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Post by JangoB on Sept 19, 2021 10:45:59 GMT
Among the most divisive Oscar-nominated performances out there, am I right? A turn that gained a second life as a joke after "Tropic Thunder" but one that Penn was definitely proud of - even writing a letter to Ebert after his negative review defending his choices.
What do you think about this performance? I'm kind of slowly gearing up for a rewatch of the movie because I haven't seen it in ages but I'm curious as to what you good folks think.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Sept 19, 2021 10:53:47 GMT
The performance equivalent to throwing a pick in the endzone... no, no... this is the equivalent to holding the ball too long in your own end zone and getting sacked for a safety.
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 19, 2021 11:14:57 GMT
Well........I've said before that I'll take Sean Penn's best work from the 80s through 2008 - over any of his peers - Hanks, Cage, Washington, Spacey in that era.....he was the actor of his generation for 20 + years....BUT: I Am Sam is a very bad movie that you find yourself blaming him for instead of the director - Sap Queen Jessie Nelson (who?) ....that's a very dishonest Penn performance where he goes coockoo for coco puffs in that its all mannerism and not connected to anything character related in a misguided attempt to save the movie - that movie should have disappeared and no one would care .........instead he got nominated for Best Actor so people hate it even more.  pacinoyes Rant: You know how we do stupid virtual signaling threads on MAR like "What Will It Take For A WOMAN to get nominated for Best Director! - yeah THAT happened on here  ? and Fight The Patriarchy and Dumb-Ass Harvard Grad (I know, I know) Natalie Portman saying "all male director nominees" like she's an edgy rebel without a clue and we let it slide because it's snarky and she's hot? AND MAR trolls also snarkily say stupid sh it like " Be born a man!" - which got like 10 likes (really?) - for no reason other than it appears to say something when it actually doesn't at all (What are you sheep "liking" btw  )? Well ........I'mmina say don't let Nancy Myers and Jessie Nelson direct movies and it would be a small start - and maybe don't 100% blame the male lead from trying (and failing) to save HER awful movie in the first place. Stop blaming it ALL on the great actor (and he is / was one) and blame the responsibility-denying untalented director for it a little too Fnck The Matriarchy!  |
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Post by franklin on Sept 19, 2021 12:51:02 GMT
Still can't believe that he was nominated for that performance.
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Post by jakesully on Sept 19, 2021 14:43:48 GMT
Just so awful and I can't believe he was nominated for an Oscar for his laughably bad performance in that crappy film. Penn getting an Oscar nom for it only adds to me despising the hell out of it haha.
Thank the Lord Denzel Washington won that year for Training Day or else I'd hate that I Am Sam performance 10 times more! lol
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Post by wilcinema on Sept 19, 2021 16:09:11 GMT
The performance equivalent to throwing a pick in the endzone... no, no... this is the equivalent to holding the ball too long in your own end zone and getting sacked for a safety. Me trying to understand what the hell it is that you're talking about:
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Post by jakesully on Sept 19, 2021 16:38:15 GMT
The performance equivalent to throwing a pick in the endzone... no, no... this is the equivalent to holding the ball too long in your own end zone and getting sacked for a safety. Me trying to understand what the hell it is that you're talking about:
btw Emma Roberts looks beautiful in that gif.  |
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Sept 19, 2021 16:47:49 GMT
It's an embarrassing film. The kind of silly early-2000s misguided rich American liberal message movie that aims for profundity but ends up being extremely condescending and lacking in any real humanity. It was doomed from the page and the direction, but Sean Penn taking it upon himself to use every tic he can muster to totally suck up all the oxygen from the film elevated it to a complete joke. His Sam is not a person, he is a collection of mannerisms used as a blanket so people can say Penn "disappeared" into the character. It's even more phony than Jodie Foster's performance in Nell.
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Post by stephen on Sept 19, 2021 17:19:43 GMT
The worst IHOP spokesman of all time.
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Post by JangoB on Sept 19, 2021 19:16:38 GMT
The performance equivalent to throwing a pick in the endzone... no, no... this is the equivalent to holding the ball too long in your own end zone and getting sacked for a safety.  |
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Post by President Ackbar™ on Sept 19, 2021 19:28:05 GMT
Horrible.
