Red Mosquito

Monkey_Driven wrote:

tree_ wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:I think DDL is mostly excellent, but his performance always scream, "Look at me, I am ACTING!"

There's always a disconnect there for me.

Those are the characters you're getting that impression from probably. In There Will Be Blood he plays a man who creates a "likeable", "flashy" character in order to sell oil. In Gangs of New York he plays a larger than life man who is constantly intimidating those around him in order to keep away the rising tides of change. But with a role like Woodcock in Phantom Thread, he is a much more realistic person. The guy becomes the characters be plays, inside out. Every one of his performances are flawless.

I think I've seen all but one of his movies and they all share the same critique.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

tree_ wrote:Well I think that's silly. He's not acting, he IS the character.

Farmer John wrote:Some leftovers I would have considered had I been picking:

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Mickey wrote:Phantom team, if I had participated and picked last, only using picks not mentioned in the thread:

1960s - Breathless (1960)
1970s - A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
1980s - Dirty Dancing (1987)
1990s - Leon: The Professional (1994)
2000s - In The Mood for Love (2000)
2010s - True Grit (2010)
Director - Spike Lee
Actor - Francis McDormand
Actor - Jeff Bridges

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Anders wrote:00s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind