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Re: Favorite Jake Gyllenhaal Movie?
« Reply #60 on: April 04, 2006, 09:01:35 am »
I am with Sheyne DD is my favourite! Jake and his films are my favourite subject, I wish there was some sort of Jake degree you could take, needless to say I would get an A* for sure! But really you don't want me to start talking about Jake films or I will never shut up. When people ask me a question about his films I always ask...."Do you really want to pull at that thread?" But so I don't bore you senseless here is my top 10(of the ones I have seen):
1) Brokeback Mountain (of course)
2) Donnie Darko (which was my favourtie until BBM came along)
3) Jarhead
4) The Good Girl
5) October Sky
6) Proof
7) Bubble Boy
8 ) The Day After Tomorrow
9) Lovely and Amazing
10) City Slickers
I haven't yet seen Moonlight Mile or Highway cause they are so hard to get hold of, here in the UK, but I am working on it! ;D
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Re: Favorite Jake Gyllenhaal Movie?
« Reply #61 on: April 04, 2006, 09:04:48 am »
*in child-like voice with eyes closed*

DonnieDonnie Darko!!

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I agree. :)

BBM  5 stars

Donnie Dark 4.5 stars. Gawd, he was good in that film. The film operates on some many layers. It's so filmosophy., i.e. philosophy mixed with a story. Glad ppl are discovering it.

Jarhead 3.0 stars. Jake did a great job, but for Sam Mendes, I had higher expectations.

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Re: Favorite Jake Gyllenhaal Movie?
« Reply #62 on: April 04, 2006, 08:00:44 pm »
I suspect you've got most votes for Donny Darko because, like mine, that's the only other one people have seen. You could find that out with another poll....

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Re: Favorite Jake Gyllenhaal Movie?
« Reply #63 on: April 04, 2006, 09:47:46 pm »
Donnie Darko!  That look on his face... good acting.

Worst: Day After Tomorrow, but not because of him per se... the movie sucked.
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Re: Favorite Jake Gyllenhaal Movie?
« Reply #64 on: April 04, 2006, 09:54:52 pm »
Worst: Day After Tomorrow, but not because of him per se... the movie sucked.

Yup!  One of the only movies of his that I don't own on dvd and don't plan to.
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Re: Favorite Jake Gyllenhaal Movie?
« Reply #65 on: April 05, 2006, 02:46:07 am »
For all you Jarhead...heads.  This was on IMDb's main page yesterday:
http://www.imdb.com/special/jarheadvod/index.

Enjoy!

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Re: Favorite Jake Gyllenhaal Movie?
« Reply #66 on: April 06, 2006, 07:31:54 am »
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Worst: Day After Tomorrow, but not because of him per se... the movie sucked.

The effects were fantastic and he was absolutely delicious, but the movie was a total 'self gratification with the door locked' exercise!
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Re: Favorite Jake Gyllenhaal Movie?
« Reply #67 on: April 08, 2006, 02:20:06 pm »
You know, Jake could be in one of Mel Gilson's dead lauguage movies babbling on and on about who knows what and I would sit and listen to him all day.
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Re: Favorite Jake Gyllenhaal Movie?
« Reply #68 on: April 11, 2006, 03:10:02 pm »
Jarhead.
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Re: Favorite Jake Gyllenhaal Movie?
« Reply #69 on: April 16, 2006, 02:15:24 pm »
I voted Donnie Darko. Excellent, excellent movie. I love Richard Kelly and am sooo excited for Southland Tales (Jake will not be in it, in case you're wondering).

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You know, Jake could be in one of Mel Gilson's dead lauguage movies babbling on and on about who knows what and I would sit and listen to him all day.

I'm right there with ya.

I really liked Jarhead and Jake was good in it but I rented it after I saw Brokeback in theatre, so it was so depressing to watch because I missed BBM. However, Jake did a really fine job of differentiating himself in the two movies. I probably would've thought of Jarhead as nothing more than an entertaining movie to watch once if it weren't for Jake.

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