What Movies Are You Watching (2019)

He did some pretty good acting earlier in his career, but he seems to just be getting more and more wooden with age. I really liked his performance in 12 Monkeys.

I love brad Pitt. I think he played the role in inglorious Bastards really well.

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I can remember enjoying him a few times before, but as years passed it just started to bore me, seeing him appear again and again. Maybe it’s just that I preferred him young and cute and not older and more grizzled.

Lots of people do! But like Angelina, I’m just kind of over him.

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Really? Seemed to me like he was kind of phoning it in. Waltz, on the other hand, gave a memorable performance.

Fantastic, really spectacular performance. As for brad Pitt, I found it satisfactory. Certainly not his best work but he held it down imo. Found him execute the humor for the character just right.

TG mentioned Leonardo DiCraprio. My god. Talk about being sick of seeing someone on screen.

And his acting is still unbearable, but he’s no longer young enough to make up for it in being cute. As he ages I find him becoming more and more square, more and more physically suitable to villain-type roles. But he just doesn’t have the charisma for that.

He’s so damn weird.

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That is a terrible trailer of a film.

:rofl:

Recently saw Level 16. Quite interesting.

Also I had to take on Ghost in the Shell and it was not as exciting as the trailers made it seem, but oh well.

It really does look interesting. 1969 Hollywood is ripe for a Tarantino treatment. MGM had cratered as the studio system was adapted to color television, and even established Hollywood stars couldn’t guarantee bank. On the cusp of the 1970s, the real trouble with illegal drugs was just kicking off, porn was making its first moves to mainstream in California. Grit and realism were the name of the game (Bonnie and Clyde, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Wild Bunch), tough times for stunt men.

I may even mosey into a theater to watch this one.

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I don’t think he phoned that role in, not at all. In fact, I think he reached back and brought some old fashioned, 1940s star power to things. Terrific timing, and as economic as Bogart, I thought. In fact, I was kind of fed up with Pitt until his work in Inglorious Basterds.

Walz still walked away with the movie, but I thought Pitt was terrific.

They have Bruce Lee in it. He was friends with a makeup artist that was killed by Mason. Apparently, that makeup artist was teh one who introduced him for the role of Kato.

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Yeah I thought he was a good fit for the character.

Brad Pitt’s best work imo is in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Se7en, and Thelma & Louise, but even in those, Casey Affleck, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis all acted circles around him.

He sucked balls in Inglourious Basterds though. His accent was a mess and I’m not referring to his Italian.

He absolutely nailed his west Tennessee patois, as he should since he grew up in neighboring Missouri.

Not sure what movie you have in mind, frankly.

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Was just gonna say.

Sure I’ll always like him best in Snatch

I think he even gets high marks for his Irish accent in Snatch, but I’m no expert.

It’s not just the accent either, it’s also his speaking habits. It’s just annoying.

There have been some incredible fake accents in movies (Daniel Day-Lewis in pretty much everything he’s in, for example), Brad Pitt in IB aint one.

That’s an interesting opinion, but it sounds Tennessee to my ear. Like, real Tennessee.

I’m glad somebody caught that.

I know a couple people who are related to women who went out with Brad Pitt, back in the day when he was still just a regular dude in MO. My best friend’s mom actually dated him briefly.

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