He was even good in his brief appearance in Interstellar.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:44 (eight months ago) link
I like Wilkinson, loved him in Michael Clayton but that’s exactly my favourite kind of George Clooney movie
My actor uncle has at least twice gone off over dinner about how much he loathes Michael Douglas— but a large part of that is informed by his adulation for Kirk
― he’s an adventurer (derogatory) (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:44 (eight months ago) link
id swap woodface kirk all day for michael tbh bit that could be his style mixed with how he was cast back then
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:47 (eight months ago) link
Ya. I don’t mind Michael, but I loved The War Of The Roses and Romancing The Stone as a kid
― he’s an adventurer (derogatory) (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:50 (eight months ago) link
TS: Lloyd vs. Jeff
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:51 (eight months ago) link
Michael Douglas has this tick where he sighs to get him through what he thinks is a difficult line. Annoying as hell. A bit like Julia Roberts (whom I like!) and her throat-clearing thing.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:52 (eight months ago) link
xp Jeff, but I’m the worlds biggest Fisher King stan
T/S: Amanda Plummer vs Holly Hunter
― he’s an adventurer (derogatory) (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:55 (eight months ago) link
jeff all day! i think hes been brilliant across a lot of roles for a long long time
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:57 (eight months ago) link
we might think holly hunter gnawed her way through amanda plummers alternative career tbh?
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:58 (eight months ago) link
Yeah, I was kind of kidding about that, just thinking about actor fathers and actor sons. I honestly can't think of a thing that Lloyd Bridges was in. Something about scuba diving?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 30 December 2023 18:00 (eight months ago) link
Airplane!
― 1980 Jackanory spinoff (Matt #2), Saturday, 30 December 2023 18:03 (eight months ago) link
jimbeaux picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 30 December 2023 18:07 (eight months ago) link
Something about scuba diving?
Sea Hunt!
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 30 December 2023 18:10 (eight months ago) link
I always get Jeff Bridges and Jeff Daniels confused
James Garner and James Coburn also
Just from the names, I always have to look up which is which
― he’s an adventurer (derogatory) (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 30 December 2023 18:11 (eight months ago) link
High Noon!
― The Italian Yob (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 December 2023 18:12 (eight months ago) link
Lloyd probably spent longer playing spoofs of the hero persona than he did playing the hero
― emishi sun hack (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 30 December 2023 18:17 (eight months ago) link
Back on topic, today I cannot think of a worse actor than Jared Leto. Surely he’s adjacent to Bloom County
― he’s an adventurer (derogatory) (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 30 December 2023 18:22 (eight months ago) link
i always think hes unfairly criticised tbh hes a weird fellow who works pretty well as a weird fellow
thing he was in lately with denzel and remi malek he was perfect
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Saturday, 30 December 2023 18:30 (eight months ago) link
Again it's a surplus of ideas (in this case nearly all bad) that's the issue there
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 30 December 2023 18:50 (eight months ago) link
Leto's presence in a movie is an instant deal-breaker for me.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Saturday, 30 December 2023 19:42 (eight months ago) link
just sat through a legolas monologue
the bar is if anything undersold itt
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Saturday, 30 December 2023 20:11 (eight months ago) link
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― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 30 December 2023 20:36 (eight months ago) link
Acting on film isn’t really acting, there’s no such thing as bad acting, you just point the camera at someone pretty or funny-looking and that does most of the work, Robert bresson was right
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Sunday, 31 December 2023 15:55 (eight months ago) link
Acting is when an Australian does an American accent
Acting is all in the eyes.
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― jmm, Sunday, 31 December 2023 16:12 (eight months ago) link
silby a stór u are rarely wrong-wrong wrong but on this occasion alas
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Sunday, 31 December 2023 19:37 (eight months ago) link
My dumb opinion is indefensible but it’s mine
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Sunday, 31 December 2023 23:00 (eight months ago) link
Surely John Wayne should be on the shortlist for this.
― Marcel, Monday, 1 January 2024 10:54 (eight months ago) link
and terrible 'actors' with good presence dont qualify, harrison ford most certainly aint it
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 14:35 (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 1 January 2024 11:04 (eight months ago) link
I've ctrl-f'ed the shit out of the thread and can't find mention of Clive Owen.
