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)

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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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