Connery's last was that reclusive author/inner city prep school movie, right? It was probably the most respectable bow-out of the three of them.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 18:12 (ten years ago) link
Hackman retired too.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 18:13 (ten years ago) link
no it was league of extraordinary gentlemanxpost
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 18:13 (ten years ago) link
woops – I need lunch.
Nicholson is so rich he can pay these actors' pensions.
oh in that case, nm. xp
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 18:14 (ten years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/73/SirBilli_Poster.jpg/220px-SirBilli_Poster.jpg
― fit and working again, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 18:16 (ten years ago) link
STAY RETIRED!
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 18:16 (ten years ago) link
I keep thinking Connery was in Skyfall because that dad/Scotland role was so clearly meant for him.
― bad bad disco (Eazy), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 18:18 (ten years ago) link
James Cagney hated Billy Wilder so much he retired after One, Two, Three, then came back 20 years later for Ragtime.
Pretty sure Cary Grant announced his retirement 20 years before his death, too.
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 18:18 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZUfuN2DNJ0
― More Than a Century With the Polaris Emblem (calstars), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 18:19 (ten years ago) link
The Sir Billi trailer I just watched makes me incredibly sad, like Connery may have been tricked in some sort of scheme and doesn't have people around him looking out for his best interests. Alan Cumming is in it too, but Alan Cumming will do anything.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 18:27 (ten years ago) link
Nicholson's rep denying retirement and memory loss
― what's up ugly girls? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 5 September 2013 15:53 (ten years ago) link
78
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_IVurj2Od0
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 23:35 (eight years ago) link
Orion to thread
― The Stan-Reckoner (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 April 2015 00:13 (eight years ago) link
Producer Jerome Hellman bought the rights to Theroux's novel as soon as it was published, and Weir committed to filming it. Jack Nicholson was originally offered the lead role, but backed out partly because he could not watch the LA Lakers from Belize, where part of the film was to be shot.[1] He instead went on to star in Terms of Endearment, a role Ford had also been offered.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 3 December 2015 07:16 (eight years ago) link
80 today
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 23 April 2017 02:35 (six years ago) link
The point at which he starts imitating himself is Cuckoo's Nest. Though he doesn't always.
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Sunday, May 5, 2013 9:10 PM (three years ago)
i haven't seen this film in a while, but i don't remember jack being too ott in this one. if anything he plays it down considerably from the larger-than-life character in kesey's novel.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 24 April 2017 02:10 (six years ago) link
I think he means that's where you start to see the seeds sewn for the rat mimicry to come.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 April 2017 02:47 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK7TiA9qmuU
― On Some Faraday Beach (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 24 April 2017 13:10 (six years ago) link
Film school should just be Jack Nicholson talking about Michelangelo Antonioni for free on the internet. pic.twitter.com/52kRFCjxxs— John Frankensteiner (@JFrankensteiner) October 15, 2020
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Thursday, 15 October 2020 04:19 (three years ago) link
The Crossing Guard is okay--over-the-top resolution (which is moving right at the end anyway), good stuff along the way. Sean Penn, one of our finest actors, was probably at the pinnacle of his career, acting in and directing a series of high-profile films. So he's got Nicholson and Angelica Huston, John Savage, Piper Laurie, Robin Wright (his wife), David Morse--it's an actor's film. He dedicates it to Charles Bukowski, so we know he has literary friends (just in case you still think of him as Jeff Spicoli). He gets a good performance out of Priscilla Barnes, from Three's Company. People were probably clamoring to be in anything he directed.
I'd say the best reason to watch it (Nicholson and Huston are fine) is Robin Wright. She so definitively became Claire Underwood for me, it was startling to see her younger, and how natural and quietly compelling she was. She dances to Salt-n-Pepa and it works. No use for Forrest Gump, but I know why Forrest fell in love with her.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 5 April 2022 02:09 (two years ago) link