Brad Pitt: C or D

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I'm watching 12 Monkeys at the moment and I've got to say, the guy's a fucking genius. I would really love to invite him around to my house, smoke some weed, and just chill out with him. He just seems like a really cool guy.

Is this incredibly sad? Perhaps. I am a bit drunk.

Thoughts? Comments?

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:33 (nineteen years ago) link

"a bit"?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Well, I'm coherent, aren't I? Deranged but coherent.

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:35 (nineteen years ago) link

i like him, even in Snatch - best worst fake accent since Tony Curtis in Some Like It Hot, maybe

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:36 (nineteen years ago) link

there was a cover story in the "sun-times" recently about brad pitt buying up this funky art by some chicago teenager (who has got her stuff in the m.c.a.).

his jowls scare me, otherwise classic.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Are your British, Steve? I was hanging around with a bunch of comedians from the UK and we had a conversation about fake accents, IIRC they thought Brad Pitt's performance was pretty incredible.

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:39 (nineteen years ago) link

I didn't like all that twitchy, actorish acting in 12 monkeys. I don't really understand why he's so big.

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:40 (nineteen years ago) link

you didn't know i was British?! haha...dam right cowboy, oh wait...i can never decide if Pitt's accent in Snatch is good or bad tho in truth - either way v funny

i liked his turn in Friends as well, playing the formerly fat guy Rachel used to pick on in high school - smart of the writers to throw him in as someone who would despise Aniston's character

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:41 (nineteen years ago) link

I really like Brad Pitt as an actor, not just for his looks. Meet Joe Black sucked though, which is surprising as I'm a girl!

His accent in snatch is totally classic!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Classic in exactly the context Andrew describes - smoking weed, getting drunk, hanging out, etc.

His butchering of the classics (in Troy), however, not so classic. He's just too modern.

His terrible Oirish accent in Snatch is a great send up of his own terrible Irish accent in The Devil's Own.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Sorry I'm a bit disoriented and confused. I've never been able to remember where all the ILXors are from.

He was good in Friends, if only because I despise the entire cast.

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Troy wore down a lot of my regard for him. and Ocean's Twelve probably won't do much either.

He's very personable in the right role. Search: Snatch, Twelve Monkeys, Se7en and of course Fight Club.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Dude, how can it lower your regard? :-) Only if you haven't seen Meet Joe Black, I guess. Actually I think he was *pretty* okay in Troy. I like his acting method:it's as if he really doesn't give a shit, not doing a *job* (like Bob DeNiro sometimes painfully likes to put across).

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I aspire to one day get David Bowie and Brad Pitt to come over and chill out with me. It would be the grandest day ever.

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Classic. He was brilliant in True Romance. "don't fuckin condescend me man, I'll fuck...in kill you."

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:45 (nineteen years ago) link

oh yeah Chris totally on the mark there, one of my fave films!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:47 (nineteen years ago) link

("chill out" may or may not mean "have sex")

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:48 (nineteen years ago) link

thelma and louise doods

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:48 (nineteen years ago) link

He's been slowly degenerating into a massive dud ever since he got together with that 4nist0n hag. Actually, make that P4ltr0w. As time passes he becomes more infatuated with his physique than with his acting career, which up to the moment had been a choice blueprint in how to choice pick one's roles. (Jump to cue: CAN YOU BLAME HIM?!! HE'S SOOO HAWT)

As if it already weren't clear, I despise Friends with all my being. Even as funny as it can be, every now and then.

― Fr4ncis W4tlingt0n (Francis Watlington), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:49 (nineteen years ago) link

I think the only "brad pitt movie" I've seen as such was something called...Johnny Suede? I think? It was strange and poorly paced. He was kinda rockabilly.

― sgs (sgs), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:55 (nineteen years ago) link

"Hey...could you get some beer...and some...cleaning products."

"You guys want to smoke a bowl - " *shotgun loading* " - Oh..."

CLASSIC

― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:55 (nineteen years ago) link

What film is that from? It rings a definite bell.

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:57 (nineteen years ago) link

True Romance

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:58 (nineteen years ago) link

the lines in that movie alone. "you want me to to suck his dick."

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:58 (nineteen years ago) link

From Johnny Suede, A River Runs Through It, Cool World, Thelma and Louise, Kalifornia, True Romance, Interview with the Vampire, Fight Club, Meet Joe Black, 12 Monkeys, Seven, and Legends of the Fall to The Mexican, Spy Game, Ocean's Eleven, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Troy, and...AND FRIENDS...well, I mean, now that I look at that list, it ain't half bad (or bad at all, actually, being as I always overreact)...but it still doesn't erase the fact I'm bitter he's become more commercial. I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels this way. I used to await his new movies as a thrilled fan, in awe of his mock diversity and well, fervently enamoured by his slack coolness. But now, he's just another Hollywood pinup boy. Actually, THE prototypical Hollywood pinup boy. Another rebel co-opted!

