Russell Crowe: Classic or Dud?

Russell Crowe is shagmonster, but I suppose Hollywood needs one. I certainly wouldn't want to see someone like Tom Hanks as the town lothario instead.

But! Guy Pearce is superior in every conceivable way.

Anyway, I get stroppy if I meet a girl with my name so it would never work. And we would end up being known as Em and Em (vomits).

I don't think I am the type Arty Goths go for. I am not mysterious enough. Amongst other things.

I realise this isn't strictly relevant to the topic at hand, but it didn't seem worth starting a new thread for.

Wheras me, let me at Petronella. Especially if she is a Tory, they're loaded. What are the chances of all those blokes out there called Nigel all pining for the one Nigella in the country now she is tragic widow.

I know , well I'll stop counting at 12, people called Tom, this strikes me as a considerable lack of immagination by our parent's generation. It doesn't help that three of them promote a night together and have to be called big Tom, Middle sized Tom and Tom EP

Russell Crowe's best movie is "The Quick and the Dead".

Well, there could always be a Russella since there is a Nigella. I think I prefer Russtina though.

Proof Of Life is the worst film released this year by the way. To paraphrase a slightly better Russell Crowe movie: The things we do in proof of life, will feel like a fucking eternity.

-- Mike Hanle y

I detest Carrot Top and his stupid props.

Thank-you and goodnight.

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is a nigella.

Crowe may be annoying in real life, but on-screen he's often the best thing going on. I don't think I've seen Colin Farrell in anything - if I have, he left no impression.

just caught a commercial for robin hood. when did this guy become a self-parody?

i don't know. he became a self-parody?

he seemed pretty smart and funny on letterman.

The Man With the Iron Fists redband trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7l3okIqnCg

RZA and Eli Roth put this together. Wikipedia says it was cut down from 4 hours to 90 minutes. Looks like a disaster.

wow is there really no thread for man with the iron fists? i skipped it when it came out due to savage reviews but i think it was just misunderstood. it's an art-house movie that had no chance in wide release but it does what it does really faithfully and well and was a hoot and a holler imo. whole cast having fun. haven't enjoyed russell crowe this much in forever tbh. always good to see gordon liu.

it reminded me of marwencol - i kept picturing rza as a kid in staten island, imagining himself in a movie with every single cool thing he can think of packed into it, and himself as the brooding hero. i like that he got some of his special recipe five percenter/confucianism philosophical blend in there. too bad the fights are terrible

^^ super otm

(the fights struck me as "terrible" rather than terrible but they could have upped their game on at least a couple of boss battles at the end without compromising the aesthetic)

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how did this thread never get this yarn posted

https://www.smh.com.au/national/i-was-russell-crowes-stooge-20060607-gdnp6a.html

Very, very, very similar to a story a friend told me about a Russell Crowe visit to Chicago. If I haven't posted it in this thread already I will do so in a while.

OK, here goes. Years ago, Russell Crowe and his band (called 40 Odd Foot of Grunt) were playing 5 nights at a local venue. He made himself available for interviews, but the catch was that he only wanted to talk about music. Needless to say, almost every local journalist said no, but my friend said sure, why not? They set up a time, he talks to Russell for a while, cluing him in to Chicago's best blues spots and in particular where to go to avoid crowds/attention. It's a nice conversation, and Crowe asks my friend if he can send the list of blues club ideas to his publicist. My friend says sure, does it, and that's it.

A few days later, though, he's at home watching TV when the phone rings.

"Hello?"

"Hey, it's Russell."

"Russell ... Crowe?"

"Yeah, mate. What are you up to?"

"Um, nothing, why?"

"I'm in town a few nights early and was wondering if you wanted to catch James Brown."

So my friend says sure, gets his stuff together and heads to the venue. Crowe has a private booth/box, where my friend hangs out, mostly spending time with members of his band, who had never been to the States before. Russell himself hangs out in the corner, kind of aloof. At the end of the night Russell comes over and says hi to my friend, and thanks him for coming out. My friend says thanks and spends the next couple of hours driving around the city with Crowe's drummer, who wanted a tour of Chicago. And that's it.

Until the next night, when Russell calls again.

"Hey, it's Russell, what are you up to?"

My friend didn't have the heart to say he and his girlfriend were about to go to Dairy Queen, but he begged off hanging all the same. After the shows (I saw one, it sucked) my friend did a little research, and it turns out Crowe is (or was) known to make friends with local journalists and the like in each city he's at, an inside-man, someone to give him the scoop, show him around, take him to places without paparazzi and, most importantly, take his music seriously. In retrospect my friend realized the reason he was invited to see James Brown was so that Russell could sort of scope him out and make sure he's cool. I guess he passed, but as far as I know that was the last he heard from him.

(thought bubble above Crowe's head as your friend begs off the invite:)

"No one says 'no' to Russell Crowe twice."

(ostentatiously crosses him off his list)

(called 40 Odd Foot of Grunt)

the lure of alliteration used to make me think this too, but I've been able to remember it was 30 since Crowe sacked the band and formed a new one called The Ordinary Fear Of God, so that he didn't have to respray new initials on the road cases.

