Well?...
I don't really have an opinion on this one way or another, I guess. I suppose I can only hope that the studios trying desperately to cash in on "Ray"'s success keep picking good musicians to do biopics about. Alhough "the Perry Como Story" starring Jimmy Fallon could, in fact, be gangbusters.
― Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (Plastic Gas Booby Trap), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 04:51 (twenty years ago)
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 04:56 (twenty years ago)
also, wtf is with the shepard fairey artwork? That makes me not want to see the movie.
― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 05:02 (twenty years ago)
http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/getrichordietryin/
yikes.
― Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (Plastic Gas Booby Trap), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 05:06 (twenty years ago)
― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 05:07 (twenty years ago)
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 05:11 (twenty years ago)
― Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (Plastic Gas Booby Trap), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 05:12 (twenty years ago)
― Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (Plastic Gas Booby Trap), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 05:14 (twenty years ago)
Shooter Jennings plays his own father in the flick.John Carter Cash is also in there.
― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 05:36 (twenty years ago)
http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/twentieth_century_fox/walk_the_line/joaquin_phoenix/walk.jpg
his body type seems WAY OFF in that 2nd pic.
― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 05:42 (twenty years ago)
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 08:34 (twenty years ago)
Well, Curtis Hanson, who isn't exactly your number one hip hop dude, directed 8 Mile, and it was good. Maybe an outsider director can make the story more interesting to those who do not care much about 50 Cent's music. No need to diss the film yet.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 09:35 (twenty years ago)
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)
― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)
― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)
― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)
― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)
http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/walk_the_line/
As great man biopics go, it's bound to be better than Ray and The Aviator.
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Friday, 23 September 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)
― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 23 September 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 23 September 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)
"Hey, you know 'Ray,' right? Alright, well this is THAT.. but with.. wait for it... JOHNNY CASH!" "here is 52,000,000 dollars"
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 23 September 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 23 September 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 23 September 2005 22:06 (twenty years ago)
― luna (luna.c), Friday, 23 September 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 23 September 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)
― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 23 September 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 23 September 2005 22:22 (twenty years ago)
― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 23 September 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)
― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 23 September 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 23 September 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 23 September 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 23 September 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)
― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 23 September 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 23 September 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)
― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 23 September 2005 22:40 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 23 September 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)
Raper biopics = classic
Great man biopics = dud
I bet you anything the last half of that movie is devoted to Cash's addictions.
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 23 September 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 23 September 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)
― Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 23 September 2005 23:08 (twenty years ago)
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Friday, 23 September 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)
-- Tracer Hand (tracerhan...), September 23rd, 2005.
Yeah, but he exuded confidence. Phoenix looks like he's secretly afraid of touching poo the whole time.
― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 23 September 2005 23:33 (twenty years ago)
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Saturday, 24 September 2005 00:51 (twenty years ago)
― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 24 September 2005 03:41 (twenty years ago)
3. Letterman is getting old, he needs to retire. He doesn't have it anymore. Sometimes he acts like a dufus, actually it is not acting. He is a dufus.
Posted at 10:23AM on Feb 12th 2009 by fkay
― its gotta be HOOSy para steen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 13 February 2009 00:35 (seventeen years ago)
"What can you tell us about your days with the Unabomber?" (I heart Letterman when he gets baffled/annoyed)
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 13 February 2009 00:37 (seventeen years ago)
I place bets on this all being an elaborate stunt/game.
― one art, please (Trayce), Friday, 13 February 2009 00:42 (seventeen years ago)
yeah its too out of left field to be real
― its gotta be HOOSy para steen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 13 February 2009 00:44 (seventeen years ago)
The timing with the doco he's making, plus the fact everyone loves a public meltdown these days.
I'm getting a bit tired of faked up strangeness viral marketing shit, tbh.
― one art, please (Trayce), Friday, 13 February 2009 00:46 (seventeen years ago)
yeah mean dave is the best.
"that seems unlikely."
"joaquin i'm sorry you couldn't be here tonight"
― Yah Trick Ya Kid K (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 13 February 2009 00:47 (seventeen years ago)
I thought it was pretty clear he was faking it in the video. He almost broke character a couple of times.
― You just got HAPPENED (Hurting 2), Friday, 13 February 2009 00:48 (seventeen years ago)
He's no Andy Kaufman
There seems to be some confusion over whether there's a mockumentary or not
(from rent's link upthread):We've been on to Joaquin's scam for weeks now -- no doubt he's shooting a mockumentary with Casey Affleck ... pretending he's quitting acting to become a rap star -- even though his singing sucks -- and showing how the media will fall for it.
http://www.celebritygenius.com/_global/news.html?articlelink=http://www.tmz.com/2009/02/12/letterman-falls-for-the-joaquin-sideshow/&celebrityKeywords=Casey%20Affleck&width=1680&height=1050
If it is is a mockumentary, it seems like it will be really bad.