― Fr4ncis W4tlingt0n (Francis Watlington), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Johnny Suede? I think? It was strange and poorly paced. He was kinda rockabilly.
-- sgs (sarahsonni...), June 4th, 2004.

Johnny Suede = COOLEST movie evar

― Fr4ncis W4tlingt0n (Francis Watlington), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:12 (nineteen years ago) link

scrwany Brad could still be a pinp

― Fr4ncis W4tlingt0n (Francis Watlington), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:13 (nineteen years ago) link

scrawny even

― Fr4ncis W4tlingt0n (Francis Watlington), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:14 (nineteen years ago) link

He was always a pinup, though. His role in Thelma & Louise = a bit of rough.

Also I thought Meet Joe Black was shit and subjectively 10 hours long? Not that I've seen it.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh come on. Rebel or no, who wouldn't jump at the chance ot star in a film like Troy? That kind of shit is a) a goldmine and b) must be shitloads of fun to do.

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Andrew, in case nobody told you, I was PUTTING YOU ON with that last line, MAN!!!

― Fr4ncis W4tlington (Francis Watlington), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:21 (nineteen years ago) link

And I liked Troy. A lot. I just thought his acting was kinda crap on that.

― Fr4ncis W4tlington (Francis Watlington), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Did I not mention I'm a bit drunk? I'm sure I did.

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:22 (nineteen years ago) link

"I'm a bit drunk?"

Haha. For a minute there, I had a WTF? moment, since it's 8:30 AM over here.

― Fr4ncis W4tlingt0n (Francis Watlington), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:27 (nineteen years ago) link

brad pitt is better than michael flatley

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:29 (nineteen years ago) link

It's 10:30pm. I'm eating pizza, drinking beer, watching 12 Monkeys, and hope to go out soon.

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:31 (nineteen years ago) link

brad pitt? commercial?

― shocked! (amateurist), Friday, 4 June 2004 19:18 (nineteen years ago) link

He's too pretty, its hard for a bloke to like a pretty-boy onscreen.

He can only do two things as an actor : play a cool character - basically cos he looks so good (see Oceans Eleven where all he does is pose in nice clothes and act cool, also Fight Club) and play a dumb character (see Seven, True Romance, etc).

His accent in Snatch : perfect. He's playing an Irish traveller, and though he;s sposed to be incomprehensible to US and UK ears, to me it was all pretty easy to understand. But the accent is OTM.

― David Nolan (David N.), Friday, 4 June 2004 23:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Anyone hear him narrating the Nick Drake prog?
Me neither.

― de, Friday, 4 June 2004 23:17 (nineteen years ago) link

i like him, even in Snatch

Jennifer likes him in Snatch.

...did I just say that out loud?

― Pack Yr Romantic Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 5 June 2004 00:19 (nineteen years ago) link

"I didn't like all that twitchy, actorish acting in 12 monkeys. I don't really understand why he's so big."

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― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 5 June 2004 00:38 (nineteen years ago) link

he's not big because of anything having to do with "acting skills". he's a pretty boy movie star! though he's not a bad actor i guess.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 5 June 2004 00:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Meet Joe Black sucked though, which is surprising as I'm a girl!

do WHAT now? that's exactly the kind of thinking that makes me unhappy to be a girl, and even unhappier to have liked der Pitt in Fight Club

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Saturday, 5 June 2004 03:10 (nineteen years ago) link

The fact that Brad Pitt is goodlooking is neither here nor there, and me being a girl doesn't have any influence on what films I like.
Or, what Donna said.

Brad Pitt, for what it's worth, is shit at accents (The Devil's Own, Snatch, Seven Years in Tibet) but by and large makes some decent films. There are far worse films in the world than Meet Joe Black.

Why all the love for his cameo in Friends though? His comedic skills were a bit lame, I thought.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 5 June 2004 12:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Watson OTM. Pitt showed himself up a bit in Friends - only the great writing and supporting cast saved him.

Just watched Val Kilmer in an old Saturday Night Live sketch - he really IS a great comedic actor.

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 5 June 2004 12:10 (nineteen years ago) link

I like him although he's not my physical type at all. I'd love to share a joint with him.

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 5 June 2004 13:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Just watched Val Kilmer in an old Saturday Night Live sketch - he really IS a great comedic actor.

