christopher walken: classic or dud?

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christopher walken: cooliest and creepiest man on the planet, or wizened cliche has-been?

I’m too crap — no, the CDUK audience are too noisy — to be able to say whose song it is that uses him dancing in the video: it goes “you can go like this/you can go like that”. the moments when he dances in his movies are always just moments and out-of-nowhere highspots; didn’t this merely turn serendipity into a forced joke?

― mark s, Saturday, 7 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's Fatboy Slim, therefore Mr Walken has condemned himself to Dudness.

― jel, Saturday, 7 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Classic but with occasional problems (read shite B-films). Enough undeniable highlights throughout career (King of New York, The Addiction, Deer Hunter, Dead Zone, that superb cameo in Annie Hall). But also an actor that falls very easy into his thing on automatic pilot (snap with the finger, southern accent, tick with the eyes followed followed by shy smile finished with cold stare). Ah bless him though he can be so enjoyable when he overacts ;)

― Omar, Saturday, 7 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Even worse than I feared! So before we chuck out the trash, a second or two's silence for his long-ago classic dance-moment in an much- overlooked way-less-than-B-movie: in the unimpeachably bizarre Communion (itself a classic of the Aliens-Probed-My-Anus genre, based- on-a-true-story-yeah-right), CW suddenly - for no reason, of course - does a strange and brilliant little handjive, aimed at the camera

later on - again for no reason - he enters a beached spaceship and discovers a room full of small blue dwarf-like aliens disco-dancing

― mark s, Saturday, 7 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mr Walken is already (?) a parody of himself. Witness the delightful song and dance number opening on SNL a few years back and as well as the Walken/Dennis Hopper scene in True Romance (which is some sort of cosmic sign of the existance of God, ne'er as I can tell). But he's a parody that never ceases to delight and amuse and yes, even teach (what have we learned about the tenacity of man from the watch-up-the-ass sequence from Pulp Fiction?!)

The problem with the VDO in question is that it all goes well until he starts flying around. Then it takes the plausibility of "wow, what if Chris Walken really DID just up'n start dancing!?" to a point where I am no longer willing to suspend disbelief. All it says is that the choreographer ran out of ideas. I mean, they COULD have had him dancing with a broom for Pete's sake...

― JM, Saturday, 7 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Despite his reputation as sinister corpse-like scareyman, Walken has always had a penchant for the dancin' (and for coleslaw, but that's neither here nor there). Seen revealing the twinkle in his toes in The Deerhunter (gyrating by pool table), King of New York and proud purveyor of a 'Shut Up and Dance' t-shirt during his musical youth, it's no surprise that he finally ended up shaking his groove thing in some video or other.

Don't condemn him for appearing in a video of questionable musical quality. The man has already admitted that he will take *any* job, just as long as it gets him out of the house (quote: 'hobbies are for assholes'). You want FAME? You gotta work!

― nb, Wednesday, 11 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

anyone else remember a film called 'search and destroy' or 'seek and destroy' with walken, dennis hopper, and john turturo? in one scene, completely from nowhere, walken does an impromtu 3 minute tap-dance while singing some sinatra song or other in a japanese karaoke bar. as soon as i heard about the fatboyshit video, i thought of this.

― daragh, Wednesday, 11 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Search and Destroy!! Yay!! One of my favourite films ever! Illeana Douglas pitching the "penis-claw" movie to Griffin Dunne is one of the funniest and sexiest moments in cinema.

I think Walken gets a dance moment into ALL his films: I think it must be in his contract. He used to BE a trained dancer (I knew that anyway, but Dec of Ant and Dec told the world after the video played on CD:UK on Saturday).

― mark s, Wednesday, 11 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

eight months pass...

Well,I know I might be suspicious for being Christopher Walken's fan,but the Fat Boy Slim's "Weapon Of Choice" video clip is really innovating and by the way,by this time it received lots of awards as it should have received. Also by the way,this is exactly the kind of video clip I would love to have done for my songs.

God bless you sincerely!

Lilian Vaz.

― Lilian Vaz, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah but have you seen the video for Christopher Walkens new record, where Norman Cook dances around instead?

― Lord Custos, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one trick pony

― bob snoom, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

nine years pass...

best trick pony

― ₪_₪ (darraghmac), Friday, 18 November 2011 20:14 (thirteen years ago)

so he killed natalie wood?

― 69, Friday, 18 November 2011 20:19 (thirteen years ago)

hasn't been accused, nor has anyone else

― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 November 2011 20:21 (thirteen years ago)

http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2011/10/20/11eab39a-1828-4b76-b09b-21ecbd8602f5.jpg

― omar little, Friday, 18 November 2011 20:22 (thirteen years ago)

xp but like he probably did it right

― 69, Friday, 18 November 2011 21:45 (thirteen years ago)

media frenzy points to Robert Wagner

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2011/11/wagner_fingered.php

― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 November 2011 22:19 (thirteen years ago)

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