You a Mouse Fightin' A Gorilla! - Best Supporting Actor in Oliver Stone's "JFK"

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Let's pick gnat shit outta peppa.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Donald Sutherland - X	7
John Candy - Dean Andrews	4
Gary Oldman - Lee Harvey Oswald	2
Kevin Bacon - Willie O'Keefe	2
Tommy Lee Jones - Clay Shaw	1
Laurie Metcalf - Susie Cox	1
Joe Pesci - David Ferrie	1
Ed Asner - Guy Banister	0
Jack Lemmon - Jack Martin	0
Walther Matthau - Senator Russell Long	0

― balls and adieu (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 26 July 2010 15:00 (fifteen years ago)

Despite lots of good performances Stherland is gonna walk this

― xyzzzz__, Monday, 26 July 2010 15:11 (fifteen years ago)

I'm torn between choosing one of teh gays and Sutherland. Laurie Metcalf is very good too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA7z2MgRz3o

― balls and adieu (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 26 July 2010 15:12 (fifteen years ago)

This is awesome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9deHi-xhxw&feature=related

― balls and adieu (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 26 July 2010 15:13 (fifteen years ago)

gimme some Bacon

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 July 2010 15:15 (fifteen years ago)

it wouldn't be sutherland for me, think maybe bacon ahead of pesci/TLJ, though i do like candy's turn in this too.

― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Monday, 26 July 2010 15:33 (fifteen years ago)

don't think of oldman's as a supporting turn, tbh, so he's out for me

― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Monday, 26 July 2010 15:34 (fifteen years ago)

Christ! I never even realized Oldman was in this. Sutherland for me, though.

― kkvgz, Monday, 26 July 2010 15:41 (fifteen years ago)

There is a lot of bad acting in this mediocre film.

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 July 2010 15:52 (fifteen years ago)

it's exactly the right type of bad acting though!

― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Monday, 26 July 2010 15:58 (fifteen years ago)

It's not much worse than in a fifties Sirk film though: both directors encourage them to be overwrought. Lemmon is the worst offender, I guess.

― balls and adieu (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 26 July 2010 16:07 (fifteen years ago)

gotta be Candy. I'm a sucker for all those Foghorn Leghorn-isms

― Moshy Star (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 26 July 2010 16:13 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.zuguide.com/image/Walter-Matthau-JFK.6.jpg

― balls and adieu (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 26 July 2010 21:00 (fifteen years ago)

Shakey, closer to Senator Claghorne (look it up)

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 00:38 (fifteen years ago)

Sutherland does a great job delivering some clunky connect-the-dots dialogue, and he isn't helped by Costner's wide-eyed "Are you trying to tell me..." incredulity. I'd go for either Pesci or Candy, who are both spectacularly over the top and around the bend. Pesci's frightwig and Candy saying "Daddy-o" are among the highlights of the film (which I mostly like, but I like Nixon too).

― clemenza, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 01:32 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Sunday, 1 August 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l0HMozEfD0&NR=1

― balls and adieu (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 1 August 2010 23:55 (fifteen years ago)

I watched some of JFK on AMC today, including the Sutherland scene. To amend my comment above, Costner doesn't really say much during the scene, he mostly just listens. But he does get saddled with maybe the two worst lines in the film: "I never realized Kennedy was so dangerous to the establishment" and "I can't believe they killed him because he wanted to change things." And Sutherland's dialogue is like a checklist of expository stuff that Stone didn't know where to park otherwise; instead of X, he should have told Costner his name was A Guided Tour Through America's Post-War Covert Interventionism.

― clemenza, Monday, 2 August 2010 00:03 (fifteen years ago)

I love the lingering look of contempt X gives Garrison after saying the ultra condescending, "The truth is on your SIDE, Bubba."

― balls and adieu (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 August 2010 00:05 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Monday, 2 August 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

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