You know, I respect BC's acting skills, and I admire him personally. But for the last little bit, his name in a cast sort of assures I won't be seeing whatever it is. It's like Michael Caine or John Wayne, ubiquity doesn't necessarily serve every story.
Home schooling? You know, it's not just for scary religious people anymore.
Buffy ,'Beneath You'
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Beverly - Feb 03, 2017 8:19:36 am PST #567 of 3455
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 03, 2017 8:22:37 am PST #568 of 3455
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I've never sen Michael Caine as an indicator that I shouldn't see a movie the way Nicholas Cage and Kristen Stewart are, he just doesn't guarantee that anything other than his own acting will be worth watching.
Steph L. - Feb 03, 2017 8:23:06 am PST #569 of 3455
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Bandicoot Cumbermuffin was better than I expected in Dr. Strange, though that American accent made me wince in a couple places.
Steph L. - Feb 03, 2017 8:24:11 am PST #570 of 3455
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I maintain the position that Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is Michael Caine's finest movie, bar none.
Tom Scola - Feb 03, 2017 8:40:46 am PST #571 of 3455
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
The Man Who Would Be King. Also, Connery's best performance.
Connie Neil - Feb 03, 2017 8:44:33 am PST #572 of 3455
brillig
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Glorious movie.
I think Cumberboot is in "I have maybe 5 years where I'll be a hot ticket, so I better make my fortune now" mode. Maybe ten years.
sj - Feb 03, 2017 10:24:49 am PST #573 of 3455
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Well, of COURSE he is. Who else? Anyone of note? Hiddleston, maybe?
Yes, Hiddleston is in it and Brie Larson.
Calli - Feb 03, 2017 10:32:51 am PST #574 of 3455
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I think Pringlescoot will have another good 5-20 years, fade for a decade, and then come back as an interesting character actor for the rest of his days. He did some good work as Richard III in the Hollow Crown series of Shakespeare history play movies.
P.M. Marc - Feb 03, 2017 10:51:18 am PST #575 of 3455
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I think Pringlescoot will have another good 5-20 years, fade for a decade, and then come back as an interesting character actor for the rest of his days. He did some good work as Richard III in the Hollow Crown series of Shakespeare history play movies.
Well, he had a decade or so as a (young) character actor and I don't think he'll actually fade for a decade so much as just slide back into character acting, with hopefully a PERIOD OF TIME WHERE HE'S DOING FUCKING COMEDY AGAIN, JESUS CHRIST, CUMBERBATCH, ENOUGH SRS BSNS.
Seriously, to get back on my Cumberbatch-for-Comedy high horse for a minute, he's got one of those rubber faces (like Hugh Laurie, so it's not a shock that they've played father and son), an incredibly effortless-seeming physicality (see his turn as the Creature in Boyle's Frankenstein--the difference between him in the role and Miller is pretty significant and why I prefer that casting to Miller as the creature), and the man's got the comedic chops to hold his own with Stephanie Cole, Roger Allam, and Anthony Head.
But noooooo, he keeps doing spinach movies (outside of Strange) that I have no interest in seeing about a specific character type and damn it, COMEDY, CUMBERBATCH.
Connie Neil - Feb 03, 2017 10:56:20 am PST #576 of 3455
brillig
His face should get very interesting as he ages.