His performance? Yeah. Whether the movie is better than The Shining I'll leave for the Kubrickiphiliacs.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 5 May 2013 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
I think you know my answer....
Does anyone like Goin' South? Never saw that one. In an alternate reality he could've been a comedic stalwart, as in The Fortune (or the Little Shop cameo).
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 5 May 2013 14:28 (eleven years ago) link
I walked out on The Border after the first 50 minutes or so, ages ago, when I saw it in a theater back when it was released. I don't recall Nicholson's performance as being the main problem so much as the script and direction. I felt I was being intensely manipulated and I didn't like it. Still, it makes me wonder at all the favorable remarks that film gets on this thread. I couldn't stand it.
― Aimless, Sunday, 5 May 2013 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
well it's been 21 years, Aim.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 5 May 2013 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
incidentally his commentary track for The Passenger, which I praised here years ago, is still one of my favorites -- one of the few actors who understood exactly what the director wanted him to do as well as having perfect insight into the director's methods, period.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 5 May 2013 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
in the as good as it gets commentary nicholson doesn't say much for a while and then there's a shot out a window of some boats and he makes a HRMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM foghorn noise. best part of as good as it gets, obviously.
― the white queen and her caustic judgments (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 5 May 2013 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
xps hated goin' south so much! not just an early showcase for all his worst tendencies as an actor, but just excruciatingly unfunny & irritating. I mean I don't really rate his comedy performance in the shining either, but he does at least make me lol in that.
― just dude intonation (wins), Sunday, 5 May 2013 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
― the white queen and her caustic judgments (difficult listening hour), Sunday, May 5, 2013 4:46 PM (33 seconds ago) Bookmark
lmao
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, 5 May 2013 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
Looking over his filmography, I don't see Reds as any kind of demarcation point the way Alfred does. The point at which he starts imitating himself--sometime slyly, sometimes clunkily--and his films don't seem like such a big deal anymore, that seems to come a few years later. I'm not sure exactly when--I haven't seen everything in question--but maybe sometime in the mid/late-'80s? I would agree that Cuckoo's Nest ends his great period.
― clemenza, Sunday, 5 May 2013 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
The point at which he starts imitating himself is Cuckoo's Nest. Though he doesn't always.
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 5 May 2013 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
Gotta disagree there. Every actor has mannerisms--he's already doing Jack stuff in Easy Rider--but McMurphy is a fully realized character.
― clemenza, Sunday, 5 May 2013 21:26 (eleven years ago) link
I only mentioned Reds as his first Academy-recognized Good Performance since Cuckoo's Nest, and for once the Academy is right: that 1976-1982 period is dismal.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 5 May 2013 21:38 (eleven years ago) link
*mentioned Reds BECAUSE it was
he was awful and miscast in The Postman Always Rings Twice and - well, I won't say much about The Shining.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 5 May 2013 21:39 (eleven years ago) link
agreed on postman, from that post-cuckoo pre-reds period i am very fond of the missouri breaks.
― balls, Sunday, 5 May 2013 23:06 (eleven years ago) link
http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2013/09/04/jack-nicholson-retires/
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 17:55 (ten years ago) link
He needs to do a voice-over role or something so that How Do You Know? doesn't become his Buddy Buddy.
― bad bad disco (Eazy), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 18:00 (ten years ago) link
or his Welcome to Mooseport or whatever the fuck it was
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 18:02 (ten years ago) link
he shoulda done that third Jake Gittes film really low-budget, maybe w/ Joe Swanberg
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 18:03 (ten years ago) link
Haha, yes, and poor Hackman needs to do Krapp's Last Tape.
― bad bad disco (Eazy), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 18:08 (ten years ago) link
Wow--remember directors making such an announcement, not an actor or actress. (Bet he can be coaxed out of it.) Just loaned Five Easy Pieces to someone this morning.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 18:09 (ten years ago) link
http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTgwMDUxOTg2M15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwOTAyODUyMw@@._V1_SY317_CR2,0,214,317_.jpg
Going out on a high note apparently not these guys' style.
