Jude Law: Classic Or Dud?

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He's everywhere! He has something like 6 movies out this year! It's gotten to the point where I got my copy of Vanity Fair in the mail and when I saw him on the cover all I thought was: "jeez, what took them so long?" Anyway, I don't hate him or anything. But he is in every issue of all my fave trashy magazines so I am forced to ponder him. I think he's shrinking. Is he actually 4 feet tall? Like Tome Cruise short? And he looks extra thin these days too. He is pretty sexy even if he is a little teeny person with a huge head in real life. Acting-wise, I can take him or leave him. He's fine, you know? There are better and there are worse. He has perfect teeth! His kid is cute. He wasn't the greatest sexbot I've ever seen in a sci-fi movie. But he was okay. For me: Not so classic, but not so dud. But he is taking precious space away from Paris, Hillary, and all those Bachelor/Apprentice losers in US Magazine, so I thought I would voice my concern. Did he get a new agent? Maybe he got Kate Beckinsale's agent. She is apparently the most fascinating sex goddess who ever walked the earth these days in the u.s. of a. Hmm, go figure. And you?

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 19 September 2004 01:29 (twenty-one years ago)

And is it true that all the ladies love cool J?

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 19 September 2004 01:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Classic, man. If I were gonna do a guy, Jude Law would be high on the list.

But so, for that matter, would be Thurston.

― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 19 September 2004 02:15 (twenty-one years ago)

he's hot but he's too primped. he looks like he spends a lot of time in front of mirrors practicing his pout

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 19 September 2004 02:44 (twenty-one years ago)

My boy-crushes = (young) Paul Newman and Luke Wilson. But Jude Law is kinda pretty. Maybe there should be a boy-crush thread...

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Sunday, 19 September 2004 02:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Classic, man. If I were gonna do a guy, Jude Law would be high on the list.

But so, for that matter, would be Thurston.

-- ex-jeremy (jc(00)mbs@gmai1.com), September 19th, 2004 3:15 AM.

No man, Johnny Depp all the way.

*coughs in an extremely heterosexual manner*

― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 19 September 2004 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

something always creeps me out about the whole "he's the boy i'd fuck, if i did such things." it seems to imply a conception of sexuality i don't agree with.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 19 September 2004 02:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, I just mean 'man I would cuddle if I met him in real life'. Nothing to do with imagining another version of myself.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Sunday, 19 September 2004 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)

he'd probably worry that you'd muss his stubble

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 19 September 2004 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I think there's something a little creepy and decadent about him. He needs to play more creepy, decadent roles. He'd be a good leading man for Ken Russell or Nicolas Roeg.

― spittle (spittle), Sunday, 19 September 2004 05:23 (twenty-one years ago)

But he was terrible in that Tom Hanks-gangsta movie. Or maybe the entire movie was just too terrible for anything good to break out.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 19 September 2004 05:28 (twenty-one years ago)

he does seem kind of limited as an actor

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 19 September 2004 05:38 (twenty-one years ago)

he's got the goods

― cinniblount (James Blount), Sunday, 19 September 2004 12:47 (twenty-one years ago)

eXistenZ!!!!!!!

― daria g (daria g), Sunday, 19 September 2004 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

But he was terrible in that Tom Hanks-gangsta movie. Or maybe the entire movie was just too terrible for anything good to break out.

i'd be inclined to think the latter. that movie was wretched. i kept imagining a guy running around the set screaming, "WE ARE MAKING A SERIOUS MOVIE, PEOPLE" in case anyone started to look light-hearted.

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 19 September 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

he's hot but he's too primped. he looks like he spends a lot of time in front of mirrors practicing his pout

surely this is his selling-point, no?

― jones (actual), Sunday, 19 September 2004 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe he got Kate Beckinsale's agent. She is apparently the most fascinating sex goddess who ever walked the earth these days

she's kind of scary now. stop with the plastic surgery, already.

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 19 September 2004 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

also, the posh spice hair needs to go. what was wrong with her cute dark bob?

