Viggo Mortensen just bothers me.
I loved in when in the Michael Douglas movie “A Perfect Murder” when Douglas’s character guts Mortensen’s character like a fish.
That was a great scene.
Me too. I'm a woman, and all of the women I know who watch movies think he's dreamy. I find him faintly creepy. I can't put my finger on it. I don't get the impression that he's gay, but I do get the impression that he's not attracted to women.
Peter Jackson, on the other hand, I think is one of the best directors ever. His version of King Kong gets better with every watching. I get the urge to watch it several times a year (we have it on video).
Mortensen is some kind of poet, which means he passes for an intellectual in Hollywood. He always seems like he's about to cry in his movies. He was good in LOTR but The Road was absolute torture. He just seems like the kind of person you'd ask "Do you want a beer?" and he'd look off into the distance, start to talk, stop, finally mutter something about "In ancient Africa there was this tribe, gone now due to capitalism, and..." and you'd be like, "Dude, I just asked if you want a beer," and then he'd start crying, silently, while looking disappointed at you.