Comments | grrgoyl: Mad about Johnny, or, Night of a Thousand Johnnies. And, this just in, people are still ASSHATS.

grrgoyl

Mad about Johnny, or, Night of a Thousand Johnnies. And, this just in, people are still ASSHATS.

Jul 21, 2006 21:28

I don't know if it's because of the new Pirates movie, but suddenly the place is just crawling with Johnny Depp movies. I've watched three of them in the past week alone.

I watched the first Pirates on TV for the second time, having no memory whatsoever from seeing it in the theater except a distinct bewilderment as to why the rest of the ( Read more... )

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ohdeve July 23 2006, 04:29:26 UTC

I really liked Johnny Depp in that movie about the writer of Peter Pan, whatever it's called...umm...you know what I'm talking about. I took my girlfriend to see that in the theater and expected to be bored out of my skull, and I ended up almost crying at the end. Depp's a good actor in pretty much anything he does. I still remember 21 Jump Street fondly, although I was too young to really get it.

Then again, what was there to get, really?

halfcore July 23 2006, 17:12:41 UTC

Finding Neverland.

grrgoyl July 23 2006, 17:45:13 UTC

You just can't go wrong with Johnny. Although he isn't an obsession of mine, I think I've seen most of his stuff and am hard-pressed to think of a movie I just couldn't stand at all (wait, I take that back. I couldn't stand 'Secret Window' but it wasn't Johnny's fault. The premise was just too damn derivative). I think for playing such edge-of-society characters, he himself has very broad appeal.

(I also cried at the end of 'Finding Neverland.' But I cry at most things so that isn't so remarkable)

halfcore July 23 2006, 17:16:25 UTC

I quite liked Pirates, but I always insist that you can't question tastes because if you can then I'm in trouble.

I wouldn't exactly call those quotes Shakespearian, but I agree they were nice. And I also love that kind of conversationalism that is well thought out and as poetic as normal speech can get.

grrgoyl July 23 2006, 17:47:57 UTC

I have a very peculiar trait in that the more a movie is hyped, usually the less I like it, just to be spiteful I guess. I don't think anything could have lived up to the hype of 'Pirates.'

No, those lines weren't particularly Shakespearean, but the rest of the movie's language was much more flowery.

halfcore July 24 2006, 00:21:56 UTC

Oh, I get you about the hype vs likeability ratio. I have it too. But generally it doesn't stop me from liking a hyped up something if it's actually good.

Roger that. Five by five.