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 19 September 2004 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

So, big surprise, KB goes LA? Her dad is a national institution here of the Freddie Prinze type (died young, in cherished sitcom, considered sexy, surviving child too young to remember the dad alive).

Met JL twice, once when invited to their place by then-wife for a meeting about a book I was doing, and last year at a White Stripes dressing-room aftershow. By way of explanation, he isn't THAT short, maybe 5'9 or 5'10. But didn't spend enough time speaking to him to get much impression of what he's like.

― suzy (suzy), Sunday, 19 September 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I agree that Jude Law overload might be kicking in by the end of the fall with him in all the movies I'm looking forward to (I Heart Huckabees, Closer, Sky Captain). And I'm not really sure how I feel about Alfie.... Seems like remaking classic Michael Caine movies has been a recipe for disaster.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Sunday, 19 September 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

KB goes LA?

oh, fully. she's always in us or instyle magazine these days in loose super low-waisted cargo pants and a juicy tank, with light brown/blonde highlighted hair down to mid-back and those j-lo sunglasses. usually dragging small daughter along.

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 19 September 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

i actually used to like jude law, and then almost imperceivably my like gave me to annoyance. not sure how that happened

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 19 September 2004 23:03 (twenty-one years ago)

so good in eXistenZ!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 19 September 2004 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, that was back when i liked him

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 19 September 2004 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I hate that he and his wife broke up, they seemed like a darling couple. Supposedly he is friends with Ewan McGregor, wonder if they ever lez up?

― Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Sunday, 19 September 2004 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)

amateurist and dan otm!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 19 September 2004 23:14 (twenty-one years ago)

dude overreaches i think

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 19 September 2004 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Huckabees looks good... and I'd buy that he's a better comic actor than dramatic one.

― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 19 September 2004 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

more existenz love please!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 19 September 2004 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

he looked almost pudgy and normal in existenZ, now he's scary gay porn man.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 19 September 2004 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.darkhorizons.com/1999/existenz/exist4.jpg

― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 19 September 2004 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

His acting is okay, but there's just something too studied and creepy about him to think he's much good. Liked him in AI, though. Romo sex robots 4-evah!

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Sunday, 19 September 2004 23:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Wasn't it in eXistenZ where the dataport things plugged into the base of one's spine?

― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 19 September 2004 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 19 September 2004 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

such a good movie

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 19 September 2004 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

i love existenz.

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 19 September 2004 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

death to the demoness allegra gellar!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 19 September 2004 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I dug that film, actually. It was like the Matrix, only, you know, watchable. And the visual aesthetic was really nifty too - I recall with great enthusiasm the scene where JL walks into the 'store' with purple carpet, where everything's just a little-too-perfect, a little too organized, and the shopkeeper was v. scary.

― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 19 September 2004 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

i love how it all looked like it was shot in a church basement!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 19 September 2004 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

the weird chinese food scene. ew!

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 19 September 2004 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.bendov.info/heb/var/existenz/pics/eXgun.jpg

― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 19 September 2004 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

"order the 'special'"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 19 September 2004 23:28 (twenty-one years ago)

i had an exotic fruit salad once that unfortunately resembled the special. i was expecting mangoes and stuff but it was like weird spiky gelatinous spotted things.

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 19 September 2004 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I wonder if Jude Law's going to be any good as Ozymandius in Watchmen. I don't think the look's quite right; I think Ozymandius is a bit less pretty than Law - in the comic he seems to have more traditional matinee idol good looks.

― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 19 September 2004 23:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Even though he's not blonde, I think George Cloony might be a better choice.

Maybe this should be on I love comics.

― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 19 September 2004 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I wonder if Jude Law's going to be any good as Ozymandius in Watchmen.

They're finally filming it? Hm...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 19 September 2004 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Supposedly with Aronofsky helming, but this is all very speculative.

― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 19 September 2004 23:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I understand that Aronofsky's definately confirmed, and Law's all but definate.