Now, I think he's perfect in *Children of Men*, but could easily be convinced it's a fluke that his dead-eyed shamble was just what was needed. Maybe I'm just scarred by *Closer*.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Monday, 1 January 2024 14:53 (eight months ago) link
I liked him as the drug addicted doctor in The Knick and in Gosford Park, he doesn't seem like a bad actor to me. Bad decision to do that Patrick Marber shite.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 1 January 2024 15:10 (eight months ago) link
i think hes under consideration as an awful actor tbh, that one with bellucci and giamatti was i think the last movie i walked out of the cinema on
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 1 January 2024 15:29 (eight months ago) link
his turn in the bourne identity kind of brings him fairly high above bloom bar tho
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 1 January 2024 15:30 (eight months ago) link
I've ctrl-f'ed the shit out of the thread and can't find mention of Clive Owen. Now, I think he's perfect in *Children of Men*, but could easily be convinced it's a fluke that his dead-eyed shamble was just what was needed. Maybe I'm just scarred by *Closer*.
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Monday, 1 January 2024 15:33 (eight months ago) link
heh! you won't be impressed that I put the screenplay of Closer into the burner during my book-burning spree last summer, then.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 1 January 2024 15:42 (eight months ago) link
Closer is great and him in it.
Oof. I hated every square inch of it. It's the best part of 20 years since I've seen it, but there are certain lines I remember that make me do a kind of internal 'chucks script across room' swim in my guts. Don't make me watch it again to check!
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Monday, 1 January 2024 16:21 (eight months ago) link
We could just stop naming people with at least one good performance in them and respect the fact that the bar is Bloom
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Monday, 1 January 2024 16:24 (eight months ago) link
i will tap the sign that reminds us all that this is a discussion thread and nominations are welcome as long as nobody gets precious about their nominations being immediately flung out
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 1 January 2024 16:27 (eight months ago) link
I feel like I’ve mentioned Clive Owen in a previous thread, he sucks. I only once saw Closer when it came out and don’t care to revisit it. He sucked in Croupier, he lucked into a great film with Children Of Men but conspicuously was extremely out-charisma’d by Caine and Moore, his entire sequence in Sin City leaves me punching the couch in boredom (in part because of perennial deadweight Rosario Dawson). He always plays Brits but specifically that kinda Guy Ritchie version of cartoon Britishness. Ryan Philippe alone saved him from being the weakest link in Gosford Park
That said Owen’s been in too many things that I haven’t seen (GG nom for a doctor role? Played Bill Clinton in something else?) that I can’t totally write him off. I think I just watch dumb bad films. He’s probably great in those good cool films that I haven’t seen him in.
― he’s an adventurer (derogatory) (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 1 January 2024 16:28 (eight months ago) link
dont bank on it
rosario dawson slander btw what
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 1 January 2024 16:30 (eight months ago) link
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Monday, January 1, 2024 4:24 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Can any among us truly say that they've watched the entire filmography of The Bloom? Perhaps there's a decent performance or two lurking in the archives! Sympathy for Delicious (2010), maybe. Or his 1997 role as 'rentboy' in Wilde. You never know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_Bloom#Filmography
― CDs sound better than vinyl (Matt #2), Monday, 1 January 2024 16:38 (eight months ago) link
i will tap the sign that reminds us all that this is a _discussion_ thread and nominations are welcome as long as nobody gets precious about their nominations being immediately flung out
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Monday, 1 January 2024 16:47 (eight months ago) link
_We could just stop naming people with at least one good performance in them and respect the fact that the bar is Bloom― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Monday, January 1, 2024 4:24 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink_Can any among us truly say that they've watched the entire filmography of The Bloom? Perhaps there's a decent performance or two lurking in the archives! Sympathy for Delicious (2010), maybe. Or his 1997 role as 'rentboy' in Wilde. You never know.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_Bloom#Filmography🕸
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Monday, 1 January 2024 16:48 (eight months ago) link
Ryan Philippe…You might have something there. Even though I really do like Cruel Intentions
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Monday, 1 January 2024 16:49 (eight months ago) link
― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Monday, 1 January 2024 17:01 (eight months ago) link
Limited range isn't the same as bad. Wayne knew which roles suited his ability and just about the only time he strayed into territory where he was stupidly miscast was that movie where he played Genghis Khan. Otherwise he habitually filled roles of the sort where his heroines wore beautifully tailored gingham dresses and you might find Gabby Hayes sharing a scene. In those films he was good.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 1 January 2024 17:35 (eight months ago) link
The quality I like best on Wayne is listening to an actor in character.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 January 2024 17:36 (eight months ago) link
In
Philippe worked in Gosford Park because the character seemed to have been written for him: a bad actor playing a bad actor. When Philippe was in everything around 98-02 or w/e I came home to see my mom watching something with him in it. I said “oh he’s such a bad actor” and she said “I’ll watch that dreamboat in anything”. His function seemed to be solely to embody white twink smoulder and he was def the ne plus ultra of that particular job
― he’s an adventurer (derogatory) (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 1 January 2024 17:45 (eight months ago) link
John Wayne does a great job of doing a complex bad guy in Red River - that is acting!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 1 January 2024 17:46 (eight months ago) link