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Post by pupdurcs on Mar 21, 2022 14:14:21 GMT
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Post by sirchuck23 on Mar 21, 2022 15:40:56 GMT
I have to say him naming Blue Velvet is interesting. Wouldn't peg him as a Lynch fan because as he said the cat makes strange films to say the least.
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Post by pupdurcs on Mar 21, 2022 21:23:01 GMT
I have to say him naming Blue Velvet is interesting. Wouldn't peg him as a Lynch fan because as he said the cat makes strange films to say the least. Yeah, Blue Velvet feels like an off-kilter choice for one of his favorite films, but it's cool to see he's got wide ranging tastes in this type of thing. I'm actually interested in checking out The Education Of Sonny Carson now. It looks pretty interesting, but I've never seen it. It's not really been kept alive as a notable title by cinephiles or given retrospectives that would make people revisit it. It also looks way more serious and authentic than the typical "blaxploitation" fare of the time that told African-American stories .
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Post by franklin on Mar 25, 2022 0:51:06 GMT
For someone who doesn't consider himself as a cinephile, he has taste.
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Post by sirchuck23 on Mar 25, 2022 1:14:49 GMT
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Post by stephen on Mar 25, 2022 1:17:22 GMT
Next: Scott Stuber pulls up in front of PTA's house with a dumptruck full of Netflix money and tells him, "You have one job."
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Post by sirchuck23 on Mar 25, 2022 1:19:18 GMT
Next: Scott Stuber pulls up in front of PTA's house with a dumptruck full of Netflix money and tells him, "You have one job." Exactly..since Netflix is spending money like its nothing..give each of them (PTA, Denzel, DDL) $75-$100 million and say guys make it happen. Whatever you want.
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Post by futuretrunks on Mar 25, 2022 3:43:42 GMT
DDL will never do another movie unless Leo is co-starring (say, in some Chazelle thing), or Spielberg/Scorsese are directing. Even PTA couldn't alone drag him out of retirement at this point.
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Post by pupdurcs on Mar 25, 2022 4:03:16 GMT
DDL will never do another movie unless Leo is co-starring (say, in some Chazelle thing), or Spielberg/Scorsese are directing. Even PTA couldn't alone drag him out of retirement at this point. Huh? I don't think DDL is coming out of his "retirement" just to work with DiCaprio . They are friends, but he's been there, done that, wore the T-shirt and already obliterated Leo offscreen in Gangs Of New York.I'd agree that it's more about the director and the script/character for him. But let's get fucking real....at 64 years old, DDL is still relatively young and potentially has a lot of years of boredom and inactivity ahead of him. It's clear with statements from people like Stuber, thar directors and studios still probably reach out to him to get him in films. All he has to do is wake up one day and decide he's bored of being "retired". I think that will happen, and we'll see him come back for some major auteur.
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Post by pupdurcs on Mar 25, 2022 4:09:02 GMT
Stuber wants to see the greatest possible combination of living male screen actors work together. I've said previously many times, for many in the industry, Denzel and DDL are pretty much what Brando and Olivier were seen as in the middle of the 20th century to many in the industry, perception wise. DeNiro and Pacino are more "linked" as a pairing of great actors than those 4, but much of that is down to their shared Italian-American heritage and being typecast as gangsters.
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Post by sirchuck23 on Mar 25, 2022 4:47:53 GMT
DDL will never do another movie unless Leo is co-starring (say, in some Chazelle thing), or Spielberg/Scorsese are directing. Even PTA couldn't alone drag him out of retirement at this point. I think if DDL gets bored of retirement and comes back, the prospect of co-starring in a film with Denzel Washington and directed by PTA would certainly pique his interest, especially if PTA has a meaty role for him to chew on. Plus just the “Denzel and DDL finally in a movie together” part of it alone would make it an event, before someone like PTA coming into it.
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Post by JangoB on Mar 26, 2022 11:18:57 GMT
Leaked image from tomorrow's ceremony - Denzel with his third bird!
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Post by fiosnasiob on Mar 26, 2022 19:01:58 GMT
Who is that btw ? I don't know a lot of dudes who would dare to hug Denzel THAT vehemently, Spike Lee for one, me (before getting pinned to the ground by the security or worse, getting a throat punch by the man himself) and since it's neither of us it must be The Old Sam ?!
