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― System, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
hate this dude
― cant go with u too many alfbrees (Abbott), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 23:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I think you'd like Used Cars, Abbie Mack
― Subtlest Fart Joke (Oilyrags), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 23:14 (fourteen years ago) link
are you sure its not Val Kilmer you hate, abbott?
― my ghost ixi wants to read more books (Viceroy), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 23:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I HAVE NO WAY TO KNOW
I COULD NOT TELL THEM APART IF THEY WERE LABELED
― cant go with u too many alfbrees (Abbott), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 23:30 (fourteen years ago) link
of what I've seen, Silkwood over Tombstone
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 28 May 2009 02:25 (fourteen years ago) link
(then Swing Shift, Used Cars)
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 28 May 2009 02:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Snake.
But almost voted for Sky High, cuz it's pretty great too and prolly won't get much love.
― maciej recognizing trill, Thursday, 28 May 2009 02:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Wait, there are people who hate Kurt Russell? That's horrible.
― Oym a cripe... Oym a weer-dew... (circa1916), Thursday, 28 May 2009 07:25 (fourteen years ago) link
MacReady btw.
the barefoot executive is pretty cute; i voted for it because i know no one else will.
― elliot easton ellis (get bent), Thursday, 28 May 2009 07:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Forrest Gump voice of Elvis uncredited
Wtf?!
― Tuomas, Thursday, 28 May 2009 08:26 (fourteen years ago) link
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― System, Thursday, 28 May 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
He had already, rather famously in fact, played Elvis in a made for TV bioflick, Tuomas.
MacReady was robbed.
― Subtlest Fart Joke (Oilyrags), Thursday, 28 May 2009 23:11 (fourteen years ago) link
lolz
― Kool G Lapp (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 28 May 2009 23:15 (fourteen years ago) link
ok I don't hate Kurt Russell so much as I hate Plissken, a lot.
― cant go with u too many alfbrees (Abbott), Thursday, 28 May 2009 23:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Also I can't seriously tell him apart from that fucking guy Viceroy mentioned (Val Kilmer), tho I know ONE was in 'Real Genius' and the OTHER was in 'The Thing.'
― cant go with u too many alfbrees (Abbott), Thursday, 28 May 2009 23:22 (fourteen years ago) link
you are making me sad Abbott
― Kool G Lapp (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 28 May 2009 23:24 (fourteen years ago) link
ok I voted for Silkwood and it didnt register
FIX FIX FIX
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 29 May 2009 00:43 (fourteen years ago) link
ie aside from Tombstone nuthin but moronic shit got votes
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 29 May 2009 00:44 (fourteen years ago) link
He was tremendous fun in Death Proof. Movie wouldn't have been half as good without him.
― dollar eye twinkling (admrl), Monday, 27 February 2012 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
dark blue's pretty underrated and he gives a killer performance in it
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 27 February 2012 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
why has kurt russell never been in a baseball movie?
― Mordy, Saturday, 7 July 2012 01:12 (eleven years ago) link
From http://movies.about.com/cs/miracle/a/mrclkr012604_3.htm (talking about Miracle)
The problem I've generally found with the writing in most sports movies, and it's why I haven't done them, for the great and most part, they are written from the fan's point of view and not written from the player/coach point of view. This is what Ron Shelton and I talked about when we were talking about getting together to do a baseball movie, which he ended up doing called “Bull Durham.” The great thing about baseball, I said to him, is baseball is the only sport played by men for women. All other sports are played by men for men, that I know of. Because with baseball players, we'd just as soon have 50,000 women in the stands. We couldn't care less if there was a guy there. But football is a gladiator game, they want men chanting in the stands. Baseball players like to look good in their uniforms and run around the bases and say, “How's it going?” They want to be cool. That's what they're about. And Ron wrote it from, which in that regard was the point of view that you really need to understand baseball, the point of view of the woman who is with the ballplayer. That's the point of view to write a baseball story, which is why “Bull Durham,” I think, is one of the best made.I don't read them often and I don't like doing them often because I know it's #1) written from a fan's point of view, #2) directed from a fan's point of view, and #3) and the most disgusting of all, played from the fan's point of view. What's good about this movie is that you've got a guy who's directing it, who's a really good football player and is not a fan of hockey. He has a player's understanding. You've got a coach who has a player’s understanding, who played baseball professionally, who's not going to look at it as a fan. And you have the guys playing the parts who are not actors that want to be hockey players. They're hockey players that were cast in a role that the director believed he could work with them as actors. So that's why the movie looks credible.
I don't read them often and I don't like doing them often because I know it's #1) written from a fan's point of view, #2) directed from a fan's point of view, and #3) and the most disgusting of all, played from the fan's point of view. What's good about this movie is that you've got a guy who's directing it, who's a really good football player and is not a fan of hockey. He has a player's understanding. You've got a coach who has a player’s understanding, who played baseball professionally, who's not going to look at it as a fan. And you have the guys playing the parts who are not actors that want to be hockey players. They're hockey players that were cast in a role that the director believed he could work with them as actors. So that's why the movie looks credible.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 7 July 2012 01:36 (eleven years ago) link
he would be so great in a baseball film
― Mordy, Saturday, 7 July 2012 01:38 (eleven years ago) link
we need to start a petition
he was so good in Miracle
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 July 2012 03:50 (eleven years ago) link
Watched Tequila Sunrise for the first time since it came out. Love triangle, but so lopsided! I was surprised by how good Mel Gibson is and--I've almost always liked him in everything--by how bad Russell is. Or at least how badly the character is written--all smarm and knowing ripostes. And his look...someone should have taken Kurt aside and said, "This moment will pass; one day, people won't remember Miami Vice, and the way you've got your hair will look thoroughly silly. Here's a comb--go fix that."
