michael keaton

he is in that ridley scott show abt the cia - "the company" - and pretty awesome with the horn-rimmed glasses and the 3-piece suits and cigarettes. srsly.

has anyone evr been the same one character in 2 different films like that before?

Gene Hackman: The Conversation/Will Smith's The Conversation (sorta)

wait why did no one vote for night shift

fuckin love this dude

What's the one where he's a condemned murderer but the guy who convicted him has to cut a deal or he won't let them use his organ which is an exact match for his dying son. also when he touches people he can transfer his consciousness into them, so that's how he escapes the electric chair? I saw the trailer for this once, and never figured out what it was.

Andy Garcia!

weird how no one's picked him up for a eccentric doctor/detective/etc type tv show, he seems totally ripe for that kinda midsized rennaissance

totally

I swear he was some kind of non-andy-garcia-esque tattooed serial killer in a movie. not Mr. Mom.

his non-andy-garcia stuff is his best imo

What's the one where he's a condemned murderer but the guy who convicted him has to cut a deal or he won't let them use his organ which is an exact match for his dying son. also when he touches people he can transfer his consciousness into them, so that's how he escapes the electric chair? I saw the trailer for this once, and never figured out what it was.

― Philip Nunez, Thursday, July 8, 2010 6:52 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

I'm pretty sure I've seen this, barely remember anything about it.

oh wait, it was this, which may or may not be the movie you're talking about

San Francisco police officer Frank Connor is in a frantic search for a compatible bone marrow donor for his gravely ill son. There's only one catch the potential donor is convicted multiple murderer Peter McCabe who sees a trip to the hospital as the perfect opportunity to get what he wants most freedom. With McCabe's escape, the entire hospital becomes a battleground and Connor must pursue and, ironically, protect the deadly fugitive who is his son's only hope for survival.

ironic

If Hollywood can keep Kelsey Grammer employed for 30 consecutive years, how can they not have a dozen Keaton vehicles ready to go?

What's the one with Christopher Lloyd and Peter Boyle where they're all mental patients?

the dream team! haven't seen it in 20 years but i remember it being pretty great. chris lloyd is someone i would add to a 'would like to see this guy more' list.

Underrated comedy, that one.

Funny fact about Michael Keaton: his real name is Michael Douglas, but he had to change it for obvious reasons.

to cover up a murder

pacific heights 0

What

He was great in The Paper.

Tim Burton needs to drop Depp and get this guy back imo

i suggested in the other michael keaton thread that the creators of damages make him career-resuscitating TV series. i still think that is a great idea.

Multiplicity got NO love at all! outrageous.

the perfect opportunity to get what he wants most freedom

"oh wait, it was this, which may or may not be the movie you're talking about"

Yes! This must be it -- is it any good? I always thought that Keaton was in that class of comics (Robin Williams, Rodney Dangerfield) that would excel at psychopath roles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1j4oZVfQfM

honestly barely remember anything about it, so probably not remarkable in any way. The only thing I remember about it really is a scene where the Michael Keaton character is in prison and is working out by lifting plastic bags filled with water. Not sure why that single scene made enough of an impression on me that I actually still remember it 12 years later but there you go.

wait why did no one vote for night shift

Cause the movie and his performance in it are shit?

I always thought that Keaton was in that class of comics (Robin Williams, Rodney Dangerfield) that would excel at psychopath roles.

remember Pacific Heights?

haven't seen it. Does he bring the menace?

Tim Burton needs to drop Depp and get this guy back imo

otm

michael keaton is too good for present-day tim burton

Michael Keaton on Marc Maron's WTF podcast today :D :D :D
I can't even tell you how happy the sound of his voice is making me. omg.

I've been trying to find this clip of him on Ellen from like, 2004/5 - she found out he had always wanted to be a TV weatherman, so she had a green screen set up for him and they did a weather report together. It was the best

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop_(2014_film)

Michael Keaton as Raymond Sellars, the villanous CEO of OmniCorp.

Talks about that at the end of the podcast, saying he's only a villain by default as his good intentions got away from him.

but... if he's not going ott dick jones then... wtf is the point of the film

but... if he's not going ott dick jones then... wtf is the point of the film

Actually, Keaton's involvement is the first and only thing I've heard about this that makes it seem like something less than a travesty against god and nature.

there's a small movie called Touch and Go, shelved by its studio but released in 1986 to good reviews, which should be in there. He's quite good in it.

s1ocks doesnt include the dream team in this poll, smh

i saw it for the first time a few months ago. it was probably better if you saw it as a kid

omg i loved the dream team. I have no idea what it's like these days but I watched that movie a ton in early high school

all I remember was Peter Boyle stripping and me laughing a lot

I wonder if I voted in this poll, I don't remember. I think I would have voted for Night Shift, so probably not.

