Jean Reno: C or D?

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You evidently can't make a Hollywood movie set in Western Europe without him showing up. Are you happy about this? I don't think I am.

― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 18 May 2006 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

I've yet to see him act anything other than enigmatic/grumpy, but he's got a fantastic face which I'm always pleased to see.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Thursday, 18 May 2006 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.ps2storm.com/PS2/upload/onimusha3_ps2.JPG

Capcom built the third Onimusha game around him(and takeshi kaneshiro), but only used his voice for the francophone bits, which was really fucking stupid.

he & takeshi might star as their characters in a movie version of the game.

also, classic.

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 18 May 2006 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

Seems like he's become the French Robert De Niro, inasmuch he's turned from a cool actor to someone who accepts all kinds of shitty roles. And like De Niro, he always shined the brightest with one particular director, which is of course Besson.

But yeah, The Big Blue, La Femme Nikita, and Léon are enough for classicness. And according to IMDb he played the voice of Porco Rosso in the French dub of the movie - sounds perfect!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 18 May 2006 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

And according to IMDb he played the voice of Porco Rosso in the French dub of the movie - sounds perfect!

Sure did. He's on the American release of same, thankfully, as they included that dub -- brilliant stuff.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 May 2006 23:43 (nineteen years ago)

so so great in ronin. love 'im.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

Classic. OTMWRT Besson. Also, Reno could star in a Disney comedy about a large group of loud kids with big hearts and not enough dyin' and I'd still love him.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:06 (nineteen years ago)

Jean Reno in The Shaggy Dog?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:06 (nineteen years ago)

totallt classic. and he's pretty funny in the sort of ridiculous but still sort of fun hong kong/besson pastiche (redudant, maybe) wasabi

― gear (gear), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:11 (nineteen years ago)

C. End of story.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:12 (nineteen years ago)

Vincent: No questions. No answers. That's the business we're in. You just accept it and move on. Maybe that's lesson number three.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:14 (nineteen years ago)

ronin has a pretty awesome cast overall

― gear (gear), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

stellan skarsgard is sorely underutilized these days

― gear (gear), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

he had to have the case made. he had to have the case made.

― geoff (gcannon), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

The Crimson Rivers kinda sucked, even though it was directed by Kassovitz. I don't think I'd want to see the sequel.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

yeah i say this on every thread but everything about ronin is awesome.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:20 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and wasn't he also in that early nineties flick, where a couple of French knights travel forward in time to the modern day? I think there was a remake of that recently...

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:20 (nineteen years ago)

"just visiting" or something??

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:22 (nineteen years ago)

You even liked the giant text at the end of Ronin, slocki? I liked a lot about it but the denoument was kinda indulgent.

― Zwan (miccio), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:24 (nineteen years ago)

I really should spell denouement right on a Jean Reno thread.

― Zwan (miccio), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:25 (nineteen years ago)

the text at the end? you don't mean at the beginning?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:25 (nineteen years ago)

i like him as the french nationalist in 'godzilla'

― and what (ooo), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:25 (nineteen years ago)

haha the opening text too! I meant the giant fruity credits that pop up as DeNiro is walking away.

― Zwan (miccio), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:27 (nineteen years ago)

you mean as RENO is walking away!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

pedant!

― Zwan (miccio), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

(i don't remember them though... although the opening text is awesome!)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

the visitors has laffs for miles FACT.

― geoff (gcannon), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:30 (nineteen years ago)

xpost: yeah that's a hell of a font

― geoff (gcannon), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:30 (nineteen years ago)

I need to see one of these Jean Reno comedies (French Kiss does not count)

― Zwan (miccio), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:31 (nineteen years ago)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=DyvoILZ4KzE&search=ronin

― gear (gear), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

that trailer is the shit

― and what (ooo), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:40 (nineteen years ago)

Nice

― geoff (gcannon), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:42 (nineteen years ago)

now find 'this summer...size DOES matter'

― and what (ooo), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:46 (nineteen years ago)

I was just thinking about a hyperventilating Hank Azaria the other day.

― Zwan (miccio), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:47 (nineteen years ago)

tmi dude

― and what (ooo), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:51 (nineteen years ago)

http://membres.lycos.fr/jeanreno/galerie/god10.jpg

maybe I should finally rent this movie.

― Zwan (miccio), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:53 (nineteen years ago)

Devlin maintains that the tagline for this movie, "Size Does Matter", was meant simply to differentiate the movie from Jurassic Park (1993) - hence the original "museum" trailer - but that the advertisers for the studio took it too far with their over-zealous campaign (e.g. "His foot is as long as this bus"). The ads became the biggest focus of the backlash against the movie. Most notable was a temporary page set up by the programmers for the website of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) that mocked the "Godzilla" green glow and read "Plot Does Matter."

