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Hopkins lashes out at Hollywood ("insanity," "self-importance," "condescending")
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Posted on 03/06/2006 4:33:28 PM PST by doug from upland
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To: doug from upland
To: Cecily
I've always loved this guy. A sensible Hollywood actor with talent - VERY rare these days!
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posted on
03/06/2006 7:42:03 PM PST
by
derllak
To: dk/coro
To: kenth
And they work for peanuts.
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posted on
03/07/2006 7:38:26 AM PST
by
Valin
(Purple Fingers Rule!)
To: Donald Rumsfeld Fan
I agree, that was a very entertaining movie. Even Alec Baldwin was good.
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posted on
03/07/2006 8:03:28 AM PST
by
Cecily
To: 1911a1freep
Actually, I disagree with your assessment of George Clooney as an actor. His politics taints our perspective, but I thought he was great in the two Ocean's movies. Great films. Both of them. Maybe I need to see a few more ...
To: doug from upland
"I'm also tired of the camera moving all over the place, with car chases so cut and edited you don't know what's happening," he told the Radio Times. The day you make this complaint is the day you are officially old.
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posted on
03/07/2006 8:26:37 AM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: manwiththehands
Actually, I disagree with your assessment of George Clooney as an actor. His politics taints our perspective, but I thought he was great in the two Ocean's movies. Great films. Both of them. Maybe I need to see a few more ...IMHO his best work was "O Brother Where Art Thou". I always figured Everett was the REAL George Clooney.
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posted on
03/07/2006 9:22:03 AM PST
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MJemison
To: MJemison
He was hilarious in "Intolerable Cruelty." He still doesn't know beans about foreign policy or U.S. history, though.
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posted on
03/07/2006 9:28:46 AM PST
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Cecily
To: doug from upland
Of course, now some Hollywood elitists will find people to say that he acted poorly towards movie crews, etc.
To: doug from upland
I adore Anthony Hopkins. I saw him on stage in the late 1970's. Too bad he finds theater work monotonous because he was brilliant.
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posted on
03/07/2006 9:51:30 AM PST
by
CaptainK
To: MJemison
####IMHO his best work was "O Brother Where Art Thou". I always figured Everett was the REAL George Clooney.####
That movie is HILARIOUS, and Clooney's great in his role. He plays a guy who thinks he's a lot brighter than he really is, and who thinks he's a big shot even though he isn't. That's Clooney, for sure. All he had to do was be himself and he did a fine job.
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posted on
03/07/2006 9:59:06 AM PST
by
puroresu
(Conservatism is an observation; Liberalism is an ideology)
To: doug from upland
Is he still a fan of Clinton's, I wonder? Talking that way about Hollywood makes me wonder if he wised up and decided the glittery population isn't the cat's PJs after all.And yes,he certainly is an excellent actor.
To: manwiththehands
"His politics taints our perspective, but I thought he was great in the two Ocean's movies. Great films. Both of them."
Really? I thought Ocean's 12 was the single most condescending film I have ever seen. It was like a bunch of actors got together, and said "Let's see how much money we can get a studio to spend on our vacation to Clooney's Italian villa while we make a movie that laughs at the audience every step of the way for wasting its hard earned money at the movie theater".
To: IrishRainy; SouthernFreebird
Hopkins has a superb gift for underplaying a character as well.
Check out a little known gem titled "Juggernaut" form the 1970s.
Loaded with high end English talent focusing on an oceanliner that has several large bombs planted aboard.
Richard Harris is over the top as the Corps of Engineers Bomb De-fuser. While Hopkins and everyone else tries to under play their Scotland Yard and Downing Street colleagues.
A fun little flick!
Jack.
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posted on
03/07/2006 10:12:41 AM PST
by
Jack Deth
(Knight Errant and Disemboweler of the WFTD Thread)
To: MJemison
There isn't much in the way of movies out there that I care to see. I have a Netflix membership but I'm running out of choices ... so I'll always take a tip from a FReeper. I'll give it a look.
To: SoCal Pubbie
C'mon. Ocean's 12 was better than the first! It was witty, clever, a very fun story. That's why I watch. I want to be entertained. I'm not interested in being a movie critic.
To: manwiththehands
Very clever indeed. The part about Julia Roberts playing a person who was not Julia Roberts, masquerading as Julia Roberts, was the wittiest, don't you think? I mean it wasn't like "Aren't we clever? This isn't a movie you're watching here, wink wink".
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