I hate Kevin Spacey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U0SUsXrgCM

Honestly, I couldn't get past the first few seconds of that bizarre video. What are the most ill-conceived comeback attempts ever? Up there with Jian Ghomeshi and Anthony Wiener, for sure.

https://i.imgur.com/v3Lmdm0.jpg

Great takedown from Nathan Rabin:

Despite Spacey’s conception of himself as a lovable leading man, the oily probable sex criminal was typecast as a bad guy, a villain and a supporting player early in his career for a very good reason. He’s an extremely unlikable performer. As an actor, Spacey just doesn’t naturally convey arrogance and intelligence: he conveys the intimidating, belligerent, badgering intelligence of someone who knows exactly how smart they are and is a total asshole about it. That’s what made Spacey’s casting in The Usual Suspects so inspired: Spacey’s brilliant assholes use their ferocious intelligence as a sometimes deadly weapon. They act as if the rules that govern the actions of mere mortals do not apply to them because they’re smarter, sharper, better, more evolved and civilized than the rest of us.

Fantastic piece, though I don't think it's a takedown - more like a dissection (vivisection?). The graf you excerpted is otm, he was fantastic in the roles he was typecast in. Just the idea of him doing an impression of Jack Lemmon is nuts.

I saw K-Pax in theaters, even at 9 I knew it was shit. Bicentennial Man was kinda the same thing, and that was much more sad and creepy.

It has its moments -- I like Rabin -- but, boy, is it long.

Just the idea of him doing an impression of Jack Lemmon is nuts.

He did it a lot on talk shows, it was excellent. (I saw the two of them on Broadway doing O'Neill.)

I didn't know that, never really kept up with him. I posted before reading the whole thing and yeah it's too long.