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serious crayons:

--- Quote from: ednbarby on September 03, 2006, 10:01:43 pm ---  Hell, a head of butter lettuce has a million times more charisma than Mark Wahlberg. 
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I'm glad you specified butter lettuce, Barb. Because, while I agree with this, I'd say that when compared to iceberg, Mark Wahlberg comes out slightly ahead. (Though behind romaine.)

Actually, I know exactly what you mean. He's kind of dull and nondescript and wooden. And yet ... I find something likable about him.

delalluvia:

--- Quote from: ednbarby on September 04, 2006, 04:05:45 pm ---It surprises me no one's ever cast him as a serial killer.  He'd be perfect for it.  And I don't say that facetiously.  He must have backers who just desperately want him to be likable.  And it's not that he isn't.  He just isn't anything special.

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They did.  'Fear' wherein he plays a girl's psycho boyfriend.

ednbarby:

--- Quote from: delalluvia on September 04, 2006, 05:28:45 pm ---They did.  'Fear' wherein he plays a girl's psycho boyfriend.

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Oh, RIGHT.  And you know what?  He was good in that.

Do you know, I actually have the same problem with Edward Norton.  He was excellent in "American History X," but in anything where he's required to be likable, he's just a dud.  For example, I thought he *ruined* "Red Dragon."  Probably many people disliked that one anyway, but I had loved the book after seeing "The Silence of the Lambs" and running out to buy the prequel to get a glimpse into the early Hannibal Lecter, if only briefly.  And that story ended up scaring me way more than Silence did.  I'm not usually impressionable in that way, but I had trouble sleeping without the light on for two weeks after reading Red Dragon.  And when Michael Mann made the first movie (could I get a little more aliterative?) based on it - "Manhunter" - William Petersen nailed the character of Will Graham with whom I became somewhat obsessed during my reading.  Then Edward Norton came along and not only utterly missed the mark, but basically killed his soul.  Honest to God I still don't know what that boy was thinking.  I read that Brett Ratner and he butted heads over how to play him, and Norton won.  Too bad.  Really.

delalluvia:
The only time Ed Norton impressed me in 'Red Dragon' was when he took his shirt off.

serious crayons:

--- Quote from: ednbarby on September 04, 2006, 05:46:41 pm ---Do you know, I actually have the same problem with Edward Norton.
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Funny! I was just about to mention Edward Norton in my earlier post about Mark Wahlberg, because they're similar, at least in appearance: they both look completely average and nondescript. But I think Edward Norton is a better actor.

He was great, IMO, in "11th Hour."

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