I've never seen the 51st State, but I'm tempted to vote for it anyway just because it looks so goddamn stupid.
― Zero Transfats Waller (Oilyrags), Saturday, 4 April 2009 12:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Note I did not say I'm tempted to watch it.
No, I think I'll vote based on the most ridiculous name. Which leaves "Elmo McElroy" in the running, but stiff comp from "Augustus Gibbons" "Mace Windu" "Gator Purify" "Zeus Carver" and "Romulus Ledbetter."
― Zero Transfats Waller (Oilyrags), Saturday, 4 April 2009 12:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Which leaves "Elmo McElroy"... "Augustus Gibbons" "Mace Windu" "Gator Purify" "Zeus Carver" and "Romulus Ledbetter."
Crazy names, crazy guy.
Voted for underrated classic The Long Kiss Goodnight.
― DavidM, Saturday, 4 April 2009 12:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Tuomas: I love Unbreakable and agree with your assessment. That said, when I saw it in theaters the ENTIRE audience broke out in audible gaffaws with his line ending the film.
― Nhex, Saturday, 4 April 2009 13:20 (fifteen years ago) link
honestly, I am watching Jurassic Park on tv rn and i wish i voted for it instead of ATtK. also, i have made a philosophical decision: i do not even want to KNOW anyone who doesnt regard JP as the greatest movie ever, let alone befriend them
imo
― through hellfire and aspergers (cankles), Saturday, 4 April 2009 18:00 (fifteen years ago) link
i <3 him as Ordell in jackie brown
yep and i'm inclined to say there isn't much worth looking at past '97, except that
I kind of admire the fact that he will appear in almost anything
is kinda otm
― now is the time to winterize your manscape (will), Saturday, 4 April 2009 18:20 (fifteen years ago) link
worst film i've sat thru the entirety of, easily
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Saturday, 4 April 2009 18:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Ah what the hell. Went for "Kiss of Death" as a cop with a constantly teary eye getting David Caruso to wear a wire.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 4 April 2009 18:33 (fifteen years ago) link
He's done better things but I'm repping "Caveman's Valentine" for his turn as a badass piano playing hobo lunatic.
"STUYVESAAAAAAAAAANT!"
― chocolatepiekid, Saturday, 4 April 2009 18:41 (fifteen years ago) link
for some reason the second n in "Winnfield" pisses me off
― otm in new york (G00blar), Saturday, 4 April 2009 18:47 (fifteen years ago) link
His role in Fresh wins for me.
― The Lost Boys Buff Guy Playing Sax (rockapads), Saturday, 4 April 2009 23:42 (fifteen years ago) link
really, his last 8-9 years are pretty fucking embarrassing
― Dr Morbius, Friday, April 3, 2009 9:52 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i like imagining that Morbz picked this exact timeframe because he's a big fan of Deep Blue Sea and Phantom Menace
― I just laugh. And laugh and laugh. (some dude), Sunday, 5 April 2009 00:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 23 April 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Lakeview Terrace 1!
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 23 April 2009 23:02 (fifteen years ago) link
# The Caveman's Valentine (2001) .... Romulus Ledbetter 3
― do tell (omar little), Thursday, 23 April 2009 23:11 (fifteen years ago) link
i recently saw Black Snake Moan and he is actually pretty great there (the movie isnt so great though)
― Zeno, Thursday, 23 April 2009 23:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Nice to see other people voting for The Caveman's Valentine. Great performance in an underrated flick.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 23 April 2009 23:25 (fifteen years ago) link
I missed this but would have voted for Black Snake Moan, which I like a lot, and where he feels more un-Samuel L. Jackson-like than in most of these Samuel L. Jackson School of Acting SNL sketch roles. Lakeview Terrace is very stupid, but he's good in it in a very SLJ School of Acting kind of way. The Caveman's Valentine was unwatchable for me, despite a great premise and a great first 15 minutes or so. And no respect for The Negotiator? That's holy trash.
― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 24 April 2009 00:14 (fifteen years ago) link
I watched Lakeview Terrace, and he is really great in it, in that proper way of completely raising the character above the writing.
― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Friday, 24 April 2009 00:45 (fifteen years ago) link
LOL, missed the comment about Deep Blue Sea. That speech goes in the clip reel.
― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 24 April 2009 14:52 (fifteen years ago) link
I had this dream last night that there was a movie kind of like the Eddie Murphy Nutty Professor only with Samuel L. Jackson playing all the characters instead of Eddie Murphy.
One of the characters was a white tv news anchor who utters the line (in *comic white guy voice*) "Coming up next: a local man who got his guitar stuck in his beard."
― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 21:17 (eleven years ago) link
god help me i want to see that now
would make a good double feature with Hotspacho: The Musical
― shipl.de.al (some dude), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
movies you wish someone had made
― retro-shittified (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 21:27 (eleven years ago) link
I'm the other guy, 'what's in your wallet,' I'm that guy.
― That's So (Eazy), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 03:16 (ten years ago) link
I guarantee you Fishburne wd've been even angrier (for being confused with an inferior actor).
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:10 (ten years ago) link
so painful
― charitable remainder unitrust (crüt), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:17 (ten years ago) link
Overreaction
― nostormo, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:18 (ten years ago) link
All the comments on how "this is not about race it's just a mistake" like show me one example of any legit entertainment reporter completely mistaking his white actor guest for someone else
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:18 (ten years ago) link
Morbz otm
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:21 (ten years ago) link
Morbz otm on Morphs
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:22 (ten years ago) link
http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18wf3dtnfgc7ejpg/ku-xlarge.jpg
― frogbs, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:22 (ten years ago) link
eh I get white straight guys confused all the time
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:23 (ten years ago) link
cool that frogbs is posting a legit entertainment reporter's text messages
― Fight the Powers that Be with this Powerful Les Paul! (DJP), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:26 (ten years ago) link
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, February 11, 2014 12:23 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
me too, just not when I invite them onto my television show
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:37 (ten years ago) link
Would be awesome if this happened more often, with reporters confusing their middling middle-aged female actors or ingenues or British male stage/TV actors or anyone else constantly slotted into specific typecast roles because no one writes for them.
"Wow, I loved you in 'Gravity!"
"I'm Connie Britton, dammit!!!"
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:37 (ten years ago) link
NEVER tape sex live before a studio audience
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:38 (ten years ago) link
http://www.filmfreakcentral.net/.a/6a0168ea36d6b2970c01a73d756bd4970d-pi
― Inside Lewellyn Sinclair (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 01:53 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJWdl8tCABo
dude can really sing
― k3vin k., Friday, 25 August 2017 01:45 (six years ago) link
I think it would have been a great joke to have him do "I Ran" instead.
― clemenza, Friday, 25 August 2017 01:58 (six years ago) link
I guess the math adds up, but it blows my mind that Samuel L Jackson is *70*.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 13 June 2019 03:17 (four years ago) link
Possibly the only celebrity I'd bother quoting on Trump at this point:
Jackson, who has been a frequent critic of President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers, was asked if he worries about "antagonizing fans" with his ideology.
"I know how many motherfuckers hate me. 'I'm never going to see a Sam Jackson movie again.' Fuck I care? If you never went to another movie I did in my life, I'm not going to lose any money. I already cashed that check. Fuck you. Burn up my videotapes. I don't give a fuck," he said.
"I already cashed that check" should be on a T-shirt.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 18:44 (four years ago) link