As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
This is a bit of a confession of something I'm not proud of because I hate liberals. I hate liberals so much that I will not watch anything Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, John Cusack or whatever else is out there because they are so repugnant.
That is my confession in I will pick up anything I see in DVD's which happens to have Phillip Seymour Hoffman in it, as this guy just is so watchable in everything he does. He breaks the liberal rule beyond Martin Sheen.
TL first exposed me to PSH in something I have forgotten, as I do forget most of the movies he is in, but I remember his performances. It stunned me that he died of an overdose a decade ago and I'm still coming across movies of his, I had no idea he was in.
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Wikipedia
Tonight we will be watching A Most Wanted Man, which he is starring in, which he does not often as he is not leading man material like Chiggar from Lonesome Dove, but when I saw him in this movie, I had to pick it up and that was without knowing Willem Defoe was starring too, which really sealed it as I love watching his performances too.
For me the best performance of Hoffman was Truman Capote, In Cold Blood. A completely disgusting movie, but he hit Capote exactly as he was. He made a documentary which was mesmerizing by acting in it.
It does sadden me that he was too high strung and doped up and deprived us of more hours of cinema as only he could perform. That liberal Canadian gimp Michael Fox tried saying that the 80's had to have talent to act. Tell that to Molly Ringwald and try to hold that zero up to the debate point. There are good actors and great actors around, but not the ones that the awards are handed too or preen on social media.
Nicholas Cage is the most proficiently entertaining actor in history. Joaquin Phoenix is the greatest actor ever. These are recent additions and you can throw in numbers of others like Stephen Lang, who I remembered and winced at as a male model, just saw him plod through The Jackal with Bruce Willis, another entertaining actor with more range than you think, and then if you watch Lang appear in Tombstone as Ike Clanton and then as Stonewall Jackson, you will be stunned that this is the same guy. He is an actor who dominates when he was provided the opportunity outshining the best presences around another great in Val Kilmer and Robert Duvall.
You will not lose Seymour Hoffman in a role like Stephen Lang, but you will wonder how this fat blob is projecting a presence which few have. He is a star unlike the other spacetakers in movies.
So there is a difference between actors and performers. Bruce Willis is a performer and good at it, but you never lose him. Stephen Lang is an actor and you lose him in roles to your surprise.
Most stars are just performers we like and there is nothing wrong with that. They pay the bills for this other shit to be produced and take up awards space for. Anthony Hopkins is Anthony Hopkins but you like watching him perform Gary Oldman is an actor. If you get a chance watch a Christian Slater move written by that Kill Bill guy in True Romance. You will see Oldman as a quadroon and he will floor you playing black.
Tonight though it is Phillip Seymour Hoffman a liberal 'm sorry that died and wasted his best future years in film by not being able to deal with the emotions that sensitive people have.
Nuff Said
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