fave M. Emmett roles:
- talking about eating crawdads, and if there weren't any crawdads, eating sand in "Raising Arizona"- Blood Simple, duh- Blade Runner- Straight Time- Dangerfield's diving coach in "Back to School"- his one scene as granddaddy Gemstone in the Righteous Gemstones
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 27 February 2020 16:30 (four years ago) link
Good poll. Greil Marcus has written lots about J.T.--puts him on a plane with the great character actors from the studio years--but I like M. Emmett better: great in Straight Time, Blood Simple of course, The Music of Chance, so many others. Looked at his filmography and he was in an early All in the Family episode. 85, and he's still really active.
― clemenza, Thursday, 27 February 2020 16:31 (four years ago) link
His mind games with Dustin Hoffman in Straight Time are pure evil.
― clemenza, Thursday, 27 February 2020 16:32 (four years ago) link
J.T. very disturbing in Sling Blade, but gotta vote for Emmett for Blood Simple and Blade Runner.
― Miami weisse (WmC), Thursday, 27 February 2020 16:35 (four years ago) link
yeah Straight Time is such an underrated gem, I should watch it again
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 27 February 2020 16:37 (four years ago) link
Back when he was in everything, J.T. used to frighten me more than Jason, Freddy, etc combined.
That said, Emmett is too entertaining in too many good things for me not to vote for him.
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Thursday, 27 February 2020 16:46 (four years ago) link
Shame JT died so young, his portrayals of white collar and authoritarian scumbags seem increasingly like a prediction of what we’re going through now. He’d be great playing nasty patrician republicans.
― Dan Worsley, Thursday, 27 February 2020 16:54 (four years ago) link
He played Erlichman in Oliver Stone's Nixon.
― clemenza, Thursday, 27 February 2020 16:56 (four years ago) link
No love for Matt Walsh, a shame
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Thursday, 27 February 2020 17:09 (four years ago) link
best Walsheshttps://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.roku.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F06%2FJim-Walsh.jpg&f=1&nofb=1
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 27 February 2020 17:15 (four years ago) link
Walsh is sort of the prototypical '80s/'90s onscreen douchebag (would have loved to see his stage performance as Williamson in Glengarry Glen Ross), and was always good. he was probably actually the best thing about A Few Good Men, playing this quietly agonized military guy who has a small but crucial role in everything that occurs, and whose role was obv overlooked w/all the histrionics going on around him.
― omar little, Thursday, 27 February 2020 17:38 (four years ago) link
He was a great foil for Robin Williams's zaniness in Good Morning Vietnam. (As was Bruno Kirby, just in a different way.)
― Bougy! Bougie! Bougé! (Eliza D.), Thursday, 27 February 2020 17:44 (four years ago) link
Shakey stole my line.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 February 2020 17:45 (four years ago) link
― Generous Grant for Stepladder Creamery (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 27 February 2020 17:51 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 26 March 2020 00:01 (four years ago) link
A poll that spans before and after.
― clemenza, Thursday, 26 March 2020 00:53 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 27 March 2020 00:01 (four years ago) link