― clemenza, Friday, 29 March 2013 14:31 (eleven years ago) link
looks potentially good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZbwtHi-KSE
― nomar, Friday, 16 October 2015 17:09 (eight years ago) link
I would never have voted for it, but I gotta say his lovable overacting is the main redeeming quality of Tango and Cash - someone more leadenly playing out the slob-cop type would have combined with Stallone to make the most generic boring movie ever. Russell seems to be over in the part of the movie that has daring leaps from rooftops onto power lines and a super cop tank battling construction equipment in a demolition derby, while Stallone belongs to the script draft with the totally assembly-line Chuck Norris final showdown. Unfortunately Russell also gets all the "he's a cop who tortures suspects and GETS RESULTS - what a mischievous scamp he is!" material and ....yeah. Ugh.
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Friday, 16 October 2015 17:13 (eight years ago) link
xpost What with all the zombie love it was only a matter of time before the cannibal film made a comeback. At least in theory.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 October 2015 17:31 (eight years ago) link
he shd play himself in a movie where he investigates what the deal is w walter Disney writing his name as the last thing he did before he died
― johnny crunch, Friday, 16 October 2015 18:23 (eight years ago) link
It writes itself. He goes deep into his investigation, then at the end he discovers that ... he killed Disney! Who was in debt to the Devil. It'd be like "Angel Heart" or something.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 October 2015 19:25 (eight years ago) link
Stargate is a ridiculous and not all that fun movie, and Kurt Russell doesn't even really get to do much in it, but "GIVE MY REGARDS TA KING TUT, ASSHOLE!" is just about almost worth it.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 12 December 2015 17:12 (eight years ago) link
i pretend that movie's about david foster wallace
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 12 December 2015 18:04 (eight years ago) link
Really good weary performance as a sheriff in quite a pickle in Bone Tomahawk. "You're pretty angry for a guy named Buddy."
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 January 2016 21:23 (eight years ago) link
wow captain ron is just death on the screen
― if you steeleye spanshine (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 02:06 (six years ago) link
Arrow are doing a SE of Dark Blue:
https://www.arrowfilms.com/product-detail/dark-blue-blu-ray/FCD1755
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 12:24 (six years ago) link
WHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAA?!?!?!?!?!?!? pic.twitter.com/br7eUsqCYL— Keith Uhlich (@keithuhlich) October 10, 2018
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 17:46 (five years ago) link
the fuck
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 17:55 (five years ago) link
the Elvis-Santa spectrum
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 18:07 (five years ago) link
tbh he looks p good as Santa
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 18:10 (five years ago) link
What, it isn't a Kenny Rogers biopic?
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 18:11 (five years ago) link
Big Trouble in Little North Pole
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 18:14 (five years ago) link
"Santa's back, and he's pissed."
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 18:15 (five years ago) link
“Like old Santa Claus says....”
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 18:16 (five years ago) link
(also i will def watch this)
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link
Pair him with Stallone as a stuffy Krampus he's forced to partner with and I'm there.
― Extra Shprankles (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 18:33 (five years ago) link
he knows when you've been holding 'emhe knows when you've been folding 'em
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 18:41 (five years ago) link
She Believes In Me - stealth christmas song
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 19:40 (five years ago) link
this is the most haunting thing I've ever read pic.twitter.com/DullZJ9FIi— Big Time NIT Fan (@dylmdav) March 18, 2019
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sign me up for this project yes
― fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 18:01 (five years ago) link
Only just realizing that the second Guardians of the Galaxy film was a missed opportunity for a Tango & Cash reunion. Devastated, also heartbroken.
― Soupy Slacks (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 18:07 (five years ago) link
Kind of occurred to me what an interesting late career resurgence Kurt has had. Obviously he's kept busy, but Death Proof sort of put him back on the map, or at least reintroduced him not as Kurt Russell, movie star, but as Kurt Russell, icon, where just seeing his face elicits good vibes. But yeah, Death Proof, Hateful Eight (he's not what's wrong with it), Bone Tomahawk, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and apparently he's in a couple of those Fast and Furious movies?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 19 August 2019 01:11 (four years ago) link
think his role in vanilla sky is v much a respectful nod type of a casting decision too
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Monday, 19 August 2019 01:15 (four years ago) link
Maybe, I've never seen it. "Miracle" (a couple of years after Vanilla Sky) was arguably his last successful Movie Star role, don't you think? I don't even remember the nu-Poseidon movie.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 19 August 2019 01:24 (four years ago) link
Kurt reportedly excellent in Bone Tomahawk. Not a huge fan of the Western genre (hell, I think it's contributed to present social ills), but I could get behind cowboys vs. cannibals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNYF6XmsRJM
― hedonic treadmill class action (Sanpaku), Monday, 19 August 2019 01:30 (four years ago) link
Great movie
― Οὖτις, Monday, 19 August 2019 01:55 (four years ago) link
I liked it a lot, but I thought the writer-director has been given the scarlet R by wokesters
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 August 2019 02:23 (four years ago) link
Love Bone Tomahawk, director seems ... complicated. He's definitely a provocateur. But hell, Kurt Russell is a gun-loving libertarian, so ...
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 19 August 2019 03:17 (four years ago) link