duck of a movie
Bridges v RG Armstrong brawl at the end outshines any of the laidback Schwarzenegger scenes
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 December 2017 05:02 (six years ago) link
Aw man
As the Dude would say.. New S**T has come to light. I have been diagnosed with Lymphoma. Although it is a serious disease, I feel fortunate that I have a great team of doctors and the prognosis is good. I’m starting treatment and will keep you posted on my recovery.— Jeff Bridges (@TheJeffBridges) October 20, 2020
I’m profoundly grateful for the love and support from my family and friends.Thank you for your prayers and well wishes. And, while I have you, please remember to go vote. Because we are all in this together. https://t.co/6sAU4MYixlLove, Jeff— Jeff Bridges (@TheJeffBridges) October 20, 2020
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 00:06 (three years ago) link
Mr. Jeff Bridges has heretofore led something of a charmed life, but he has always repaid this inestimable gift by being, in return, endlessly charming. I wish him nothing but the best.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 02:59 (three years ago) link
well shit
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 03:00 (three years ago) link
Love this dude. Morbs was right: he and Dennis Quaid star in my slash fic version of Brokeback Mountain.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 July 2021 18:26 (two years ago) link
You know what movie always gets overlooked? "Starman." It's a John Carpenter film from his peak years, it got Bridges an Oscar nom, and yet ... afaict totally forgotten.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 July 2021 18:34 (two years ago) link
nice run-down, but no Fat City?
― Neil S, Friday, 23 July 2021 18:45 (two years ago) link
Starman was only available on a shitty pan'n'scan DVD for the longest time.
Bridges and Karen Allen were terrific together in it.
― “Heroin” (ft. Bobby Gillespie) (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 23 July 2021 19:31 (two years ago) link
― Neil S,
It's fine, sort of repeating himself that era.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 July 2021 19:32 (two years ago) link
Starman is on Netflix and is as wonderful as ever.
Died @ Alien Bridges saying goodbye to Charles Martin Smith. Had completely forgotten that it happened the way it happens.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 14 April 2024 01:48 (one month ago) link
They've also got Against All Odds.
Should I? I've seen Out of The Past.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 14 April 2024 01:51 (one month ago) link
He's getting a well-deserved Chaplin Award:
https://www.filmlinc.org/about-us/chaplin-award-gala/jeff-bridges/
Have not seen Against All Odds but I don't think I can watch a remake of Out of the Past, one of my favorites (and one by a really great filmmaker).
Cutter's Way may be my favorite Jeff Bridges film and performance though it's hard to pick a favorite when he's delivered a wide range of great performances. I really love him as Lebowski - it's not like playing Richard Bone demands similar qualities from Bridges, so it feels absurd to say either is better than the other.
― birdistheword, Sunday, 14 April 2024 02:00 (one month ago) link
Baker Boys was real hard to find on blu ray until last year when it was reissued. Copies were going for $100+. This article by a Seattle local sums up how I feel about it, it’s so crazily underrated. Shame that Kloves had to get involved with Rowling but at least it made him rich I guess.
https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/movies/the-fabulous-baker-boys-at-30-elegantly-captured-a-bygone-seattle-even-as-weve-moved-on/
― piscesx, Sunday, 14 April 2024 11:14 (one month ago) link
I think about Fat City all the time since seeing it a year or so ago
― Heez, Sunday, 14 April 2024 11:48 (one month ago) link
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain),
It has a schlocky charm. Bridges is illegally hot all pumped up. James Woods steals the show, as he often did during this era.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 April 2024 11:50 (one month ago) link
xps Baker Boys is really good. I'm not sure why the director hasn't made a lot of films, but at least he's had a lucrative career as a screenwriter. I'm sure the Harry Potter films alone made him comfortable for life but he also adapted Wonder Boys for Curtis Hanson, which may be my favorite film from either.
Fat City is great too - John Huston's had a very uneven filmmaking career, but that's definitely one of the gems from his later years.
― birdistheword, Sunday, 14 April 2024 17:54 (one month ago) link
I bought Fat City on Blu-Ray a few years ago and never got around to watching it. I have a copy of Cutter's Way, too. That one rules. (It's currently on Tubi.) I should watch Starman. I've always heard really good things about his performance in that.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Sunday, 14 April 2024 20:52 (one month ago) link
Just about every time I go to Lincoln Center these days, which has been a lot recently, I enjoy seeing the trailer for him and his award.
― Andrew Goldsoundz (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 April 2024 23:52 (one month ago) link
A terrific Bilge Ebri essay:
From the start, there was always something likable about Bridges. With those pleading eyebrows and that broad smile, he has a face that hovers between bafflement and acceptance, which is probably an attitude more relatable to the average viewer than the brooding turmoil of so many leading men of his generation. He moves with ease, but we can sense a halting indecision behind the eyes. Many of Bridges’s best films mine this tension, and part of his appeal as a movie star over the last 50-plus years is rooted in familiarity and openness. When we watch Jeff Bridges, we see, and understand, ourselves a little better.
https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/jeff-bridges-the-wanderer/
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 April 2024 22:13 (one month ago) link
*Ebiri