doesnt surprise me that it may not hold up but, yeah, i think i was the right age for it to really work 4 me and watch it 100x on hbo

just check the wiki ffs

Reception

The movie had a positive reception.[1][2]

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8157339/qa-batman-beetlejuice-star-michael-keaton-mister-rogers-fly-fishing-roles-turned-more

I feel like I've said this elsewhere but Keaton is someone I like a lot who (to me) has never been given the showcase that best suits him (Beetlejuice probably came the closest, but I would've loved to see him do something with the same energy but a little less high-concept. Or Multiplicity but a less shitty movie.).

horseshoe or someone said way upthread about how he needs to have a tv show written for him by the Damages ppl or something

I really want him to have a huge, blow-everyone's-wigs-back comeback...and have it really LAST, so that eventually all anyone remembers are his awesome movies and x amazing longrunning tv show he did

YES to Keaton-centric cable drama. It's such a brilliant and obvious idea, naturally no TV exec has tried to make it happen.

currently fantasizing about a Keaton-led reboot of Kolchak: The Night Stalker

holy shit YES

mind = blown

(from the Grantland interview linked upthread)

Daniel: How about Lost? You were going to be Jack Shephard in Lost. That true?

Michael: Yeah, that one is true. J.J. [Abrams], who I think is fantastic, said "Hey, man, I want to talk to you about something." So we sat and had coffee or lunch. And he said, "I'm doing this show," and I said, "Oh, yeah, OK," and he said, "You probably don't want to do a television show," and I said, "No, not really. Honestly, I'm not particularly interested in doing anything right now." And he said, "Well, let me explain it to you," and he tells me about the setup, and I go, "Oh wow, that's really a good idea," and I'm not revealing anything here now because I'm pretty sure the show's not even on anymore, is it?

Daniel: No.

Michael: So he explains to me there's this thing in the jungle and what happens is, we're watching the show, and here's our lead guy, and he comes up to this thing — this force — and just when you think he's going to do this really heroic thing confronting it, he gets killed. So he wanted to fake the audience out and just [snaps] kill the lead character and make the audience go, "Whoa, now what are they going to do?" Which I thought was going to be really gutsy.

Daniel: Amazing. That the show could have been so different …

Michael: I think the network said, "No, no, no, you can't do that." So he changed his mind and called and said, "Do you want to do it anyway?" and I said "No, I probably don't … I don't really feel like doing an hour-long TV show every week." When it first started, I thought it was well done.

Daniel: It was a really great show. But it would have had a totally different tenor had you been in it.

Michael: [laughs] Yeah.

Daniel: You also initially turned down Quentin Tarantino for Jackie Brown?

Michael: I said no three times, but I also said no to Beetlejuice three times. And not because, "Oh, no, it's not good enough." It was because I didn't know how to do it, so I just said "no thank you."

and the stuff abt Tarantino close-talking, LOL

Daniel: But from that movie came one of the coolest cinematic devices of all time: You took that same Elmore Leonard character you did from Jackie Brown, Ray Nicolette, and the next year you reprised the character for Steven Soderbergh in Out of Sight. Your character hopped from one movie right into the other.

Michael: Yeah, I've never seen that done — ever. And I hope I'm not getting too esoteric about this, but it was almost like postmodernism.

Daniel: If people are still reading this far into this article, they're obviously pretty big Michael Keaton fans — I don't think you can get too esoteric for them.

Michael: What I felt was: It's like he exists in the world. He might show up in your barbershop, you know what I mean? Different studio, different script, different story, different director. Everything is different, and all of a sudden, this guy shows up again. And I thought, Man, it would be cool — I'd just like to show up again somewhere else.

WHY IS HE NOT DOING AMAZING THINGS AGGGH

i mean cmon

this guy is awesome

Daniel: All right. (3) You ever meet a president?

Michael: Clinton and Obama and … uh … didn't meet Carter. Clinton and Obama.

Daniel: And?

Michael: Yeah, first words out of Obama's mouth — and again, I was just meeting the man who was about to become the leader of the free world. He's walking down the hallway, arms outstretched like this to greet me — and his first sentence to me was, "Why don't you make more movies?"

EVEN THE GODDAMN PRESIDENT AGREES WITH ME

he said, "I'm doing this show," and I said, "Oh, yeah, OK," and he said, "You probably don't want to do a television show," and I said, "No, not really. Honestly, I'm not particularly interested in doing anything right now."

