shun!
hugs The Rock tightly
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shun!
hugs The Rock tightly
t Standing with Julie with the National Treasure movies.
Ooh, you meant the movie The Rock and not the person. I love that movie a lot.
I'm pretty much a sucker for anything that takes place on Alcatraz.
Man, remember when Nic Cage wasn't a punchline waiting to happen? I mean, Face/Off! He was so cool!
How'd he go from that to this?
The Person is firmly Dwayne Johnson in my head now.
Although, to be fair, possessing a broad range of "characters" doesn't make one's acting great either.... I'm looking at you Jim Carrey and sometimes Dustin Hoffman.
Jim Carrey has a character he can play other than Jim Carrey?
Gene Hackman never played anything but Gene Hackman,
Gotta side with Scrappy (as is only right and natural). Compare The Conversation with The French Connection with The Royal Tennenbaums.
Just back from seeing The Watchmen. That was a whole lot of damn blue dick.
After the movie I got to blow Emmett's mind: "The guy who played Rorshach? He was the kid who played Kelly Leak in the original Bad News Bears."
The Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine would say yes.
(And to be fair, he played a decent range of comic characters on In Living Color as well. They were all variations on "the white guy who makes faces" but he was certainly no worse in that regard than any other sketch comedy TV actor.)
From what I'm hearing Knowing would suck with or without Nic Cage. My projectionist said it was very scary but most of the reviews I've seen say the special effects are cartoony.