WOODY HARRELSON

he's as good in The Messenger as he's ever been.

kingpin or white men cant jump

among lead roles, Flynt, White Men or The Hi-Lo Country

He was really really hot in White Men.

will & grace

there are some choice character names in this list!

Mickey Knox was kind of a great overblown scene-chewing harrelson moment tho. prob voting for flynt

even though i love that he's had a film career full of roles that you never could have imagined when he was on "Cheers," i think i'm gonna vote for Woody, maybe the greatest of all sitcom dummies

funny how he was in literally nothing for about five years, then just came back with a vengeance and started getting work like never before

I saw Management, that qualifies as nothing.

king pin, white men

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sans doute.

Woops, forgot to add the tags. If a mod would kindly like to delete that I'd appreciate it.

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woah, totally forgot he played larry flynt. and i was just thinking about that movie in a "totally forgot courtney love was briefly an actress" way.

people vs larry flynt is a great film

it's just funny cuz when i saw him in 2012, zombieland and the messenger (last being the best by far), i thought about him in terms of movies I haven't seen, like Jump, Indecent Proposal and EdTV, rather than in films I have seen like Kingpin, Flynt and NBK.

it's like every time i see him in a movie i forget i've seen him in plenty of others - can't tell if that's a compliment or not

I forgot he was nominated for Best Actor in Larry Flynt. The dude has two Oscar nods!

even though i love that he's had a film career full of roles that you never could have imagined when he was on "Cheers," i think i'm gonna vote for Woody, maybe the greatest of all sitcom dummies

love this guy, great career. hard to choose...

Kingpin I guess but almost voted A Scanner Darkly for realz

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Oh, I like that movie. I forgot he was in it!

have not seen this yet, but:

http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/zz1204df1b-550x294.jpg

Happy I'm not the only pro-Kingpin person here. I have seen that movie more times than I should probably admit to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj7Fl-lz7K4

thin red line

Been meaning to see The Walker.

luv dis guy

I have never seen White Men Can't Jump but def. want to after that clip! <3 Rosie Perez.

His narration in that pot doc was pretty good iirc

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I was very upset that they let her buzz in before Alex finished reading.
THEY NEVER LET KEN JENNINGS DO THAT

They allowed it in Alex's first season on the air (1984-85) but changed the rule thereafter.

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woody motherfuckin' harrelson? Oi, now i have seen it all. shite actor yet all of the womens are just in line to deliver him the booty. an' i cannot say i approve cos dude looks like grownup version of dennis the menace only alcoholic....fuck that shit

Woody Boyd
Roy Munson
Billy Hoyle
Mickey Knox

^these are all mega-classic characters imo. mickey knox is the only 1 where i think it couldve been done as well or better by someone else probably

would vote for his penalty

Best football match ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxdkyk8-Jm4

I wish more people had seen "The Messenger," it didn't get a wide enough release. Definitely up there with his best performances -- and a good movie overall. Ben Foster was great too.

charlie frost and carson wells deserved better tbh

so in this icky-looking Justin Timberlake romcom, Woody plays a gay friend who suggests he and JT "go trolling for cock."

do they

didn't realize how strong this guy's résumé was until looking at these poll results. woody is a treat

Woody is basically terrible in We're Fuck Buddies.

like his comrades?

Yep. Richard Jenkins in particular.

oh god. Richard Jenkins and his pall of indie film-ness.

richard jenkins is a great comic actor

its funny how many of these are movies where woody's the best thing in them: semi-pro, she hate me, prairie home companion, 2012, etc

cant wait for the triumphant return of ned beatty. why the fuck did hollywood stop using that guy? he should be in everything

http://www.mediaite.com/online/woody-harrelson-ama-ask-me-anything-goes-disastrously-wrong-on-reddit/

who the fuck wants to ask actors questions?

lol the reddit ppl are so butthurt

btw Rampart is just OK, but Harrelson blows away at least 4 of the Best Actor Oscar nominees (I haven't seen Bichir yet)

that is the dumbest "disaster" I've seen in a while

DEAR REDDIT: DIE

brb, gonna find and post two dozen meme pics of "Dirt Bag Woody"

lol that was so dumb

can't wait for arnold to do an AMA and answer every questions with a plug for his smash hit holiday classic "jingle all the way"

god yes reddit people are so awful when it comes to thinking how IMPORTANT they are

anybody else seen RAMPART? it's playing in hackney at the moment..

The part written for him Friends with Benefits is sooo embarrassing.

rampart's pretty good! and also weird as FUCK. ned beatty smokes weed on a beach and kicks the crap out of woody harrelson. has an underground sex club scene that ends with woody eating the most intense burrito in the universe. i appreciated it for being somewhat of a convention buster re: the 'gritty' 'badass' dirty cop genre.

best summary ever, must see this film asap

ned beatty smokes weed on a beach and kicks the crap out of woody harrelson. has an underground sex club scene that ends with woody eating the most intense burrito in the universe. i appreciated it for being somewhat of a convention buster re: the 'gritty' 'badass' dirty cop genre.

Now if I had known that, I'd have made more of an effort to see it by now.

Rampart wasn't great, Woody was though...

Sleepwalking's not bad--a little too earnest, but some great photography, and Woody's very good (and seems to be having a lot of fun). Two things worth noting: 1) Sarris really liked it, in what must have been his last year of regular reviewing--I think he may have had a thing for Charlize Theron; 2) At one point, an angry Dennis Hopper actually says (word for word) "Don't you fuckin' look at me."

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"Twin fat songs"

badass normcore

mickey and mallory

god they dated didn't they

known by the couple nickname CLOSE WOODY

Did anyone see Lost in London? I suspect it was terrible but the trailer made me love him even more.

