Heath Ledger - Classic Or Dud?

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There are several whole forums devoted to the man. However only we know the truth. TELL IT.

― Tom, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I always thought the Heath Ledger was a local Hampstead newspaper. D'oh!

― Kate the Saint, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Looks like Andrew Dork-Dorff. His name sounds like a Bobcat rip off brand. I'm not making sense.

― nathalie (nathalie), Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

He looks like a prize chump to me.

― DG, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

He's a wack-ass motherfucker, and no mistake.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

like gibson, crowe and fucking paul hogan - need a bullet bad.

― Geoff, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I love Russell Crowe.

― Ally, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

let's just pretend geoff was talking about cameron crowe so ally can hate him, okay. besides, russel crowe in the insider is classic, everyone should look like that in every movie.

heath ledger, dud because they had to invent a phony movie critic to make up quotes about him being hot, because it's like the kids whose moms would pay off other kids to play with them only somehow even more pathetic.

― ethan, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Heath Ledger is obvious da bomb since if you consider that compared to "everything" he is a relatively limited subject, those cats on his board still churn out as much as we do...

― Pete, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i was not talking about cameron crowe, unless it is jerry maguire/singles cameron crowe....almost famous made me cry 6 times - russel crowe doesn't even get me hard.

― Geoff, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Cameron Crowe is the worst director ever and should be dragged out by dogs (with big fangs) who also have guns so they can pistol whip him while they chew on him. That's just my opinion though.

― Ally, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

or the dogs, or the bees, or the dogs with bees in their mouths and when they bark they shoot bees at you.

― ethan, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think Russel made a hot nazi and an even hotter gladitor . Esp. when tied up. Heath is pretty.

― anthony, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Russell Crowe (off topic) apparently has an animal magnetism that draws all persuasions to his bed; he also reportedly does not like to use deodorant. Heather Ledger is kinda pretty (see cover of GQ), but I think he's secretly a hippy.

― matthew, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No deodorant? That's just sick.

― Ally, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Russel, Heath and Chucky: Dud.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Gladiator was ruined by not having a charcter called Gluteus Maximus. Romper Stomper I quite liked when I saw it ages ago, so I suppose I would think it is quite good.

― DG, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It was a serious drama, not a Monty Python film!

― Ally, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think he's secretly a hippy.

What he only sprays patchouli on his flowery boxershorts?

― nathalie, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Patchouli is the favoured scent of goffs as well as hippies, thank you kindly. I'm still not sure which is worse, tho, being a goff or being a hippie...

― Kate the Saint, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Speaking as an ex-goth, Patchouli is disgusting. Never wear it. It's the worst thing you can possibly smell like. Wear jasmine.

― Ally, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

four years pass...

I guess I just wanted to have three blond(e) Australian film stars being debated on the same New Answers page.

Also, I guess we can look forward to "Oscar nominee" being appended before his name from now on.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 19:57 (twenty years ago)

Since I've only seen him in Monster's Ball (if only Halle had blown her brains out at the 20-minute mark) and Brokeback, he's pretty good (tho the Brando-Penn comparisons are a bit much).

Armond White says Lords of Dogtown is his best performance.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 20:10 (twenty years ago)

Armond White says a lot of things.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 20:11 (twenty years ago)

yeah hes incredible in brokeback

― $#@!!!, Tuesday, 3 January 2006 20:15 (twenty years ago)

His accent in Monster's Ball was a running joke among my friends for a few months in 2002; in retrospect I see how his tortured jailer's son prepared him for the mountain called Brokeback.

I'm not sure what his range is yet. He can be funny and intense, when called upon, which is more than enough.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 20:17 (twenty years ago)

i find it funny how they've countered his very homo role in brokeback with a big media campaign for him as the very hetero cassanova. "don't worry, he's just acting! here, check it out. he's the totally macho cassanova now." guyllenhall's people be falling down on the PR job.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 20:25 (twenty years ago)

He sure seemed to like Diddy in Monster's Ball.

He'll probably take the baby up on stage for the Oscar speech.

Says he based Ennis on his gay uncle. Anyone else see any GW Bush mannerisms in there?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 20:27 (twenty years ago)

A stunt not lost upon the audience with whom I saw Brokeback, who tittered when the Casanova credits aired.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 20:28 (twenty years ago)

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― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 20:29 (twenty years ago)

Pretty darn good in Ned Kelly.