Kilmer started off brilliantly -- Top Secret, Real Genius -- but somewhere he really lost it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 5 June 2004 13:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Pitt always looks like he's got a little packet of spit just behind his lips, like he's dipping, or like he's just on the verge of really pursing them and letting a little clear arc of spit fly.

In Troy he was sullen, pouty, and annoying. Him and Ornaldo drug down the whole movie.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 5 June 2004 14:10 (nineteen years ago) link

sullen, pouty, and annoying

Like all our best rock stars. Er, wait.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 5 June 2004 14:25 (nineteen years ago) link

six months pass...

Meet Joe Black is on right now.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, this fucking movie.
It was just at the part where he does the worst Carribean accent this side of Laurence Fishburne and Ali G.
"Every ting goan be eye ree!"

― Steely Zan (AaronHz), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 23:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Allegedly Brad Pitt smells like a dirty diaper.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 December 2004 16:15 (nineteen years ago) link

ON HIS CHOAD

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 23 December 2004 16:19 (nineteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

jennifer aniston's single now... just thought i'd let you all know. is she hot? i can't tell.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Saturday, 8 January 2005 03:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Mandee and I are quite sure that Brad will get WATERFALLS of pussy.
Jen is a dog.

― xAARONHZx, EXTREME ILXOR LOOK ALL CAPS (AaronHz), Saturday, 8 January 2005 03:56 (nineteen years ago) link

b-b-but they were just together, hanging out on a boat and giggling with courtney cox and david arquette?!

― Lixi Swank (tracerhand), Saturday, 8 January 2005 03:59 (nineteen years ago) link

CNN has spoken of this. 'Tis true.

― xAARONHZx, EXTREME ILXOR LOOK ALL CAPS (AaronHz), Saturday, 8 January 2005 04:05 (nineteen years ago) link

but DAVID ARQUETTE.

― Lixi Swank (tracerhand), Saturday, 8 January 2005 04:06 (nineteen years ago) link

man he looks *old* on the cover of the current EMPIRE.

― piscesboy, Saturday, 8 January 2005 13:22 (nineteen years ago) link

mr teeny: "I get irritated just hearing her voice on TV, so I can see how this happened."

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 8 January 2005 15:24 (nineteen years ago) link

well one door closes one door opens, I guess:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/09/fashion/09FLAV.html?oref=login&8hpib

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 8 January 2005 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Who cares, let's all talk about Johnny Suede!!!

― daria g (daria g), Saturday, 8 January 2005 21:51 (nineteen years ago) link

"jennifer aniston's single now... just thought i'd let you all know. is she hot?"

Only if you put her in the microwave. One can only hope she explodes. Just kidding. They were so ill-matched.

― stevie nixed (stevie nixed), Saturday, 8 January 2005 22:00 (nineteen years ago) link

I knew an Irish traveller in Souh London and I'm convinced Pitt spent a month drinking with him to perfect his pikey accent for Snatch, which he absolutely nailed. The only words I could ever make out that this bloke said were "Hold up! Now will ye buy the pony?" - which he said every five minutes when he was drunk (i.e. every five minutes all day every day).

Johnny Suede "QUIFFTASTIC!" - I think this was the first film I ever watched on LaserDisc.

"Steamy phone sex between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie ended his marriage to Jennifer Aniston, the News of the World can reveal."

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Saturday, 8 January 2005 22:52 (nineteen years ago) link

http://pace.emamulti.com/bradjenang.gif

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:48 (nineteen years ago) link

six years pass...

I am curious as to whether those of you who know little or nothing about baseball intend to see Moneyball, now that a bestselling book about market inefficiencies in sports business has been made into a BP vehicle.

― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 16:35 (twelve years ago) link

I know nothing about baseball. I will never see this movie.

― smelly's wife (rustic italian flatbread), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 17:32 (twelve years ago) link

but you are a target adudience!

― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 18:19 (twelve years ago) link

i'm not gonna pay to see it in the theater, but i'll watch it.

― Kerm, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 18:40 (twelve years ago) link

eight years pass...

Yet another William Pitt!

― The Fields o' Fat Henry (Tom D.), Sunday, 5 July 2020 11:41 (three years ago) link

one year passes...

this story is wild. Pitt and his nonprofit raised a fuckton of cash to build homes for Katrina survivors, selling each for $150,000. the houses started to completely fall apart within months and the nonprofit disappeared into the ether. https://t.co/rnIrYDInfE
— keyv (@most_opppressed) February 7, 2022

what an incredibly perverse concept of *charity* - charging people 150 grand for black mold infested death-traps that were falling apart within months.

― calzino, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 07:39 (two years ago) link

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