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Maybe we should divide the topic into two categories: A)Those who truly cannot become someone other than themselves but make tons of money being themselves (Redford, Hepburn, Clunt, Travolta, Cruise, Pitt, Streisand ...dare I say it? John Wayne?) and B) Those who try but don't make it and annoy the hell out of at least one seething BNer (Diane Keaton!!!)
(Oh. I feel so much better now!)

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Quote: Originally Posted by Taolady Maybe we should divide the topic into two categories: A)Those who truly cannot become someone other than themselves but make tons of money being themselves (Redford, Hepburn, Clunt, Travolta, Cruise, Pitt, Streisand ...dare I say it? John Wayne?) and B) Those who try but don't make it and annoy the hell out of at least one seething BNer (Diane Keaton!!!)
(Oh. I feel so much better now!) But I have to feel sorry for her — being in a Woody Allen film will destroy any and every actor, lay waste to their talent as if it had been invaded by locusts.
Woody Allen is able to make every actor bumble through their lines as if they are channelling his own good self. Unwatchable! Unwatchable! Unwatchable!
If there were a thread for overrated directors I would nail him up there in a shot.

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Along with Jim Jarmusch. My university boyfriend dragged me along to see Stranger than Paradise and I have been more bored in my life.

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Quote: Originally Posted by Indiscreet Along with Jim Jarmusch. My university boyfriend dragged me along to see Stranger than Paradise and I have been more bored in my life. Agreed! "Jim Jarmusch, mate: you're overrated!!"

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I had my friend and his wife over and as they were leaving it was foggy as hell and just one of those nights, bare with me here. I put my arm on ny buddy's shoulder and told him I had something he had to see.
We sat in silence and watched Eraserhead. After the end he got up and looked at me and said' "don't ever do that to me again"

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Quote: Originally Posted by Eluard But I have to feel sorry for her — being in a Woody Allen film will destroy any and every actor, lay waste to their talent as if it had been invaded by locusts.
Woody Allen is able to make every actor bumble through their lines as if they are channeling his own good self. Unwatchable! Unwatchable! Unwatchable!
If there were a thread for overrated directors I would nail him up there in a shot. Totally agree on Woody Allen. His first funny movies were great - started to go south with Sleeper....but Bananas and Take the Money and Run...hilarious. Seems he began to make the kind of movies he used to make fun of....
As for Diane - the only good thing she ever did was a deodorant commercial way back in the sixties. Another case of self-absorption gone astray....
(This is all so therapeutic...).

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if you work with woody you do shtickt. his friends know that and go along with it. shadows and fog appeared as a short story in the new yorker years before he made the film

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Has anyone mentioned Kevin Costner yet? No? Well, oddly enough though i've enjoyed several of the films he was in, as an actor i don't appreciate him. Those films i enjoyed on account of others.
Also, here's an interesting story for you. Promoting his latest film at the time, "Dances with Mailbags" or whatever it was called, he happened to pop into what was probably the most famous brothel in Amsterdam. I think it's still around. All the girls agreed he was a bad fuck.
That's all i have to say about that.

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Paltrow was ' That English Actress' to some Brit friends in '98 when she did 'Sliding Doors.' They were astounded when I told them she was American, as her her accent was so precise (True, she lives in London, but let's not quibble) and if Hepburn 'played herself' in "The Lion in Winter ", it's a good argument for doing so; Woody wrote, acted and directed 'Crimes and Misdemeanors' one of the best and darkest film noirs of all time. Nicholson, despite-or because of the miracle of modern pharmaceuticals, often forgets that he's not in 'The Shining' ( his best role, really) the man doesn't just chew the scenery, he eats it and spits it out. De Niro has always been good, but hasn't taken the chances that Hoffman has. He has 'played himself' much more than Dustin. On the other hand Pacino has attempted double somersaults from the high wire, sometimes splattering (Looking for Richard?) sometimes scoring.
Say Hello to My Little Friend
Mario.
P.S. Poor Costner probably injured his sexual equipment when he fell from whichever turnip truck brought him to Hollywood.

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Quote: Originally Posted by CoTHukoB Has anyone mentioned Kevin Costner yet? No? Well, oddly enough though i've enjoyed several of the films he was in, as an actor i don't appreciate him. Those films i enjoyed on account of others.
Also, here's an interesting story for you. Promoting his latest film at the time, "Dances with Mailbags" or whatever it was called, he happened to pop into what was probably the most famous brothel in Amsterdam. I think it's still around. All the girls agreed he was a bad fuck.
That's all i have to say about that. Absolutely agree about Costner — and also agree with Tinker about Jennifer Bloody Anniston. What genius to put them in a movie together. So economical: it means that there is ONE movie that you definitely know to stay away from, rather than spreading it out over two.
As for Adam Sandler, I don't get it. Was the world crying out for a two year old in a man's body?
And I'm sure I will make an enemy of some of the women here, but I have to say it: Matt Dillon. C'mon, Matt, it doesn't hurt to have a thought every now and again.