Jesse Eisenberg, C or D?

The NY Times did their Whatcha Readin' feature w/ him.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/books/review/jesse-eisenberg-by-the-book.html

What are your favorite books about acting?

I love David Mamet’s “True and False,” even though it is considered “controversial” amongst actors (try pulling out a copy at Sardi’s), and I really liked Uta Hagen’s book “Respect for Acting,” which offered me the best acting advice: If you have to act stoned, imagine a helium balloon inflating inside your skull. In all of my plays, my characters spend much of the show high, so I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this.

Has a lot going on: acting, writing plays, this:

http://media.sunherald.com/smedia/2015/09/08/11/48/708-Pq0f3.AuSt.55.jpeg

ffs

So he's the bastard child of James Franco and Michael Cera?

lazy

don't think JF has written any plays (that have gotten staged off-Bway anyhoo)

@NickPinkerton
More like Now I Won't See That 2, amIrite?

I couldn't get through that American ultra one w k-stew, which I thought would be fun :|

i cannot bleeeeve that Now You See Me thing got a sequel

how is this not called now you see me again

American Ultra was tone-deaf, stupid violence relieved by moments of emo shit from umsympathetic cunts

I thought Eisenburg in 'End of the Tour' was very much like his Zuckerburg portrayal, until the end of the film when the real Lipsky is shown and, well, he was a lot like Eisenberg's Zuck too

#whiteguys

something kind of panama-papers-esque abt the cast posters for now you see me ii, like they are just straightforwardly indexing celebrity avarice

American Ultra was tone-deaf, stupid violence relieved by moments of emo shit from unsympathetic cunts

― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Wednesday, May 25, 2016 2:10 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

awful movie. Eisenberg is so irritating - he plays a slight variation on Zuckerberg in every movie. Louder Than Bombs was also terrible.

can't believe i only just saw Adventureland. totally off the radar in the Uk but is now popping up everywhere in those 'under rated movies to see' type lists. it's *excellent* fun.

i cannot bleeeeve that Now You See Me thing got a sequel

The first one, not the sequel.

Also putting this here for further reference, from Hurting2 on Worst Big Budget Hollywood Movies of All Time--Nominate Three

Now You See Me was on HBO last night -- good LORD what a hot pile of garbage! How did they get such a decent cast to do such a horrendous film?

I watched that on a plane and rather enjoyed it in a turn your brain off way.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Sunday, February 23, 2014 12:59 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It seems like an airplane kind of film. The plot was on the level of a saturday morning cartoon.

Was reminded today that I used to get The Education of Charlie Banks (w/Eisenberg), Charlie Bartlett (w/Yelchin) (RIP), and Rocket Science (w/some dude and a pre-glam Anna Kendrick) mixed up all the time.

Free Samples (four years old--he's not the lead) isn't bad. I liked all the performances (Tippi Hedren's really good); could have used a better soundtrack.

feel like this guy is bad

might just be his unlikeability tho idk

He's limited, for sure--all his mannerisms were in place as early as The Squid and the Whale. I tend to like him anyway.

His New Yorker comedy bits are pretty funny, iirc.

He's good in "Night Moves"

Probably already said this upthread but imo the most loathsome & repellent actor working today, tied with Oscar Isaac. It's funny though, the first performances I saw by both of them (Squid and the Whale, Inside Llewyn Davis) were fantastic. Maybe those roles just suited the qualities that bug me now - Eisenberg's creepy/pedantic/neurotic nerd thing, and Isaac's utter lack of charisma.

Not quite as awful as Michael Cera.

I thought everyone liked Oscar Isaac, can't make sense of the hate there.

yeah, yr bananas fb

Eisenberg is fine w/in his range, when the character isn't too annoying (eg Zuckerberg)

His New Yorker comedy bits are pretty funny, iirc.

perhaps he's a golem under construction by Woody Allen

Does flappy bird have any correct opinions

(Oscar Isaac is great)

He's good in "Night Moves"

Yes, a much better sinister slant on that thing he does than the Snyder monstrosity (I'd imagine - never gonna watch it)

I gotta check out Night Moves, I absolutely loved Certain Women and feel like I need to see everything by Kelly Reichardt now (including Meek's Cutoff, which I hated at the time).

I just feel like Eisenberg has a really limited range, and whenever he ventures out of that, he seems way out of his depth (awful movie, but American Ultra is a good example of this). He's great when he's playing envious cretins like Lipsky in the DFW movie though. I don't find him as repellent as Isaac - I just couldn't stand him in A Most Violent Year (bad Corleone cosplay) and Ex Machina (asshole asshole asshole). I keep an open mind though because I loved Llewyn Davis.

re: Oscar Isaac, maybe try Show Me a Hero if yr not too sick of David Simon?

Word, I'll check that out, haven't kept up with him post-Wire but I love David Simon...

So you didnt think he did a good enough job playing an asshole in ex machina?

Or played it so well you were convinced that he must be an asshole in real life too.

The thing I liked about him in Llewyn Davis was that he was constantly failing and being shitted on by the universe. In all these other movies, he's an asshole and in more of a position of power, even though he ends up dead in Ex Machina. every time i see him i'm just like "this prick."

now you see me is on its actually hilarious on many levels some intentional

he looks like a musketeer in this movie its quite something

and i mean ruffalo, harrelson, this is fun

certainly the best movie caine and freeman have both been in

whaaaaaat

took ye long enough

C: Zombieland
D: Playing an incel Lex Luthor

he's a big Ween fan apparently, gotta love him

took ye long enough

― ɪmˈpəʊzɪŋ (darraghmac), Monday, February 18, 2019 1:00 AM (seventeen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

your post was like some kind of goat-ear horn blast that calls out to cinephiles within a 200-mile radius.

DUD

the really fun part is wondering whether it’s a Batman movie or a Zach Braff effort that Morbs is outraged on behalf of

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The Social Mimework

now you mi me

Army of Shaddups

Saw a trailer tonight for his first film as a director.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbgJPKFxHXI

Pretty much exactly what you'd expect. I will see it and hope for the best.

Saw When You Finish Saving the World tonight. I'd been looking forward to it: one, I love Eisenberg in The Squid and the Whale and The Social Network (and thought he was pretty good in two or three other films); two, it looked like something I'd like. I was hoping for something along the lines of Jonah Hill's Mid90s.

Found Finn Wolfhard as the son intensely unlikeable right from the start (realizing he was largely meant to be). The surprise was that by about the halfway mark, I started to dislike Julianne Moore's mom almost as much. So, intentional or otherwise, just watching the two of them wasn't pleasant, even exhausting at times. It all coalesces right at the end, though, with a nice final shot and--I hadn't been thinking about it through the film--a title that, if you were to sum everything up in a sentence or two, makes perfect sense. Getting there, quite a mess. Eisenberg wrote the film, too, so I assume there's a large autobiographical component. There's enough there that I hope he gets a second chance.

(Wolfhard's live-streaming reminded me of Eighth Grade, which I saw around the same time as Mid90s; initially liked Hill's film better, but after watching both a second time they pulled about even.)