Jake Gyllenhaal - C or D?

oh sure, i meant he hasn't called me for weeks.

I'll remind him to return your texts

next time you see him?

i take it prisoners was made explicitly to win best acting noms but it never happened?

yes, bcz it was no fun even for ppl who like bad movies

my friend called it a u.s. version of one of them korean serial killer movies, which i think is really apt. I dunno I liked it

edelstein was otm about jackman - "Jackman’s performance isn’t especially imaginative, but it’s hard not to be moved by his grief." otoh i couldnt tell what was meant to be going on inside Detective Loki's (lol) head for most of the movie

Detective Loki wasn't much of a trickster.

...or a nudester apparently.

Don 'n' Glenn would've known the Gyllenhaal family, you know. We need their input.

I liked Enemy, neo-Cronenbergian identity horror that shoots Toronto thru a piss filter (revenge of Quebecois Villenueve). People v divided by penultimate shot, I thought it was provocative punctuation. Both Jakes have awesome back muscles and chest hair.

Missed Alf's prompt.

DON: I love that picture, cause it's all rough tradey, and I imagine him topping me, his hard long cock thrusting into the soft folds of my ass...but I also imagine him strong, and quiet absorbing me in his arms, as I weep about the state of the world, and how there is not enough love in it. He is the only man I imagine topping me...I saw him once in TO last year, and he was as handsome, old fashioned in his taciturn tendencies, I didn't know how to say TAKE ME NOW, so I didn't.

GLENN: Damn, I knew we stayed over too long at Elton's for those overdubs.

DON: Well, yeah.

The Two Jakes!

fed you another one on the Nixon-Kiss thread

http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/browbeat/2011/09/29/hugo_chavez_caption_contest/Enemy_Jake_Gyllenhaal_chalkboard.jpg.CROP.promovar-mediumlarge.jpg

is he as good as Irons?

Well, this isn't as ambitious or well-made as that film, so no, but I liked the performance(s) esp as the schlubby (lol) history teacher.

http://media.melty.fr/article-2211367-ratio_274-f3676382893/jay-z-beyonce-jake-gyllenhaal-tournee-on.jpg

space and architecture in Enemy (spoilers)

http://issuu.com/interiorsjournal/docs/interiors0914

I watch this tonight.

we quiver

is he nude in it

no spoilers

on the physique yo-yo game

http://deadline.com/2014/11/jake-gyllenhaal-southpaw-photo-nightcrawler-1201300519/

When will he realize we like him right in the middle?

really enjoyed the Enemy

agree w Morbz upthread about the piss-filter look of it though - easily my least favorite thing about it, just a gross color palette all the way through

he got a rave from Ben Brantley in the NYT for the British play that opened on Broadway last night, Constellations. I had no idea it was alleged to be that good; anyway, it's only got a month to run and way too pricey for me.

yeah i was hoping to catch it (physics) but it's serious $$ :-(

If we get a blizzard in the next 4 weeks there might be empty-seat discounts!

If you get a blizzard maybe he'll sit on your empty seat.

i know an economist who looks a lot like JG (though without the impeccable physique), i wonder if y'all would go for him.

Mark Harris appraises his career:

Gyllenhaal turned 34 in December, and it’s only in the last couple of years that I think he’s come into his own. This is, in part, a gender issue; we allow actors to grow differently from actresses. We want women to hit hard, and early. Julia Roberts was 22 when Pretty Woman opened; Emma Stone broke through in Easy A at 21; Jennifer Lawrence was romantically paired with Bradley Cooper and Christian Bale onscreen before she was 25. Women don’t get a decade to form themselves onscreen; they need to come ready, and a couple of missteps is all it takes to knock them back to Triple-A. We don’t demand that of our male movie stars; we set the bar lower — sometimes so low that all they have to do is not suck. When Jon Hamm and George Clooney were 25, they were not, in any meaningful sense, Jon Hamm and George Clooney. When Bradley Cooper was 25, he was going on auditions, hoping to get cast in Alias, and when Channing Tatum was 25, he … well, let’s check his résumé; he certainly stood out as “Boy In Church Scene (Uncredited)” in War of the Worlds.

So Gyllenhaal, who starred in his first movie (October Sky) at 18 and had secured cult-fame status by 21 (Donnie Darko) and an Oscar nomination by 25 (Brokeback), is, in some ways, an anomaly — he’s had a woman’s career, except that he’s in his mid-thirties and as far as I can tell, nobody is yet talking about his impending last fuckable day. And there’s no denying that he was given latitude to screw up in his twenties without significant penalty. I’m thinking in particular of two movies, Roland Emmerich’s mercifully all-but-forgotten enviro-disaster pic The Day After Tomorrow (2004) and Mike Newell’s absolutely-flat-out-forgotten Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010). Out of two dozen films, these two stand out as attempts to force Gyllenhaal into a wearily familiar studio movie-star template, almost as if someone said to him (or perhaps as if he said to himself) You’re young, you’re handsome, you look good with your shirt off — this is what you’re supposed to do now.

http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/jake-gyllenhaal-career-arc-southpaw-broadway/

It's true that Jake's hit his stride but he still tries too hard.

i really can't see that hypermuscular boxing potboiler (for money).

apparently he was great w/ Ellen Greene in the concert staging of Little Shop.

lol @ Harris admitting it was his idea to get Jake w/shirt off for the 2004 EW cover.

http://image.thefashionisto.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Jake-Gyllenhaal-July-2015-Esquire-Cover-Photo-Shoot-008-800x1105.jpg

I think Tom and Lorenzo had some not-so-nice things to say about that photo shoot.

On a different note, Jake was super-charming on the Mystery Show podcast.

who are Tom and Lorenzo?

Fashion/TV bloggers. Best known for their meticulous close-read recaps of Mad Men.

http://tomandlorenzo.com/2015/07/jake-gyllenhaal-for-esquire-uk-magazine/

oh! Yeah.

not so nice but also not so interesting either. and wrong, he looks fantastic in the photos.

it does look like an in flight mag cover though

Discussing BBM a decade (!) later. He sounds far smarter and more self-assured than he ever did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anGypG5-T-8

from that southpaw movie & training, he should fight mike b Jordan from creed irl on ppv

in leather thongs

Good interview, and I like a lot of what he had to say, but I have to wonder if BBM can ever be spoken about with anything but awed reverence.

I was pretty bored by it. Ang Lee is boring in general.

it does seem like a lot of the discourse around the film has more to do with its particular cultural moment and less to do with it as an actual film or as part of a continuum of films about gay people.

It's a period piece.

Confirmed on a mass cultural scale that women love gay slash.

apparently women and gay men love retro lesbian stuff, hence the dullish and rewarded Carol