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
I CAN believe ILX hasn't seen any JB '70s films except King Kong and Fat City.
― Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 December 2009 14:33 (fourteen years ago) link
voted cutter's way
― SKATAAAAAAAAAAA (cozwn), Friday, 4 December 2009 14:35 (fourteen years ago) link
voted arlington road too, great performance
― SKATAAAAAAAAAAA (cozwn), Friday, 4 December 2009 14:36 (fourteen years ago) link
He seems very much like a broken-down Kris Kristofferson in Crazy Heart. He and Maggie Gyllenhaal make the film, and the songs are decent.
― Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 12 December 2009 15:51 (fourteen years ago) link
leaving los nashville
― donde está mia farrow, fa la la la la, la la la la (s1ocki), Saturday, 12 December 2009 17:06 (fourteen years ago) link
was i the one person who voted for tucker? i'd like to think i was
i want to see Crazy Heart
― Do you love me now? (surm), Friday, 18 December 2009 01:29 (fourteen years ago) link
why is jeff bridges so hot?
I immediately thought Tender Mercies II when I saw the preview to Crazy Heart and lo and behold Robert Duvall is in the movie!
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Friday, 18 December 2009 01:31 (fourteen years ago) link
great charlie rose interview right now
― Do you love me now? (surm), Friday, 18 December 2009 01:35 (fourteen years ago) link
wow, he just took it there. started talking about fear and shit. color me impressed.
― Do you love me now? (surm), Friday, 18 December 2009 01:42 (fourteen years ago) link
This is a bit less Horton Foote-somber than Tender Mercies.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 December 2009 04:34 (fourteen years ago) link
c. rose interview was fantastic
<3 so much after they showed the clip of robin williams talking abt bridges and they cut back to him and he's smiling so big and is all "eahhhhhh robin..."
― johnny crunch, Friday, 18 December 2009 18:09 (fourteen years ago) link
^probably watched this film once a year, every year since it came out.
― DavidM, Sunday, 30 November 2008 16:29 (1 year ago)
Oh snap, don't think I've watched FBB this year! So far, anyway. There's still time. It's a good Christmas movie, tbh, so I'd better get right on it.
― DavidM, Friday, 18 December 2009 18:33 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost YES!
― Do you love me now? (surm), Friday, 18 December 2009 18:39 (fourteen years ago) link
^probably watched this film once a year, every year since it came out.― DavidM, Sunday, 30 November 2008 16:29 (1 year ago)Oh snap, don't think I've watched FBB this year! So far, anyway. There's still time. It's a good Christmas movie, tbh, so I'd better get right on it.― DavidM, Friday, 18 December 2009 18:33 (1 week ago) Bookmark
― DavidM, Friday, 18 December 2009 18:33 (1 week ago) Bookmark
Nothing on telly so I watched The Fabulous Baker Boys. It's a good Christmas Day movie, if subdued, slightly melancholy movies fit your Christmas Day. They do me. Whatever happened to Michelle Pfeiffer btw? She's so good in this; so acerbic and deadpan, matches Jeff Bridges scene for scene.
― DavidM, Friday, 25 December 2009 16:24 (fourteen years ago) link
doin a q&a at the walter reade, JB fans
― high-five machine (schlump), Friday, 25 December 2009 19:10 (fourteen years ago) link
read that as duane reade, didnt think twice
― max, Friday, 25 December 2009 19:30 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe he'll do it as Duane
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Friday, 25 December 2009 19:41 (fourteen years ago) link
http://ticketing.filmlinc.com/single/EventDetail.aspx?p=18639
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 26 December 2009 00:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Cool interview with him here: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2009/12/14
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 8 January 2010 23:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Also: I watch FBB yearly too!
"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