Oh, Fight Club, yeah! I loved him in that.
Sadly, I'm not sure I've ever seen Samuel Jackson in anything that required actual acting, except possibly the third Die Hard movie. I loved him in that.
River: The human body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds given adequate vacuuming systems. Mal: See, morbid and creepifying, I got no problem with, long as she does it quiet-like.
'Safe'
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Amy - Dec 06, 2011 11:42:15 am PST #16960 of 30000
Because books.
Polter-Cow - Dec 06, 2011 11:54:36 am PST #16961 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Me too! I love that movie in general, even though I later learned it was actually some other movie that was turned into a Die Hard sequel.
He acted in Unbreakable !
DavidS - Dec 06, 2011 12:02:06 pm PST #16962 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Samuel Jackson's performance as Gator in Jungle Fever is great. Definitely not a star turn.
erikaj - Dec 06, 2011 3:03:14 pm PST #16963 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
De Niro played a real dork in "King of Comedy"--the saddest fanboy in the world wrod, Hec, I'd almost forgotten that one.
Sue - Dec 06, 2011 3:17:30 pm PST #16964 of 30000
hip deep in pie
I didn't hate Brad Pitt in Tree of Life and that's saying something. There were only a few moments where he was showing how hard he was working.
I thought DeNiro was unrecognizable in Raging Bull, but I don't really have a problem with DeNiro, Fockers notwithstanding.
§ ita § - Dec 06, 2011 4:03:53 pm PST #16965 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Wow. No one told me there was Two and a Half Men in Due Date.
Is there a name for the genre of "Person so fucking pathological, but the protagonist spends the whole movie with them anyway, and doesn't shoot them in the head"?
This had the most plausible-to-me ending of that sort of movie I've seen in a while, but seriously. OMG.
Polter-Cow - Dec 06, 2011 9:26:41 pm PST #16966 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I completely disagree about Hugo in 3D. I think it's the third movie I've ever seen that is absolutely worthy of the technology, the others being Avatar and Coraline. I felt like the 3D really added to the movie. Which is wonderful.
I thought it really enhanced the depth of a lot of scenes and led to some very eye-catching compositions.
Unfortunately, I fell asleep in the middle and basically missed the emotional climax. I started losing the ability to stay conscious when Hugo started having nightmares, and then I came up again to try to stay awake for the big Melies flashback, and then the next thing I knew, Melies was being honored and the Station Inspector had somehow wooed the flower girl. I am sure I missed something important. Ah well, I'll read the book eventually.
DavidS - Dec 07, 2011 8:43:00 am PST #16967 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Did y'all see this 13 Villains from NY Times magazine?
Video of thirteen different actors playing classic villains in short, impressionistic clips. There's some really amazing stuff on here. Viola Davis had the creepiest, but Gary Oldman came close.
§ ita § - Dec 07, 2011 9:22:53 am PST #16968 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The bar is apparently kind of low for villainy this year. Kirsten Dunst? Not remotely scary. Jean DuJardin? Angry boxer. Adepero Oduye? Dependent entirely on knowing canon.
Also Mia should wear safety goggles. You could put an eye out!
Kate P. - Dec 07, 2011 9:30:46 am PST #16969 of 30000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Ooh, I liked the Rooney Mara one. But are they calling Lisbeth Salander a villain? That I don't quite get.