― steve "no neck" yamaguchi (vermonter), Friday, 13 February 2009 01:14 (seventeen years ago)
OK I just watched the letterman clip and there is no way he wasn't putting that on. He was piss-pulling with relish the whole time! How is it not obvious?
― one art, please (Trayce), Friday, 13 February 2009 12:05 (seventeen years ago)
If it was a Glover-esque stunt, shouldn't Phoenix have been, you know, funny? Or marginally intriguing?
― Sara Sara Sara, Friday, 13 February 2009 14:04 (seventeen years ago)
I can't watch the clip anymore. :-(
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 13 February 2009 14:08 (seventeen years ago)
If it was a Glover-esque stunt, shouldn't Phoenix have been, you know, funny?
Crispin's famed stunt appearance was not esp funny either -- it was unsettling.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 13 February 2009 14:13 (seventeen years ago)
To say the least. I remember seeing that when it first aired (I was but a wee recent HS graduate) and thinking, "Uh, OK, George McFly is a freaking nutcase."
― Pancakes Hackman, Friday, 13 February 2009 14:22 (seventeen years ago)
OK, then yeah, add "unsettling" to the list of things Phoenix' appearance wasn't. It was mostly just dull and awkward, and Dave was funnier than I remember him being in a long-ass time (though I haven't watched him in a long-ass time either).
― Sara Sara Sara, Friday, 13 February 2009 14:29 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2009/03/13/1236447446833.html
Phoenix came out on stage before 2am, smoking a cigarette and wearing a dishevelled dark suit, sneakers and his scraggly long hair and beard.
He began rapping to a beat played by the DJ and nodding to the music, although most of the lyrics were unintelligible. Then he responded to someone who appeared to be heckling him in the audience near the stage.
"We have a (double-expletive) in the audience," he said before jumping into the crowd. It was not immediately clear whether the two men exchanged any blows.
"I saw the guy screaming at Joaquin, and Joaquin just came down," said Jorge Lledo, 30, of Miami Beach.
Security guards swarmed the scene and dragged Phoenix away.
The bizarre spectacle struck many in the audience as the latest prank in an extended farce staged by Phoenix. Affleck, an Oscar-nominated actor who is also Phoenix's brother-in-law, is making a documentary about Phoenix's career shift.
"(Affleck's) camera was filming the whole time, so it makes me think he has ulterior motives," said Luis Gendron, 23, of Miami.
"He knows the game he's playing, and he's good at it," Gendron said of Phoenix.
People are too wise to viral shit anymore, heh.
― one art, please (Trayce), Friday, 13 March 2009 00:32 (sixteen years ago)
http://www.avclub.com/articles/joaquin-phoenixs-rap-career-finally-gets-its-bigsc,43113/
uh
― Fee Fie Fo, FUNFNFUINFLFF! (HI DERE), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 19:09 (fifteen years ago)
http://www.filmjunk.com/images/weblog/2010/08/Im-Still-Here-Poster.jpg
Haven't yet quite decided whether I'm psyched for this or not.
― Born too beguiled (DavidM), Friday, 6 August 2010 16:05 (fifteen years ago)
is this his rap album
― Party Car! (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 6 August 2010 16:22 (fifteen years ago)
It's a 'mock' documentary... or somesuch.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1356864/plotsummary
― Born too beguiled (DavidM), Friday, 6 August 2010 16:48 (fifteen years ago)
apart from that guy stood behind the lettering that poster's beautiful, btw.
― baby i know that you think i'm just a lion (schlump), Friday, 6 August 2010 17:16 (fifteen years ago)
Since WTL he's been brilliant in two different James Gray films.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 August 2010 21:50 (fifteen years ago)
That imdb description ignores/leaves out the leaked/hyped bits about cocaine and hookers.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 7 August 2010 02:56 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2spHiYOORc
Trailer.
― And don't forget the joker (DavidM), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 13:51 (fifteen years ago)
he was good in the hangover
― k¸ (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 14:11 (fifteen years ago)
has anyone actually heard his music? I saw elsewhere that it was actually not 'rap' per se and was really good. but I can't remember where I heard that.
― akm, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 15:35 (fifteen years ago)
who's the dude he's with? at first i thought it was michael douglas
― funny hats were good enough for monk, goddamit! (zorn_bond.mp3), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 15:39 (fifteen years ago)
the narrating guy i mean
so has this been a big long con or what? the only thing I find hard to believe is that if it isn't, why would he allow himself to be filmed going down a drug hole like this?
