I don’t like KB at all but he is good in Henry V tbfttlc
― gyac, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 13:47 (two years ago) link
the problem is "the bar is Bloom" makes it very hard for me to come up with anyone!
I hate Branagh's Benedick, though. Thompson's Beatrice is a delight.
xp
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 13:49 (two years ago) link
i have never seen Henry V
He mugs like hell as Benedick, not pleasasntly. His Henry V is still solid and gets at the king's ease with casual cruelty too.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 13:50 (two years ago) link
yeah it’s not meant to be “never name anyone EVER” but like there’s a whole industry of mediocrities and actors who’ve maybe delivered one decent performance in their lives and every single one of them beats Bloom even if they were adlibbing an unmemorised script with diarrhoea. That, my friends, is the bar.
― gyac, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 13:52 (two years ago) link
lol gyac
ah yes that does ring a bell. iirc Michael Keaton's performance is also extremely damning evidence for deems' case against him upthread (probably Keanu too, but we've turned that horse into paste now)
― rob, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 14:01 (two years ago) link
I'm not mad about either Branagh's Henry V or Iago tbh.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 14:01 (two years ago) link
true but i love Keaton. i blame Branagh as a director for his performance. Keanu is kind of funny in it?
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 14:02 (two years ago) link
wow i’m glad i wasn’t reading this thread when deems built a case against michael keaton
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 14:06 (two years ago) link
It's possible! I mostly remember him feeling totally out of place, but that same quality mostly worked in Dracula so you might be right
oh no, I should check that it even was deems
― rob, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 14:08 (two years ago) link
So, drinks tonight at Bar Bloom or Bar Benedick?
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 14:10 (two years ago) link
xpokay, "case" was off, more of a tentative suggestion that Old Lunch immediately quashed
still, it's hard to exaggerate how woefully awful Keaton is in Much Ado. I would advise actors who need to play a character that is spectacularly bad at acting to study that performance.
ftr, I have loved him in lots of other things, so I think horseshoe is correct that the direction is a big factor
― rob, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 14:12 (two years ago) link
Possibly wrong: George Wendt? John Ratzenberger is so good he sort of hides how wooden Wendt can be when he's not doing a traditional-Norm-zinger
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 14:22 (two years ago) link
I need to go do washing up/recycling but I leave you with my final For Your Considerations🖼🖼🖼🖼🖼
― gyac, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 14:46 (two years ago) link
Seemingly not, alas.https://i.gifer.com/embedded/download/P4KE.gifhttps://i.gifer.com/IJD5.gifhttps://data.whicdn.com/images/237926199/original.gifhttps://i.gifer.com/L4Pb.gifhow can you both under and overact in the same expressionhttps://media4.giphy.com/media/Of9u9vVSuT732/giphy-downsized.gif
― gyac, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 14:52 (two years ago) link
That's totally from the 'smell the fart' playbook!
― kinder, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 15:08 (two years ago) link
dogberry is an actor trap; agree it's prob branagh who didn't know any better than to push keaton into it. keanu puts a lot of that movie to shame imo: his readings are clunky but he is right there breathing inside the part. (it is the best part tho-- specifically because it insists on being in a diff play from everyone else-- so rob's "out of place" point applies.)
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 15:31 (two years ago) link
shit, the one who acts as if he hadn't been introduced to the rest of the cast is Washington.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 15:35 (two years ago) link
I vaguely recall *none* of the Americans really working in that movie (maybe Robert Sean Leonard?), but I couldn't be mentioning Denzel itt
― rob, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 15:42 (two years ago) link
i don't know, Washington was so pretty back then; when Thompson's Beatrice says to his offer of marriage, "No, my lord, unless I might have another for working-days: your grace is too costly to wear every day" it really lands!
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 15:44 (two years ago) link
those bloom gifs are all so incredible
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 15:51 (two years ago) link
he is acting as if he has a face and is aware that it is covered with skin
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 15:52 (two years ago) link
― horseshoe
agree!
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 15:52 (two years ago) link
This is still Kevin Spacey.
― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 16:58 (two years ago) link
i saw him in Moon for the Misbegotten once. he was so woefully miscast
― Deez NFTs (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 17:05 (two years ago) link
yet I'm told by several friends he was fantastic in The Iceman Cometh.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 17:10 (two years ago) link
it's been a long time, so I forget whether we have considered Emilia Clarke yet?
― sarahell, Thursday, 12 May 2022 06:40 (two years ago) link
definitely a rising contender
― Number None, Thursday, 12 May 2022 07:11 (two years ago) link
The Iceman Cometh is eighty-six hours long and you need some kind of lifebuoy for that
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 12 May 2022 09:37 (two years ago) link
Spacey had plenty of lifeboys.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 May 2022 10:00 (two years ago) link
Sam Neill is very good in Hunt For The Wilderpeople, can only imagine the carnage if Bloom lives to be the appropriate age for that kind of role.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 12 May 2022 10:12 (two years ago) link
joanne woodward
― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Friday, 17 February 2023 21:33 (one year ago) link
What? No.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 17 February 2023 21:50 (one year ago) link
xp worst quitting ever
― here you go, muttonchops Yaz (gyac), Friday, 17 February 2023 21:52 (one year ago) link
Btw speaking of the king of this thread:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO5VEBVBmaUFound this, suspect it was meant to be making the opposite point that it does.BLOOM OUThttps://64.media.tumblr.com/5b2514fe7c786e4c7f86b3ed93c4282e/tumblr_puqm5yKgCx1y1lcqlo1_540.gif
― here you go, muttonchops Yaz (gyac), Friday, 17 February 2023 22:02 (one year ago) link
is anyone good at grabbing a gif if i offer mia farrow in death on the nile
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 25 December 2023 17:18 (four months ago) link
I'll break with holiday spirit here and ask how has Ali MacGraw not appeared in this thread
― Josefa, Monday, 25 December 2023 18:49 (four months ago) link
actually
hugo weaving
add him straight into the spacey/malkovich "speak slowly, overuse your jaw" entry of "hang on you cant fuckin act lad"
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 23:07 (four months ago) link
incredible jaw though
the thing of dreams or nightmares, depending on your point of view
― Ghidorah, the three-headed Explorah (Neanderthal), Thursday, 28 December 2023 00:44 (four months ago) link
Come on, he made The Matrix.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 28 December 2023 15:00 (four months ago) link
by talking slowly and jawing like he was tripping
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Thursday, 28 December 2023 15:05 (four months ago) link
He was perfectly cast for that role. The problem is, that's about the extent of his range.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 28 December 2023 15:06 (four months ago) link
I’m sure I commented itt saying “fuck you he was great in Priscilla Queen of the Desert” but I’m not seeing it now so
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Thursday, 28 December 2023 15:35 (four months ago) link
you posted it in the wrong thread but it was noted
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Thursday, 28 December 2023 15:36 (four months ago) link
Ah, yeah, it was the LOTR thread
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 28 December 2023 15:38 (four months ago) link
Ah noWell I was right
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Thursday, 28 December 2023 15:43 (four months ago) link
tbf, I have never seen Priscilla Queen of the Desert
I am quite fond of him in The Matrix, I can tolerate him as Elrond.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 28 December 2023 15:49 (four months ago) link
He does enunciate beatifully.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 28 December 2023 15:50 (four months ago) link
*beautifully
over enunciate tho
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Thursday, 28 December 2023 15:52 (four months ago) link