Happy 75th Birthday to Tommy Lee Jones! Anyone else a fan?
Sept 16, 2021 13:37:10 GMT
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Post by therealcomicman117 on Sept 16, 2021 13:37:10 GMT
I thought he was legitimately, excruciatingly terrible in Batman Forever as Two-Face/Harvey Dent. He's a great actor, but I don't know what he was aiming for with that performance. Maybe Joel Schumacher asked him to ham it up badly, or maybe he thought he needed to try go that big because Jack Nicholson and Danny DeVito successfully did in the previous Batman films. Or maybe he just felt he needed to do that to keep up with Jim Carey's OTT antics as The Riddler. Whatever the reason he made those performance choices, he was not good. I think he is too grounded an actor to do flamboyant effectively. Aaron Eckhart was infinitely better as Dent in The Dark Knight, but it was a shame he was just used as an appetiser to The Joker's main course.
Other than that though, I do find it difficult to think of things where he is not at least solid. He is an extremely fine screen actor, and I think he's got more great work in him...maybe even another Oscar, as I feel he is the kind of actor that can land a truly great "old man" role/performance. Happy birthday 🎂
Other than that though, I do find it difficult to think of things where he is not at least solid. He is an extremely fine screen actor, and I think he's got more great work in him...maybe even another Oscar, as I feel he is the kind of actor that can land a truly great "old man" role/performance. Happy birthday 🎂
I think it's a combination of being a bit uncomfortable in the role and also feeling that Carrey was easily upstaging him because to Carrey the OTT cartoonishness is something he could back then do in his sleep. But I still think TLJ was a trooper there - to me he fit right in with the whole vibe of that movie. He kinda prepared for it in Natural Born Killers too, I think
