"Jim Dunbar"--I shouldn't, but I'm having a hard time remembering who that is. One of the local police?
― clemenza, Tuesday, 31 October 2023 22:07 (seven months ago) link
He appears as half of the duo having the TV conversation with the killer.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 22:09 (seven months ago) link
Ah, with Brian Cox/Melvin Belli.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 31 October 2023 22:12 (seven months ago) link
irl anchor of San Francisco KGOTV real ones know, clemenza
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 23:53 (seven months ago) link
Let us know what you thought, Raymond.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 1 November 2023 01:35 (seven months ago) link
Creepier and more corrosive than I remember. That “Hurdy Gurdy” song keeps coming up in my memory.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 2 November 2023 19:59 (seven months ago) link
Donovan can be used to such amazingly creepy effect in movies: throw in Goodfellas and To Die For.
― clemenza, Thursday, 2 November 2023 20:27 (seven months ago) link
JG’s performance more unnerving than I remembered, and of course I kept thinking of his role in “Nightcrawler”.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 2 November 2023 20:31 (seven months ago) link
He looks so haunted and broken towards the end. "I need...to know. I need to look him in the eye."
― clemenza, Thursday, 2 November 2023 21:10 (seven months ago) link
"Hurdy Gurdy Man" (and pop music in general) in Zodiac:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pb3AAT8HQA
The usual mistakes--I describe the beginning as the San Francisco night sky, forgetting the first murder takes place in Vallejo.
― clemenza, Thursday, 21 March 2024 21:56 (two months ago) link
(There's a part 1 to that, Donovan in various other films, that I will post later after I've had a chance to listen to it myself.)
― clemenza, Thursday, 21 March 2024 21:57 (two months ago) link
I thought this film would have a lingering effect on me when I moved to SF last summer. Instead it's just creeped me out about Vallejo.
― Cosmo Vitelli
belated but lol when i drove thru Vallejo a few years back i kept flashing back to that opening scene w/the wide shot of the city at night, fireworks popping off everywhere.
― omar little, Thursday, 21 March 2024 23:05 (two months ago) link
Exactly the shot I misidentify. Also, I had intended to talk about the supporting cast--I almost put it up there with Godfather II for all the small supporting roles beyond the three principals--and typically forgot.
― clemenza, Thursday, 21 March 2024 23:19 (two months ago) link
i've met two people who were in this film in very, very small but specifically memorable roles, one of whom i was kinda pals with through a place she worked, and the other because we were both helping install a mutual friend's front window.
― omar little, Thursday, 21 March 2024 23:27 (two months ago) link
If you don't mind me asking, which characters?
― clemenza, Thursday, 21 March 2024 23:28 (two months ago) link
for the former, she came upon Ione Skye on the side of the road after her encounter with the possible Zodiac, and the latter was more memorably the older Mike Mageau
― omar little, Thursday, 21 March 2024 23:33 (two months ago) link
(the former was credited as "woman" so maybe the role isn't that memorable)
― omar little, Thursday, 21 March 2024 23:34 (two months ago) link
Older Mike Mageau is great. Last three lines of the film are his: "It's at least an eight. Only other time I saw this face was on July 4, 1969. I'm very sure that's the man who shot me." The actor's name is Jimmi Simpson, and he was weirdly memorable in a couple of seasons of House of Cards as Gavin Orsay, a hacker being manipulated by the FBI.
― clemenza, Friday, 22 March 2024 00:52 (two months ago) link
Ahem that's MCPOYLE
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Friday, 22 March 2024 05:49 (two months ago) link
Pretty prominent role in Westworld too, I like seeing him in stuff
― Vinnie, Friday, 22 March 2024 09:05 (two months ago) link
Love him, but he'll never top It's Always Sunny. He really chews up the scenery in those appearances.
Used to be married to Melanie Lynskey too, but she's with Jason Ritter now.
― dan selzer, Friday, 22 March 2024 13:48 (two months ago) link
honestly never saw him in anything else! glad to report he was just a remarkably nice guy.
― omar little, Friday, 22 March 2024 16:41 (two months ago) link
emmy material https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7HURhtyHgE
― dan selzer, Friday, 22 March 2024 17:17 (two months ago) link
also find it humrous that young Mageau was the nerdy kid from One Tree Hill
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Friday, 22 March 2024 17:22 (two months ago) link
way overdue for a rewatch of this movie.
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Friday, 22 March 2024 17:23 (two months ago) link
xpost and MINKUS ON BOY MEETS WORLD WTF I NEVER MADE THE CONNECTION
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Friday, 22 March 2024 17:24 (two months ago) link