A Scanner Darkly has a really, really cool plot. The trailer doesn't do it justice, which makes me wonder if the movie will. But I like the look a great deal, and I'm happy with the casting.
(I worked out why Keanu - it's because he's the only one of those actors who could do plausible hippie facial hair. Cruise would look like it was glued on (think Last Samurai, ugh), Ford can't do it, nor Schwarzenegger, and it makes Affleck look like a sleazeball, not a peace loving dude. And facial hair is a necessity for this role ...)
Watching Constantine for the second time made me notice that he can act subtle (Affleck, Cruise and Arnie don't know the meaning of the word, Ford can but doesn't get much opportunity).
Unfortunately (according to latest info) he's leaving the Hellblazer franchise, leaving it open to even greater casting abuses (Stuart Townsend would be the next logical step for the master torturers studio execs).
I'm not sure about the facial-hair theory of cinema...although it works when applied to actors popular in the 70's.
Ford's too old to play Bob Arctor anyway, realistically. He would've been OK, even good, back in the Han Solo days. In one sense I'm just glad it isn't someone like Johnny Depp or Brad Pitt - they lack something that Keanu has, a sort of "uncarved block" quality.
Stuart Townsend in the next Hellblazer movie would be a disaster. What a vacuum that guy is.
I loved Townsend in Shooting Fish, and he seemed to have plenty of charisma as Dorian Gray in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Are you letting your opinion be overly coloured by Queen of the Damned, by any chance? ;)
ASD has always given me the most trouble of any PKD story I've ever read. I'm not sure why either, because if you can follow the VALIS books or Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (2 of my faves by him), everything else he wrote should seem lucid and streamlined by comparison. I've read it twice, but right after the midpoint of the book, Phil's characteristic second-half lack of steam seemed worse than ever. (try The Unteleported Man for possibly the greatest example of this ever) I can remember Bob Arctor, Charles Freck (if Woody Harrelson isn't him, the casting person's a total reeree), Dick's ever present dark-haired girl, and the big secret of Substance D, but everything else is a scramble-suited blur
( ... )
(The comment has been removed)
(I worked out why Keanu - it's because he's the only one of those actors who could do plausible hippie facial hair. Cruise would look like it was glued on (think Last Samurai, ugh), Ford can't do it, nor Schwarzenegger, and it makes Affleck look like a sleazeball, not a peace loving dude. And facial hair is a necessity for this role ...)
Reply
Unfortunately (according to latest info) he's leaving the Hellblazer franchise, leaving it open to even greater casting abuses (Stuart Townsend would be the next logical step for the master torturers studio execs).
I'm not sure about the facial-hair theory of cinema...although it works when applied to actors popular in the 70's.
Reply
Stuart Townsend in the next Hellblazer movie would be a disaster. What a vacuum that guy is.
Reply
Reply
Although QotD should be enough to colour people's opinions.
Reply
Reply
Reply
Leave a comment