Celebrate Bob Hoskins On This Thread

Viva Bob Hoskins! :)

Now, all we need is an ILF thread dedicated to Michael Caine and I'll be happy.

this thread was almost a michael caine thread, but hoskins won in a close bout. i'd urge you to get carter it up, though.

And that close-up at the end of the Long Good Friday is fantastic. Except for the music, which is so awful and distracting you wonder if hes actually reacting to it instead of his fate.

haha! this reminds me of many michael mann movies as well....

The only thing great about Coppola's Cotton Club are Hoskins' scenes with Fred Gwynne.

I didn't really like Bob Hoskins in Felicia's Journey though. I thought his accent was too comedy Brummie. I did like him in Last Orders, though. Nice. Understated.

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So effortless in Mona Lisa that for years I thought he was just okay.

the music in the long good friday (by francis monkman of all ppl) is all overheated tangerine dream sequencers and it's GREBT

but partly it works bcz it's suddenly out of step with the times and so of course is bob's harold shand: that's what this unsettlingly prescient film's about -- the triumph of greedy corruption yes but actually history is powering off in a direction that doesn't include him (spoilers)