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Post by JangoB on Mar 26, 2022 19:12:07 GMT
Who is that btw ? I don't know a lot of dudes who would dare to hug Denzel THAT vehemently, Spike Lee for one, me (before getting pinned to the ground by the security or worse, getting a throat punch by the man himself) and since it's neither of us it must be The Old Sam ?! It's Sam Jackson, the photo's from the Governors Awards
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Post by pupdurcs on Mar 27, 2022 8:41:35 GMT
Vox.com giving a critical reassessment of Roman J Israel Esq. The critic originally gave the movie a poor review on release, but in the 5 years since has decided it's a good movie and Washington gives one of his greatest performances in it. www.vox.com/22989783/denzel-washington-roman-j-israel-oscars-nominationDenzel Washington’s performance in “Roman J. Israel, Esq.” is one of his least typical — and one of his best.By Emily St. James@emilyvdw Mar 25, 2022, 7:30am EDTWhen I first watched Roman J. Israel, Esq., in 2017, I didn’t like it. I really didn’t like it, as the review I published at the time makes clearBut in the nearly five years since the movie’s release, Roman J. Israel, Esq. has grown on me. It still feels centerless, but I increasingly see that as a strength of the movie. And Washington’s performance has stuck with me in a way few other star turns as showy as this one have.Throughout the film, it seems as though Roman may be neurodivergent in some way, though the film never says he is one way or the other. Washington’s performance zeroes in on the way Roman’s moral code seems as though it stems from a certainty that the world should have inviolable rules. That certainty manifests as an inflexibility throughout the movie that means Roman struggles in social situations. He struggles to navigate interpersonal relationships with people he’s just met, and he rarely even attempts to make arguments in court.I don’t think the film’s primary interests lie in whether Roman is on the autism spectrum or not, but rather than go way over the top with physical tics, in the way many actors would, Washington takes his usual skill with motormouth dialogue and turns everything down. Roman speaks with the same patter Washington always does, but he keeps everything at a low simmer. He’s not going to boil over. He’s just trying to keep things steady. That choice is why Washington’s work succeeds where so many other “maybe neurodivergent” star turns do not.Denzel Washington is an enormous movie star, but one of the things I love about him is that he will alternate the kinds of high-intensity roles he became best known for with weirder and smaller parts that show off his range as an actor. Even when he’s playing “a Denzel Washington part,” as he is in his currently Oscar-nominated turn in The Tragedy of Macbeth, he’ll make some fascinating performance choices you don’t see coming. His Macbeth, for instance, constantly seems as though he’s improvising his way out of one bad situation into an even worse one.Roman J. Israel, Esq. was Washington’s immediate follow-up to his titanic, thundering performance as Troy Maxson in his 2016 adaptation of August Wilson’s landmark play Fences. (In addition to starring, Washington also directed.) It’s hard to imagine two roles more dissimilar than Troy and Roman. The former is all smoldering frustration, ready to explode, while the latter is a man trying like hell to just bring something good to the world.In terms of screen acting, it’s often easier for critics and audiences to immediately appreciate the power an actor can bring to a character like Troy, whose lifetime of resentments feel like they might boil over into something terrifying at any moment. But it’s important not to overlook how difficult it is to play a character like Roman.I’ve talked to a number of actor friends over the years about which roles are hardest for them to play, and many have mentioned the difficulty of playing a character who is unfailingly moral and decent. It’s easier to watch someone who is always making the wrong choices because doing the wrong thing is often a lot more fun. Watching somebody who is just trying to do the right thing, even when the world gets in their way? That’s much, much harder for an actor to make compelling.Yet that’s exactly what Washington does in Roman. He nails how annoying someone with a committed, unflinching moral compass can be, in a way I didn’t quite appreciate in my earlier review. In every scene, Roman walks into a room where somebody assumes that they can corrupt him, and in every scene, Roman walks out of the room uncorrupted. That arc could be boring and undramatic, but I think the movie understands that the world too often bulldozes people like Roman, no matter how much they look and act like Denzel Washington.
