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Brian Dennehy: "I'm now 80 and I'm just another actor and that's fine with me. I've had a hell of a ride," ... "I have a nice house. I haven't got a palace, a mansion, but a pretty nice, comfortable home. I've raised a bunch of kids and sent them all to school, and they're all doing well. All the people that are close to me are reasonably healthy and happy. Listen, that's as much as anybody can hope for in life."
Fargo is a masterpiece. As is No Country For Old Men.
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Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
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Regarding Val Kilmer, check out Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
He was very good in Heat, but in True Romance it was barely a cameo. You never actually saw his face, he just turned up occasionally doing an Elvis impersonation and giving advice to Christian Slater.
I dont really think there is enough there to call it an actual performance.
Still love the movie though.
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^ I was surprised that wasn't getting any mentions.
Well, his performance was excellent, I thought the film was a bit flawed. It's good, but not great IMO. I'm not always enamoured of Oliver Stone's directing to be honest. Obviously some of his films are very, very good (Platoon, Wall Street, etc.) but when I look at his body of work, I see a lot of films that I found flawed in one way or another - some very, some only slightly so. But to his credit, he drew a marvelous performance from Kilmer as Jim Morrison, so if we are going with that as a criteria, it should be mentioned by all means.
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Yeah, me too. I was amazed at how good Jennifer Lopez was in it, too.
A couple other good Clooney performances/movies were Syriana and Intolerable Cruelty.
I like John Goodman. He was great in Raising Arizona, Punchline, Barton Fink, and O Brother Where Are Thou? But as for The Big Lebowski, I'm with you guys.
Yep. He was ridiculously good in The Doors. He was also really memorable as Doc Holliday in Tombstone. I don't know what happened to him as he seemed to have a promising career up to Heat, which sort of solidified his rep, but since... he must have the worst track record for picking shitty movies of any actor/actress I've run across.
“From thirty feet away she looked like a lot of class. From ten feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from thirty feet away.” – Philip Marlowe
The two showdown scenes between Doc and Ringo in Tombstone are ones I can watch over and over
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
Val Kilmer was pretty good as John Holmes in Wonderland (2003).
The Wonderland murders were also loosely depicted in Boogie Nights .
no tunes, no dynamics, no nosebone
Years ago, I saw an early movie he made alongside his soon-to-be-wife at the time, Joanne Whalley: Kill Me Again. I remember the movie being good, with twists up to the very end. But I haven't re-watched it since (though I have a copy of it) so it may not have held up with the passage of time.
Coen Brothers: Man, I had forgotten how many good movies they've made. Fargo! I can't believe I forgot about Fargo. No Country. Another great one. True Grit.
Clooney: People also keep bringing his other great performances. Mentioned are Syriana, The Descendants, what about all three Ocean's Eleven movies? I LOVE all three of them, though there are legit issues with 12 and 13, I think 11 is just about perfect for what it is, and a FUN movie to watch again and again. Up in the Air. The Ides of March. The American. Heck, while they aren't great movies by any stretch, I liked him in Money Monster and The Perfect Storm.
Brian Dennehy: "I'm now 80 and I'm just another actor and that's fine with me. I've had a hell of a ride," ... "I have a nice house. I haven't got a palace, a mansion, but a pretty nice, comfortable home. I've raised a bunch of kids and sent them all to school, and they're all doing well. All the people that are close to me are reasonably healthy and happy. Listen, that's as much as anybody can hope for in life."
Why, Johnny Ringo, you look like somebody just walked over your grave.
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
Ya know what, talking about George Clooney, I forgot about Burn After Reading, another Coen Brothers picture, which I thought was pretty good. So for me it's:
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Burn After Reading
Return Of The Killer Tomatoes
As for John Goodman, ya know what the first thing I remember seeing him in was? He was in David Byrne's movie True Stories. In fact, it was the video for the Talking Heads song Wild Wild Life, which is basically an actual scene in the movie, where I first saw him. I remember being really disappointed in that bit when I saw the movie, because it basically depicts a lip syncing contest (!?!?!?). My assumption when I first saw the video was that it was a karaoke contest (not that I had ever heard the word "karaoke" at the time, but today, that's the word you'd use), so in my mind, I expected to hear all these actors doing really bad jobs at each bit of the song. I'd like to see True Stories again, haven't seen in like 30 years. I think that must have been the Bravo Channel I saw it on, back before it went down the toilet (along with every other cable TV service that was around in the 80's and 90's).
Who's ever heard of a lip sync contest?! (Yeah, I know, that was the era of Puttin' On The Hits, so maybe Byrne was trying to lampoon that)
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