Couldn't disagree more about Christian Bale. It's a hammy, mannered, self-conscious, nay, selfish performance that thankfully doesn't detract from the authenticity that Leo, Wahlberg and Adams et. al. bring to the world being created. This is an otherwise excellent film and btw Bale will probably win the Oscar anyway.
OK...so I watched the original last night...my opinion isn't much changed about Kim Darby (and you are so right about Glenn Campbell...one in a long line of popular singers who ended up in Wayne's films...Frankie Avalon in The Alamo, Fabian in North to Alaska but the best , and he actually IS good is Ricky Nelson in Rio Bravo...good looking, sings, and could actually act...but Glenn Campbell...very bad. Back to Kim Darby. She actually manages a couple of contained scenes, the best of which is with the sheriff early in the movie when he gives her that big gun and the negotiating scenes with Strother Martin. But when she gets shrill and weepy...you have a half a mind of leaving her in there with those rattlesnakes. ;-) And, yes, she's too old. Robert Osborne said that Mia Farrow had passed...also...wrong...and too old
I find that they've never seen the original VERY hard to believe.
Well, I don't much disagree with the hatin on Matt Damon here...but back to the original which I enjoy very much...EXCEPT...am I the only one who finds Kim Darby INCREDIBLY IRRITATING?...It's a wonder that Rooster Cogburn took the gig.
Wall Street: A wildly overrated film with a wildly overrated oscar winning performance by Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen at his rat-packing worst, and Daryl Hannah, virtually catatonic...awful.
Dude...that Charlie Sheen list. Ego te absolvo.
Towering Inferno...best...disaster...movie...ever. Blows Poseidon Adventure out of the water. Heh, heh.
Hey, man. It's Jon Michael Hill. (I know the guy and wanted to make sure he got a correct shout out.)
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