― and what (ooo), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:59 (nineteen years ago)

Philippe: [holding up a doughnut] No croissant?

Philippe: Urgh! You call this coffee?

― and what (ooo), Friday, 19 May 2006 01:01 (nineteen years ago)

How, for example, does a 300-foot-tall creature fit inside a subway tunnel? How come it's sometimes only as tall as the tunnel, and at other times taller than high-rise office buildings? How big is it, anyway? Why can it breathe fire but hardly ever makes use of this ability? Why, when the heroes hide inside the Park Avenue tunnel, is this tunnel too small for Godzilla to enter, even though it is larger than a subway tunnel? And why doesn't Godzilla just snort some flames down there and broil them? Most monster movies have at least one bleeding-heart environmentalist to argue the case of the monstrous beast, but here we get only Niko Tatopoulos (Matthew Broderick), an expert on the mutant earthworms of Chernobyl, who seems less like a scientist than like a place-holder waiting for a rewrite ("insert more interesting character here"). It is he who intuits that Godzilla is a female. (You would think that if a 300-foot monster were male, that would be hard to miss, but never mind.) The military in all movies about monsters and aliens from outer space always automatically attempts to kill them, and here they fire lots of wimpy missiles and torpedoes at Godzilla, which have so little effect we wonder how our tax dollars are being spent. (Just once, I'd like a movie where they train Godzilla to do useful tasks, like pulling a coaxial cable across the ocean floor, or pushing stuck trains out of tunnels.) In addition to the trigger-happy Americans there is a French force, too, led by Jean Reno, a good actor who plays this role as if he got on the plane shouting "I'm going to Disneyland!" All humans in monster movies have simple-minded little character traits, and Reno's obsession is with getting a decent cup of coffee. Other characters include a TV newswoman (Maria Pitillo) who used to be the worm man's girlfriend, a determined cameraman (Hank Azaria), a grim-jawed military leader (Kevin Dunn) and a simpering anchorman (Harry Shearer). None of these characters emerges as anything more than a source of obligatory dialogue.

― and what (ooo), Friday, 19 May 2006 01:04 (nineteen years ago)

In addition to the trigger-happy Americans there is a French force, too, led by Jean Reno, a good actor who plays this role as if he got on the plane shouting "I'm going to Disneyland!"

what does this mean

― and what (ooo), Friday, 19 May 2006 01:05 (nineteen years ago)

I think he's actually best known in France for his light & fluffy time-travel comedies. The Franco-edition of Just Visiting went to triple numerals, I think.
Classic, though, even in shitty movies, or even in blase movies. Crimson Rivers is good until the end, and Crimson Rivers II's final scene is just fucking jaw-droppingly awesome (in that it's fucking terrible and cheesy and doesn't care).
Wasabi's pretty good, and I kinda enjoyed Jet Lag.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 19 May 2006 01:14 (nineteen years ago)

man that godzilla movie was like the worst thing ever

― late to the bloom to the er (latebloomer), Friday, 19 May 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

also, the part in madison square garden with the raptors-like baby godzillas running loose...wtf?

― late to the bloom to the er (latebloomer), Friday, 19 May 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

man that godzilla movie was like the worst thing ever

I would have been much happier if they would have just called it a remake of Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (which it is much closer to) rather than Godzilla

My favorite part of Godzilla: Final Wars was when the super-scary Japanese Godzilla wasted the American Godzilla in one punch.

― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Friday, 19 May 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

Japanese Godzilla will always be awesome

― late to the bloom to the er (latebloomer), Friday, 19 May 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.onlinesports.com/images/phf-aaeg031.jpg

― gear (gear), Friday, 19 May 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

Jean Reno is the new Gerard Depardieu.

He just has the Frenchest face of the moment.

― ZOT! (davidcorp), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

What has he done lately? I always called the guy my favorite actor, but I really don't care who my favorite actor is.

― CaptainLorax, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 14:00 (seventeen years ago)

We should have a POLL!

― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 15:21 (seventeen years ago)

I've been alternately reading this thread title as "Jay Leno" and "Janet Reno" all morning.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 15:25 (seventeen years ago)

i said it before, but totally classic

― omar little, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 16:50 (seventeen years ago)

ronin was everything i was looking for in a movie in the fall of '98

― omar little, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 16:51 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.freakingnews.com/pictures/45000/Rasta-Jean-Reno--45400.jpg
and more: http://www.freakingnews.com/Jean-Reno-Pictures--2053.asp

― CaptainLorax, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 20:53 (seventeen years ago)

I think I liked him in a French rom-com where he gets sort of paired up with a crazy and slightly trashy woman at an airport and they sort-of-accidentally travel together. imdb says it's Jet Lag with Julitette Binoche!

― Laurel, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 21:00 (seventeen years ago)

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