I haven't even heard of some of those movies! Also, wasn't MichAel Pitt Henry in Dawson's Creek. I thought he was horrible in that, but I think being good inDawson's Creek was difficult, since I liked JVDB in one of the crime shows he was on.
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Sophia Brooks - Aug 07, 2012 1:01:03 pm PDT #22117 of 30000
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§ ita § - Aug 07, 2012 1:13:45 pm PDT #22118 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yeah, Michael Pitt creeped me out in some teen performance or another...haven't seen him in much since then.
Amy - Aug 07, 2012 1:59:10 pm PDT #22119 of 30000
Because books.
I remember him in Murder By Numbers, with Sandra Bullock and young Ryan Gosling. He was definitely creepy in that.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 07, 2012 2:01:09 pm PDT #22120 of 30000
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I thought the Creepy was still in full force when he filmed The Dreamers. There was a lot of sex in the movie, but none of it struck me as actually sexy.
Amy - Aug 07, 2012 2:10:44 pm PDT #22121 of 30000
Because books.
They're all so young and awkward and posing, though, I think it was supposed to seem sexy to *them*.
Juliebird - Aug 07, 2012 2:12:57 pm PDT #22122 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
The Dreamers seemed painful, apathetic. The juxtaposition of the eggs cooking? Made it seem so clinical. Out of Sight was so much sexy with just a playful stripping scene (and fantastic music). Harvey Keitel rubbing at a hole in Holly Hunter's stocking was far sexier. Sexy doesn't mean boobies showing. Even the scene from Mullholland Drive felt cold to me, mostly because I didn't believe the actresses.
§ ita § - Aug 07, 2012 2:17:52 pm PDT #22123 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I can't remember what part of Mulholland Drive is supposed to be sexy, but in a way, I can say that for Out Of Sight too--but that's because I thought the whole thing was sexy--I've never seen J Lo do anything worthy of that performance again, and Clooney had everything dialed precisely to pr0n. Those two sizzled for me, no matter what was happening.
Juliebird - Aug 07, 2012 2:42:20 pm PDT #22124 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
For all teh sexy in OoS, I sometimes forget how freaking violent it was at times.
I think that for me, when it comes to sexy in a movie, I think I equate that with erotic or hot, or, for the majority, the anticipation or build-up. So, like, the dance scene in The Horse Whisperer was sexy to me. And Y Tu Mama Tambien was a good call. The nekkidness was there, but so was the physical emotion, totally sold by the actors (or, at the least, the actress).
Amy - Aug 07, 2012 2:45:03 pm PDT #22125 of 30000
Because books.
I can see them trying to go for *movies* that were overall sexy, rather than scenes, but I think scenes might be a better measure. On that list, I'd include the scene from Witness and Costner's speech in Bull Durham (although that movie was actually pretty sexy overall, too).
Vonnie K - Aug 07, 2012 3:06:00 pm PDT #22126 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Michael Pitt's default setting is set to "creepy". So he's very watchable when the role calls for him to put forth his natural-born creepiness, but is just icky and wrong when he's playing, I don't know, a romantic leading man in a travelogue ("Silk", I am looking at you.) I still remember an episode of L&O: SVU where he played a budding sociopath -- he was fantastic. His role in "Murder by Numbers" was cut from the same cloth.
I have to give it to him though -- I watched the first season of Boardwalk Empire and thought he was reasonably good in that. He gives good "morally bankrupt".