I think it's fine to anticipate Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom

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speaking of which, i see woody has reeled in ellen paige for his next one

also: young kids do what you tell them to do.
lol what

i wouldn't have wanted to see any more or any less of Keitel in this

I've already seen ALL of Keitel several times (Bruce Willis too, unfortunately)

i would've liked to have seen less of the stupid rescue scene

shakey i know you did not just trash color of the night

i like wes anderson's thing for casting men who are atypically good-looking and often kind of beaten-up or busted-nosed or sagging-faced. save for luke wilson, of course...

Bruce Willis gets naked in like 3/4s of the movies he appears in!

also I am allowed to hate him! he makes movies worse!

sheesh

no he doesn't!

you like die hard, though, right, shakey?

lol what

lol I knew this would raise eyebrows. I'm just saying that even Truffaut would agree that the worst six-year-old tantrum is less onerous than a sixty-year-old star's.

I have never seen the entirety of Die Hard and have no plans to. don't even bother.

ha I love you Shakey

Willis has been at least terrific or better in Mortal Thoughts, Pulp Fiction, Nobody's Fool, and The Sixth Sense.

pretty good on miami vice also. best performance in moonrise kingdom also w/ possible exception of the girl (though who can tell w/ kids).

shakey have you seen die hard 3: die hard w/ a vengeance. pretty pretty good, esp if you like puzzles. graham greene is in it. not THAT graham greene though.

Willis will either win a Lifetime Achievement Oscar or one for a shitty film in which he befriends a young punk-ass who wants to fight German terrorists in skyscrapers while in his bare feet.

I have seen Die Hard 3. I saw it in the theater with a friend who was trying to convince me that Willis was "the American Chow Yun Fat"

some highlights of Bruce's finest moments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6aTqBL62Yo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDXkd2NyCCE

I could make fun of you singing in the shower too

maybe but you couldn't make fun of me for attending the '92 GOP convention

wow shakey you hate robert mitchum or telly savalas also?

are you seriously dismissing an actor for being an ass in his personal life?

Mitchum is great in at least several great films, spanning several decades and styles (Night of the Hunter, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, and Dead Man, off the top of my head). Telly I have no real opinion on. he reminded people to love him, or something, iirc...?

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i kept thinking 'these kids are gonna get swept out to sea and we're supposed to think it's sad or tragic but all i'm going to think is 'thank god'.'

doop doop doo taking this out of context later

is that a Steely Dan lyric

Willis' personal life is just the shitty icing on a shitty cake imho.

Pulp Fiction is Tarantino's worst movie, can't stand Willis in it apart from a couple minutes (his scenes with his wife are unbearable). 12 Monkeys is okay, he's the worst thing in it, mystified as to what Gilliam saw in him. 5th Element I have some issues with but again Willis is the most irritating thing in it, (mostly because he is not a setpiece designed by Moebius lol). I can't think of any other movies I even like that he is in for any appreciable amount of time.

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find it hard to believe any grown man could not have an opinion on telly savalas

I remember enjoying Moonlighting at the time. otoh I was like 11 and haven't seen it since.

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lol willis most irritating thing in it? did you turn it off before chris tucker popped up or before gary oldman spoke or before tricky 'acted' or before love Love LOVE was the fifth element?

strongly suspect allyce beasley is best thing in moonlighting (maybe booger?). plus pretty hard to hate bruce willis when hate magnet cybill shepard is right. there.

Savalas has been dead for almost 20 years, I imagine there are a fair amount of grown men who have no idea who he even is. I think the only thing I may have seen him in is the Dirty Dozen...? which I probably slept most of the way through.

re: 5th Element - some of those things are bad, but at least they are bad in a way that is very much in the spirit of the source material (ie Metal Hurlant). I don't really like that movie much tbh. I enjoy it more when it's just on in the background and I don't have to make any effort to follow it or listen to it

I gasped when I saw Keitel. I had no idea he was in this until that moment. More Keitel would have been welcome obv but the person I was left really wanting more of was Schwartzman.

I do remember that my favorite episode of the Moonlighting was the one where Beazley and Booger take on a case by themselves (I don't think Willis/Shepard even appear?)

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'Willis was "the American Chow Yun Fat"'

i kinda want to see chow yun fat in a wes anderson movie. not as a manservant though.

I know Morbs is off the grid due to being on vacation, Shakey, but you're really taking this curmudgeon game seriously today

i think that's toward the end when shepard was flaking out big time, willis was already looking to movies, and glenn gordon caron had a hard time getting episodes in on time (and frequently failed iirc).

honestly not Morbzing here, ILX is the only place I frequent where Bruce Willis is so roundly praised so I guess my opinion sticks out

critics have routinely praised Willis for years!

I only like a handful of things he's done but I think he does a quiet confidence well

i wonder how many times willis was on the moonrise kingdom set thinking 'starting to get a north vibe here'.

willis is great onscreen, even in shitty movies. he's got tons of presence, rarely seems affected or "actorly", undercuts his glib charm with a sense of wounded depth and any angst with self-deprecating wit. think he's a complete dork in real life and wish he picked more interesting projects in general, but he's easily my favorite action-hero/leading man-type actor of the past few decades.

This seems like the appropriate place and time to talk about the soft spot I have for Hudson Hawk. I have it on DVD.

so do i!

willis h8rs gtfo

mainly, initially I found the idea of Bruce Willis in a Wes Anderson film incongruous, but then I remembered the affected quality of Hudson Hawk, one of its strengths, such as they are, and I thought to myself "this will probably work out really well."

Willis is almost always great when it crops up in stuff like "Fast Food Nation" or "Pulp Fiction" or "Nobody's Fool" or as himself in "Oceans 12" or even in unconventional (for him) leading roles like "12 Monkeys" or "Sixth Sense" or even "Fifth Element."

"12 Monkeys" or "Sixth Sense" or even "Fifth Element."

Apart from the Die Hards, these are my favorite things Bruce Willis has done (and I could conceivably add "Moonrise Kingdom" to the list).

Also, he was pretty good in "Unbreakable" too, but that movie had huge issues.

yeah on both points

man i need to watch nobody's fool again. i also need to not always hear that kenny loggins song in my head whenever i hear the phrase 'nobody's fool'.