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Post by Ass_E9 on Nov 4, 2018 17:34:26 GMT
Confidence
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Nov 4, 2018 22:12:13 GMT
I don't really like Dustin Hoffman that much. I certainly do not hate him, but he really is a little too precious (and for me to say that is a lot) and he seems like he would be super high-maintenance, even a pain in the ass. Even in Midnight Cowboy as street rat Ratso Rizzo? That's probably my favorite Hoffman performance, though I think his best is Lenny so I went with that.
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Post by kingkoopa on Nov 4, 2018 22:55:48 GMT
"Rain Man" and "Tootsie" for sure.
I also loved him as Captain Hook in "Hook." I didn't even realize it was him the first time I saw it. All I saw was...Captain Hook. The guy is a chameleon. Can't think of a dud performance for the man. One of the greats.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Nov 4, 2018 23:03:53 GMT
He's generally great in everything he does, but my vote goes to Tootsie.
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Post by dirtypillows on Nov 4, 2018 23:22:57 GMT
I liked "Dominic and Eugene" when I saw it many years ago. It was a very sweet movie, and the Tom Hulce character was a lot more likeable than Mr. Rain Man. Hulce's Eugene is so much more likeable and less pretentious, than Hoffman's one note monotonous performance in Rain Main.
D&E has a lot going for it and it also has Jamie Lee Curtis, who is pretty much an asset to every film she stars in. I don't know much of her father's films Tony Curtis, who was a honey in his heyday, or Janet Leigh performances, but I bet JLC in comparison would have given them a good run for their money performance wise.
The first movie I saw Tony Curtis that I can recall was on t.v in the late 70's called 40 Pounds Of Trouble. I couldn't take my eyes of him and had an instant little gay boy crush on him.
"The Wizard of Oz" and "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" notwithstanding, I remember the very first three movies I saw that made me "fall in love" with movies. I was ten years old. It was the weekday mid-morning feature, and I caught three out of the five. Tuesday it was "The Rat Trap", with Debbie Reynolds and Tony Curtis (totally unmemorable, but yes, Tony was very cute for a while there. The film was made in 1960, so yeah he was still cute) Wednesday it "All That Heaven Allows", with Jane Wyman and gorgeous Rock Hudson, 1955. Very pretty film to look at. Then on Thursday, it was "Pillow Talk" and I felt like I hit the jackpot. Not only two days in a row with Rock Hudson, but there was this young woman named Doris Day who just had something special. And the sets and the fashions and the photography were all so colorful and pretty. After that, I couldn't see every movie DD made fast enough. I bet, though, that the the first time I saw Tony Curtis was in "The Great Race" as they showed every new year's eve and it became sort of family tradition. My sister liked the movie better than I did. She thought it was hysterically funny. I just thought it was long. My favorite movie Tony did was "Rosemary's Baby", where he played ill-fated Donald Baumgart. Though I don't think he was in the credits. As least he didn't die like Hutch, though going blind overnight would be very close to a living death for many people. I like Jamie Lee's presence better than her acting. I think she's an okay actress, but just very charismatic. I think she is pretty good at comedy and the best part of "True Lies". I remember when she appeared on a 3rd season episode of "Charlie's Angels" (1978) and the cast and crew all liked her and thought she was level-headed with a great sense of humor. One of the crew members said "we all knew she was destined for success."
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Post by vegalyra on Nov 5, 2018 0:09:42 GMT
I think I'd go for Marathon Man off the list, but I'd go for All the President's Men if it was there. Of course, Robert Redford was on fire in that movie and even though Hoffman did a great job he was totally eclipsed.
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Post by kolchak92 on Nov 5, 2018 4:43:30 GMT
Mr. Magorium's Wonder E…just kidding. Probably Midnight Cowboy.
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Post by dirtypillows on Nov 5, 2018 4:54:25 GMT
"The Wizard of Oz" and "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" notwithstanding, I remember the very first three movies I saw that made me "fall in love" with movies. I was ten years old. It was the weekday mid-morning feature, and I caught three out of the five. Tuesday it was "The Rat Trap", with Debbie Reynolds and Tony Curtis (totally unmemorable, but yes, Tony was very cute for a while there. The film was made in 1960, so yeah he was still cute) Wednesday it "All That Heaven Allows", with Jane Wyman and gorgeous Rock Hudson, 1955. Very pretty film to look at. Then on Thursday, it was "Pillow Talk" and I felt like I hit the jackpot. Not only two days in a row with Rock Hudson, but there was this young woman named Doris Day who just had something special. And the sets and the fashions and the photography were all so colorful and pretty. After that, I couldn't see every movie DD made fast enough. I bet, though, that the the first time I saw Tony Curtis was in "The Great Race" as they showed every new year's eve and it became sort of family tradition. My sister liked the movie better than I did. She thought it was hysterically funny. I just thought it was long. My favorite movie Tony did was "Rosemary's Baby", where he played ill-fated Donald Baumgart. Though I don't think he was in the credits. As least he didn't die like Hutch, though going blind overnight would be very close to a living death for many people. I like Jamie Lee's presence better than her acting. I think she's an okay actress, but just very charismatic. I think she is pretty good at comedy and the best part of "True Lies". I remember when she appeared on a 3rd season episode of "Charlie's Angels" (1978) and the cast and crew all liked her and thought she was level-headed with a great sense of humor. One of the crew members said "we all knew she was destined for success." I have only seen a handful of Tony Curtis films and I can't comment on if he was a exceptional actor or not, but his handsome looks in this heyday did distract. I thought he was just average in Spartacus and in Some Like It Hot, I found his character a bit forced and annoying, as was Monroe. Lemmon takes the cake in this one and he was just gorgeous and the main reason for me to watch it. Oh yeah! I have seen him in that late 70's cheesy horror film The Manitou and that was hilarious. Anything else, would have been snippets I'd say, if randomly seeing him in something on t.v. when I was a kid.
I have always liked JLC and yes, she has charisma and that has been her appeal. I think she added more class than was expected to the 3 Halloween films she did, have yet to see the new one and may next weekend. She was excellent and funny in Trading Places - 83' and proved she could hold her own with other strong personalities like Murphy and Ackroyd.
I have Pillow Talk on dvd which I got for about a buck sometime back and started to watch it, but wasn't quite getting into it. Will have to try again. While I acknowledge Hudson's looks, I have never found him that sexually appealing. Curtis yes! Again, I have hardly seen anything with Rock or Doris Day for that matter. I will give PT another try, because I like to share in your own enjoyment and appeal of something so we can be as one. Our going rate of shared interests/viewpoints is usually very good, I have to say. That's a nice thing to have with another person.
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