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Post by JangoB on Mar 27, 2022 11:58:39 GMT
Vox.com giving a critical reassessment of Roman J Israel Esq. The critic originally gave the movie a poor review on release, but in the 5 years since has decided it's a good movie and Washington gives one of his greatest performances in it. www.vox.com/22989783/denzel-washington-roman-j-israel-oscars-nominationDenzel Washington’s performance in “Roman J. Israel, Esq.” is one of his least typical — and one of his best.By Emily St. James@emilyvdw Mar 25, 2022, 7:30am EDTWhen I first watched Roman J. Israel, Esq., in 2017, I didn’t like it. I really didn’t like it, as the review I published at the time makes clearBut in the nearly five years since the movie’s release, Roman J. Israel, Esq. has grown on me. It still feels centerless, but I increasingly see that as a strength of the movie. And Washington’s performance has stuck with me in a way few other star turns as showy as this one have.Throughout the film, it seems as though Roman may be neurodivergent in some way, though the film never says he is one way or the other. Washington’s performance zeroes in on the way Roman’s moral code seems as though it stems from a certainty that the world should have inviolable rules. That certainty manifests as an inflexibility throughout the movie that means Roman struggles in social situations. He struggles to navigate interpersonal relationships with people he’s just met, and he rarely even attempts to make arguments in court.I don’t think the film’s primary interests lie in whether Roman is on the autism spectrum or not, but rather than go way over the top with physical tics, in the way many actors would, Washington takes his usual skill with motormouth dialogue and turns everything down. Roman speaks with the same patter Washington always does, but he keeps everything at a low simmer. He’s not going to boil over. He’s just trying to keep things steady. That choice is why Washington’s work succeeds where so many other “maybe neurodivergent” star turns do not.Denzel Washington is an enormous movie star, but one of the things I love about him is that he will alternate the kinds of high-intensity roles he became best known for with weirder and smaller parts that show off his range as an actor. Even when he’s playing “a Denzel Washington part,” as he is in his currently Oscar-nominated turn in The Tragedy of Macbeth, he’ll make some fascinating performance choices you don’t see coming. His Macbeth, for instance, constantly seems as though he’s improvising his way out of one bad situation into an even worse one.Roman J. Israel, Esq. was Washington’s immediate follow-up to his titanic, thundering performance as Troy Maxson in his 2016 adaptation of August Wilson’s landmark play Fences. (In addition to starring, Washington also directed.) It’s hard to imagine two roles more dissimilar than Troy and Roman. The former is all smoldering frustration, ready to explode, while the latter is a man trying like hell to just bring something good to the world.In terms of screen acting, it’s often easier for critics and audiences to immediately appreciate the power an actor can bring to a character like Troy, whose lifetime of resentments feel like they might boil over into something terrifying at any moment. But it’s important not to overlook how difficult it is to play a character like Roman.I’ve talked to a number of actor friends over the years about which roles are hardest for them to play, and many have mentioned the difficulty of playing a character who is unfailingly moral and decent. It’s easier to watch someone who is always making the wrong choices because doing the wrong thing is often a lot more fun. Watching somebody who is just trying to do the right thing, even when the world gets in their way? That’s much, much harder for an actor to make compelling.Yet that’s exactly what Washington does in Roman. He nails how annoying someone with a committed, unflinching moral compass can be, in a way I didn’t quite appreciate in my earlier review. In every scene, Roman walks into a room where somebody assumes that they can corrupt him, and in every scene, Roman walks out of the room uncorrupted. That arc could be boring and undramatic, but I think the movie understands that the world too often bulldozes people like Roman, no matter how much they look and act like Denzel Washington. It's really good and better than Nightcrawler. And Denzel's performance is one of his very best.
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 27, 2022 12:12:06 GMT
One of those ones I don't get the praise for in his filmography - like Man on Fire - but this was Oscar nodded......I don't hate it......but by far the most undeserved of his career nods to me tbh ......by a lot..... I always say he's got around 7 great performances to me total (on film).......and 3 are in the last 10 years.........but I don't consider Roman Israel to be one of them for me.....stick to your guns Emily.......