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/lost-in-london/

I liked it a lot! I wasn't expecting to as it seemed like the ultimate gimmicky vanity project but I found it genuinely funny for the most part - it was nice to see him display his comedy chops again

LBJ is pretty much what you'd expect from Rob Reiner--lousy makeup, boxes checked off one by one, zero sense of period, a tepid HBO version of Johnson's path to the presidency (covering, in flashback, '59 to his first day in office; Vietnam is a blip on the radar). Harrelson does okay, but he's left to conjure up Johnson's crudity and horse-trading tactics and larger-than-lifeness out of nothing. Jennifer Jason Leigh is buried under some of that poor makeup (Harrelson's is even worse). Wallace Langham (Arthur Schlesinger) and Rich Sommer (Pierre Salinger) from Mad Men get a few lines each. The best performance is probably Richard Jenkins as Richard Russell.

I assume Lady Bird has nothing to do with LBJ’s Lady Bird, and I assume it’s much better than this.

I haven't seen a single convincing screen LBJ: not Donald Moffit, not Tom Wilkinson.

some ppl liked that Randy Quaid series (?) way back; never saw it

i was convinced by the dude who played LBJ in 'JFK' though iirc he didn't provide the voice. i was less convinced by the notion he passively allowed the assassination.

the voice was awful!

JUST GIT ME ELECTED AND AH'LL GET YA YER DAMN WAR

I'll take that back: Michael Gambon was OK in a cable movie starring Donald Sutherland as Clark Cliffford and Alec Baldwin as McNamara.

well the VOICE was awful! the actor looked like him at least in smoky conspiracy room black and white cinematography.

We just don't let McNamara stick his nose in this thing!

Every time he goes over to Saigon for a fact-finding mission...

...he comes back and scares the shit out of Kennedy!

Now I want Max Taylor on him night and day...

...like a fly on shit.

You control McNamara, you control Kennedy.

In that document...

[LOUD, HARD-PANNING RICOCHET]

...lay the Vietnam War.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (rendered with a lowercase 'O' in the credits--might be technically correct, but it looks ugly) is good--maybe a little overrated in the couple of reviews I skimmed beforehand. I said Lady Bird got better as it went along; this one went on for another 20 minutes after I thought it was ending. When year-ends and awards come around, I'm sure Frances McDormand (terse, tragic) and Sam Rockwell (show-offy and, for most of the way, evil) will be all over the place. Probably not Woody, unless he gets rewarded for being so noble (enough so that he inspires a miraculous turnaround in Rockwell)--he's fine, but nothing new. Between him, McDormand, and a couple of musical cues that reference Miller's Crossing and Blood Simple, I thought I detected a bit of Coen worship--the music's by Carter Burwell, so I guess that's more to do with him (but who also happens to be...). Couldn't remember where I knew Amanda Warren from, until it hit me on the way home: the mayor in The Leftovers. My favourite scene was Harrelson's letter to McDormand, especially the punchline.

Just found David Edelstein's review:

http://www.vulture.com/2017/11/three-billboards-outside-ebbing-missouri-movie-review.html

Agree totally that it loses its way towards the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veNeols-O18

His performance in scanner darkly was the best part imo

Thread bump made me nervous

Not to worry--he's alive and everywhere.

I watched Wilson on a plane flight yesterday. Pretty decent film, tracked closely to the graphic novel. Woody came off a tiny bit more cheerful than the comic version character, but he was good overall playing the middle aged privileged grump getting into everyone's business.

Cranston was pretty good!

good posts, clemenza

just started this thread: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - a Martin McDonagh film with McDormand, Harrelson, Rockwell, and SPOILERS

Thanks. I saw your posts on the In Bruges thread and could see you had some of the same ambivalence I did. And though I didn't stress this, I agree Rockwell's transformation stretches credulity.

whoaaa Sunchaser is incredibly, bafflingly, hilariously corny and stupid and bad, and feels way more like 1986 or 1976 than 1996

that's Michael Cimino's final film right?

yep, that's the one. I'd never heard of the guy, I just put it on cause it showed up on the Netflix and it had Woody in it, and everyone knows and loves Woody from the Cheers, and I loves me a good road movie, especially road movies that wind up at a sacred Navajo mountain. But man. I wasn't prepared for the awfulness. It was two hours well spent because I loved to hate it. It could be a new The Room if it developed enough of that sort of traction. Recommended if you like dialogue that makes you yell "Nobody would ever say that! Why did somebody write that!"

and I liked what wikipedia has to say about it:

Mickey Rourke, collaborator and friend of Cimino, believes the director “snapped” sometime during the making of The Sunchaser. “Michael is the sort of person that if you take away his money he short-circuits,” Rourke says. “He is a man of honor.” Rourke did not say how or why Cimino “snapped.

Joe D’Augustine, the film's editor, recalls his first meeting with Cimino: “It was kind of eerie, freaky. I was led into this dark editing room with black velvet curtains and there was this guy hunched over. They bring me into, like, his chamber, as if he was the Pope. Everyone was speaking in hushed tones. He had something covering his face, a handkerchief. He kept his face covered. And nobody was allowed to take his picture."

Rampart is some dark sh1t, kinda wild that crazy script by James Ellroy got made. It's one of Harrelson's best in a way, as he plays a total f'up in a very realistic way, very much an Ellroy hero I'd think it would resonate a hell of a lot different now than it did nearly a decade ago.

This brings me to The Highwaymen, which was way better than I figured it might be and again, kinda resonates in a different way in light of current circumstances. I thought the film makers did a damn good job in the look of the era and Kevin Cosner mumbles and grumbles while Woody plays kinda good cop/buddy through the movie. Worth seeing as a nice flip of the classic Bonnie and Clyde as you know going in from that movie how it is going to end.

good to know- i loved him in rampart