I'll be very happy if they have William H Macy as Rorschach. I'm sure they'll be boring and go for Oldman or Defoe.

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 20 September 2004 00:37 (twenty-one years ago)

defoe would be good! arnofosky is NOT

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 20 September 2004 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)

why are they even bothering making a movie of it anyway

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 20 September 2004 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)

anyone else watching the emmys?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 20 September 2004 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Defoe would ham it up too much. And I agree, Watchmen shouldn't be made into a film at all. But since it is, I'd like it to be as good as possible.

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 20 September 2004 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

that other golfer from bagger vance should play ozymandias

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 20 September 2004 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't think anyone here is going to know who i am tlaking about (probably thankfully)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 20 September 2004 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)

who's going to play the comedian? bruce willis or some shit?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 20 September 2004 01:20 (twenty-one years ago)

BURT REYNOLDS?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 20 September 2004 01:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Kevin Costner!

Actually, I mentioned on ILC that I thought Cary Elwes would be a great Ozymandius, and I stick by that. The Comedian is tricky.

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 20 September 2004 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe Harrison Ford would make a good Comedian? He'd be cast totally against type, but it might be all the better for it.

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 20 September 2004 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

tom selleck should bring his moustache out of retirement and play the comedian!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 20 September 2004 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I lost you after "Tom Selleck"

― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Monday, 20 September 2004 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Jeff Bridges as Nite Owl.

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 20 September 2004 01:40 (twenty-one years ago)

YES

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 20 September 2004 01:42 (twenty-one years ago)

telly savalas as dr manhattan

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 20 September 2004 01:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Nah, Yul Brynner.

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 20 September 2004 01:45 (twenty-one years ago)

jason alexander

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 20 September 2004 01:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, I got it! Arnold Vosloo!

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 20 September 2004 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Jude Law looks kind of like Damon Albarn with better teeth.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 20 September 2004 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I dunno about C or D or teeth, but he's not gonna be in the Ian Curtis movie after all.

http://www.poptones.co.uk/news/2004/09/06/qod-toddeckert.htm

― milaca, Monday, 20 September 2004 02:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Jude Law looks kind of like Damon Albarn with better teeth.

I think that's probably why I think he's somewhat creepy.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Monday, 20 September 2004 02:10 (twenty-one years ago)

The introductory post is an homage, yes?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 20 September 2004 02:19 (twenty-one years ago)

the shopkeeper from eXistenZ = the guy in the Brood who complains that Oliver Reeds "therapy" has fucked with his lymphatic system, says the guy who used to be a bit too obsessed with David Cronenberg. He was in a few other Cronenberg films.

Also note Atom Egoyan's Don McKeller, who's own feature film starred David Cronenberg.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 20 September 2004 05:53 (twenty-one years ago)

He's played two "Joe"s now (AI and Sky Captain) that I know of. Has he played any other "Joe"s?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 20 September 2004 12:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Alfie looks like the worst film ever.

― teh pow! (blueski), Monday, 20 September 2004 12:43 (twenty-one years ago)

He's played two "Joe"s now (AI and Sky Captain) that I know of. Has he played any other "Joe"s?

-- nickalicious (nickaliciou...), September 20th, 2004 1:35 PM.

He's lined up to play me in my forthcoming biopic.

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 20 September 2004 12:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought he was one of the only good things about AI. He already looks robotic, so that worked well for him. He was pretty mediocre in Sky Captain, though I don't really think it was his fault.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 20 September 2004 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Is Sky Captain any good?

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 20 September 2004 13:02 (twenty-one years ago)

jude law used to be my example of a perfect 10 on my cute-boy scale. but he's gotten a bit weird looking lately. could be the hairline, the weight loss, or the annoying accessory of that sienna girl.

never thought he was a brilliant actor, but he seems better than a lot of beautiful men.

i'll give him classic. although he's not a ten anymore. i didn't even realised he'd slipped until i read this thread, though. hmm. who is a ten now?

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 20 September 2004 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Willem Defoe - always a 10!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 20 September 2004 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Sky Captain has the intriguing combination of some incredible visuals and special effects, almost to the point of being surreal, and the worst dialogue of any movie I have seen in recent memory. The acting is pretty haphazard: Law is kind of boring, Paltrow is terrible, Jolie is surprisingly good.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 20 September 2004 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Worse dialogue than Attack of the Clones?

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 20 September 2004 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I think so!

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 20 September 2004 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Ouch.

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 20 September 2004 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

Ken C and I saw him on Primrose Hill last Friday with a ladeeeeee. We offered him some of our mega-bucket of KFC. He politely declined.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 10 October 2004 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Was it extra crispy?

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Sunday, 10 October 2004 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Was he extra crispy? Was she?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 10 October 2004 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I fear the answers to those questions.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Sunday, 10 October 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd do him.

Seriously, Closer would be the hottest cast ever (Jude Law, Clive Owen, Natalie Portman) if not for Julia fucking Roberts.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 10 October 2004 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

The whole concept of the movie is ridiculous. Clive Owen and Jude Law lusting over Julia Roberts???? It makes The Day After Tomorrow look realistic.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Sunday, 10 October 2004 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

For a horrifying second I thought you were talking about the Joy Division biopic.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 10 October 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 11 October 2004 02:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Neither one of them looked particularly crispy. He was well-dressed and mussy-haired, she was beautiful and healthy-looking (I don't know who she was). Ken was all "Who's Jude Law? *walks directly in front of him with bucket of chicken*" We were also listening to Welcome to the Jungle and laughing/pointing at kids falling over on bikes. Obviously, if there's one thing we have, it's class.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 11 October 2004 09:51 (twenty-one years ago)

i have just realised that i am more familiar with Colonel Sanders' biography than that of Jude Law.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 11 October 2004 10:19 (twenty-one years ago)

p.s. omg you're home!

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 11 October 2004 10:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Yep! Going to work in an hour.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 11 October 2004 10:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Jude Law is a very bad thing.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 11 October 2004 10:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Though props to him for ditching that braindead succubus and snaring a decent looking bird.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 11 October 2004 10:34 (twenty-one years ago)

woah! be sure to bring a red bull! xpost

i'm still hurt that he refused our chicken, admittedly they were sitting inside the bin when the offer was made.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 11 October 2004 10:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Ken C and I saw him on Primrose Hill last Friday with a ladeeeeee. We offered him some of our mega-bucket of KFC. He politely declined.

You should have snapped a quick photo and sold it to the tabloids. Or, posted it on ILX.

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 11 October 2004 11:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i tried but got pictures of pigeons eating chips instead

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 11 October 2004 11:48 (twenty-one years ago)

He wouldn't turn around or I totally would have. My mom, who is n love with him, was seriously angry with me about this.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 11 October 2004 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I liked him in I Heart Huckabees, but my fave was when he was in The Talented Mr. Ripley.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 11 October 2004 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

p.s. hoffman pwns in that movie! i'm interested in this "if i'd do one guy it'd be x" idea. has x ever been anyone else, or is JL the 1st?

― g--ff (gcannon), Monday, 11 October 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

g--ff: Not that there's anything wrong with that...(picture thread)

(The first post is Jude Law!!)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 October 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

well the secret public male longing for someone like cary grant seems like a much more uh open field than JL's "this is the one boy you can want, fellas" market placement. yeah this bit of his star persona has been up front since day one, but something abt grates.

― g--ff (gcannon), Monday, 11 October 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

my old beloved pig republican college roomate has a "1 male movie star I'd do" rule ...and it's bruce willis!!

― g--ff (gcannon), Monday, 11 October 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

truly there are two americas.

― g--ff (gcannon), Monday, 11 October 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

bruce willis always makes me think of "bruised willies", which may or may not be a good thing

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 11 October 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

How could that possibly be a good thing?!