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Post by pupdurcs on Mar 27, 2022 12:24:50 GMT
Vox.com giving a critical reassessment of Roman J Israel Esq. The critic originally gave the movie a poor review on release, but in the 5 years since has decided it's a good movie and Washington gives one of his greatest performances in it. www.vox.com/22989783/denzel-washington-roman-j-israel-oscars-nominationDenzel Washington’s performance in “Roman J. Israel, Esq.” is one of his least typical — and one of his best.By Emily St. James@emilyvdw Mar 25, 2022, 7:30am EDTWhen I first watched Roman J. Israel, Esq., in 2017, I didn’t like it. I really didn’t like it, as the review I published at the time makes clearBut in the nearly five years since the movie’s release, Roman J. Israel, Esq. has grown on me. It still feels centerless, but I increasingly see that as a strength of the movie. And Washington’s performance has stuck with me in a way few other star turns as showy as this one have.Throughout the film, it seems as though Roman may be neurodivergent in some way, though the film never says he is one way or the other. Washington’s performance zeroes in on the way Roman’s moral code seems as though it stems from a certainty that the world should have inviolable rules. That certainty manifests as an inflexibility throughout the movie that means Roman struggles in social situations. He struggles to navigate interpersonal relationships with people he’s just met, and he rarely even attempts to make arguments in court.I don’t think the film’s primary interests lie in whether Roman is on the autism spectrum or not, but rather than go way over the top with physical tics, in the way many actors would, Washington takes his usual skill with motormouth dialogue and turns everything down. Roman speaks with the same patter Washington always does, but he keeps everything at a low simmer. He’s not going to boil over. He’s just trying to keep things steady. That choice is why Washington’s work succeeds where so many other “maybe neurodivergent” star turns do not.Denzel Washington is an enormous movie star, but one of the things I love about him is that he will alternate the kinds of high-intensity roles he became best known for with weirder and smaller parts that show off his range as an actor. Even when he’s playing “a Denzel Washington part,” as he is in his currently Oscar-nominated turn in The Tragedy of Macbeth, he’ll make some fascinating performance choices you don’t see coming. His Macbeth, for instance, constantly seems as though he’s improvising his way out of one bad situation into an even worse one.Roman J. Israel, Esq. was Washington’s immediate follow-up to his titanic, thundering performance as Troy Maxson in his 2016 adaptation of August Wilson’s landmark play Fences. (In addition to starring, Washington also directed.) It’s hard to imagine two roles more dissimilar than Troy and Roman. The former is all smoldering frustration, ready to explode, while the latter is a man trying like hell to just bring something good to the world.In terms of screen acting, it’s often easier for critics and audiences to immediately appreciate the power an actor can bring to a character like Troy, whose lifetime of resentments feel like they might boil over into something terrifying at any moment. But it’s important not to overlook how difficult it is to play a character like Roman.I’ve talked to a number of actor friends over the years about which roles are hardest for them to play, and many have mentioned the difficulty of playing a character who is unfailingly moral and decent. It’s easier to watch someone who is always making the wrong choices because doing the wrong thing is often a lot more fun. Watching somebody who is just trying to do the right thing, even when the world gets in their way? That’s much, much harder for an actor to make compelling.Yet that’s exactly what Washington does in Roman. He nails how annoying someone with a committed, unflinching moral compass can be, in a way I didn’t quite appreciate in my earlier review. In every scene, Roman walks into a room where somebody assumes that they can corrupt him, and in every scene, Roman walks out of the room uncorrupted. That arc could be boring and undramatic, but I think the movie understands that the world too often bulldozes people like Roman, no matter how much they look and act like Denzel Washington. It's really good and better than Nightcrawler. And Denzel's performance is one of his very best. Yeah, I didn’t quite get the critical disdain for Roman J Israel Esq. To me it felt like one of those great, oddball character studies from the 1970's that could have been directed by Hal Ashby or someone of that ilk. I always said it was a very good film ripe for critical reassessments, and it seems to be happening now. Denzel was absolutely magnificent as Roman. He really should have won the Best Actor Oscar back to back for Fences & Roman J Israel Esq, but even though he didn't win, I think delivering two such powerful and almost completely opposite performances back to back is why he is widely being proclaimed " GOAT " by so many today. He has been an all-timer for a long time, but he kind of sealed the deal with his place at the top of the acting pantheon in those two seasons. Something like The Tragedy Of Macbeth is almost icing on top of his career at this point, where he just casually outstrips Marlon Brando as the best Shakespearan film performance by an American actor.
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Post by pupdurcs on Mar 27, 2022 13:02:39 GMT
One of those ones I don't get the praise for in his filmography - like Man on Fire - but this was Oscar nodded......I don't hate it......but by far the most undeserved of his career nods to me tbh ......by a lot..... I always say he's got around 7 great performances to me total (on film).......and 3 are in the last 10 years.........but I don't consider Roman Israel to be one of them for me.....stick to your guns Emily....... Lol! The jealousy and envy of the PacinoFam on here (specifically you and your apprentice Mattsby ) have for Denzel and his stature is laughable at this point. Mattsby claiming Denzel only had "2 Great Performances in the 21st Century" (a 5 time Best Actor Oscar nominee and 1 time winner this century alone ), had a less impressive 21st century as an actor than Billy Bob Thornton and randomly suggesting Samuel L Jackson should have starred in American Gangster instead made me crack up! The playa hating is real, y'all. I actually wish TerryMontana was still a regular here. He was the one member of the PacinoFam that kept it real, and wasn't constantly trying to diminish Denzel because they were afraid his stature made Pacino seem "lesser".
