The latter and Pulp Fiction make me think he's really much better as a character actor than he is as a leading man. I tend to be bored out of my skull at movies with "BRUCE WILLIS IN..." over the title.
Occasionally I'm callous and strange.
Willow ,'The Killer In Me'
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Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 08, 2005 6:52:51 am PDT #1577 of 10002
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§ ita § - Apr 08, 2005 6:59:52 am PDT #1578 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
He makes crappy choices, but I think he is as good an actor. Check out In Country or Nobody's Fool.
I have 342 discs in my Netflix rental queue. I don't think he's in any of them. I may die having a horribly wrong impression of Bruce's work, but I'll just have to pay that price. Outside of Death Becomes Her and The Siege, he's poisoned all his movies for me. Sin City is something I'm seeing hoping to ignore him.
Kate P. - Apr 08, 2005 7:04:11 am PDT #1579 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
ita, did you not like him in 12 Monkeys, or Die Hard, or Hudson Hawk? Those three movies pretty much cemented my love of the Bruce.
Polter-Cow - Apr 08, 2005 7:04:52 am PDT #1580 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The Fifth Element !
Sue - Apr 08, 2005 7:05:07 am PDT #1581 of 10002
hip deep in pie
To me, Bruce Willis either looks smug or he's got his serious "Smell the fart" face on. The only time I didn't dislike him was The Sixth Sense.
§ ita § - Apr 08, 2005 7:05:44 am PDT #1582 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
He didn't ruin 12 Monkeys for me, but I didn't like the movie much anyway. I sprained my eyes rolling them at Die Hard, and couldn't make it all the way through Hudson Hawk.
Connie Neil - Apr 08, 2005 7:06:07 am PDT #1583 of 10002
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The Fifth Element !
"Anybody else want to negotiate?"
"Where did you learn to do that!"
"I wonder."
Polter-Cow - Apr 08, 2005 7:10:54 am PDT #1584 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
"Sir, are you classified as human?"
"No. I am a meat popsicle."
Scrappy - Apr 08, 2005 7:15:12 am PDT #1585 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Die Hard is one of my favorite movies, evah. It's incredibly well-written. If you had kept your eyes on the screen instead of ROLLING THEM, you might have seen that, missy.
§ ita § - Apr 08, 2005 7:19:09 am PDT #1586 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Bah! I stand firmly by my opinion of Die Hard. I appreciate it is an important movie, but if you found the lead anti-charismatic (when he's not written that way), it'd be hard for you to enjoy it too.