― the vineyards where the grapes of corporate rock are stored (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 18:10 (ten years ago) link
Connery's last was that reclusive author/inner city prep school movie, right? It was probably the most respectable bow-out of the three of them.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 18:12 (ten years ago) link
Hackman retired too.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 18:13 (ten years ago) link
no it was league of extraordinary gentlemanxpost
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 18:13 (ten years ago) link
woops – I need lunch.
Nicholson is so rich he can pay these actors' pensions.
oh in that case, nm. xp
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 18:14 (ten years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/73/SirBilli_Poster.jpg/220px-SirBilli_Poster.jpg
― fit and working again, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 18:16 (ten years ago) link
STAY RETIRED!
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 18:16 (ten years ago) link
I keep thinking Connery was in Skyfall because that dad/Scotland role was so clearly meant for him.
― bad bad disco (Eazy), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 18:18 (ten years ago) link
James Cagney hated Billy Wilder so much he retired after One, Two, Three, then came back 20 years later for Ragtime.
Pretty sure Cary Grant announced his retirement 20 years before his death, too.
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 18:18 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZUfuN2DNJ0
― More Than a Century With the Polaris Emblem (calstars), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 18:19 (ten years ago) link
The Sir Billi trailer I just watched makes me incredibly sad, like Connery may have been tricked in some sort of scheme and doesn't have people around him looking out for his best interests. Alan Cumming is in it too, but Alan Cumming will do anything.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 18:27 (ten years ago) link
Nicholson's rep denying retirement and memory loss
― what's up ugly girls? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 5 September 2013 15:53 (ten years ago) link
78
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_IVurj2Od0
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 23:35 (nine years ago) link
Orion to thread
― The Stan-Reckoner (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 April 2015 00:13 (nine years ago) link
Producer Jerome Hellman bought the rights to Theroux's novel as soon as it was published, and Weir committed to filming it. Jack Nicholson was originally offered the lead role, but backed out partly because he could not watch the LA Lakers from Belize, where part of the film was to be shot.[1] He instead went on to star in Terms of Endearment, a role Ford had also been offered.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 3 December 2015 07:16 (eight years ago) link
80 today
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 23 April 2017 02:35 (seven years ago) link
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Sunday, May 5, 2013 9:10 PM (three years ago)
i haven't seen this film in a while, but i don't remember jack being too ott in this one. if anything he plays it down considerably from the larger-than-life character in kesey's novel.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 24 April 2017 02:10 (seven years ago) link
I think he means that's where you start to see the seeds sewn for the rat mimicry to come.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 April 2017 02:47 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK7TiA9qmuU
― On Some Faraday Beach (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 24 April 2017 13:10 (seven years ago) link
Film school should just be Jack Nicholson talking about Michelangelo Antonioni for free on the internet. pic.twitter.com/52kRFCjxxs— John Frankensteiner (@JFrankensteiner) October 15, 2020
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Thursday, 15 October 2020 04:19 (three years ago) link
The Crossing Guard is okay--over-the-top resolution (which is moving right at the end anyway), good stuff along the way. Sean Penn, one of our finest actors, was probably at the pinnacle of his career, acting in and directing a series of high-profile films. So he's got Nicholson and Angelica Huston, John Savage, Piper Laurie, Robin Wright (his wife), David Morse--it's an actor's film. He dedicates it to Charles Bukowski, so we know he has literary friends (just in case you still think of him as Jeff Spicoli). He gets a good performance out of Priscilla Barnes, from Three's Company. People were probably clamoring to be in anything he directed.
I'd say the best reason to watch it (Nicholson and Huston are fine) is Robin Wright. She so definitively became Claire Underwood for me, it was startling to see her younger, and how natural and quietly compelling she was. She dances to Salt-n-Pepa and it works. No use for Forrest Gump, but I know why Forrest fell in love with her.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 5 April 2022 02:09 (two years ago) link