― akm, Sunday, 12 September 2010 15:05 (fifteen years ago)
Ebert: "If this film turns out to still be part of an elaborate hoax, I'm going to be seriously pissed."
― when you've got a fist all ur problems look like faces (kenan), Sunday, 12 September 2010 17:25 (fifteen years ago)
david berman biopic
― dude (del), Sunday, 12 September 2010 17:26 (fifteen years ago)
This is the fakest movie I've seen in a long time, but not less train-wrecky entertaining for it.
― Eric H., Sunday, 12 September 2010 17:30 (fifteen years ago)
KT looks like he could be JP's dad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BOeMFLlC4Y
― Olde Executioner 8hundo (Eazy), Sunday, 12 September 2010 17:44 (fifteen years ago)
The beard and hair seem too much like props. People look like shit during a breakdown, but they don't alter their whole appearance to make themselves look even worse on purpose.
― Aimless, Sunday, 12 September 2010 18:12 (fifteen years ago)
^ Seriously, Turan needs to stop this charade or get his shit together and seek help.
― latebloomer, Monday, 13 September 2010 01:38 (fifteen years ago)
I'm assuming Ebert's weird insistence that this is definitely real is some sort of weird meta-hoax in and of itself.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 13 September 2010 03:45 (fifteen years ago)
^ Seriously, Ebert needs to stop this charade or get his shit together and seek help.
― latebloomer, Monday, 13 September 2010 03:49 (fifteen years ago)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/17/movies/17affleck.html?_r=2&src=tptw
“It’s a terrific performance, it’s the performance of his career,” Mr. Affleck said.
i would find this a more believable statement if it hadn't been so blatant that this was a hoax, right from the start - before the 'documentary' was even announced. if they'd approached this with a bit more subtlety, this ~maybe~ could have been an interesting piece of work.
― just1n3, Friday, 17 September 2010 03:26 (fifteen years ago)
maybe you stunt fans should watch Two Lovers, if art still counts
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 September 2010 03:30 (fifteen years ago)
it doesn't. hopefully this will tide us over until Jackass 3-D.
― a cankle of rads (Gukbe), Friday, 17 September 2010 03:31 (fifteen years ago)
I find hard to believe is that if it isn't, why would he allow himself to be filmed going down a drug hole like this?
― akm, Sunday, September 12, 2010 3:05 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark
Well, John Frusciante did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKCahLDR7ew&feature=related
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 17 September 2010 03:44 (fifteen years ago)
hoo boy did James Gray ever get fucked over by this lame prank.
― Simon H., Friday, 17 September 2010 03:45 (fifteen years ago)
i guess my only problem with this is: why try to top Kaufman? I appreciate the balls of it and all, but you can't really do it better than he did.
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 17 September 2010 03:49 (fifteen years ago)
― one art, please (Trayce), Friday, February 13, 2009 11:42 AM (1 year ago)
\o/
― Connect Four Tet (Trayce), Friday, 17 September 2010 04:03 (fifteen years ago)
don't know how anyone who remembers River Phoenix could have thought Casey Affleck would actually be chronicling his brother-in-law's self-destruction for a documentary. "Honey, you won't believe how much cocaine Joaquin just did! What a nut!"
― da croupier, Friday, 17 September 2010 04:20 (fifteen years ago)
were the sexual harrassment suits part of the fakery?
― sexy mfa (history mayne), Friday, 17 September 2010 14:49 (fifteen years ago)
^^ have been wondering that, too - i would guess so?
― just1n3, Friday, 17 September 2010 15:07 (fifteen years ago)
going into this knowing it was a hoax made it a lot more enjoyable, I would imagine.
not as good as I'd hoped, and the stuff with drugs/hookers/being a dick to his friends was horribly forced, but this was still worth it for the Diddy, Ben Stiller, and Edward James Olmos scenes.
nb: I have swam in the opening shot waterfall 1000 times!!!!!
― "ill samosa, hoos" "gibreel, big wrink" (gr8080), Monday, 20 September 2010 08:05 (fifteen years ago)
this is only half of it but i enjoyed:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEI4LUqhfn8
― *lets go* (gr8080), Thursday, 23 September 2010 19:15 (fifteen years ago)
All four Joaquin Phoenix threads are film-specific, so it doesn't really matter where I put this...I quite liked Inventing the Abbotts. It felt like they were trying to make a modern-day Splendor in the Grass or something, but for the performances alone, it worked. (Also felt vaguely like a precursor to The Virgin Suicides, which came two years later.)
― clemenza, Sunday, 14 February 2021 06:54 (five years ago)