Sometimes I think Nicholson is the best of the "New Hollywood/Easy Riders/Raging Bulls" posse, although it's nearly just as often I find his schtik too trying.
― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Saturday, 22 April 2006 17:29 (twenty years ago)
S: ChinatownD: Anger Management
― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Saturday, 22 April 2006 17:32 (twenty years ago)
― Jimmy Mod: My theme is DEATH (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Saturday, 22 April 2006 17:33 (twenty years ago)
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 22 April 2006 17:59 (twenty years ago)
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― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 22 April 2006 18:03 (twenty years ago)
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― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Saturday, 22 April 2006 23:28 (twenty years ago)
looking over his career i'm wondering how he got his reputation or what exactly his reputation is. something like HE'S JACK!!!
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Sunday, 23 April 2006 00:29 (twenty years ago)
search:Psych-OutLast DetailChinatownOne Flew Over The Cuckoo's NestPrizzi's HonorWitches Of EastwickBroadcast NewsBatmanThe Pledge
― [email protected], Sunday, 23 April 2006 00:55 (twenty years ago)
― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 23 April 2006 01:31 (twenty years ago)
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 23 April 2006 01:32 (twenty years ago)
crosspost
― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 23 April 2006 01:33 (twenty years ago)
It's kind of amazing to think he's lived a couple years longer than Spencer Tracy.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:15 (twenty years ago)
― robert in SLC, Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:18 (twenty years ago)
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 23 April 2007 14:15 (nineteen years ago)
― Edward III, Monday, 23 April 2007 14:50 (nineteen years ago)
More interesting than usual interview dealing largely w/ Chinatown/The Two Jakes (he'd do the third Gittes film, he says) and that he's "furious" they didn't offer him the new Joker role. Really.
http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1573487/20071105/story.jhtml
http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1573617/story.jhtml
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)
Yeah, that was fun. However –
We wanted it all to be tied into elemental things. "Chinatown" is obviously water. "The Two Jakes" is fire and energy. And the third film was meant to be about Gittes' divorce and relate to air.
Um.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 9 November 2007 16:04 (eighteen years ago)
hot air i'm guessing
― latebloomer, Friday, 9 November 2007 18:29 (eighteen years ago)
he expounds (Howard Hughes)
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 9 November 2007 18:31 (eighteen years ago)
the godfather movies were originally going to reflect the four humours
― latebloomer, Friday, 9 November 2007 18:34 (eighteen years ago)
Collectively the Gittes trilogy will add up to earth, shit.
― da croupier, Friday, 9 November 2007 18:35 (eighteen years ago)
it is begging for a lot of bad jokes... otoh I can totally see politics about LA air quality playing a similar role to the one water policy did in Chinatown. it would be all about freeways and smog and shit.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 9 November 2007 18:37 (eighteen years ago)
What do you think of the spate of films this season inspired by the situation in Iraq?
Nicholson: I'm not for preaching to the choir. It's why some older movies are embarrassing. Yes, they're well intended, but what do they really know about anything?
^^^^ so OTM
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 9 November 2007 18:45 (eighteen years ago)
I never hear anyone talk about the Two Jakes, is it worth watching?
― Jordan, Friday, 9 November 2007 18:57 (eighteen years ago)
i like it! totally underrated.
― omar little, Friday, 9 November 2007 19:01 (eighteen years ago)
It's got its good points, tho I haven't seen it since it was released! Debit: one 'mysterious' character is identifiable from the get-go. Plus: Tom Waits is a colleague of Gittes.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 9 November 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)
If he gets good questions or is mildly interested he's a really intelligent subject. His voice-over on the DVD reissue of The Passenger would shame film studies professors.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 9 November 2007 20:10 (eighteen years ago)
(which, I know, doesn't take much)
otoh (and I don't disgree w/ his comment re the bulk of 'political' films) he said something a couple years ago about the Iraq invasion not being done for sinister motives.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 9 November 2007 20:14 (eighteen years ago)
"I think Sean Penn is the greatest living American in a certain way, because he's a man of action. I feel by being a neutralist in this area, in my actual field of endeavor I can be more effective. You do not become militant if you wish to be a successful propagandist. Because all you will do is preach to the choir and further entrench your opposition."
Nicholson acknowledges being "a lifelong Irish Democrat. What more can I say? I voted for what's his name, Dukakis. This was the real test for a Democrat."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071221/ap_en_ce/film_jack_s_politics
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 21 December 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)
"I think Sean Penn is the greatest most po-faced living American in a certain way"
Also...the bucket list? really?
― Gukbe, Friday, 21 December 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)
I'm always knocked out by how well-cast he is in Prizzi's Honor. That performance could have gone soooo wrong so quickly.
― Heric E. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 26 July 2009 23:00 (sixteen years ago)
I'm really fine with his career up until As Good As It Gets. It seems like that began the cash grab/phoning it in stage.
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 27 July 2009 01:24 (sixteen years ago)
ha like Batman wasn't a cash grab
― EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK THERE'S SOME DIFFERENT SHIT POPPIN OFF (latebloomer), Monday, 27 July 2009 01:26 (sixteen years ago)
Batman was a cool project. Tim Burton directing in his prime, good character in the Joker.
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 27 July 2009 01:33 (sixteen years ago)
Most actors, especially somebody who's been famous as long as Jack has, accept "cash jobs" and do excellent work.
― Heric E. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 July 2009 01:44 (sixteen years ago)
fabout schmidt is terrific. the first half is so entertaining and in such a tight space
― the heart is a lonely hamster (schlump), Monday, 27 July 2009 01:47 (sixteen years ago)
― Heric E. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, July 27, 2009 1:44 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Hackman's a good example, even if he's phoning it in I enjoy it. But when Jack doesn't believe in a project, I think it shows.
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 27 July 2009 01:54 (sixteen years ago)
Anybody who is both a Laker fan and a Yankee fan is a douchebag. Who's your football team, dickhead, the Cowboys? And the mugging he does at the Oscars is unbearable. He should be beaten
― Bill Magill, Monday, 27 July 2009 20:48 (sixteen years ago)
Like your mom beat you?
― Heric E. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 July 2009 20:52 (sixteen years ago)
like your mom sucked my cock
― Bill Magill, Monday, 27 July 2009 21:01 (sixteen years ago)
are you calling his mom a whore?
― omar little, Monday, 27 July 2009 21:04 (sixteen years ago)
nah, she gave it up pretty cheap.
― Bill Magill, Monday, 27 July 2009 21:11 (sixteen years ago)
Bill Magill, ladies and gentlemen
― Four-TEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN! (HI DERE), Monday, 27 July 2009 21:13 (sixteen years ago)
¯\(°_o)/¯
― omar little, Monday, 27 July 2009 21:14 (sixteen years ago)
what a disaster for cocksucking
― girlish in the worst sense of that term (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 27 July 2009 21:21 (sixteen years ago)
Bill, you should make sure you have a cock or if it's in fact the hole in which you stick your ass.
― Heric E. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 July 2009 22:28 (sixteen years ago)
Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?
― bad-boy cartographer (Abbott), Monday, 27 July 2009 23:02 (sixteen years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/daf6Nct.jpg
― 龜, Tuesday, 21 January 2014 12:57 (twelve years ago)