Post by Toasted Cheese on Sept 12, 2018 23:29:01 GMT
Yes Mr. Dirty, I acknowledged and honored his passing. I feel—and Brando also expressed it—that if Reynolds had any failing that did affect his career and choices he made, it was due to narcissism, hence arrogance due to being caught up in the image of self. I feel that in spite of his acting talent—and he was great with his comic timing and that ain't easy—to put it bluntly, he was a tad up himself.
He appears to have wasted his talent and even his romantic turns where he was very good, like Starting Over — 79' with Jill Clayburgh whom I love and Best Friends - 82' with Goldie Hawn whom I love as well and enjoy these films as overall presentations, they are just so grounded in the era that they were made, they don't appear to offer anything of much substance, apart from a top class teaming of actors, but with a superficial feel as well that comes across as phony. Neither of these films tend to be recalled much from what I read and they are just not really keepers.
I think Reynolds may have been afraid to step out of the box a little bit and challenge his own image\persona with roles that would show him in a different light. Did he ever play a bad guy or a subtle villain when he was popular in the 70's? His 80's choices appeared to be an image parody of those low-brow 70's action films he made as well, as though he was clinging onto this charismatic and cool guy persona that people weren't buying anymore. Audiences were still happy to watch Bronson and Eastwood though. There was no subversiveness, or much depth on display.