Bella, did you see Silver Linings Playbook with Jennifer Lawrence? I thought she was OK in that movie. No?I don't enjoy horror movies or slapstick. Horror movies are just too graphic for me. Exploring the dark side of the human psyche can be interesting, but not when it's accompanied by torture and a lot of blood and guts. I don't like that kind of blood and guts. If I want to watch blood and guts without all the attendant murder and mayhem, I can watch an autopsy.
My father found the Wile E. Coyote/Roadrunner cartoons hysterical. He'd bust a gut laughing. What about me? Not at all, even as a kid. I'd look at him like he was an escaped mental patient, lol. The Three Stooges? The hair pulling, slapping, head conks, eye pokes, etc., nope, not funny. My father would laugh like he was deranged. I don't watch that genre because I don't think it's funny.
Before talkies, slapstick was a way of telling a story. The Three Stooges talked, but beating up each other was the way they communicated. Although I'm not fond of slapstick in general, I do have an appreciation for Buster Keaton because, unlike The Three Stooges, he didn't just smack people around for a laugh. He was multidimensional, a performance artist, acrobat, and stuntman, writer, director, and cinematographer.
I enjoy classic film noir, other old movies, documentaries/biographies, and indie films. I also enjoy films with visual effects but not those that rely heavily on obviously computer generated special effects. The best visual effects are the ones you never notice, the ones that don’t take you out of the experience because you don't notice they're there.
This is an example of what I dislike. The entire movie is composed of computer generated effects/green screen.
Two thumbs down.
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
Rowan Atkinson
Tom Cruise
Kristen Stewart
Alan Ladd
Will Smith
Mike Meyers
Davis Spade
Jean Claude Van Damme
Tyler Perry
Mel Gibson
Woody Allen
Ricky Gervais
Steven Seagal
Adam Sandler
Angelina Jolie
Vince Vaughn
Jackie Chan
Jennifer Lawrence
Bella
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Who is the other actor who looks and acts just like Thornton? James Brolin? No. The guy who played the fed in The Fugitive. They act and look the same. I would have thought all the women would love them since they are classic 'bad boys'. Oh, now I remember! Tommy Lee Jones.
Yes, I've seen her in "Silver Linings" and... "Winter's Bone", "X-Men", "The Hunger Games", "American Hustle", "Joy", "Passengers", and "Red Sparrow", because there were other actors in those films who were the draw for me. Even though she won the Oscar for "Silver Linings", I'd choose "Winter's Bone" as her best film. Sorry, Randy, she just doesn't ring my bell.
You are correct, @RandomName , he's another bad boy who I cannot tolerate!
Do you mean the movie or the t.v. series?
I meant the movie. Which I actually enjoyed watching. Harrison Ford was in that movie, too, and I don't think he is a great actor, but he does not annoy me, lol.
Tommy Lee Jones?
Oh gosh, my husband does that and I can't stand the Three Stooges. Or another one I hated watching when I was a kid was The Honeymooners with Jackie Gleason. Even as a kid, I hated their grubby, poor and unpleasant looking apartment and Ralph Cramden was a horrible, loud, cranky man always picking on Alice.....couldn't stand it. More recently, Jon Voigt is not an actor that I'd watch, nor is Adam Sandler (his movies are always kind of flakey in my opinion) and Amy Schumer (although I think she's more a comedian than an actor right?)I never understood why anyone liked, much less laughed watching the Three Stooges..still I think laughter is healthy so I am happy that some find humor where I don't
And that is what makes him such an interesting actor. Because he is creepy and weird. But who knows, maybe he's actually a nice guy who was just burdened with that face and way of coming across. I've been watching an Apple TV series called Severance and he's one of the characters in it and he held up his end of the story very nicely.Christopher Walken...creepy, weird!
I once heard (don't know how true it is, so take it for what it's worth), but I heard it said that the Oscars are more like a popularity contest among the stars because they aren't even supposed to watching all the movies that they vote on. To me, that almost sounds like those movies that win may not even have any merit as far as all those categories go. I've never been an Oscars night fan so couldn't tell you my experience on this, but have any of you ever watched an Oscar winner and wondered what the hype was about? Like if you'd voted, it would never have gotten an Oscar?I used to like Meryl Streep until she started hogging all the Oscar nominations and trophies and front row seating
But seriously, why didn't she just say "Okay, I've gotten enough recognition so let others have a chance"
