Johnny Depp: Cool or Fool?

Sorta cool.
Pirate Johnny Depp makes surprise school visit

As broken by newsround!

I much prefer watching newsround than the actual BBC news these days. Much less depressing.

I just want everybody to be clear

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/24/johnny-depp-dead-rip-its_n_434569.html

thanks HuffPo!

at what point did he start to suck? Can we blame tim burton somehow?

Sweeney Todd is his best role in the last decade or so

Blow did.

we can always blame tim burton

Yeah, all Burton's fault, or the silly Pirates movies. But every once in a while he makes an effort, like Finding Neverland, or Public Enemies. Then he does a (literal) no-brainer, like Rob Marshall's upcoming "Into the Woods.' I'm going to guess he plays ... the wolf.

^ILX H8 Sondheim

(not that Rob Marshall isn't a good bet to ruin it)

whadday know: http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9465212/can-johnny-depp-career-saved

xpost Yeah, I'd take that bet. If Marshall can't do it ...

Burton tuned him into a muppet. Never been a huge fan but lately he is just so annoying. Would like to see him play someone's dad or grandfather, something subtle, not the main star. guess I want him to be Alan Arkin...I LOVE Alan Arkin.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyn8dpt0z31r4d22do1_500.png

The stuff with make-up is pretty savvy, actually, because I saw unadorned Depp in that Warwick Davis faux doc and he looked oooooold. .

left vanessa for amber heard? fool

I vote fool...He has been looking rough in some photos I saw last year in a magazine in some lobby.

Does Hollywood or do PR people still do the ole PR trick of pairing a couple to boost careers? Tying her with an establish star and him with what was supposed to be a dynamic, new talent?

Make-up does a lot for people. In real life Heard doesn't stand out and looks several years older than she is supposed to be.

Watched Blow last night. I'd seen it before. Far from great, but not bad. It's almost funny how imitative it is of its two or three blueprints, none of which is really Scarface. Goodfellas is everywhere, and there's Boogie Nights and Carlito's Way here and there. (Seeing as Boogie Nights steals a lot from Goodfellas, that may be redundant, but there are a couple of scenes more specifically in the style of Boogie Nights.) Depp does better than Penelope Cruz, who's just asked to yell a lot. Paul Reubens is good--I think this was a comeback of sorts at the time?

it was an effort towards that at least, mystery men was around that time as well. i've never seen blow but it does (or did) have that second tier scarface status w/ bros for a while, one of those movies i'd completely forgotten existed and then years later found out had a weird fanbase a la boondock saints.

saw Blow in the theater, thought it was p stupid/derivative but not entirely joyless. Paul Reubens is probably the best thing about it.

Mystery Men seems like a forgotten movie at this point - I hope it made Bob Burden a comfortable retirement fund, but it seems like it came out a decade too soon.

I work with a teacher who's crazy about Depp. Her classroom is filled with posters from his movies, memorabilia, etc. Makes gift-buying very easy--I'll get her one real gift, a book or a movie, then supplement that with any kind of dollar-store crap, and she's happy.

Demonstrates complete inability to stop being the worst.

http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/i/2014/10/21/depp-into-the-woods-1335.jpg

I don't know if we should blame him for that. But we should definitely blame somebody for that.

well, presumably he looked at himself in the mirror at some point and thought 'yep, looks great, good to go' against all reason and logic so fuck johnny depp basically

Everything about the layout and design of that cover is driving me to the IA thread.

When was the last time this doof appeared in anything less than full make-up? Is this is strategy for making people think he is still young and pretty? To pancake it up?

Some fearsome eyebrows... and there, you're a wolf.

The stage production I saw of Into the Woods was death, so I can only imagine what hell this will be.

yeah, fuck that Sondheim, what a hack

ppl wear funny flamboyant costumes in musicals, i've noticed

(not that i'm looking fwd to this bcz Rob Marshall)

That, and ITW is pretty far from my favorite Sondheim score.

i thought entertainment, weakly stopped publishing. or maybe they just fired all of their critics?

i'm not against this one, actually, and he doesn't look particularly silly there when you consider the context.

that said... it's funny how depp spent his 20s and 30s being this "edgy" star who favored auteur films and stuff, and it seems like one day he was just like, wtf have i been doing? i'm going to star in huge franchise films and make a zillion dollars, turn my talent on autopilot, and ditch my age-appropriate partner for a starlet half my age!

Tbf he had kids. A lot of edgy actors with kids seem to start gravitating toward movies their kids can watch.

Also, for the money.

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/watch-johnny-depps-bizarre-intro-at-the-hollywood-awards-1201357066/

Johnny Derp

Kevin Griggs says:
November 15, 2014 at 12:54 pm
Johnny is a hugely talented actor, greatness like his can a difficult burden to bear. Think of all the other great actors that are/were troubled, Robin Williams is a great example. It’s a real shame he close to consume whatever before his speech but it can’t be easy being one of the greats. JD gets a pass on this one.

I saw a trailer for whatever the hell that Mortdecai movie is

u_u x 1000

xpost it ain't easy being derp

Maybe he had just watched Giant and thought it would be fun to act like a drunk James Dean?

I saw a trailer for whatever the hell that Mortdecai movie is

i saw the poster and immediately thought, "who was this movie made for?"

i saw the trailer and the answer appears to be, "nobody"

Edelstein: The badness settled over the audience like nuclear ash.

i read a review that positively compared it to hudson hawk

David Edelstein is Opus
http://boardgamegeek.com/camo/5479a11e309d8728b49e4c3360b8bf1c20af0fb9/687474703a2f2f7777772e61726768696e6b2e636f6d2f77702d636f6e74656e742f75706c6f6164732f323031312f30322f626c6f6f6d2d636f756e74792d312e676966

An Interactive Guide to the Many Faces of Johnny Depp

Each rectangle corresponds to a role; the color bars (see the key toward the top) display the point distributions. Mouse over each rectangle to see the movie title and year of release; click on each rectangle to see a detailed points breakdown, character name, and image or GIF of Depp’s appearance in the film.

http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/an-interactive-guide-to-the-many-faces-of-johnny-depp/

http://www.avclub.com/article/scarf-less-and-accent-free-8-times-johnny-depp-pla-214075

this movie is one of those once-a-year debacles where a bunch of talented folks somehow get roped into something that's truly DOA

i'd assume depp and koepp, maybe paltrow as well, were coming from a place of genuine enthusiasm - it's not like the STUDIO cared about adapting a cult '70s comedy mystery for the screen

http://www.denofgeek.us/movies/david-koepp/243011/david-koepp-interview-mortdecai-jurassic-park-indy-4

Johnny sent me the script. (Screenwriter) Eric Aronson had found them in a used bookstore in London some years ago and responded to it, and he’d written a few drafts of the script. Johnny had read it and just loved the character. He just said “I know how to play this guy, I think we could have a good time.” I read it, and within about two or three pages, I knew why he wanted to do it, and I knew that he was probably the only person who could do it. It was such a particular part, and he is such a particular actor.

http://www.vulture.com/2015/01/what-the-hell-is-mortdecai.html