That's what I had heard/read -- he has plenty of offers for television and some movies, but he's not interested in working.

he said in the Maron interview today that some of it was also that he kinda made himself hard to cast, becuase he did so many different roles. and he definitely looks for things that are well written, or, I'm guessing here, more completely on the page

he should really listen to us though

hanging out with QT:

Michael: So we went out. There used to be a place on Sunset where he'd hang out, called Coach & Horses I think …

Daniel: Yeah. Know it well. Left my credit card there a couple times …

Michael: Exactly. So we were hanging out, and he was drinking, and by this time, he was already 40 or something, and he's drinking Jägermeister, like some kind of frat boy. Who even drinks that? So he's drinking pretty good, and he's already pretty much in his — what's the expression? In his cups? — and he talks nonstop. And all I know is at some point in the evening [Michael stands up and gets his face about as close to mine without actually touching noses]3 — and I don't mean to invade your space here, but I was like this [backing away a little], and he was like this [moves his face closer to mine] and I remember thinking, He's too close to my face. How do I get back there? I don't know how to move my head back.

Daniel: You don't want to be rude, but …

Michael: Yeah, but at the same time I'm thinking, How do I get out of here? I mean, I don't even know how we got this close talking, anyway.

it's the best description of hanging with QT I've seen

btw i stopped by the used record store...Night Shift dvd for $4. DING!
today is the best day ever

Oh, yeah, I'd forgotten about the L O S T thing. That would've been awesome.

I'm totally cool with him appearing in more McKay/Ferrell movies, btw. Like maybe all of them from now on?

lol so much @ qt drinking jaeger

something happens to the liver's ability to metabolize jaeger after 30.

mr veg hasn't done jaeger since college but we have 3 bottles in the freezer bcz old college buddies keep giving it to him as gifts. we're like wtf, who our age even drinks this anymore.

answer: QT

goddamn, the bravest/best thing that could happen is that quentins next movie is a real-time-ish re-enactment of that night, sam jackson can be the bartender or w/e

I'll be shocked if one of you haven't already linked to this, but this is amazing:

http://www.esquire.com/features/michael-keaton-interview-0214?click=smart&kw=ist&src=smart&mag=ESQ&link=http://www.esquire.com/features/michael-keaton-interview-0214

It's an excellent, excellent feature.

I get impatient with that antic, showy style of writing in American men's magazines, but the quotes are great.

i want him to be my neighbor

also that "220, 221" line always slayed my tradesman dad when I was a kid, took me years to get what the howling was about lol

i love the close-up picture of him in the article. seems like he's wearing no makeup, which matches his "find the truth" notions about acting.

ACTING!

honestly, his performance as bruce wayne in batman returns is a masterclass of naturalism (or, as alfred called it, realism; or, as pplains called it, mumblecore).

everyone needs to rewatch Night Shift

just because it's cool

and Touch and Go, Clean and Sober, The Dream Team, and Beetlejuice. This guy was a pro.

never saw clean and sober. worthwhile?

i still don't get the 220, 221 joke! Someone help me!!

Jack Butler: [Enters scene revving chainsaw] How ya doin'. You must be Ron Richardson. I'm Jack Butler, nice to meetcha.

Ron Richardson: Pleased to meet you.

Jack Butler: Huh?

Ron Richardson: I say I'm pleased...

[Jack Turns chainsaw off]

Ron Richardson: ...to meet you. I'm just waiting for Caroline.

Jack Butler: Well, uh, you know women.

Ron Richardson: Yeah, I'd like to think I do.

Jack Butler: Wanna beer?

Ron Richardson: It's 7 o'clock in the morning.

Jack Butler: Scotch?

Ron Richardson: Not during working hours. Ooooh, sorry pal.

Jack Butler: No problem. Come on over here Ron. Let me show you what I'm doing, taking advantage of some of the time off. To, uh, add a whole new wing on here. Gonna rip these walls out and, uh, of course re-wire it.

Ron Richardson: Yeah, you gonna make it all 220?

Jack Butler: Yeah, 220, 221. Whatever it takes.

a man emasculated by unemployment

is 220 something to do with electrics? i am tuomasing out here....

220 volts nominal mains power

gotcha! thanks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJfLoE6hanc

i'm in

Innaritu is generally poison but this might turn out OK if the co-writers successfully kept his usual portentous bullshit out of the way

So much enthusiasm for Keaton yet nobody seems to have seen his directorial debut. I haven't seen it yet either but I'm surprised.

He's also pretty central in Larry David's Clear History.

i want to see birdman so bad

Not that much of a fan--Jackie Brown's probably the only film he's done that means anything to me--but I thought he was impressive in The Company, the CIA mini-series from a few years ago. Very unusual performance--took a while to warm to him, but eventually the character came into focus. Chris O'Donnell's quite good too.

In James Harvey's latest book, he has lovely passages about Keaton's physical acting in the last interrogation scene with Pam Grier ("I sure hope you know what you're doing, Jackie").

Night Shift bad but Keaton v good in

'x movie is bad but Keaton is v good in' applies to a pretty significant chunk of his career tbh

Oh very fair, very fair

Yeah, I could watch Mr. Mom anytime, but not a good movie.