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I'm a big fan of MALICE, but I'm not sure I'd call it a good movie.
He did seem to start out doing comic roles, supporting or otherwise (besides BEETLEJUICE, he was also in WORKING GIRL and MARRIED TO THE MOB around the same time), but then he tried to play the leading man game. Though he was the best Jack Ryan in the best Jack Ryan movie.
I still wish he had ended up doing GALAXY QUEST like he was supposed to. Tim Allen was fine, but I think Baldwin would have been SUBLIME as a Shatner type.
And everyone forgets his first movie was BEETLEJUICE.
Maybe because he was actually in Forever Lulu and several TV movies like Dress Gray before Beetlejuice?
I first became aware of him on Knots Landing, where his character went from naive hick to abusive televangelist to dead in about 8 episodes.
I loved Alec Baldwin in The Shadow.
He was great in Outside Providence, too.
That was a really great movie, Corwood, and, yeah.
Though he was the best Jack Ryan in the best Jack Ryan movie.
Dad and I caught most of the last hour of Hunt for Red October on TNT yesterday afternoon before going to see The Departed, and I was telling him exactly the same thing!
I loved AB in State and Main. "So, that happened." I use that line in my work all the time.
I loved AB in State and Main. "So, that happened." I use that line in my work all the time.
OMG, Beej, that is one of my all-time favorite lines ever. The first time I heard it, I laughed so hard I cried. His delivery was perfect.
I like Alec Baldwin. He seems to sort of deserve his real-life Bloviator nickname, but I've never seen him in a role he couldn't carry off.
Also a big fan of Malice here. It's not a great movie, but it's better than a lot of the current entries in the genre, especially because Nicole Kidman plays totally against type, and Alec Baldin plays the doctor so convincingly. Also, I adore Bill Pullman, so there's that.
I really should pick up the DVD of The Zero Effect--Bill Pullman is fabulous as the updated (and whacked out) Sherlock Holmes for the new millenium.
The Zero Effect-
Ooh. I love that one too.