Do you love his bizarre appearance? His odd voice? Was he the best thing about Fast Times At Ridgemont High, or the worst? Do you believe his "schtick" (stubbornly boho, befriended Bukowski, lived in a trailer, drank a lot of whiskey)or not? Did you enjoy him in Sweet And Lowdown? His haircut in Carlito's Way needs a thread of it's own --
http://www.moviemaker.com/issues/08/images/twomen.jpg
(sorry, i couldn't find a better picture)
Sean Penn, then...
― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 14 April 2003 22:06 (twenty-two years ago)
He's dangerous. But I'll give him the Classic nod anyway.
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 14 April 2003 22:14 (twenty-two years ago)
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 14 April 2003 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 14 April 2003 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)
― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 14 April 2003 22:23 (twenty-two years ago)
he was married to madge-donna. i liked him in shanghai suprise in which they both starred.
his narration of the dogtown and z-boys documentary is c-lassic.
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 14 April 2003 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)
I must see Dogtown and Z-Boys
― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 14 April 2003 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)
i have the dogtown dvd (it came free with my shoes!)
stacy peralta laughs at sean penn's flub in the dvd commentary.
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 14 April 2003 22:31 (twenty-two years ago)
― adaml (adaml), Thursday, 9 October 2003 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)
More or less.
― Ensemble Ed (Ensemble Ed), Thursday, 9 October 2003 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)
― thurston moore, Thursday, 9 October 2003 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 9 October 2003 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― Nellie (nellskies), Friday, 10 October 2003 06:43 (twenty-one years ago)
― jed (jed_e_3), Friday, 10 October 2003 10:18 (twenty-one years ago)
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)
― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― the baby from three men and a baby, but all growed up (nordicskilla), Thursday, 15 January 2004 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:12 (nineteen years ago)
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:03 (nineteen years ago)
― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:07 (nineteen years ago)
― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 11 March 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)
the all the king's men remake is getting tepid reviews, no surprise as it seems like ho-hum oscar bait with typical Sean Penn overacting. the original version was not so hot either (big surprise from an oscar winner, huh?) but was watchable for mercedes mccambridge. since fast times, he's been mostly dud, but i know legions disagree (his dead bro (rip) was alright).
a "Rolling Crappy Hollywood Remake Thread" wouldn't be such a bad idea.....
― timmy tannin (pompous), Friday, 22 September 2006 05:30 (eighteen years ago)
http://omg.yahoo.com/robin-and-sean-no-longer-divorcing/news/8090?nc
― gabbneb, Thursday, 10 April 2008 16:45 (seventeen years ago)
http://omg.yahoo.com/most-of-humanity-not-caring-that-robin-and-sean-no-longer-divorcing/news/8090?nc
― HI DERE, Thursday, 10 April 2008 17:25 (seventeen years ago)
ultimate hardman
― sunny successor, Thursday, 10 April 2008 17:30 (seventeen years ago)
his wife gets better looking every year
was at Mailer's memorial yesterday
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 10 April 2008 19:33 (seventeen years ago)
Carlito's Way, Sweet and Lowdown, Fast Times = classsssic
everything else is pretty bad. ESPECIALLY I AM SAM.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 10 April 2008 19:51 (seventeen years ago)
boy, I'd forgotten how good he is in Dead Man Walking.
― The Screaming Lobster of Challops (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 13 February 2009 00:02 (sixteen years ago)
Well then.
http://www.stylebistro.com/Daily+Dish/articles/3f6vUI79wsK/Sean+Penn+Channels+Robert+Smith+NYC+Set+Must
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 October 2010 05:27 (fourteen years ago)
More like Nikki Sixx, lol
http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00386/Nikki_Sixx_Motley_C_386928a.jpg
― That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Friday, 22 October 2010 05:32 (fourteen years ago)
I'm glad it's not from the Wilson-Plame film coming up.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 October 2010 11:42 (fourteen years ago)
the falcon and the snowman is kinda dope
― ice cr?m, Friday, 22 October 2010 11:53 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOgF4xrx_h0&feature=player_embedded
― anime hitler, the futanari führer (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 19 May 2011 21:26 (fourteen years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/CUpz0.jpg
― dayo, Friday, 30 September 2011 22:13 (thirteen years ago)
About that Cure wannabe role:
It’s not subtle: in his forthcoming movie, “This Must Be the Place,” Sean Penn resembles Robert Smith, the goth frontman of the Cure. The resemblance was intentional; the Italian director Paolo Sorrentino, known for the political biopic “Il Divo,” idolized the Cure growing up and decided to make his English-language debut about a rich, depressed ’80s rocker married to a no-nonsense woman (Frances McDormand) who’s a firefighter.“He’s a child, and she’s the man of the family,” Mr. Sorrentino explained, adding that the story was based on his own relationship and also that of Mr. Smith, who is still with the same woman he began dating as a teenager and married at 29. Iggy Pop was another source of rock inspiration, and David Byrne supplies music and makes a cameo. Mr. Penn even sang a Cure-like song in the movie, but the scene was cut because his co-star for the scene, a dog, didn’t behave, Mr. Sorrentino said.
