Posted on 12/01/2012 6:09:35 AM PST by PJ-Comix
To each his own....
"great" though...?
I meant how funny it was that Costner’s accent comes and goes so noticabley ... he totally phoned it in on that one...lol
You don’t think his character in Zardoz was just a bit more out there than the Russian submarine officer?
I liked him in “The Wind and the Lion”. He could have kidnapped me and I wouldn’t have complained.
I was mostly referencing the fact that he is always a Scotsman no matter what role he is playing. I like him a lot but he really only ever plays “Sean Connery” no matter what the role.
I see. The “Connery-ness” does tend to present itself in his roles.
I read all the Jack Reacher novels up to and including Nothing to Lose. That one made me quit Lee Child. Haven’t read anything from him since then and never intend to.
Thanks! My memory must be giving out, because I saw the movie, and I could have sworn he said something like that.
Costner was terrible in Robin Hood, but Alan Rickman was great!
And before he hit the big time, he was pleasantly goofy in “Silverado”.
And his playing himself works pretty well in “Bull Durham”.
Before that was Fandango. Costner's performance was unremarkable, but Marvin McIntyre's performance as Truman Sparks was absolutely hilarious.
He was promoting his clothing line.
Haven’t seen that one, I see if I can get Missus Slim to put it in her Netflix queue.
It’s a fun film. Not a great one, but it has its moments. The Truman Sparks character is somewhat incidental to the plot, but IMHO steals the show.
Paul Fix as Mr. Tso in Blood Alley (1955) with John Wayne and Lauren Bacall. Fix is better known as the Marshal “Micah” in the Rifleman. And over 300 better suited roles.
Though many of the cast and crew were zonked during production, there is actually some serious science fiction in Zardoz.
In a nutshell, the world is descending into chaos, for unspecified reasons, so a group of idealistic scientists create somewhat self-sufficient enclaves behind nearly impenetrable force barriers, and devise a way to make themselves and their children immortal.
The people inside the enclaves call themselves immortals, and the humans outside, brutals, and have also created a cult of brutal killers, called exterminators, to cut down on the number of brutals, lest they figure out some way of breaking into the enclaves.
One of the immortals realizes that the world has become stagnant, that the immortals have reached their maximum intellectual abilities, and the only hope is to spend generations breeding a mutant (Connery), who can bust up the status quo. Who can intellectually go far beyond the immortals, and ruin the great AI computer that keeps them forever alive.
As a friend of mine used to say: “hey, you have ever seen that one Tom Cruise movie? You know, the one where plays The Cocky Young Guy?” :-)
“Tom Cruise plays Tom Cruise in every movie hes ever been in.”
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So did John Wayne. Only the wardrobe changed(military or western}.
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THANK YOU! I've been saying the same thing since he was cast in "The Man in the Iron Mask."
Regards,
TS
Okay, my hubby put his two cents worth in with Tom Cruise as a samurai warrior in The Last Samurai.
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