Taking Sides: Jeff Bridges vs. Bill Pullman

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Also, jeffbridges.com vs. billpullman.org. That's right, billpullman.ORG.

― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 29 March 2003 09:11 (twenty-three years ago)

they're very different actors - jeff bridges the perrenial 'most underrated actor in hollywood' (tm Ny Times 1992) whereas noone (besides Griel Marcus) would say that about Bill Pullman. Pullman would've fit in very well in one of those 80s 'yuppie meets soho chick, chaos ensues' flicks, Something Wild, After Hours, etc. Bridges was the better Clinton.

― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 29 March 2003 09:15 (twenty-three years ago)

(I like Bill Pullman because he's cuter.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 29 March 2003 09:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Jeff Bridges is one of my all-time favourites, so this is an easy one.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 29 March 2003 12:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I gotta go with the hometown boy (Chelsea, MI).... Jeff Bridges.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Saturday, 29 March 2003 14:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Jeff Bridges in The Big Lebowski. Perhaps the best comedy the Coehn Brothers have ever made, and one of Bridges' most efortless and outstanding performances. But Bill Pullman was in Spaceballs...hmmm. Nope, Bridges kicks his ass.

― tiiiiiiiiiim, Saturday, 29 March 2003 14:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Jeff Bridges all the way. Bill Pullman has a look on his face like he's constantly has a high heel shoved up his ass while being pumped by a blvd. transvestite. Yeah, I'm not crazy about the guy.

― Carey (Carey), Saturday, 29 March 2003 14:43 (twenty-three years ago)

i have one word for you people: TRON.

― di smith (lucylurex), Saturday, 29 March 2003 14:51 (twenty-three years ago)

haven't seen it ;)

Bridges

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 29 March 2003 14:56 (twenty-three years ago)

If you have not seen Tron, I despair.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 29 March 2003 15:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Another word for you people: Cutter's Way.

― Cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 29 March 2003 15:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Bridges, people. Bridges. Last Picture Show, Fearless etc. I'm not a big fan of Lebowski but his work in it is superb.

― slutsky (slutsky), Saturday, 29 March 2003 17:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Did Nabisco mean Jeff Daniels, who looks exactly like Bill Pullman tho I'm not sure which one is more annoying?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 29 March 2003 17:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Aside from his performance in Ruthless People ("and then we're off...to HAITI"), I have no respect for Bill Pullman. Jeff Bridges has done great, great work.

Bill Pullman was the possibly the worst SNL host ever. There were funny skits that he just sucked the LIFE out of when he walked on the set. I can't imagine somebody prefering Pullman to Bridges unless they had never seen a Bridges film and Jeff once ran over their cat.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 29 March 2003 17:32 (twenty-three years ago)

If you have not seen Tron, I despair.

i have, it was just the obligatory Simpsons reference of the day

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 29 March 2003 17:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I actually was going to use Jeff Daniels at first, but then I figured why not give Pullman a challenge.

Feel free to do a three-way ranking: Daniels vs. Pullman vs. Bridges.

― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 29 March 2003 19:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Bridges vs. Daniels is much tougher. Bridges went farther ah-ctingwise but Daniels is consistently charming. I'll give it to Bridges for range I guess, but Daniels is MILES above Pullman.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 29 March 2003 19:41 (twenty-three years ago)

If Daniels played Meg Ryan's fiancee in Sleepless In Seattle, people would have realized what an ASSHOLE she was for dumping him out of the blue.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 29 March 2003 19:42 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

BRIDGES

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 2 August 2004 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

All. The. Way.

I just saw The Contender recently, and he makes a fantastic POTUS.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 2 August 2004 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

see you in the morning!

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 2 August 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

David Thomson's latest:

So while, in person, Jeff Bridges never exactly gives the game away - he never chuckles that movie-acting is a pretty damn stupid business - still, he never owns up to his habit of making "non-hits". It's not exactly that they're flops: only a few have fallen that far, hardly more than a dozen. Maybe 15. No, it's rather that he prefers to make off-beat pictures, ones against the grain - difficult, doubting pictures, ones that are quietly attached to an archaic principle: that, once upon a time, movies were determined by the pain of grown men and women soaked in years of sadness and experience, and fairly sure that a similar crowd of pained people existed, to be referred to as "the audience".

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/film/features/article358097.ece

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 20 April 2006 12:00 (twenty years ago)

that one finally makes clear to me why britishes like thomson, but i don't

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 20 April 2006 12:33 (twenty years ago)

Bill Pullman was good in Zero Effect, but I can't help but wonder at how much better Lost Highway would have been with Bridges or Daniels.

― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:58 (twenty years ago)

gotta be bridges.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:02 (twenty years ago)

i love them all and i still can't tell 'em apart

― stockholm cindy: comedy vigilante (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:04 (twenty years ago)

Ha, dude, when I started this thread I totally obviously meant Jeff Daniels. I like that part up there where I pretend like I switched it on purpose.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:29 (twenty years ago)

it gets tougher when you throw william hurt into the mix...

― stockholm cindy: comedy vigilante (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:31 (twenty years ago)

Bridges. Love Zero Effect. Must see. Pullman's great. But, c'mon, Big Lewbowski? Bridges is The Dude, fer chrissakes.

― Fluffy Bear Hearts The Dude (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:31 (twenty years ago)

Daniels? Way Pullman, dude. Daniells has been in a bunch of great movies, but he bugs.

― Fluffy Bear Hearts High Heel Up the Ass Guy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:35 (twenty years ago)

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~rn6d-hnd/people/bill_paxton.jpg

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Thursday, 20 April 2006 20:11 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.magictheatre.org/season0708/expedition.shtml

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 04:24 (eighteen years ago)

Just watched Mr. Pullman in The Accidental Tourist, where he lent a certain forgettable boyish blankness to his supporting character. It was as if the part could have been played by anyone able to breathe, but that could just have been Pullman's talent for avoiding becoming a distraction.

Jeff Bridges probably would have played up that character into something more definite, perhaps even memorable, and thus might have risked stealing scenes from the lead actor, William Hurt.

― Aimless, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 04:40 (eighteen years ago)

I recall reading several profiles of Bridges around the time of Fearless with that "most underrated" stuff -- publicist must've been pushing it that year. She/he was right.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 10:24 (eighteen years ago)

JB was also on Henry Rollins' show a while back. They talked about their mutual Moondog fandom.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 10:24 (eighteen years ago)

Bridges is great in Fearless just for keeping his composure while Rosie Perez screeches.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

there's no contest here.

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

(bridges)

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

seven years pass...

Bridges has a new spoken word album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtmbzuZj1R8

― The inscrutable idiot savantism of (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 18:43 (eleven years ago)

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