“He’s a child, and she’s the man of the family,” Mr. Sorrentino explained, adding that the story was based on his own relationship and also that of Mr. Smith, who is still with the same woman he began dating as a teenager and married at 29. Iggy Pop was another source of rock inspiration, and David Byrne supplies music and makes a cameo. Mr. Penn even sang a Cure-like song in the movie, but the scene was cut because his co-star for the scene, a dog, didn’t behave, Mr. Sorrentino said.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 January 2012 18:46 (thirteen years ago)
Oh Lord how have I not seen this before now?
http://www4.pictures.zimbio.com/bg/Sean+Penn+Sean+Penn+set+Must+Place+wNbKZik2wlUl.jpg
― ENBB, Monday, 30 January 2012 18:50 (thirteen years ago)
Someone find the "Cure-like" song that was cut. I think I need to hear that.
Mr. Penn even sang a Cure-like song in the movie, but the scene was cut because his co-star for the scene, a dog, didn’t behave, Mr. Sorrentino said.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 30 January 2012 18:51 (thirteen years ago)
So this is basically Robert Smith fan fic?
― Nicole, Monday, 30 January 2012 18:52 (thirteen years ago)
x-post lol
I need to see this.
― ENBB, Monday, 30 January 2012 18:52 (thirteen years ago)
If it is, Sorrentino has some odd fascinations:
...some audience members gave Mr. Penn a standing ovation at the premiere, but others said they found his performance mannered and the story bizarre. It certainly takes an unexpected turn when, with the help of an expert played by Judd Hirsch (a casting choice Mr. Penn suggested), his aging rocker, Cheyenne, becomes a Nazi hunter on a quest to avenge his father. A journey across the American West, another of Mr. Sorrentino’s cinematic inspirations, and into self-discovery follows. Mr. Sorrentino thinks of it as a comedy, Mr. Penn less so.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 January 2012 18:54 (thirteen years ago)
All those arena tours were just a cover operation for...ROBERT SMITH: NAZI HUNTER.
Which, if the movie was called that, would be the greatest movie ever.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 January 2012 18:56 (thirteen years ago)
This sounds insane. Also, Judd Hirsch!
― ENBB, Monday, 30 January 2012 19:00 (thirteen years ago)
yeah this sounds incredible
― Full Frontal Newtity (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 30 January 2012 19:04 (thirteen years ago)
plus: Nazis!
this movie was great, didn't anyone else see it?
― no fear, Monday, 9 April 2012 07:23 (thirteen years ago)
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/08/07/sean-penn-campaigns-hugo-chavezs-reelection-venezuela#ixzz22rtWu69E
― nostormo, Wednesday, 8 August 2012 08:41 (twelve years ago)
Okay so Robert Smith: Nazi Hunter comes out tomorrow.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 November 2012 20:30 (twelve years ago)
I am so excited about this for some reason.
Can I just repost the pic I posted upthread because um
― ENBB, Thursday, 1 November 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/40/This_Must_Be_the_Place_film.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 November 2012 20:34 (twelve years ago)
OMG
― ENBB, Thursday, 1 November 2012 20:34 (twelve years ago)
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.
― ENBB, Thursday, 1 November 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago)
The performance is a fascinating one, tho frequently more of an exercise, and there are smatterings of '70s European road movies and sitcom.
But the second half goes on kinda forever, and God do I hate Judd Hirsch.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 04:06 (twelve years ago)
really, Glenn Heath otm
http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/2011/05/cannes-film-festival-2011-day-10-drive-the-day-he-arrives-this-must-be-the-place/
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 04:07 (twelve years ago)
this film is also set in 2008 election season and thank Christ, Penn turns the TV channel before we see Obama.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 December 2012 01:39 (twelve years ago)
thank Christ
― glumdalclitch, Thursday, 6 December 2012 01:44 (twelve years ago)
i can't remember what it's called but this guy is in the shittiest looking mob movie ever, i saw a trailer, he's hilarious
― spottieottiespanakopita (schlump), Thursday, 6 December 2012 01:46 (twelve years ago)
he's mickey cohen! i forget what it's called too. i want someone to make a youtube that's just every second of the movie w sean penn as mickey cohen and i'll watch that.
