Bana is amazing in Chopper.
Lorne: Snakes? Uh-huh. And they came out of your what? Okay. Okay, well, did they get up there themselves or is this part of a, you know, a thing? No, I'm not judging...Do we fight snakes? Angel: Only if they're giant. Or demons. Or giant demons. Are they giant demon snakes? Lorne: Well, unless this guy's 30 feet tall, I'm thinking they're of the garden variety.
'Lineage'
Buffista Movies 3: Panned and Scanned
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Scrappy - Dec 24, 2004 3:24:13 pm PST #7373 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
dcp - Dec 24, 2004 3:28:51 pm PST #7374 of 10001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
How about Robert Downey Jr. in Chaplin ?
WildDemon Cornelius - Dec 24, 2004 4:17:51 pm PST #7375 of 10001
Take your fingers off it, don't you dare touch it, you know it don't belong to you, to you...
According to the Vancouver Sun, some fellow named Josh Whedon is getting involved with the Wonder Woman movie. And you can tell you're an overly obsessed Buffista when find yourself yelling "it's Joss!" Or is Josh his evil twin?
Good biopics: My Left Foot, the one where Ewan MacGregor's James Joyce (Nora I think it's called)...I'll think of others.
Sean K - Dec 24, 2004 4:46:10 pm PST #7376 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Because Landau's Lugosi performance may be the best I've ever seen by a male actor.
Nodding in complete agreement with Matt over this one.
Thomash - Dec 24, 2004 7:58:21 pm PST #7377 of 10001
I have a plan.
Since Robin Williams doesn't remotely resemble Patch Adams
How about what's his name; Adrian Cronour (or however you pronounce it). Good Morning Vietnam.
And yeah, Landau is gawdlike.
Kathy A - Dec 24, 2004 8:02:02 pm PST #7378 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Angela Bassett as Tina Turner and Lawrence Fishburne as Ike Turner. Neither of them looked too much like the RL person, but they just blew me away by their performances.
For one who looked a lot like the RL person and still gave a great performance, Gary Busey as Buddy Holly was wonderful.
evil jimi - Dec 24, 2004 10:16:13 pm PST #7379 of 10001
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
Frederic Forrest as the title character in the movie, Larry. He plays a man who was abandoned by his mother as a baby and grew up in an institution for the mentally disabled. There was nothing wrong with him but because he grew up around retarded people, he emulated their behaviour. It was a social worker, played by Tyne Daly, who finally realised the truth and eventually he was able to leave the institution and live like a non-disabled person. Amazing true story and amazing performances by Forrest and Daly.
Theodosia - Dec 25, 2004 2:03:33 am PST #7380 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Do Gods & Monsters (the guy who directed Frankenstein) and The Whole Wide World (Robert E. Howard) count? Or are they just movies who portray real people at a certain stage in their lives?
§ ita § - Dec 25, 2004 6:19:26 am PST #7381 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Do Gods & Monsters (the guy who directed Frankenstein) and The Whole Wide World (Robert E. Howard) count?
In my head they count. No biopic tells the whole story of anyone's life. I'm mostly wondering about people who not only become other people, but become other people we have a real world knowledge of, disappearing into them.
Gandalfe - Dec 25, 2004 9:34:59 am PST #7382 of 10001
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
I think I mentioned this obliquely above, but I still have to go with Ben Kingsley's performance in Ghandi.