Brad Pitt 1991-1995: The Chad Palomino Years

woops, that should be 1991-1994. I didn't include True Romance because it was a cameo and a cameo shouldn't win this shit.

T&L is kind of a padded bit part.

I was less worried about that distracting from Johnny Suede than True Romance. Though I have a feeling no one feels to strongly about the years of long flowing hair.

I'm curious how many of these movies Scott Seward has seen.

still T&L, for its T&A.

"sexiest man alive," lol.

I felt pretty strongly about "A River Runs Through It" and "Legends of the Fall." "Legends" is one of my personal candidates for flat-out gorgeous eye candy, along with "Out of Africa."

"Interview with the Vampire" had some yummy eye candy, too, especially when Lestat wasn't involved. Louis and Armand.... guh. Drown in your own drool time.

Oh, those movies had plots? Characters? Huh.

I've seen Legends, T&L, Interview and (just the other night, inspiring this poll) Johnny Suede. Suede gets my pick for its peculiar synthesis of weak Lynch/Burton weirdness and Catherine Keener being Catherine Keener. In hindsight it IS the fence between 80s and 90s indie, even though its not particularly well done. By the time Living In Oblivion came out, all DeCillo would seemed to take from it was Keener and a sense of futility and embarassment.

For some reason I'm really curious to see Kalifornia but what little I saw of Cool World in a video store a decade ago was plenty. Not sure if The Favor still exists.

It could be argued that Seven Years Of Tibet is some Chad Palomino shit, but I had to make Seven and 12 Monkeys the cutting point.

I was gonna even say that Chad Palomino finally died with Fight Club but then there's fuckin Troy.

http://www.cinemacomrapadura.com.br/noticias/img/9147-2007-11-06-23:01:51_1.jpg

Christ, he's Chad Horsehide now.

Did he nick that cap from his ARRTI wardrobe?

I've seen 3 of these candidates.

I really liked Interview with the Vampire when it came out, though I was like 15 then. Later on I read the book, and realized the movie was actually better, because there was lots of boring stuff in the book, so it was only good to trim it down. I wonder why they never filmed the sequels, as far as I know IwtV was quite successful. Maybe Cruise and Pitt didn't manage to fit them into their schedule?

I wonder why they never filmed the sequels

Oh they filmed The Queen of the Damned alright...

Oh, I didn't know that! Though according to IDMB it was made 8 years later, and none of the people from the first film were involved. IMDB also says the first movie brought in almost 250 million dollars, so you'd think there would've been some incentive for a quick sequel?

IMDB also says the first movie brought in almost 250 million dollars

I suspect it cost about 40% of that? I think they were expecting a megahit.

Budget was 50 million according to IMDB. I think that should mean a big success?

If i'm correct, the sequel is all about Lestat, so maybe Cruise's schedule fucked their plans? There's a 3-year gap in his filmography between 1996 and 1999, was he doing only Eyes Wide Shut for all that time?

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he was a genuinely awful actor in this period, but it makes you appreciate how decent he's become in the last few years

i sometimes wonder how much he's just well cast when he's good, because when he's bad he's still pretty terrible

I only "got" Pitt after Moneyball. Even in the comedies he's as funny as a crutch.

he made me laugh in Burn After Reading, and occasionally in the Ocean's flicks

i sometimes wonder how much he's just well cast when he's good, because when he's bad he's still pretty terrible

― some dude, Sunday, December 9, 2012 12:36 PM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark

you could be onto something. i didnt see Benjamin Button but it looked out of his range. it just strikes me that he at least seems comfortable in his skin in something like moneyball, whereas a performance like this is horrifying to watch with how hard he's working to resemble no human being ever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snxgxpVyt6Y

especially next to morgan freeman's perfect stillness. and when he goes big now in something like inglo basterds, he's pretty entertaining (though I know a lot of people hated him in that)

There's the even more horrifying acting in the last fifteen minutes when we're supposed to feel the sense of accumulating fear in Pitt as he realizes what Spacey's done, and he's embarrassing and impossible to watch.

He doesn't even play with the dogs convincingly.

he's usually at his best when he's a guy who thinks he's an alpha male but someone on-screen is actually stronger than him - morgan freeman, angelina jolie, everyone in burn after reading

george clooney in the oceans

There's the even more horrifying acting in the last fifteen minutes when we're supposed to feel the sense of accumulating fear in Pitt as he realizes what Spacey's done, and he's embarrassing and impossible to watch.

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, December 9, 2012 1:55 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah. in a way the badness of the performance works in the movie's favor up until those last 15 minutes, because freeman's constantly staring at him like he's the biggest dumbass on the planet, but then he has to convince you he's a person and yeuch

even in moneyball he succeeds by admitting he's inferior to jonah hill

yeah there's plenty of actors whose mediocrity a shrewd director has manipulated (Kim Novak comes to mind) but at this point in his career Pitt lacked even the basic craft by which a movie star gets the audience on his side despite his limitations.

trying to think if there's any movie i've liked him in where he isn't either comfortable with just being a well-intentioned cutie or doesn't have someone to remind him he's just a well-intentioned cutie

i guess in fight club (which i don't really like, but not because of him) edward norton plays enough of a dink he can score shots off him

yeah has any actress ever had as much palpable anxiety about being seen as 'more than just a pretty face' than Pitt?

his eagerness to help a dozen different auteurs regularly get financing for their projects reminds me a little of Coldplay's desperation to have some of Eno's cred rub off on them

Quite a few: Novak, Jeanne Crain, Jessica Lange in our own time (no more comedies for years after Tootsie)

I could believe Lange destroyed her face with surgery just so she wouldn't have to worry about looks anymore.