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 6 December 2012 01:48 (twelve years ago)
there's something so terrible about sean penn's persona. like the bob dylan moustache & the kinda scrunchy aloof & wizened expression. he sorta reminds me of johnny depp, in having some of the mannerisms of, & affording himself the dramatic space occupied by, really great male actors, but w/o really having the facts to back this. i probably need to see him in something he really kills in but he is not so interesting afaict.
this must be the place is okay. i like the line about that's life
― spottieottiespanakopita (schlump), Thursday, 6 December 2012 01:49 (twelve years ago)
it looks so bad. like he is snarling & he is doing a sorta christian bale batman voice?
― spottieottiespanakopita (schlump), Thursday, 6 December 2012 01:50 (twelve years ago)
it looks like it was made in 1995
it looks like a Moonwalker remake that the studio cut michael jackson, dancing & robots out of
lolololol it's called "gangster squad"
― spottieottiespanakopita (schlump), Thursday, 6 December 2012 01:51 (twelve years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpCsOnJS0p4
― spottieottiespanakopita (schlump), Thursday, 6 December 2012 01:52 (twelve years ago)
i like sweet and lowdown and the falcon and the snowman and i dunno prob something else. i could probably still get some lols out of hurlyburly, a movie i've always been kind of proud of for its sheer level of repugnance. at the end sean penn doesn't fuck anna paquin and that's how you know he's had an epiphany.
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 6 December 2012 01:52 (twelve years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0Be-t8MPQI
― spottieottiespanakopita (schlump), Thursday, 6 December 2012 01:53 (twelve years ago)
sweet & lowdown's a good call, yeah. i always have this argument about johnny depp & have to concede a few, but even still you can end up being all "is that all you got, dead man & arguably donnie brasco but really not donnie brasco?"
the unwatchables xp
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 6 December 2012 01:55 (twelve years ago)
wow thread went south fast
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 December 2012 01:55 (twelve years ago)
lolxp
― spottieottiespanakopita (schlump), Thursday, 6 December 2012 01:55 (twelve years ago)
He insisted on smoking on Letterman sometime in the 90s, even as a teen I thought he looked a complete dick. C overall tho
― albvivertine, Monday, 10 December 2012 12:30 (twelve years ago)
For being miscast he's fine in Milk. I actually quite like his early performances: Bad Boys, Racing with the Moon, At Close Range.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 December 2012 12:40 (twelve years ago)
so not Jewish enough?
If there's a better American film actor in the last 30 years I'd like to see 'im.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 December 2012 12:45 (twelve years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug9xufczPVE
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 18 December 2014 20:59 (ten years ago)
based on the jean-patrick manchette novel 'the prone gunman'. looks pretty solid albeit quite a hollywoodized version of the original story i'm guessing.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 18 December 2014 21:00 (ten years ago)
uh
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/el-chapo-speaks-20160109
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Sunday, 10 January 2016 03:52 (nine years ago)
dud
― lute bro (brimstead), Sunday, 10 January 2016 03:53 (nine years ago)
I took some comfort in a unique aspect of El Chapo's reputation among the heads of drug cartels in Mexico: that, unlike many of his counterparts who engage in gratuitous kidnapping and murder, El Chapo is a businessman first, and only resorts to violence when he deems it advantageous to himself or his business interests.
― nomar, Sunday, 10 January 2016 04:20 (nine years ago)
kinda like W, eh kids
― Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 10 January 2016 04:27 (nine years ago)
In a narrow, dark passage between ours and an adjacent bungalow, Chapo puts his arm over my shoulder and renews his request that I see him in eight days. "I'll be saying goodbye now," he says. At this moment, I expel a minor traveler's flatulence (sorry), and with it, I experience the same chivalry he'd offered when putting Kate to bed, as he pretends not to notice. We escape its subtle brume, and I join my colleagues inside the bungalow.
― Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 10 January 2016 04:34 (nine years ago)
...dud
― big Mahats (mattresslessness), Sunday, 10 January 2016 04:39 (nine years ago)
sean penn sharted in relief at surviving
― nomar, Sunday, 10 January 2016 04:39 (nine years ago)
"picardfacepalm" not quite covering it
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 10 January 2016 23:14 (nine years ago)
http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/15/media/sean-penn-speaks-el-chapo-charlie-rose/index.html
"My article failed"
;_;
― nomar, Friday, 15 January 2016 17:56 (nine years ago)
I had to requote this because omg
― Very selfish, and very ironic (DJP), Friday, 15 January 2016 18:02 (nine years ago)
can Rolling Stone hire Sean Penn to write full-time about farting on the rich and infamous
― Very selfish, and very ironic (DJP), Friday, 15 January 2016 18:10 (nine years ago)
god, brume as a word for fart mist has been in my head since i read this last week
― Mr. Snroombes (mattresslessness), Friday, 15 January 2016 18:11 (nine years ago)
this is what I get for ignoring this whole thing on general principle, an entire week without knowing that Sean Penn took the opportunity of this meeting to literally write about his farts
― Very selfish, and very ironic (DJP), Friday, 15 January 2016 18:13 (nine years ago)
sailor of fart seas (sorry)
― Mr. Snroombes (mattresslessness), Friday, 15 January 2016 18:14 (nine years ago)
he carries Chaucer's legacy in all his assignments
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 January 2016 18:15 (nine years ago)
“I am a dog, as keen as can be.Is there room in the brumefor a dog like me?”
― I expel a minor traveler's flatulence (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 15 January 2016 18:15 (nine years ago)
i just like that this tourist fart was part of sean penn's confirmation bias about the nobility of el chapo relative to other drug lords
― nomar, Friday, 15 January 2016 18:20 (nine years ago)
is it unfair that I am now assuming that Sean Penn just farts on everyone, waiting to see if they call him on it or if they will chivalrously ignore it
― Very selfish, and very ironic (DJP), Friday, 15 January 2016 18:33 (nine years ago)
http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/15/media/sean-penn-speaks-el-chapo-charlie-rose/index.html"My article failed";_;
isn't his piece like 80% about him and his flatulence, appended with a brief and not very interesting interview at the end?
― frogbs, Friday, 15 January 2016 18:42 (nine years ago)
can someone please make a youtube of pensive penn scenes overdubbed with small fart noises ty
― home organ, Friday, 15 January 2016 18:45 (nine years ago)
Penn has been cropdusting the American moviegoing public for 35 years.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 15 January 2016 18:47 (nine years ago)
I throw my satchel into the open back of one of the SUVs, and lumber over to the tree line to take a piss. Dick in hand, I do consider it among my body parts vulnerable to the knives of irrational narco types, and take a fond last look, before tucking it back into my pants.
― home organ, Friday, 15 January 2016 18:51 (nine years ago)
surprised he could see his dick through thishttp://i.skyrock.net/7525/42017525/pics/1680190264.gif
― I expel a minor traveler's flatulence (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 15 January 2016 18:53 (nine years ago)
btw did this dude beat up madonna or what
― watching yourself lay a prole (wins), Friday, 15 January 2016 18:54 (nine years ago)
Of course he did.
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 15 January 2016 23:35 (nine years ago)
ah
― watching yourself lay a prole (wins), Friday, 15 January 2016 23:36 (nine years ago)
http://www.cracked.com/article_20560_5-beloved-celebrities-everyone-forgets-did-terrible-things_p3.html
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 15 January 2016 23:41 (nine years ago)
the less subtle brume of domestic violence surrounds him
― I expel a minor traveler's flatulence (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 15 January 2016 23:41 (nine years ago)
no escaping that brume, either
― I expel a minor traveler's flatulence (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 15 January 2016 23:43 (nine years ago)
Matthew Broderick seems like an odd omission from that list
― Οὖτις, Friday, 15 January 2016 23:46 (nine years ago)
well the reason I ask has to do with more recent events that mr snrub may have come across in the course of googling that cracked article xps
― watching yourself lay a prole (wins), Friday, 15 January 2016 23:47 (nine years ago)
idk what yr getting at
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 16 January 2016 00:04 (nine years ago)
the recent defamation suit where both he & madonna attest it never happened, also stuff like
― watching yourself lay a prole (wins), Saturday, 16 January 2016 00:23 (nine years ago)
http://gawker.com/did-sean-penn-beat-up-madonna-an-archaeology-of-hollyw-1748746261
― watching yourself lay a prole (wins), Saturday, 16 January 2016 00:24 (nine years ago)
Matthew Broderick seems like an odd omission from that list― Οὖτις, Friday, 15 January 2016 23:46 (Yesterday) Permalink
― Οὖτις, Friday, 15 January 2016 23:46 (Yesterday) Permalink
did not know about this, wow.
