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L.A. Confidential is a fantastic movie. I saw it in the theater when it first came out and owned the VHS for years but never got around to upgrading it to DVD. I need to do that.
It's on Cinemax this afternoon which worked out nicely for me since after seeing a few Guy Pearce icons and gifs yesterday, I'd been wanting to re-watch it. Guy Pearce is FINE AS HELL in this movie.
It's got a great script and great performances and is overall put together in a fantastic manner. Few flaws in this movie imo. Kevin Spacey was his usual amazing self and the film utilizes a variety of great character actors and showed me Kim Basinger could act, though she doesn't stand out as strongly to me, but being fair she wasn't given as much to work with.
It also has the bonus of having a young, good looking Russell Crowe before we found out what an ass he was. But Guy Pearce stood out to me then and he does now. Not just for being fine as hell, though that helps, but he was so amazing and underrated to me as an actor. This was the movie that made me a fan and why I've followed his winding and strange career since then. But studio backed Crowe and he's who got the press and the bigger push.
Several performances are vital to putting the film together and helping make it work, but Guy's complex role as a master manipulator torn between doing the right thing and playing the games of the corrupt LAPD is the make or break role of the entire film. If he'd done anything beyond an amazing job I don't think the film would have worked.
The eternal struggle of a movie fan is that we know better, we know it's all political, corrupt, and highly competitive, but we still at our core equate Oscars and their nominations with talent.
Which is why I say I don't know how Guy Pearce doesn't have a nomination between this amazing modern day noir and the other modern day noir flick he did, Memento.
It's on Cinemax this afternoon which worked out nicely for me since after seeing a few Guy Pearce icons and gifs yesterday, I'd been wanting to re-watch it. Guy Pearce is FINE AS HELL in this movie.
It's got a great script and great performances and is overall put together in a fantastic manner. Few flaws in this movie imo. Kevin Spacey was his usual amazing self and the film utilizes a variety of great character actors and showed me Kim Basinger could act, though she doesn't stand out as strongly to me, but being fair she wasn't given as much to work with.
It also has the bonus of having a young, good looking Russell Crowe before we found out what an ass he was. But Guy Pearce stood out to me then and he does now. Not just for being fine as hell, though that helps, but he was so amazing and underrated to me as an actor. This was the movie that made me a fan and why I've followed his winding and strange career since then. But studio backed Crowe and he's who got the press and the bigger push.
Several performances are vital to putting the film together and helping make it work, but Guy's complex role as a master manipulator torn between doing the right thing and playing the games of the corrupt LAPD is the make or break role of the entire film. If he'd done anything beyond an amazing job I don't think the film would have worked.
The eternal struggle of a movie fan is that we know better, we know it's all political, corrupt, and highly competitive, but we still at our core equate Oscars and their nominations with talent.
Which is why I say I don't know how Guy Pearce doesn't have a nomination between this amazing modern day noir and the other modern day noir flick he did, Memento.