Christian Slater: Classic or Dud?

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Strippers Come To Slater's Defense

Strippers at New York club Scores are offering their services to troubled actor Christian Slater - to help him avoid a sex pest tag. The movie star was arrested in New York on Tuesday for allegedly groping a woman on the street. But strippers at Scores, where Broken Arrow star Slater is a client, insist they'll come to his defense and testify he always keeps his hands to himself and behaves like "a perfect gentleman" when he's a guest at the club.

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 5 June 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

http://www.arnadal.no/film/actors/images/slater_christian.jpg

I find his presence in a film to generally be a plus, so I'm going with classic.

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 5 June 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

Isn't Broken Arrow at least 10 years old by now?

― Je4nne ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Sunday, 5 June 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

Supposedly he's been kicking butt in theatre recently, ironically enough in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - ashes to ashes, Nicholson impersonation to Nicholson impersonation.

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 5 June 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

arguably they could have referred to him as 'Alone In The Dark star.'

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 5 June 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

The downward trajectory has been quite entertaining.

― Roz (Roz), Sunday, 5 June 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

hahaha from imdb's bio page: Is a major Star Trek fan. His unusual eyebrows are the result of him shaving them when dressing up as Spock for Halloween; they never grew back in properly.

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 5 June 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha. That alone makes him classic!

― Roz (Roz), Sunday, 5 June 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

He played Wonko The Sane in the radio version of Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - he's definitely classic!

― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 5 June 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

he had a bit part in star trek vi if i remember correctly.

― latebloomer: Pain Don't Hurt (latebloomer), Sunday, 5 June 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

Christian "Kuffs" Slater once said, in a publicity junket preceding that movie's release, that his agent had put him in all these "weird" movies and now he was finally doing the kinds of pictures he'd always wanted to.

I have heard that he's terrible in Cuckoo's Nest, by the way.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 5 June 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

Classic, obviously, and he worked with a very good friend of mine on Alone in the Dark (not Uwe for the record, I've never met Uwe in person) and is up for a bloody good bender most of the time.

I love him in Very Bad Things and Heathers.

― Film_Frank, Sunday, 5 June 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

heathers is classic.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Sunday, 5 June 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

He looks like Ryan Giggs, which is not a good thing. But I'll forgive him anything for Heathers (even Untamed Heart which is the worst film ever made).

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 5 June 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

The worst film ever made by a country mile is called "Moonlight by the Sea" (www.moonlightbythesea.com)

Until you see this you do not know what a bad film is.

― Film_Frank, Sunday, 5 June 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

Worse than "Very Bad Things"?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 5 June 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

omg I forgot about Untamed Heart. Must rethink.

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 5 June 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

also Bed Of Roses, my "go slater" SUV has flown off a cliff into a sea of doubt.

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 5 June 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

Imagine a cinematic shit sandwich in which FOR NINETY FUCKING MINUTES nothing actually happens. No plot, no characterisation, no violence, no sex or sexuality of any kind, NO ACTION AT ALL, no laughs, just sheer and utter boredom and you have Moonlight by the Sea. Nine people saw this with me at a film festival and ALL OF THEM came out and agreed that they had bore witness to the worst film ever made and all of us swore we would never band about temrs such as "Worst film ever made" again because Moonlight by the Sea is IT.

Very Bad Things is great, but even if it wasn't it has tits = something that can be called a saving grace.

Untamed Heart has a Melissa Tomie's breasts = a saving grace.

Unless you can think of a film WHERE NOTHING ACTUALLY HAPPENS, Moonlight by the Sea is worse than anything ever.

― Film_Frank, Sunday, 5 June 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

I had a serious crush on him thanks to "Heathers," "Pump Up The Volume" (in which he TAKES HIS SHIRT OFF SO HE CAN GO ON THE RADIO!) and his bit in "Robin Hood"; but that was then.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 6 June 2005 00:54 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

Christian Slater IS Milton Waddams in 'He Was A Quiet Man'

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/3378/d29e0db89a50b207d512f14pv6.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL_q2XL1J_A

― ☪, Sunday, 25 November 2007 15:01 (seventeen years ago)

I like Untamed Heart for its depiction of a faded early-90s version of Minneapolis.

― Pleasant Plains, Sunday, 25 November 2007 15:18 (seventeen years ago)

eight months pass...

Christian Slater IS....appearing in every other ad for his goofy looking new TV series.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 August 2008 03:32 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah what is that one even about? And how quick a death will it die compared to same network's show starring Jeff Goldblum? (I wanted it to be good...I really tried. It failed.)

― Abbott, Friday, 15 August 2008 05:15 (seventeen years ago)

It appears to be about...a guy.