― art, Saturday, 16 January 2016 00:38 (nine years ago)
Did not know what?
― Saoirse birther (darraghmac), Saturday, 16 January 2016 00:41 (nine years ago)
that time in 1987 when he was driving in Ireland and swerved into oncoming traffic and killed two ppl in the ensuing accident
― art, Saturday, 16 January 2016 02:10 (nine years ago)
Not sure these are the established facts tbh
― Saoirse birther (darraghmac), Saturday, 16 January 2016 10:13 (nine years ago)
yes they are
― watching yourself lay a prole (wins), Saturday, 16 January 2016 10:41 (nine years ago)
there seems to be a few ppl who want to know the estabilshed facts
http://i.imgur.com/53qssIw.png
― just sayin, Saturday, 16 January 2016 12:00 (nine years ago)
fucking disgraceful that broderick should escape justice for such grave offences
also the car crash thing
― watching yourself lay a prole (wins), Saturday, 16 January 2016 12:07 (nine years ago)
http://deadline.com/2016/01/sean-penn-el-chapo-don-winslow-response-the-cartel-1201685328/
― nomar, Tuesday, 19 January 2016 19:47 (nine years ago)
On the Media was both fair and ruthless about Penn last episode.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 19 January 2016 19:50 (nine years ago)
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 15 January 2016 18:47
I still think about this every once in a while and laugh.
Heartfelt thank you.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 20 December 2017 19:24 (seven years ago)
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/sean-penn-bob-honey-who-just-do-stuff-review_us_5ab9a1bee4b008c9e5fa89a2
“Behind decorative gabion walls, an elderly neighbor sits centurion on his porch watching Bob with surreptitious soupçon.” ― page 71
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 09:05 (seven years ago)
You have to admit that it's a kind of perverse accomplishment to have written prose that awful. I'm not sure I could write anything that ugly either on purpose or by mistake.
― zchyrs, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 13:07 (seven years ago)
Where did all the laughs go? Are you out there, Louis C.K.?Once crucial conversationsKept us on our toes;Was it really in our interestTo trample Charlie Rose?
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 13:08 (seven years ago)
think I know who the real author is
https://i.imgur.com/E4WGxTn.jpg
― frogbs, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 13:11 (seven years ago)
Maron really wants to be his friend
― cthulhu original (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 14:41 (seven years ago)
the fraternity of late-middle-aged white guys with questionable facial hair, rage issues and a barely-repressed taste for cocaine
― sir chesley bonestell, qc (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 15:06 (seven years ago)
omg, just heard some of this on the radio. And some posters give me shit on here for blanket disparaging celebz.
― calzino, Thursday, 29 March 2018 21:49 (seven years ago)
norm macdonald won the "all memoirs are fiction" celebrity memoir battle
― Tapes 'n Tapes of Osho (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 29 March 2018 22:03 (seven years ago)
Never one for psychosexual infantilism or paedophilic fantasy, after their sex he said, ‘Good vagina. Maybe more Vietnam.’
― pomenitul, Thursday, 29 March 2018 22:08 (seven years ago)
Bob hastily exited and breathed the new morning’s Muslim air.
I thought it was just Eastern European drug dealers that were laundering money through Amazon publishing.
― calzino, Thursday, 29 March 2018 22:15 (seven years ago)
Couldn't find a better thread for this, so here it is. "At Close Range" has haunted me for long enough, ever since I was a kid, that even though I haven't seen it for a few years that probably makes it one of my favorite movies. I have no idea why I ever saw it in the first place. Was it a staple of cable? I didn't have cable. Were there scenes from it in the Madonna video? I don't remember the video. At the time I definitely was not a fan of either Sean Penn or Christopher Walken, and even though the based-on-a-true story movie is set 20 minutes from where I grew up, I didn't learn that until much later. Anyway, this movie has an intensely ethereal vibe unlike many others. The closest I can think of is "Near Dark," but of course that is a slightly different beast. "At Close Range" is just such a dark depiction of people at their worst, with this air of menace hovering over it like a shroud.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 15:48 (four years ago)
Never got around to seeing it, always meant to. I had to check my memory, but the "Live to Tell" video has lots of clips from the movie. James Foley directed a bunch of House of Cards episodes; he's most known for Glengarry Glen Ross.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 16:33 (four years ago)
I saw some clips of him on Louis Theroux's podcast lately. Man, he is looking rough
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Thursday, 22 May 2025 13:11 (two days ago)