― Mike Stuchbery (Mike Stuchbery), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 20:33 (twenty years ago)

People be forgetting he's played a gayer before: a cyclist in "Sweat".

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 20:34 (twenty years ago)

woah! they're showing cassanova preview before brokeback? so blatant. shouldn't be surprised i guess.

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― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 20:35 (twenty years ago)

Visions of Hilary Swank post-Boys Don't Cry.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 20:35 (twenty years ago)

I just saw him in the Brothers Grimm, which was not so good. But he bears a passing resemblance to a high-school crush, so I like him for that. Haven't seen Brokeback yet, but I probably will.

― elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 20:36 (twenty years ago)

He lives in my neighborhood.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 20:40 (twenty years ago)

so DUD.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 20:44 (twenty years ago)

Hahahaha I like how everyone on this thread has conveniently forgotten about "A Knight's Tale"!

― Dan (Worst Movie Ever) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 20:45 (twenty years ago)

Also, his turn as bad-boy leading-man to Julia Stiles' snaggletooth feminist in "10 Things I Hate About You"

― elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 20:47 (twenty years ago)

That was supposed to be his "breakthrough"!

(Oh, wait, getting crucified in The Gibson, er, The Patriot was supposed to be it...)

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 20:48 (twenty years ago)

He lives in my neighborhood.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 20:55 (twenty years ago)

Between Heath Ledger and M.I.A., who isn't moving to Brooklyn?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 20:59 (twenty years ago)

saw him in the pages of some magazine (premiere? vanity fair? fuck if i remember) in a train station recently, and... whizzow, he's hot.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 21:22 (twenty years ago)

btw he plays casanova as a kind of metrosexual avant la lettre.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 21:23 (twenty years ago)

(in keeping with tradition)

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 21:24 (twenty years ago)

dud i say

― howell huser (chaki), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 21:30 (twenty years ago)

Between Heath Ledger and M.I.A., who isn't moving to Brooklyn?

I may be leaving! (unrelated)

Voice Casanova headline: Famous Wit and Manwhore Disneyfied as Closet Monogamist

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 21:36 (twenty years ago)

she was hardly a novice

― howell huser (chaki), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 21:40 (twenty years ago)

Famous Wit and Manwhore Disneyfied as Closet Monogamist

long tradition of this too

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 21:42 (twenty years ago)

I really like A Knights Tale! :(

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 23:23 (twenty years ago)

I like A Knight's Tale too! Except maybe too much Queen.

I also like 10 thing I hate about you. it's one of my favourite comfort films..

― jellybean (jellybean), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 23:29 (twenty years ago)

This year's hottest new star

― David Manning (alanbanana), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 23:53 (twenty years ago)

And to which kind of hotness are you responding, David?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 00:18 (twenty years ago)

i find him kinda hot now that i've seen him spit on his palm to lube up another dude's bumhole

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 01:35 (twenty years ago)

he is from my city and his tv debut was a crappy local show called 'sweat' about the crazy ups and downs of training to be an elite athlete at the western australian institute of sport. his character was a struggling cyclist. skinny teenagers in lycra... wasn't that hot to be honest.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 01:49 (twenty years ago)

He's hottest in The Order AKA The Sin Eater. I love me a tortured priest, I do. Also, I prefer him as a brunette. Or auburnette, or whatever that color was. He looks like his hair is starting to thin a bit in real life--also hot.

He was horrible in Lords of Dogtown! Whatever he was trying with that accent, it didn't work at all. At first I thought his accent in Brokeback Mountain might not work so well either after seeing the trailer, it seemed a little too Sling Blade, but no, his performance is as great as everyone says it is.

Alfred, your review and Mark Allen's review were the best I've read anywhere.

― Arthur (Arthur), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 04:41 (twenty years ago)

what do you mean, I thought he was A GENIUS in lords of dogtown!

― gunther heartymeal (keckles), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 05:17 (twenty years ago)

I just didn't buy it, that stoner speech impediment thing he was doing. I thought it was a really irritating performance. Loved Emile Hirsch, though. And wasn't Rebecca De Mornay great as the hagged-out mom?