― Abbott, Friday, 15 August 2008 05:22 (seventeen years ago)

That one guy *and* that other guy.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 17 August 2008 21:08 (seventeen years ago)

I need a shot of shirtless Slater in Pump Up the Volume.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 17 August 2008 21:16 (seventeen years ago)

That one guy:

http://bp3.blogger.com/_XQ_jS1_z_5U/Rsd3Z4BrVXI/AAAAAAAAB3g/yqhl1oBNHjU/s400/ChristianSlater_PumpUpTheVolume01.jpg

That other guy:

http://bp2.blogger.com/_XQ_jS1_z_5U/Rsd3VoBrVWI/AAAAAAAAB3Y/_6AbdSvRn_w/s400/ChristianSlater_PumpUpTheVolume06.jpg

― Abbott, Monday, 18 August 2008 02:37 (seventeen years ago)

My mom-in-law keeps trying to get me to watch that movie, so I'm pretty sure it's bad.

― Abbott, Monday, 18 August 2008 02:38 (seventeen years ago)

It's a good teen-rebel film.

He's 39 today.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 18 August 2008 18:41 (seventeen years ago)

okay you guys srsly can't figure out what Christian Slater's new show is about from the commercials? wau

― HI DERE, Monday, 18 August 2008 18:54 (seventeen years ago)

I figured it out! It's about a GUY. Hello.

― Abbott, Monday, 18 August 2008 18:55 (seventeen years ago)

It's about an actor moving into his Macmillan and Wife phase.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 August 2008 18:57 (seventeen years ago)

http://bp2.blogger.com/_XQ_jS1_z_5U/Rsd3VoBrVWI/AAAAAAAAB3Y/_6AbdSvRn_w/s400/ChristianSlater_PumpUpTheVolume06.jpg

This picture grosses me out.

― Abbott, Monday, 18 August 2008 19:00 (seventeen years ago)

It's a show about a deep cover wetworks agent who had his cover life brainwashed into him so well that it became its own well-formed, distinct and independent personality and the resultant conflict when the cover personality finds out about the agent personality.

― HI DERE, Monday, 18 August 2008 19:34 (seventeen years ago)

aka, Kuffs

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 August 2008 19:35 (seventeen years ago)

Philip K. Dick's Kuffs

― and what, Monday, 18 August 2008 19:38 (seventeen years ago)

Milla Jovovich plays Milla, but she is only seen at the beginning, middle and at the end of the film

thanks for clearing that up

― HI DERE, Monday, 18 August 2008 19:38 (seventeen years ago)

During the gunfight on the parking garage, Kuffs and Bukovski hide behind a car for cover. If you notice when Kuffs asks for cover, Bukovski's gun is loaded, then empty, then loaded again. When Kuffs leaves you can see Bukovski's gun empty again.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 August 2008 19:39 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

CONGRATULATIONS ON RECEIVING YOUR G E D

― h.i.m. (jergins), Thursday, 9 October 2008 16:49 (seventeen years ago)

How timely, I just watched The Deal with whatsit WASP girl last night. It was terrible. The 3-minute makeout scene between CS and Selma Blair got my hopes up, but Angie Harmon's "I am vaguely Russian" accent killed them again.

― Vampire romances depend on me (Laurel), Thursday, 9 October 2008 17:04 (seventeen years ago)

So...the Bourne movies, then?

― Vampire romances depend on me (Laurel), Thursday, 9 October 2008 17:04 (seventeen years ago)

kinda, maybe more like "the Bourne movies meets Face/Off"

― Like sicking a little bit of water into my mouth (HI DERE), Thursday, 9 October 2008 17:05 (seventeen years ago)

Hm maybe more like the Bourne books, then, much of which are about his moral conflict with his CIA-assassin cover identity.

― Vampire romances depend on me (Laurel), Thursday, 9 October 2008 17:08 (seventeen years ago)

I haven't read the books but the show sounds like that type of conflict ramped up to the nth degree, particularly since in Slater's show the two sides are distinct split personalities inhabiting the same body.

― Like sicking a little bit of water into my mouth (HI DERE), Thursday, 9 October 2008 17:09 (seventeen years ago)

Hell, I'd watch it.

― Vampire romances depend on me (Laurel), Thursday, 9 October 2008 17:17 (seventeen years ago)

I'm watching at least the first episode

― Like sicking a little bit of water into my mouth (HI DERE), Thursday, 9 October 2008 17:18 (seventeen years ago)

I think Alfre Woodard plays his boss!

― David R., Thursday, 9 October 2008 17:20 (seventeen years ago)

I don't know if that deserves an exclamation point!

― David R., Thursday, 9 October 2008 17:21 (seventeen years ago)

is this on hulu

― Kramkoob (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Thursday, 9 October 2008 17:21 (seventeen years ago)

never forget:

http://ca.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/27/MPW-13518

― Bright Future (sunny successor), Thursday, 9 October 2008 17:21 (seventeen years ago)

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