starrkers
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So true
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Weird Harold
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Yep, he probably could, but only one of them.
Other actors/directors thought the same, and eventually tried to prove it by making "meaningful" movies -- often as their last movies.
Boxlicker101
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He's speaking to women, Harold, not to you and me. Jayne Mansfield could have said the same thing to men in the sixties, and she's have been right too.
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He's speaking to women, Harold, not to you and me. Jayne Mansfield could have said the same thing to men in the sixties, and she's have been right too.
Nope, wrong again. He's an amazing actor, and that speaks to both men and women. It doesn't have anything to do with his looks, not for me.
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Boxlicker101
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I'm not denying his acting ability, but men would not go to see him in a movie about the life cycle of a gnat.
However, in the sixties, I would have been avid to see Jayne Mansfield doing such a movie, especially if she was doing it nude. 
You realize, that was a long time ago, and I was a lot younger then.
Weird Harold
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Exactly: I don't find JD particularly atractive, but he is an incredible actor who can make you forget he's acting. He's good enough that he very nearly made Edward Scissorhands and Gilbert Grape popular successes as well as artistic statements.
So what does that make Harold?
An unemployed art critic?
Box, I did go see movies because of purported near-nudity of actresses like Brigittte Bardot, Jayne Mansfield, Marilyn Monroe, or Rachael Welsh: I was uniformly disappointed with the amount of bad movie I had to sit through to get to the "artistic nudity" and the "artistic nudity" when it did appear -- if I hadn't been bored into a stupor so that I missed it entirely.
Like I said, he could make ONE stinker without losing his fan base, but they'd be "once bitten, twice shy" if he tried to pull it off twice.
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That's the interesting thing about Depp-- he doesn't make stinkers. Oh, except for "The Astronaut's Wife", that was pretty smelly. So is "The Ninth Gate" unless you're a horror fan and love those cliches...Exactly: I don't find JD particularly atractive, but he is an incredible actor who can make you forget he's acting. He's good enough that he very nearly made Edward Scissorhands and Gilbert Grape popular successes as well as artistic statements.
Like I said, he could make ONE stinker without losing his fan base, but they'd be "once bitten, twice shy" if he tried to pull it off twice.
he's made movies you've never heard of, though, like Arizona Dream, and "The Brave", or "Before Night Falls". And he's made movies that would have been stinkers except that he was in them, like "Don Juan De Marco", and "Sweeny Todd" for goddsake.
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And he's made movies that would have been stinkers except that he was in them, like "Don Juan De Marco", and "Sweeny Todd" for goddsake.
I was going to use Sweeny Todd as an example of something of his that I will never see even with him in it. I don't care for the subject matter or the fact that it is a musical. It's on my "will not watch" list as is evident by me avoiding it on cable all this month.
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That's the interesting thing about Depp-- he doesn't make stinkers. Oh, except for "The Astronaut's Wife", that was pretty smelly. So is "The Ninth Gate" unless you're a horror fan and love those cliches...
he's made movies you've never heard of, though, like Arizona Dream, and "The Brave", or "Before Night Falls". And he's made movies that would have been stinkers except that he was in them, like "Don Juan De Marco", and "Sweeny Todd" for goddsake.
The Libertine remains a favorite of mine, even though it's an odd, dirty little movie.
I still think he should have gotten an Oscar nod for that role.
Boxlicker101
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I remember, in paticular, "God Created Woman" with BB. Early in the movie, we were treated to a scene of her sunbathing nude. I still remember her gorgeous ass sticking up in the air, and the lewd smile on her face. It may have been that scene that made me such an admirer of female posteriors. It would be not such a big deal now but, to a man in his late teens or early twenties, it was an enormous deal.
There were others, but that one scene still stands out in my memory.
I watched it on Monday after swearing I wouldn't ever see it. Johnny Depp can sing, too. He made the movie good, but the ending was very disturbing.
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I'd say he doesn't play bad roles -- every character he plays, he plays the best it can be played; thus saving some otherwise horrible movies.
The implication ot the original caption, though, is that he could "mail-in" a performance and his fans would go watch it and forgive him for it. He's not the type to "take a movie or two off" but he could once -- or maybe more often if he doesn't try to make them back-to-back.
If he ever gives up on that all-out performance for every character, his fan base will dwindle to a few hormone-driven women with no artistic sensibilities -- the female equivalents of Boxlicker in the sixties.
Boxlicker101
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I'd say he doesn't play bad roles -- every character he plays, he plays the best it can be played; thus saving some otherwise horrible movies.
The implication ot the original caption, though, is that he could "mail-in" a performance and his fans would go watch it and forgive him for it. He's not the type to "take a movie or two off" but he could once -- or maybe more often if he doesn't try to make them back-to-back.
If he ever gives up on that all-out performance for every character, his fan base will dwindle to a few hormone-driven women with no artistic sensibilities -- the female equivalents of Boxlicker in the sixties.
I don't object to that, because it's true. I was a dirty old man even in my twenties.
Stella_Omega
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I thought the implication was that he could make that movie and make it worth watching, because he never "mails in" a performance.
Brando in "Don Juan De Marco," perhaps? And, perhaps, that performance will be in support of some young fireball of an actor, to whom he's passing the torch.If he ever gives up on that all-out performance for every character, his fan base will dwindle to a few hormone-driven women with no artistic sensibilities -- the female equivalents of Boxlicker in the sixties.
starrkers
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That was my take on it as well.
Weird Harold
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I don't know if the words are an exact quote or just a paraphrase, but I believe it was Charlie Chaplin who said something very similar in disparagement of his fans' slavish devotion.
The implication is clearly intended in the same vein, and it's a "LOL" caption because JD wouldn't actually say something like that whether he was bragging or putting fans down.
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I watched it on Monday after swearing I wouldn't ever see it. Johnny Depp can sing, too. He made the movie good, but the ending was very disturbing.
Just the end??
But I was pretty amazed that he could carry a tune!