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 11 October 2004 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

it could be one that belonged to chris martin

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 11 October 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

and thus the world is saved from banana, kiwi-fruit and watermelon martin

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 11 October 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, thinking about Chris Martin's dick is an obvious dud.

xpost

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 11 October 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG YOU'RE RIGHT! arrrrrrrgh

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 11 October 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

hi ned

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 11 October 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

omg

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 11 October 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

oops! way to kill a thread

xpost

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 11 October 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I wonder, whether he is that bright.

Perhaps he should have stayed at school, with me.

― the bellefox, Monday, 11 October 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

He seems to be doing alright for himself.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 11 October 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

he's not really cutting it. is he really a star? he's opened about 5 movies in the last year, but i'm not convinced he's won the public. he was fine in 'ripley', perhaps he needs to tap into that 'charming scumbag' thing again. 'huckabees' took him close to that, but i think he was the weakest link there. 'exiztenz' was great, obv, but i'm not really crediting the actors for that.

― henry miller, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 10:21 (twenty years ago)

He was by FAR the best thing in both "Gattaca" and "Ripley" (and peak beautiful in the latter).

No surprise that when ppl become stars these days, they make shittier movies.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

no sure what you mean by that second sentence. plenty of people make good movies. jude law has stopped doing so. 'cold mountain' is the obvious example -- he simply couldn't carry it.

― Miles Finch, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

Anyone agree that Law is the only well-cast person in Ripley?

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

I didn't like "ripley" the film generally.

I find him a bit nondescript.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

He really is fun as a "charming scumbag" but I don't know if that's the term I'd use. Watched GATTACA again last night and remarked that it's the only movie where it's truly enjoyable to watch EH and JL ACTING as opposed to only enjoying the parts where their characters get beaten up cf. Huckabees or Training Day.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

I hated 'Ripley' first time round in the cinema. By chance I've seen it a few times since and have learned to admire it, if not love it. All the performances are great. Not a great 'thriller' though. Philip Seymour Hoffman was fucking amazing.

― Miles Finch, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

I liked the books, so I wanted to burn the movie down.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

I haven't seen "gattaca", I must admit. Several of my friends have told me it's really good, about the only think I know about it is that all the cars are supposedly either studebaker avantis or rover p6s. Should I pick it up on dvd?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

Ken C and I saw him on Primrose Hill last Friday with a ladeeeeee. We offered him some of our mega-bucket of KFC. He politely declined.
-- roxymuzak (emilysu...)

I've just realized that Ken C and I were perhaps first to see Jude with his other woman! I remember telling Markelby about this: the woman was deffo not Sienna Miller.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 22 July 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

Someone was telling me this weekend that they were adapting [insert thing here] into a movie, and guess who'll play [insert character here]: Jude Law! Only I can't for the life of me remember what the thing was. All I remember is that when he asked me to guess who'd be playing the character, I guessed Crispin Glover.

So: anyone know what forthcoming adaptations of stuff I know about Jude Law is currently working on?

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 22 July 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

is it this?

― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 22 July 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

Cillian Murphy has stolen Jude Law's career out from under him whilst the latter was shagging nannies.

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 22 July 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

He's kind of like the upgrade version of Jude Law, with all of the bugs worked out of the program.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Friday, 22 July 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

cillian murphy is weird

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 22 July 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

cillian murphy is too likeable to be the new jude law. jude law is the most punchable actor alive

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 22 July 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

As Jude Law gets older, the flaws in his looks show more and more. This (I think) will not be true for Cillian Murphy who I predict will look like Lucifer "the hour before he fell" by his mid 30s.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 22 July 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

I find Cillian Murphy unbelievably beautiful.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 22 July 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

Also: Jude Law is/was too "golden boy" for Cillian to be his redux. Cillian is more sensitive boy/regular chap.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 22 July 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

You guys are completely cursing Cillian Murphy. Three years from now he's going to be caught in Ohio balls-deep in a goat.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 22 July 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

weird

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 22 July 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

A moment of triumph?

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Friday, 22 July 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

Cillian Murphy is freaky to look at - weird eyes.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 22 July 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

You guys are completely cursing Cillian Murphy. Three years from now he's going to be caught in Ohio balls-deep in a goat.

