ts: david arquette vs david caruso

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ie which do you hate more, actors who are just wooden lumps of stumbling nothing, or crackling dynamos of edgy touchy-feely hurtingly honest hard-core rage-empathy?

arquette just can't act: caruso can, but the ppl he plays are UNBEARABLE i think partly bcz he thinks they are the BEST THING EVAH!!

if jade had ended when his car wz knocked into the sea — ie he had drowned there and then — it wd be a classic

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 4 November 2002 13:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Jade is an appalling film. Caruso's only high point was NYPD Blue (and only playing second fiddle to Dennis Franz). On the other hand Arquette isn't exactly a draw. That said if you know Arquette's in a film you know it will have solidly lumpen production values.

Possibly Arquette then - cos Caruso is really bad when he is bad, and never really been all that good. (Isn't he doing CSI: Miami now or something similar?)

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 4 November 2002 13:50 (twenty-three years ago)

does acting ''matter''? I mean, really.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 4 November 2002 14:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm leaving the matter open becuz i want to see how ppl talk abt it.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 4 November 2002 14:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Acting doesn't matter except when it MATTERS.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 4 November 2002 14:07 (twenty-three years ago)

julio, it should be does "acting" matter of course.;-)

― nathalie (nathalie), Monday, 4 November 2002 16:00 (twenty-three years ago)

you're correct nathalie.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 4 November 2002 16:18 (twenty-three years ago)

i enjoyed johns

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 4 November 2002 19:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I think the DC case is much 'worse'. The raw, frontal, conductive aspect that is described in the introduction to this thread reaches its nerve-shredding apex in Ferrara's 'Crime Story' pilot - Caruso's ginger Johnny Boy. (Also, cf. early James Woods in 'Night Moves' for similar stick insect mis-appropriation of 'cool'.) This stripped, quiffed, shtick as existential front could be related to PKD's insectoid simulacrum of acid paranoia, where it appears more as the 'thing' behind the consensual hallucination, a 'condition' of collective psychosis (Being) rather than a particular instance of rebellious self assertion.

― ds, Monday, 4 November 2002 20:48 (twenty-three years ago)

yes pete he's "horatio" on csi:miami now, which i started a no-go thread about awhile back and which might as well be called "nypd blue miami", what with caruso and k.delaney's significant glances and talk-ing-ve-ry-slow-ly etc.. all it's missing is that forlorn-looking brotchtrup character chewing his nails in the background (they could cut to him every time they fish a body out of the water!! which seems to happen 16 times per episode).

arquette's i'm-not-really-an-actor bit is easier for me to stomach than caruso's "i'm a great thespian somehow slumming in everything i've ever made". mind you i've yet to miss a csi:miami but haven't seen an arquette picture in ages.

are there any non-rub actors named david? i'm stuck after hasselhoff, spade, duchovny (niven rates a pass, i guess, though i can't think of why offhand. carradine gets a sentimental meh).

― jones (actual), Monday, 4 November 2002 20:52 (twenty-three years ago)

caruso is just too irritating.

― donna (donna), Monday, 4 November 2002 20:56 (twenty-three years ago)

David Arquette looks cute with a moustache. Never thought much about his acting. Alexis Arquette is incredible in Last Exit to Brooklyn,

― Arthur (Arthur), Monday, 4 November 2002 21:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Pregnant woman charred to death => Horatio very upset over demise of fetus, didn't seem to care about death of carrier

― Andy K (Andy K), Monday, 4 November 2002 21:55 (twenty-three years ago)

For an example of Arquettian suppurating nothingness I would offer Brad Pitt in Meet Joe Death Meet, or whatever it's called. With his straw hair and dimples, Pitt aspires to stately repose, an out-of-his-depth gliding towards the background ('blend in!'); however, via some twisted, Schroedingerian 'reversal' (redundancy = negentropy + maximum entropy?) he manages to absorb all matter around him - Mr. Black Hole.

― ds, Monday, 4 November 2002 22:40 (twenty-three years ago)

b-but death IS a black hole!! (and pitt is actually funny for the first 10 mins or so, iirc)

― jones (actual), Monday, 4 November 2002 23:24 (twenty-three years ago)

okay i watched csi:M last night with this thread in mind and damnit i kind of LIKED caruso.

horatio: (on his way back to the autopsy table) let's have another look at the body.

other guy: what are we looking for?

horatio: something lethal.

― jones (actual), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 20:51 (twenty-three years ago)

three years pass...

http://www.agonybooth.com/hudson_hawk/hudson_hawk_078.jpg

(That, believe it or not, is Caruso on the right.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 03:41 (twenty years ago)

Oh fuxor. LEFT. (If it was the right, I would have to give him extra credit for the depth of his method acting.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 03:42 (twenty years ago)

Ugh! Ugh! The EVIL ANTI-GINGER in drag?!?!?!?

make it stop, please.

(I don't actually think I know who David Arquette is... what's he been in?)

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 11:02 (twenty years ago)

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