Tapping the sign till my nails split down the middle:The bar is Bloom
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Thursday, 28 December 2023 22:59 (four months ago) link
some of y’all have never seen elizabethtown and it shows
― ivy., Thursday, 28 December 2023 23:08 (four months ago) link
*puts on my “I Have Never Seen Elizabethtown” Xmas sweater*
― he’s an adventurer (derogatory) (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 28 December 2023 23:14 (four months ago) link
also
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 29 December 2023 00:43 (four months ago) link
Yeah he was shit in that too
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Friday, 29 December 2023 01:10 (four months ago) link
his total inability to transmit a recognizable human emotion through the screen while being the romantic lead of a movie, in fact he's pretty much in every scene is really incredible, to say nothing of his... attempts(?) to play off kirsten dunst's lethal overdoses of quirk
i fucking love elizabethtown for the record, nothing like it!!!!
― ivy., Friday, 29 December 2023 01:25 (four months ago) link
My pick: I can't watch Ben Mendelsohn in anything. He oozes falsity.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 December 2023 01:31 (four months ago) link
My pet least-fave is [redacted] but she hasn’t been in enough for me to mention her name
― he’s an adventurer (derogatory) (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 29 December 2023 01:51 (four months ago) link
i demand name
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 29 December 2023 02:10 (four months ago) link
Byrne is good in dead man but he’s only in it for like a second and gets killed immediately. He dies good, tho
― brimstead, Friday, 29 December 2023 02:20 (four months ago) link
No I don’t wanna name names, she’s cool got good politics she’s just a stinky actor is all
Who was established as #2? Keira in the end?
― he’s an adventurer (derogatory) (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 29 December 2023 03:08 (four months ago) link
Bloom's number 2! One was Daniel Radcliffe
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 29 December 2023 03:31 (four months ago) link
My pick: I can't watch Ben Mendelsohn in anything. He oozes falsity.The bar is Bloom. Watch The Year My Voice Broke, The Big Steal, or Idiot Box.
― bae (sic), Friday, 29 December 2023 05:13 (four months ago) link
No I don’t wanna name names, she’s cool got good politics she’s just a stinky actor is allWho was established as #2? Keira in the end?
― Expansion to Mackerel (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 29 December 2023 06:01 (four months ago) link
I mean as your unnamed stinky actor who hasn’t been in a lot of things; has good politics; Canadian.
― Expansion to Mackerel (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 29 December 2023 06:02 (four months ago) link
No she’s American, not the best politics, but good, Sarah Polley good in everything btw just a hard ray of light
― he’s an adventurer (derogatory) (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 29 December 2023 08:59 (four months ago) link
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 December 2023 01:31 (nine hours ago)
He is good in "Babyteeth"
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Friday, 29 December 2023 11:08 (four months ago) link
your (correct) use of pronounsNot quite sure what you mean.I was probably pretty vague; I meant that Weaving was the best part of the film, imho.― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux)
Not quite sure what you mean.
I was probably pretty vague; I meant that Weaving was the best part of the film, imho.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux)
oh, just that the matrix was directed by two women - once i realized you were talking about weaving it was pretty clear that you weren't talking about the film's directors
some of y’all have never seen elizabethtown and it shows― ivy., Thursday, December 28, 2023 3:08 PM (yesterday)
― ivy., Thursday, December 28, 2023 3:08 PM (yesterday)
i don't have to watch it; i've been to e-town. what a terrible, depressing place. i'm glad my friend was able to get out.
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 29 December 2023 16:48 (four months ago) link
I liked Byrne in The Usual Suspects. He was good in Jindabyne too, where his drear is put to good use.
My vote, even though I quite like him on screen, is Michael Caine.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Friday, 29 December 2023 20:15 (four months ago) link
Michael Caine always plays himself pretending to be someone else.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 29 December 2023 20:18 (four months ago) link
God's holy trousers
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 29 December 2023 20:21 (four months ago) link
I'm not his biggest fan either tbh.
― The Italian Yob (Tom D.), Friday, 29 December 2023 20:26 (four months ago) link
appreciate that this is a discussion thread but someone nominating byrne literally started it and caine case already not accepted
i feel like ppl simply arent getting the bar tbh
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 29 December 2023 20:33 (four months ago) link
Agree about Children of Men but it feels like an outlier and every time I watch it that section feels like a different film altogether.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Friday, 29 December 2023 20:44 (four months ago) link
Lads: my fingers are worn to bloody stubs tapping the signThe bar is Bloomhttps://media.tenor.com/lgzWOirWGqUAAAAM/will-turner.gifThe bar https://i.gifer.com/origin/30/30334cfb490a50f45cd39da997a5d090_w200.gifis Bloomhttps://64.media.tumblr.com/0a1b4ec4de3d7fcf973e15ad27f4d7ca/a1e4251402e729a9-f2/s540x810/16eb366031bcff660e7ed839b719cd9b9344c310.gifPosting shit like “Liam Neeson” or “Albert Finney” or whoever? Not it. Not remotely.
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Friday, 29 December 2023 20:59 (four months ago) link
Surely no-one said Albert Finney? That's insane.