At least he'll be able to blame this thread.

― frankiemachine, Friday, 22 July 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

Nope, it wasn't All the King's Men -- something pure-fiction and a little fantastical, if I remember correctly.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 22 July 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

Maybe I should call his publicist. It's unconscionable that I have the slightest interest in a forthcoming Jude Law project and yet am not currently being bombarded with information on it.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 22 July 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

Cillian Murphy is freaky to look at - weird eyes.

that makes him so likeable in my opinion. jude law is an asshat.

― nathalie's body's designed for two (stevie nixed), Friday, 22 July 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

jude law is just blah to me but im pretty dismissive of blonde people for reasons unknown. his girlfriend is H-O-T though. YES I KNOW SHES BLONDE. oh snap! so am i.

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Friday, 22 July 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

Cillian Murphy looks vaguely like Jonny Greenwood.

And thus, I approve.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 22 July 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

A threesome with Jude and Cillian would settle the either/or dilemma. Yums!

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 22 July 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

Cillian Murphy is freaky to look at - weird eyes.

he has a horrible mouth.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 22 July 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

he was one of the few good things about batman though.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 22 July 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

His mouth is seriously the best.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 22 July 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

it's his mouth, that I think is weird.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 22 July 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

you find it strangely appealing

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 22 July 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 22 July 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

appalling

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 22 July 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

Jude Law: paparazzi attacker.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 20:17 (eighteen years ago)

the Law-Caine Sleuth remake was adapted by Harold Pinter!

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 20:18 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

I wonder if Jude Law's going to be any good as Ozymandius in Watchmen. I don't think the look's quite right; I think Ozymandius is a bit less pretty than Law - in the comic he seems to have more traditional matinee idol good looks.
― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 19 September 2004

― the pinefox, Sunday, 22 March 2009 19:25 (sixteen years ago)

Watching him in My Blueberry Nights, which unlike Watchmen he did appear in: he seems pretty dreadful

― the pinefox, Sunday, 22 March 2009 19:25 (sixteen years ago)

seven years pass...

Gabriella Paiella
‏@GMPaiella

♫ Young Pope look at my life
I'm a lot like Jude Law ♫

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 January 2017 16:13 (eight years ago)

idg why this show was made, it looks dumb as shit

― Οὖτις, Thursday, 5 January 2017 23:12 (eight years ago)

i don't have the strength to look up who diane keaton is playing

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 January 2017 13:10 (eight years ago)

well i guess i did

Jude Law as Pope Pius XIII (born Lenny Belardo), the newly elected Pope and former Archbishop of New York.

Diane Keaton as Sister Mary, an American nun, who raised Belardo and Dussolier in an orphanage, has helped Lenny throughout his career, and is appointed personal secretary to the Pope.

in fairness, the guy who did this has made some good movies... but also The Great Beauty

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 January 2017 13:17 (eight years ago)

I saw the pilot for this. It was pretty bad.

― An Alan Bennett Joint (Michael B), Monday, 9 January 2017 13:20 (eight years ago)

Only thing I know about this guy is eXistenZ and the time his two-year old daughter accidentally ate some e.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/09/05/00/37E6B8AB00000578-3773677-image-m-3_1473030627058.jpg

Think she's okay now though.

― how's life, Monday, 9 January 2017 13:38 (eight years ago)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Pope is ridiculous and entertaining.

― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Sunday, 22 January 2017 01:12 (eight years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://i.imgur.com/sBYVcDp.png

― the klosterman weekend (s.clover), Wednesday, 15 February 2017 05:28 (eight years ago)

Watched the first episode of that and couldn't decide what to make of it.

― chap, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 10:10 (eight years ago)

one year passes...

live aloof in the vatican and smoke a cig or two . . . made it through the first two episodes in recent weeks. jude's accent is not bad at all. up for a third for sure

― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 25 October 2018 03:09 (seven years ago)

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