I do like Nick Chinlund
Yeah, me too. He has a goofy thing going on kinda but...the voice!
Or maybe it's because he played a creep.
Nothing worse than a monster who thinks he's right with God.
Mal ,'Heart Of Gold'
Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
bon bon - Mar 07, 2006 7:37:49 am PST #807 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Vonnie K - Mar 07, 2006 7:56:13 am PST #808 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Donnie Pfaster! I'm sorry, but I just can't see Chinlund as anything else after that. Every time he pops up my screen, I wig out, wondering when he will ask me if he could shampoo my hair. Acck.
I watched an interesting little movie called Nine Lives via Netflix last week, and William Fitchner was in one of the segments (the movie is composed of 9 separate segments, each about 10-15 minutes long) as a deaf guy who totally gets it on with his ex-wife in the wife #2's funeral. I never quite got the Fitchner thing, but he was great in this little section of the movie. Bonus: I learned how to say "jerk off" in sign language and... yeah, it's exactly as you imagine how it'll look.
§ ita § - Mar 07, 2006 7:58:50 am PST #809 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
He has a goofy thing going on kinda but...the voice!
Goofy! Nay! Grim and dangerous.
Scanning down his IMDB page reveals that he was in Buffy, and in a movie with a friend of mine. Kewl.
Nutty - Mar 07, 2006 8:01:18 am PST #810 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Or maybe it's because he played a creep.
He always plays creeps, now. He shows up on Law & Order every now and then, invariably as a creep. (Not usually a morbid freak creep, but sometimes.)
Poor guy. I am sure he would like to play more heroes, but Donnie Pfaster is kind of a signature role.
Vonnie K - Mar 07, 2006 8:17:14 am PST #811 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
He shows up on Law & Order every now and then, invariably as a creep.
Yeah. He showed up on Without A Trace a few weeks ago as a seemingly nice guy at the beginning, and I was all, "Donnie Pfaster! No way that he doesn't have some creeptastic agenda!" and I was totally right.
I've caught him on TV playing a genuinely nice character couple of times, but each time, my brain was unable to overcome the cognitive dissonance. Poor guy indeed.
§ ita § - Mar 07, 2006 8:22:40 am PST #812 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
He's got nothing on Doug Hutchison or Brad Dourif for having the X Files establish a creep that I can't get past.
Vonnie K - Mar 07, 2006 8:29:45 am PST #813 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Curiously enough, I don't have that problem with Brad Dourif, since he's played plenty of memorable and interesting characters after the X-Files, and not all of them creepy. I credit this mostly to his sterling work as Doc Cochran in Deadwood though. He's brilliant in the role, cynical and compassionate and very human.
I don't think I have seen enough of Doug Hutchison post TXF to say if his creepiness outlasts Chinlund's. Lemme see... oh, he was in The Green Mile. I remember him! Yeah, creepy.
§ ita § - Mar 07, 2006 8:31:46 am PST #814 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I haven't seen Deadwood, and Mr. Dourif went onto being Wormtongue, so it's a sealed deal for me.
Dana - Mar 07, 2006 8:34:38 am PST #815 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Doug Hutchison was also a psychotic robot on Space: Above and Beyond. *shudder*
Brad Dourif really is terrific on Deadwood (as is just about everyone on that show). Well worth watching.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 07, 2006 8:34:54 am PST #816 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Doug Hutchison I'll give you, but I think Brad Dourif's creep factor was established well before, and probably led to his casting on, the X-Files.
Though you used an "I" statement, so I would guess you were just speaking from your own experience.