I like Crowe in Mystery Alaska. A dopey, predictable and yet sweet, movie. Oh, and Proof of Life also dopey, but not so much with the sweet. I mostly like it for the attached documentary about the K&R industry, of which I knew nothing before seeing that movie.
I can beat up demons until the cows come home, and then I can beat up the cows.
Buffy ,'Dirty Girls'
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beekaytee - Apr 23, 2010 11:09:02 am PDT #7857 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
Aims - Apr 23, 2010 11:12:53 am PDT #7858 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
YES!! But it's so odd because I ALWAYS forget that that's him. And I *adore* that movie. I own it. I cry every time his wife reads the poem he "writes".
billytea - Apr 23, 2010 11:34:56 am PDT #7859 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I still like Russell Crowe quite a lot, even if he's a Souths supporter. And JZ has mentioned The Sum of Us, so I'm happy.
Scrappy - Apr 23, 2010 11:38:46 am PDT #7860 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I also liked him in Cinderella Man, which I may be the only person to have seen.
Juliebird - Apr 23, 2010 11:44:48 am PDT #7861 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Mystery Alaska
"I'm sorry, your honour. I'm fat." I love that movie!
I remember the commentary for L.A. Confidential during the first appearance of Bud, and someone was saying that they had seen Rusty in Romper Stomper and was taken with his intensity, and wanted that first glimpse to be just this intense face, and people asking "who the hell IS this guy?".
I also have quite a soft spot for Rough Magic as a whole, though not the most well-written character.
I'll watch him in just about anything. Loved watching him in 3:10 (the whole movie was fabulous) and just seeing all this unsaid story going on in between the lines and looks.
askye - Apr 23, 2010 4:06:50 pm PDT #7862 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
I like Crowe in The Sum of Us, Mystery Alaska, Master and Commander and LA Confidential.
I think I saw Proof too, but I'm fuzzy, was that the one with the blind photograher
oh and 3:10 to Yuma.
le nubian - Apr 23, 2010 4:25:54 pm PDT #7863 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Matt,
I don't know what it is, but I feel like going to see The Backup Plan this weekend.
Peace be with you.
Frankenbuddha - Apr 23, 2010 4:46:52 pm PDT #7864 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Yeah, I gotta say as far as seeing any Jo-Lo movie that isn't OUT OF SIGHT (where she was AWESOME) or THE CELL (which was at least conceptually insane with good supporting actors), she's a must avoid.
erikaj - Apr 23, 2010 4:53:22 pm PDT #7865 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Selena was good, too. I mean, it was kinda ordinary but she was good in it.
§ ita § - Apr 23, 2010 10:03:44 pm PDT #7866 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, lord.
I need to go to bn.com right now and buy The Losers, so I can check the movie against the source.
The movie? Hit so many of my kinks, it wasn't even funny. It was nigh shameful. The casting, perfect (bar Zoe--but she wasn't as bad as I was expecting--just woefully underweight).
JDM? Growly perfect. Although I couldn't restrain myself from exclaiming "But he's John Winchester!" in Clay's defense at a perhaps ludicrous juncture of the movie. Chris Evans? Incredibly charismatic and hysterical with a brilliant musical hook. Idris Elba? Made of magnetism. Columbus Short and Óscar Jaenada have less to work with, but are still both great.
Jason Patric? OTT and perhaps from a different movie. Definitely the weak link, although he had some funny lines.