That’s the problem with kids these days.
No focus.

Peter Weirs film is brilliant. An exacting, detail oriented, epic tale of fidelity to Empire & service, regardless of the cost.
Incredible cinematography by Russell Boyd & a majestic soundtrack.
Definitely an adults movie. https://t.co/22yjNtQRbg

— Russell Crowe (@russellcrowe) January 17, 2021

Thanks Russell. I'm 60 but I get your point. Love Unhinged. Greetings from Liverpool, I.

— Ian McNabb (@empiresend) January 17, 2021

he's a really nasty humourless and pompous fucker. I liked it best when he lost his shit when some interviewer pointed out that a lot of people were commenting on his absurd accent in an otherwise dull as fuck Robin Hood movie.

I do agree that I wouldn't want to spend five minutes in the man's company, but snitch-taggers deserve everything they get. Also Master and Commander is a great film, that guy is a moron.

I saw him in concert when he did that little tour with Scott Grimes and some other guy who was in Robin Hood. Oh yes. I went with my aunt, who had bought the tickets under a misapprehension, and the two of us were in fits laughing by the end at just how terrible it all was, and how INTO IT the audience was. People had paid hundreds of euros for the tickets that got them a photo with RC after the show.

you'd think at least there would some drunken hecklers in the crowd, well it takes all sorts done it?!

Ive gone over and back about crowe over the years, i think he seems pretty grand (maybe hes mellowed into it tbf) but is def best out of hollywood

Fella i was close to in college (before stealing ms mac off him tbf) lived down the road in Galway from a gang of brothers who were extras in a movie crowe was filming in uk, says he was a great man for the pints with the lads after a days work and swears blind he flew the boys over in a chopper one sunday morning to meet their mammy and have the fry up

He has a connection to a local theater group here to whom he has gifted tens of thousands of dollars. As I understand it, and perhaps relayed in an anecdote I have posted here, I've heard lots of stories of him befriending locals.

Darragh, that was probably Robin Hood, I bet. This gig was full of stories about how remote the filming location was for that film, so they didn't put anyone up in hotels, but instead glamped it up and had barbeques and sang songs and it would probably be amazing if what you want is to hang out and drink with Russell Crowe. Seems to be a bit of a theme with him (see Paul Bettany's chatshow story above).

I got to a point at the height of his stardom where I started actively avoiding movies with him in which was very easy. Although I did see Romper Stomper at the Bradford Playhouse cinema in '91 or something. Some ANL protesters outside the cinema said it was a bad movie that glamourises neo-nazi activism and should be boycotted - I can't remember if they were completely correct in their political analysis but it was definitely a bad movie.

I don't think I'd like to hang out with this fucker tbh! He'd probably end up punching me for telling him he's a load of shite!

lots of stories of him befriending locals.

He's been know to walk down to Sydney's largest grass park, when staying in the city, and ask office dudes playing touch footy after work if he can join in.

iirc LA Confidential and Man With The Iron Fists are the only post-The Sum Of Us croweflix I've ever seen.

Was going to say I have seen nothing since post 2008, but I saw him in Noah and The Nice Guys. He's definitely been good in everything I've seen him in, or at the very least nowhere near the worst thing, iirc.

oh yah, Nice Guys is good.

(The Sum Of Us is 1994, playing Jack Thompson's gay son - his last pre-Hollywood movie.)

I have a soft spot for Rusty, i had a huge crush on him in high school. He was on the Actors Studio in the early 00’s and a student in the audience asked him what do you do when you have a bad director who doesnt understand yr craft or somethin

he said something like “This is a job. People are paying you to act, sometimes a lot of money. The director is your boss. It doesnt matter if you like them or they understand you. Do the work. Thats what you’re on set to do! Thats how you get hired for more jobs. Do the work. thats what you are in school now to learn! ” Paraphrasing obv.But it was cool, I liked how no-bullshit he was with them.

Master & Commander is great, old-timey-ship-haters can gtfo. Boring? pfft. cannons are not boring.

I think it's being undersold here that the original poster to whom Crowe is responding is the lead guy from the Icicle Works who has spent the last few years online gaining a rep for being a conspiracy theory spouting wannabe edgelord. So AFAIC him getting Crowe to trash his ass is just desserts.

I was trying to remember what band he was in and, yes, he seems like more of a dick than Russell Crowe.

his Robin Hood is truly one of the least essential movies ever made

Bearded icicle works tosser is just the right type of false balance bringing wanker good ol' Russ needed!

i might be the only one out here on this limb but I liked Robin Hood ... my own Rusty Bias notwithstanding. Oscar Isaac is Prince john! and naked af :D but thats not the only reason i like it, i think its a decent movie

bump fttmi

how did this thread never get this yarn posted

https://www.smh.com.au/national/i-was-russell-crowes-stooge-20060607-gdnp6a.html

got what an arse.

writer seems a bit of an arse as well but he's got nothing on rusty

yeah another case of both sides, but Russ edges it with his violently dumbly horrible fucking repulsive alpha male narcissism!