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Post by hugobolso on Sept 19, 2021 20:12:24 GMT
For the Academy Sean Penn is like male version of Frances MacDormand- (I put at first Streep but Denzel and Hanks are much more her counterparts) . Don't get me wrong, he is a trully gifted and great actor. But his Oscar nom for I am Sam, and his two Oscar wins weren't deserved.
I mean he was great in his Oscar winning roles, but he just won, because the Academy hated more Bill Murray and Mickey Roucke.-
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Post by PromNightCarrie on Sept 29, 2021 13:05:53 GMT
Wait a minute, he actually took the time to write Roger Ebert a letter to defend his performance? Just take your bad review and shut up like everyone else, you entitled ass. What a piece of work he is. Can be a really good actor though. |
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Post by wallsofjericho on Sept 29, 2021 13:17:14 GMT
Wait a minute, he actually took the time to write Roger Ebert a letter to defend his performance? Just take your bad review and shut up like everyone else, you entitled ass. What a piece of work he is. Can be a really good actor though. Good grief. I had no idea he did that! |
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Post by Martin Stett on Sept 29, 2021 13:31:43 GMT
I liked it. I mean, it was bad, but it was certainly committed. I could say the same for the movie, which is a guilty pleasure of mine. It's okay to enjoy syrup sometimes.
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Post by JangoB on Sept 29, 2021 14:07:37 GMT
Wait a minute, he actually took the time to write Roger Ebert a letter to defend his performance? Just take your bad review and shut up like everyone else, you entitled ass. What a piece of work he is. Can be a really good actor though. Yep. He also wrote a letter to Trey Parker and Matt Stone after "Team America" explaining why they were wrong  |
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Post by stephen on Sept 29, 2021 14:10:02 GMT
Wait a minute, he actually took the time to write Roger Ebert a letter to defend his performance? Just take your bad review and shut up like everyone else, you entitled ass. What a piece of work he is. Can be a really good actor though. Yep. He also wrote a letter to Trey Parker and Matt Stone after "Team America" explaining why they were wrong I love it when they tell that story. "This isn't real . . . is this real?!" |
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Post by PromNightCarrie on Sept 29, 2021 15:55:30 GMT
Wait a minute, he actually took the time to write Roger Ebert a letter to defend his performance? Just take your bad review and shut up like everyone else, you entitled ass. What a piece of work he is. Can be a really good actor though. Yep. He also wrote a letter to Trey Parker and Matt Stone after "Team America" explaining why they were wrong Yeah, I would say he's lacking in the self-awareness area which is why some of his performances miss. |
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Post by stephen on Sept 29, 2021 19:46:30 GMT
Yep. He also wrote a letter to Trey Parker and Matt Stone after "Team America" explaining why they were wrong Yeah, I would say he's lacking in the self-awareness area which is why some of his performances miss. Remember when he felt he had to explain who Jude Law was in response to that Chris Rock joke at the Oscars? |
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Post by PromNightCarrie on Sept 29, 2021 21:52:53 GMT
Yeah, I would say he's lacking in the self-awareness area which is why some of his performances miss. Remember when he felt he had to explain who Jude Law was in response to that Chris Rock joke at the Oscars? Oh yes. haha. I didn't think the joke was that bad when he said it! Sean goes "he's one of our most talented actors." He didn't attack Jude Law's talent. It was that he was in every movie and to us American audiences, he's not exactly Tom Cruise. Apparently, that part of Chris Rock's monologue is cut out of the Oscar clip on YouTube. I haven't checked, but if that's true, another example of Hollywood being way too serious. |
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Sept 30, 2021 15:18:22 GMT
Still haven’t seen it, doubt I ever will at this point.
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Post by clunkybob2 on Oct 5, 2021 16:07:39 GMT
He seemed kinda retarded tbh.
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? and Fight The Patriarchy and Dumb-Ass Harvard Grad (I know, I know) Natalie Portman saying "all male director nominees" like she's an edgy rebel without a clue and we let it slide because it's snarky and she's hot?
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