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 27, 2022 13:54:58 GMT
One of those ones I don't get the praise for in his filmography - like Man on Fire - but this was Oscar nodded......I don't hate it......but by far the most undeserved of his career nods to me tbh ......by a lot..... I always say he's got around 7 great performances to me total (on film).......and 3 are in the last 10 years.........but I don't consider Roman Israel to be one of them for me.....stick to your guns Emily....... Lol! Meh. I will say " 5 great film performances in the last 20 years" - which is what I say - is not that big of a difference from ANYONE saying " 2 great film performances in 20 years" - is it? - even with 5 nominations that would make you get your panties in a bunch, Priscilla. I mean ..........how many times has Bradley Cooper been great with 4 nominations? How many times was Sean Penn great to you with 5 nominations and 2 BA wins? Yeah exactly .......... People have a right to their opinion.........so just let 'em have it ..........you can have yours, go have it, good for you.......no one cares dude...........it certainly isn't necessary to reply to my post or especiallly to call out somebody else who didn't say sh it to you in the first place.
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Post by pupdurcs on Mar 27, 2022 14:09:41 GMT
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Post by pupdurcs on Mar 27, 2022 15:57:33 GMT
Anyway, in anticipation of Denzel losing the Best Actor Oscar to Will Smith later tonight , a director talking about their vote for Best Actor in an anonymous ballot from The Hollywood Reporter. Most people suspect the director is Stephen Daldry, since he works with both Olivia Colman and Hans Zimmer (Zimmer scored The Crown for Daldry). Anyway the director (who may or may not be Daldry) says he's voting for Washington because he thinks Washington plays the best Macbeth he's ever seen. And he thinks Washington is not only one of the top 2 or 3 actors working in the world today, but possibly the best actor of all time.
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This should be [Cyrano‘s] Peter Dinklage’s award. If he had been nominated, then everyone would have been incentivized to see the film, and they would have seen one of the most beautiful performances of the past five years. Javier Bardem is a great actor who was terribly miscast as Desi Arnaz [in Being the Ricardos]. My guess is they searched for the biggest star they could find who could pass for a Latino, which Bardem is not. He’s too old, he’s too thick and he’s not funny enough — this is the guy from No Country [for Old Men] and a James Bond villain! [The Power of the Dog’s] Benedict Cumberbatch is as much a cowboy as you are a lion tamer. In fairness, he has made a career of playing beta-males, so maybe that makes it harder to take him seriously as a character who makes Clint Eastwood look like Don Knotts. It simply didn’t work for me. Andrew Garfield was very, very believable in Tick, Tick … Boom!. I loved Will Smith in King Richard, and would love nothing more than to see him on stage — other than to see Denzel [Washington, of The Tragedy of Macbeth] on stage. There’s a theory that if you really want to identify “the best actor,” have everyone play Hamlet. Well, this is pretty close because so many people have played Macbeth, and I’ve never seen it done better. His “tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow” speech was just fucking fantastic. He’s one of the two or three best actors in the world, maybe of all time.
VOTE: Denzel Washington, The Tragedy of Macbeth
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/brutally-honest-oscars-ballot-3-1235117324/
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Post by sirchuck23 on Mar 27, 2022 17:01:05 GMT
That’s interesting that people suspect that was Daldry. Would make sense as you and others said he worked with Coleman and Zimmer on The Crown so that would fit. Also explains why this director holds Washington in very high regard, because Daldry did try to persuade Denzel to do a West End production of An Inspector Calls years ago.
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Post by pupdurcs on Mar 27, 2022 17:08:04 GMT
That’s interesting that people suspect that was Daldry. Would make sense as you and others said he worked with Coleman and Zimmer on The Crown so that would fit. Also explains why this director holds Washington in very high regard, because Daldry did try to persuade Denzel to do a West End production of An Inspector Calls years ago. I forgot that Daldry was trying to get Denzel on stage in London years ago. Yeah, it probably is him. All the signs point to it.
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Post by pupdurcs on Mar 27, 2022 18:15:52 GMT
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