I love that actor whose name I can’t spell. I really want to see him in a leading role where he doesn’t downplay it like he normally does(to great effect), something similar to his role in Doctor Strange which, sadly, was way too brief. I wanna see him do something like DeNiro really letting himself loose in Cape Fear.
Just watched where is Monday. Shit was wild.
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Agree, this is a missed opportunity - saw the first two episodes and dropped it.
Have read the book a few times, but if you need that in order to get a series, it has problems.
And there are so much good stuff out there, so why waste time on the sub-par stuff, right?
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Have you watched the Hannibal series?
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Yeah, but I didn’t really like it because the Hannibal novel had already virtually turned the character into a supervillain with super powers and a sense of humor whose main trigger was someone lacking courtesy lol. That was some badass shit. It was like a step backwards in the series. The character was just boring compared to what the novel had already built him up to and it wasn’t the actor’s fault. The psychiatrist chick was hot, though.
Regarding the movie adaption of Hannibal, why oh why did they give it to Ridley Scott of all people? Even Bret Ratner couldn’t have fucked it up so badly.
FWIW, I loved the Hannibal novel so much I paid extra for a hardcover copy of Hannibal Rising when so I could get it when it was first released and it was a steaming pile of shit. The movie adaptation was even worse.
Screw all of you. Cusack was fantastic as Lloyd Dobler.
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Kyle Reese is Johnny Ringo? Whoa!
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High Fidelity and Being Malkovich were pretty good too.
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Cusack was pretty good as the older brother in Stand by Me. Not a large role though.
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You guys see what I mean when I said he’s like the guy that played Kyle Reese in the original Terminator? I’ve watched ALL the movies you’ve mentioned other than Grosse Point Blank but I don’t recall Cusak being in them. Fuck, he was in Being John Malkovich?
I don’t get why the hate towards Cusack? Grosse Point Blank is an amazing movie with a phenomenal soundtrack, and he was born to play the main role in High Fidelity.
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No idea here either. I always liked Cusack (Hi Fidelity, Grosse Point Blank, Identity, Con Air, etc), he’s just in way too many movies. The guy did 27 fucking movies in the '10s. That’s ridiculous.
Sam Jackson’s in a lot of garbage movies too but he gets a pass because he’s “The Hardest Working Man in Hollywood” or something. To be fair, SLJ was in 46 (FORTY SIX!) movies in the last decade. That’s preposterous.
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How many good movies does an actor have to be in to get a pass for all their bad movies?
Has Cusak had more good films than Jackson?
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I have no idea, but it’s a good question. SLJ has definitely been in more good movies than Cusack, and it’s not even close.
I think they’re both very good actors that are also in a lot of really bad movies. SLJ is definitely in more good ones these days though.
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I like them a lot. I also like U2…
Red Dragon was awesome, ditto Silence of the Lambs, can’t remember whether I liked Hannibal, but when Clarice started dating (or some BS like that) Hannibal, that book jumped the shark for the whole Hannibal thing for me, and I have avoided everything Hannibal related ever since. I’ve been told the Netflix series with the awewome Mads is pretty good, still didn’t watch, I’m so sick of the whole mess.
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Haha, I just borrowed a Reacher short story ebook, and 'Da Algorithms sent this link my way: (thank goodness!)
It’s from 2 years ago, just googled and saw that a show is coming out on Amazon Prime.
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But that’s what I liked about the book. It was the sheer absurdity of it all.
Hannibal wanted to “turn back time” because he unwittingly ate his dead sister when he was a kid but understood that wasn’t possible because time isn’t linear because he read a lot of Stephen Hopkins’s shit so he decided to turn Clarice into her by temporarily reverting her mentally to a childlike state and mindfucking her and they ended up dating.
Seriously, reread the sentence I just typed above and tell me if you would have entertained the possibility that anyone who isn’t William S Burroughs would be sane enough to write anything like that as part of the plot of any book or film prior to Hannibal(the novel) without any arthouse pretensions lol.
Then there were the silly allusions to the Romanticist Art movement while Hannibal was still playing Baroque pieces and him being the Devil incarnate with Dante’s Inferno as a reference. The reason he was constantly chewing on something was an obvious reference to Satan chewing on the head of Judas.
I consider it some sort of weird pulp fiction novel attempting to pull off a sense of grandeur. That’s why I loved it. It’s kind of why I also love Tarantino movies and the later works of HK’s Johnnie To(Throw Down, Exiled).
Nothing beats Francis Dolarhyde sitting on the toilet to pee in Red Dragon, though. I wish they’d included that in the film.
Come on. The Clash actually DOWNPLAYED their talent in terms of technical skills but Bono has delusions of grandeur. He could be a good fit as one of the loony characters in any of the Hannibal novels.
It’s not about the movies. It’s about the actor. Nicholas Cage gets a pass from me despite starring in countless shitty movies. The only 2 really good movies he starred in that I can recall at the moment were Face Off and Leaving Las Vegas.
I don’t think John Cusack is a bad actor. I just don’t like his face for some reason. He always looks like he needs a beating.
Well, I watched Run Hide Fight because:
I think this time the critics were right and the only ones liking the movie are Ben Shapiro fanboys since The Daily Wire acquired the US distribution rights.
It was just mundane and dumb with too many standard movie tropes thrown in for any kind of originality to take place. I counted 3 very explicit instances of “Checkhov’s Gun” that were virtually thrown into the audience’s faces in the first act like they were really afraid people wouldn’t notice them. This is normally not a good sign because you can more or less tell how little faith they have in the intellect of their audience.
One would expect someone deciding to make a movie tackling a sensitive topic like this to have the balls to take things up a notch in terms of things like themes, social commentary and violence but this was just another generic action flick with very stupid characters doing stupid things.
And I just can’t wrap my head around why they decided to cast Barbara Crampton(Re-Animator, From Beyond, Chopping Mall) in it. It actually gave me hope that they were going to stuff some weird, expected shit somewhere in it but nothing of that sort happened.
4.5/10
But you can’t beat a naked Mads Mikkelson hog tied in a pig barn
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