― The Italian Yob (Tom D.), Friday, 29 December 2023 21:01 (four months ago) link
Look if people aren’t ctrl+fing the thread as a minimum I’m not either
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Friday, 29 December 2023 21:04 (four months ago) link
Neeson is a fitting third-worst.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 29 December 2023 21:15 (four months ago) link
Ohhhh ok. #1 is Daniel Radcliffe? With Rupert Grint sitting right there? I don’t remember much about the HP series except “the fourth movie was really good” and “Rupert Grint is a bad actor”. I liked Radcliffe as Weird Al too ah well
After seeing those gifs gyac posted I don’t think anybody can compete with Bloom, the bar is just too low
― he’s an adventurer (derogatory) (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 29 December 2023 21:38 (four months ago) link
the first gif definitely looks like he's looking at a cue card
― Expansion to Mackerel (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 29 December 2023 22:03 (four months ago) link
fgti i feel you have been kicking against the premise for some time now and while its glad indeed that we can settle on bloom at least
the question of the third actor is open and i think weve a few who have come close personally but i am willing to hear also a spirited defence of the original two
ive set out my cases against both throughout but i think "fails to convince as a character with an internal monolgue irl" starts to cover it
radcliffe playing radcliffe is where the cracks show there, there's been plenty of awful child actors but the misery evinced in his own skin is a sight to see and wish you hadnt
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 29 December 2023 22:14 (four months ago) link
speaking of opening post
macgregor is starting to make me think again hes been a hollow accent for years, as bad as latter branagh but with each i think its simple lack of trying which is different rly
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 29 December 2023 22:20 (four months ago) link
Here, for historical interest, are the nominations for worst actor/actress in Harry & Michael Medved's 1980 Golden Turkey Awards book:
John AgarTony CurtisVictor MatureRichard Burton - WINNER
Candice BergenVera Hruba RalstonMamie Van DorenRaquel Welch - WINNER
― 1980 Jackanory spinoff (Matt #2), Friday, 29 December 2023 22:51 (four months ago) link
these are based on a given performance i presume, tho?
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 29 December 2023 22:56 (four months ago) link
Richard Burton could be lazy and offhand, but he could act when he felt like it.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 29 December 2023 23:05 (four months ago) link
I think they were based on entire careers? Haven't read the book for decades, but as I recall it the authors felt Burton's overwrought theatrics were better suited to the stage than the screen. They were probably offended at his diffident attitude too. Tony Curtis, though, is a hero and they were WRONG to include him.
Had to look Vera Ralston up, she was a figure skater who acted in crappy mid-century melodramas. In her favour she told Hitler to fuck off, at least in her version of events.
― 1980 Jackanory spinoff (Matt #2), Friday, 29 December 2023 23:12 (four months ago) link
@ darraghmac ah I’m sorry if it seemed that way! I love this discussion and it has informed many spirited irl discussions of “who is the worst”
And that is a beautiful-sad observation re Radcliffe
― he’s an adventurer (derogatory) (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 29 December 2023 23:24 (four months ago) link
man I will never wanna watch a movie with some of you.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 December 2023 23:31 (four months ago) link
xp not at all ive enjoyed it all <3
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 29 December 2023 23:39 (four months ago) link
we will not be entertaining talk of richard burton in any context
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 29 December 2023 23:40 (four months ago) link
#3 is Tom Cruise
I enjoy his movies but it’s true, just as awfully giffable as Bloomps, personal life as depressing to acknowledge as Radcliffe
#4 btw is Christian Bale
― he’s an adventurer (derogatory) (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 30 December 2023 06:10 (four months ago) link
an outrageous re-entry tbh
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Saturday, 30 December 2023 10:05 (four months ago) link
Fgti…I love you but you’d try the patience of a saint you know
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Saturday, 30 December 2023 10:07 (four months ago) link
Cruise not even remotely a contender for the following reasons:1) Magnolia: I can’t find whatever post I made about why this was such a great film but tl;dr Cruise is a big part of it. It definitely hits different knowing more about him offscreen in 2023 than it did in 1999 (or 2002 when I first saw it on TV). Anyway he is the perfect actor to give Frank TJ Mackey that touch of glittering menace barely papering over a broken child; his breakdown at his dad’s bedside has stuck with me through the years. And it passes the “internal life test” quite easily; he regresses from being this absolute monster to being an absolute shell in doublequick time and it’s electric imo.2) Also, Collateral. He should always play villains!Someone else can argue Bale, I don’t give a fuck about him tbh
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Saturday, 30 December 2023 10:12 (four months ago) link
cruise charisma alone is movie star disqualifier, hes also played light comedy paperthin mean guys too well forever to get into this mix, before you get into the exceptions above
cruise on the oprah couch and all that i can see why hed get into your head but we are itt looking at the nominees high points and saying if they can do that- even once, briefly- then imo theyre not in contention
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Saturday, 30 December 2023 12:20 (four months ago) link
bale?
star wars bit in that dragon caper, out
bale playing rich white arrongance is an interesting study tho
memes dont really save his turn in american psycho but that whole effort is tonally weird
if his career average was the same performance in shaft then hed be a worthy nominee here
his wayne is boring but, crucially imo, his playing brattish wayne is a lot of fun
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Saturday, 30 December 2023 12:24 (four months ago) link
He is if anything too invested in his roles, impossible to imagine Bloom thinking "For this role I will lose four and a half stone do anything other than turn up, sit in makeup and costuming, and say the lines"
Radcliffe these days does at least seem to be having fun in his roles (based on the otherwise terrible Now You See It 2 and The Lost City)
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 30 December 2023 12:42 (four months ago) link
Bale was good in The Prestige!
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Saturday, 30 December 2023 13:53 (four months ago) link
Every dog...
― The Italian Yob (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 December 2023 13:58 (four months ago) link