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Monika:
Watched Nightcrawler last night - very creepy indeed and a very good performance by J!
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on December 06, 2014, 09:00:01 pm ---Not good for the body, perhaps, but good for the acting cred. Actors who physically transform themselves -- Matthew McConaughey in The Dallas Buyers Club, Robert DeNiro in Raging Bull, Christian Bale in The Machinist (skinny) and American Hustle (fat), Charlize Theron in Monster, and so on -- earn respect and sometimes Oscars.
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No doubt about it, but still unhealthy.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on December 07, 2014, 03:43:39 pm ---No doubt about it, but still unhealthy.
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The physical hazards of being an Oscar-winning actor. Or a professional football player or supermodel, for that matter.
--- Quote from: Monika on December 07, 2014, 02:10:24 am ---Watched Nightcrawler last night - very creepy indeed and a very good performance by J!
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I just saw it, too. I liked it a lot. Jake was scary. But then again, this is the first Jake movie I've even dared see for a while. That one about the kidnappings or whatever sounded way too disturbing for me.
This one was on the bearable side of disturbing. And the concept was great. But in defense of journalism, I'll have to say that I don't think the "If it bleeds it leads" credo is actually much of a thing, and a news director would never opt to withhold publicly available information in order to make a story more enticing. For that matter, no news director would flat-out tell her videographer that she wanted footage involving rich white people being attacked by criminals of color. Not to say journalists are never biased in their reporting, but they wouldn't just talk about it like it's a completely acceptable normal thing. When they mention racial preference in reporting at all, it's about seeking more fairness and diversity, not less. I get that it was supposed to be kind of a sketchy station, but geez.
However, if you chalk those up to cinematic license and ignore them, which I couldn't but maybe most people could, it was a very good movie. Better than Birdman, which I saw the week before.
southendmd:
Jake's long-shelved project "Nailed" is now called "Accidental Love" and there's now a trailer! It sure looks strange. But after Nightcrawler and Enemy, why not?
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=097mfp8HgAo[/youtube]
I still think "Nailed" is a better title. It even has James Marsden with a pornstache. What's not to like?
southendmd:
Some may recall that Lisa/BBMISWEAR met Jake during the filming of Nailed and she wrote a blow-by-blow travelogue. (Can't readily find the link.)
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