― Arthur (Arthur), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 05:26 (twenty years ago)

he sounded like the real dude his performance was based on!

― ShawShank Rambo Connection (Carey), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 05:55 (twenty years ago)

my favourite movie with heath ledger in it is two hands. don't think that's been mentioned here.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 06:47 (twenty years ago)

Gem you're right. Two Hands is awesome

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 08:31 (twenty years ago)

I like A Knight's Tale! But probably because Paul Bettany was in it.

"The protector of Italian virginity!"

― Roz (Roz), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 08:49 (twenty years ago)

his accent in Brokeback Mountain [trailer] seemed a little too Sling Blade

He's a 78rpm of the incomprehensible guy from King of the Hill played on 33-1/3.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 14:25 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

-- ethan, Tuesday, August 7, 2001

dud i say
-- howell huser (chaki), Tuesday, January 3, 2006

hope you're happy

― gershy, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 08:18 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, we DID have that Heath Ledger sub-board for a while. Crazy.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 08:20 (eighteen years ago)

Health Ledger is sixth??

― gershy, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 08:22 (eighteen years ago)

Gershy, obviously critizing an actor must mean you're happy when he dies. Jeez.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 08:26 (eighteen years ago)

TUOMOR, obviously masturbating in front of a baby means you're happy when it cries. Jizz.

― gershy, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 08:29 (eighteen years ago)

That was the best you could manage?

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 09:05 (eighteen years ago)

I thought this thread was titled "cassic or DEAD"

― RabiesAngentleman, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 13:31 (eighteen years ago)

That was the best you could manage?

he's only 4 years old

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

-- ethan, Tuesday, August 7, 2001

dud i say
-- howell huser (chaki), Tuesday, January 3, 2006

hope you're happy

-- gershy, Wednesday, January 23, 2008 3:18 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Link

to be fair, Heath Ledger wasn't very famous in 2001 and that controversy about the fake A Knight's Tale critic quotes was one of the things he was most known for at the time.

― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

still doesn't make it right

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

you're right, someone should ban chaki.

― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

tuomas inspires the best in all of us

― gershy, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

Seeing his death on the news,
reaffirmed my atheist views.
Isn't it odd,
that a fair and just God,
would take Heath, and leave us Tom Cruise.

― gnarly sceptre, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

I always thought the Heath Ledger was a local Hampstead newspaper. D'oh!

-- Kate the Saint, Wednesday, August 8, 2001 12:00 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Link

cheap shot.

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 17:00 (eighteen years ago)

a moody young aussie called heath
had nowhere to sleep but the street
he got taken in
by the fat olsen twin
and mysteriously died in his sleep

― darraghmac, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 17:02 (eighteen years ago)

was it the fat olsen twin btw? i'm never sure.

― darraghmac, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

A Knight's Tale is a fun movie and I never fail to watch it when it's on TBS on a saturday night when I'm waiting for my chinese food and trying to get excited about going out.

― dan selzer, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

you basically live my life, then.

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

except it's usually not a knight's tale.

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

it's Porky's

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 18:59 (eighteen years ago)

as of this week, it's zapped!.

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 19:00 (eighteen years ago)

Zapped is awesome

Scatman Crothers!

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 19:02 (eighteen years ago)

The only movie I have ever seen with Heath Ledger in it was The Patriot, and it remains one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Not because of him though.

It has been too long since I last saw Zapped.

― Nicole, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

You never saw "Monster's Ball"?????

― HI DERE, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 19:10 (eighteen years ago)

I take that back, I have seen Monster's Ball. Not a great movie either, but he was decent enough in it.

― Nicole, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 19:11 (eighteen years ago)

Never saw Monster's Ball either. Was it a requirement?

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

eight years pass...

10 Things I Hate About You is such a perfect film

however, I always puzzled slightly at the grammar of the Ledge's comment to Kat about Bianca: "I know everyone digs your sister but um... she's without."

How does "without" work in that sentence?

― niels, Thursday, 7 July 2016 18:03 (nine years ago)

one year passes...

and I watch it every January 1st

just great

― niels, Monday, 1 January 2018 22:44 (eight years ago)

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