Russell Crowe's charisma is undeniable, at least for me
It held me through the last third of A Beautiful Mind, which I thought really fell apart. I've only seen him in a handful of movies, but he definitely deserves his reputation.
and Helen Mirren using her own accent always rocks--I also like that her character, the editor, has a classic Thatcher-era Brit tabloid journalist's obsession with not The Truth so much as What Effin' Sells, Dunnit?
Okay. Just for Helen Mirren, I'd see it.
(I also like how Ben Affleck is very much relaxing into being A Character Actor Who Happens To Be Surface-Handsome, rather than A Leading Man. It fits him far better.)
I am all for character actors. Recommend me something he's in; I think it's entirely possible that while I've kept decent track of Matt Damon, I may never have seen Ben Affleck in any role beyond Good Will Hunting and Dogma, which is probably unfair.
(Also remind me to tell you about They Made Me a Fugitive (1947), of which I saw the first half last night on TCM. I thought of you while I was watching; unless it disintegrates utterly in the second hour, it's one of the nastiest and most matter-of-fact films noir I've ever seen, especially for postwar Britain: it's like Get Carter two decades too soon. Trevor Howard, Griffith Jones. The latter as a cool and vicious black-marketeer called Narcy, short for Narcissus. Like I said, I thought of you.)
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It held me through the last third of A Beautiful Mind, which I thought really fell apart. I've only seen him in a handful of movies, but he definitely deserves his reputation.
and Helen Mirren using her own accent always rocks--I also like that her character, the editor, has a classic Thatcher-era Brit tabloid journalist's obsession with not The Truth so much as What Effin' Sells, Dunnit?
Okay. Just for Helen Mirren, I'd see it.
(I also like how Ben Affleck is very much relaxing into being A Character Actor Who Happens To Be Surface-Handsome, rather than A Leading Man. It fits him far better.)
I am all for character actors. Recommend me something he's in; I think it's entirely possible that while I've kept decent track of Matt Damon, I may never have seen Ben Affleck in any role beyond Good Will Hunting and Dogma, which is probably unfair.
(Also remind me to tell you about They Made Me a Fugitive (1947), of which I saw the first half last night on TCM. I thought of you while I was watching; unless it disintegrates utterly in the second hour, it's one of the nastiest and most matter-of-fact films noir I've ever seen, especially for postwar Britain: it's like Get Carter two decades too soon. Trevor Howard, Griffith Jones. The latter as a cool and vicious black-marketeer called Narcy, short for Narcissus. Like I said, I thought of you.)