RICHARD LINKLATER

I love Linklater but I don't really totally forgive him for putting Alex Jones in two of his movies. I am scared to watch Before Midnight, ugh. I love how Before Sunset ended so much.

Loved the first, though not unreservedly. Loved the second more. Third was a bit traumatic, but worthwhile. I don't know that I'd particularly like Hawke or his characters but I find him pretty fascinating on screen.

x-posts - I know the picture and it's terrifying. Also, just to be clear, I'm not an enormous EH fan at this point in my life because that would be weird. I do, however, think he's a hell of an actor and feel bad that people give him such a hard time.

Y - I think the third is worth watching but it's definitely my least favorite of the 3.

i also like ethan hawke. there is an earnestness to him that i appreciate

She's wearing a t-shirt under her dress when they enter the park. In the next scene the t-shirt is gone. That's how you know they had sex.

also i am not picking on you anagram honestly but i find this post unintentionally hilarious esp when i think of it out of context. i want to start saying things like this "first this happened, then this. That's how you know they had sex!"

elephant in the room

ethan hawkes novel

c/d?

The one that all takes place in the space of a pop song?

xp - nightmare

He really was James Franco version 1.0

far from it

y'all should wait for First Reformed before you dismiss Hawke

He's not a bad actor and he's managed to star/co-star in indie things and studio films for twenty-five years. I think he's figured it out, regardless of his talents.

He really was Jess Mariano version 1.0

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/2e/67/61/2e67618c098b2c6f43067c9050f69fbf--sunrise-tumblr-before-sunrise.jpg

how did i miss that he was brandishing the (withdrawn first edition of) Kinski book when I saw this in the theater? I was already obsessed with that book. Is that a 'shop?

nope, that was the book he held up
i just watched it a few days ago

that book is doing a lot of heavy lifting establishing him as an interesting person iirc

It reminds me a lot of the train station scene in Rohmer's The Green Ray when Delphine exchanges glances and gets into conversation with a guy over her copy of The Idiot.

i had to google "jess mariano"
he is a gilmore girls character?

Yeah, he stole Rory's copy of Howl and returned it with his own notes in the margin. I think he ends up writing a book and makes a film...

uuuuuuuuuugh

I read his first book when it came out which must have been at least twenty years ago. It was . . . fine. Not worthy of any awards but certainly not terrible either.

I remember that night better than I do entire years.

― carrotless, turnip-pocketed (fionnland), Friday, March 16, 2018 2:39 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Damn, this one hits home.

I'm with ENBB btw: I enjoy Hawke as an actor, he was at least good and at times great in everything I've seen from him. I don't think I get the hate tbh. It's not like he's Keanu or something.

Also he's hot, sue me.

Damn, this one hits home.

Opening this thread and immediately seeing this I was briefly worried Linklater was dead. Thanks for the scare.

. It's not like he's Keanu or something.

i have learned to truly love and appreciate keanu

Who hates Keanu?!?

^^ !!

I'd let Keanu do terrible things to me, then I realize all he'd wanna do is eat spaghetti and nap.

he is so beautiful

Sorry Josh!

I don't hate Keanu! He's not half as great as Ethan though.

I will meet thee Ethan Hawke haters behind the cafetaria after school lunch.

Pasta and naps? Sounds like he and I would get along just fine.

i don't hate anyone, definitely not keanu. at worst he's a goof. ethan hawke and by extension his characters all seem very selfish and fail to deliver on the charm he tries to lay on with a spatula.

well i should say i reserve the feeling of hatred for people who are evil (merchants of death etc)
ethan hawke does not rate on that scale

Keanu would smell like a nice mid-price soap bought at a good spa resort.

Ethan Hawke would smell like old Birkenstocks lying on stale raisins.

y u break heart

Is there was a channel on pornhub that was just pasta and Keanu...I might consider subscribing.

... which is actually Linklater’s next movie...

Keanu would smell like a nice mid-price soap bought at a good spa resort.

Ethan Hawke would smell like old Birkenstocks lying on stale raisins.

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, March 16, 2018 3:15 PM (twenty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

both sound pretty good tbh

ethan is handsome. keanu is ... beautiful

Is there was a channel on pornhub that was just pasta and Keanu...I might consider subscribing.

― Yerac, Friday, March 16, 2018 3:19 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao

these movies are just like... life happening, maaan.

i would remind you that a Film Comment writer circa Boyhood was confident enough to call EH "rat-faced"

I read his first book when it came out which must have been at least twenty years ago. It was . . . fine. Not worthy of any awards but certainly not terrible either.

there was a short story in Adrian Tomine's Optic Nerve series in the late '90s about the ghostwriter of a young actor's novel following the actor around on tour and watching him read from the book he hadn't written. always wonderssumed that it was inspired by actual events & about Hawke.

I knew the movie was taking the piss out of Jesse -- as if the first movie hadn't already signaled it, but I was younger -- when we see him in 2004 basking in the success of a thinly disguised bildungsroman. Of course Jesse would be an airhead who can write nothing except autobiograpy.

nope, that was the book he held up
i just watched it a few days ago

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, March 16, 2018 11:10 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that book is doing a lot of heavy lifting establishing him as an interesting person iirc

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, March 16, 2018 11:12 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol otm, the thing about the before movies is that jesse is a huge dingus

oh damn that's a solid xp

jesse is a huge dingus

this was obvious to me when she said he kissed like an adolescent!
he probably behaves like an adolescent in many ways.
which is why i was glad when i thought she had chosen not to lay with him in the meadow

from what i can tell he only gets more annoying with each movie!

That burgundy turtleneck did a lot of heavy lifting too. Never talk to a stranger wearing a turtleneck.