by Ice Cream Jonsey » Tue Apr 22, 2014 11:09 pm
I think it is safe to say that I have virulently disagreed with Kent and Pinback, as it pertains to Paul Thomas Anderson No The Other One movies, up to this point. With the exception with Hoffman as The Master. I re-watch that m-- here is how much I like that movie: I have it on my remote Linux server. I )))remote))) into that server to watch Hoffman (and Phoenix, but mostly Hoffman)'s performance.
I APT-GETTED VNC SERVER FOR THIS.
ANYWay, everyone shut up, because I have #6:
#6 MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY, TRUE DETECTIVE
Here is how I want to start this. From Wikipedia, the site that thought that Old Man Murray isn't notable:
He first gained notice for his breakout role in the coming of age comedy Dazed and Confused (1993), and went on to appear in films such as the slasher Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994), the legal thriller A Time to Kill (1996), Steven Spielberg's historical drama Amistad (1997), the science fiction drama Contact (1997), the comedy EDtv (1999) and the war film U-571 (2000).
In the 2000s, he became best known for starring in romantic comedies,[2] including The Wedding Planner (2001), How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003), Failure to Launch (2006) and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009).
Matthew McConaughey was, before True Detective started, a
fucking joke. He was a punchline. OK, not in Dazed and Confused, but let me put it this way: the titles, just the TITLES to the movies that he was in for that stretch, those titles were worse than any writing any human has done since the first batch of cave paintings and between the third and fourth commercial breaks of Beowulf. Real adults named movies things like "How To Lose A Guy In (etc)" and people showed up to work every day on it. People would go home and have their spouse, their adoring spouse say to them things like, "So, how did Failure to Launch go today?" and real adults who had mortgage payments and an electric billl were forced to answer questions like that.
McConaughey was pretty much the prince of garbage culture, laughing underneath King Sandler's sceptre's wave.
And then True Detective happened.
If Google still allowed you to post chats, instead of putting them in separate messages, I would post what I chatted towards Pinback when I downloaded the first episode. I made fun of it. McConaughey's roles were so terrible that you can't even reference them in making fun of him. Like, if you want to make fun of Ben Affleck you can say, to Pinback, "Wow, Phantoms is the new Batman!"
You can't do that with McConaughey. That's how terrible the movies he was in were. Are.
But he broke acting.
Because God Christ, I want to be as good in my career as this fucking guy is in True Detective.
There isn't a minute he isn't holding court over the entirety of western civilization in this fucking thing. I want to write the following so that scholars a hundred years from now can see it and understand the impact: Rust Cohle had the attention of the ENTIRETY of America, Canada and every other place that got HBO for 8 weeks. 8 weeks, the only things that mattered on the planet were watching what Rust said next and Putin invading the Ukraine.
I wanted to hear him speak. I want to listen to him talk. True Detective coincided with the 8 weeks my girl and I restored my house so we can list it and the only pleasure we had in those weeks was from Cohle. I wanted to immerse myself in his crazy, batshit-insane theories. He didn't say a single thing in the entire series that I agreed with until the last five minutes of the last episode, and yet I would empty out my savings account if it meant we could get another season with him.
I wanted to hear Woody react to what he said (who almost broke acting with his own performance) but mostly I wanted Rust Cohle to never, ever stop talking, to never being a prick and being a
man and being a lunatic and being a hero. I envied his bedroom. As someone moving into his girl's place, ohhhhhhhhhh how I envied how he kept his place, haha. I wanted to know everything and nothing about him. I loved it when he showed up to his co-worker's house drunk because his addictions were ballsier than my explicit intents.
Rust Cohle is Sam Spade plus Marid Audran plus James Bond, plus a quality that only McConaughey can bring. I shouldn't even form a sentence like that last one, because Rust Cohle is the new awesome. We got to see him ten or whatever years apart, something no show has ever done. Is he the best "southern" born character in fiction? Not just tv, but all of fiction? The performance is so good it makes me wonder. It's either him or Atticus Finch, right? Look, in ten years nobody is going to believe that the Saints won the Super Bowl, so that honor will go to Drew Brees. HA! HA HA!
But I have OCD when it comes to ranking things. I really want to explore this, because that's how great his performance was. Look, Dave Lister is always going to be my guy. He's the best character in television, with Rimmer a close second. I feel bad that one show got the #1 and #2 guys, but I always... always thought Walter White was going to forever be #3. And then I watched this goofball show. It's the show that Richard Goodness called "THE TRUE DETECTIVES." Anytime you can add an "s" like Richard did and make me momentarily stop taking your show seriously, you're in a bit of trouble. Hey, "The Wires" is not funny. I love shows that aren't afraid to go crazy at the very end, but Richard is right. I never thought we'd see someone become the third best character in television, and really, the best character in a drama, but Matthew McConaughey did it, and I was alive to see it. I don't care that the last episode was goofy, and I don't care that that one episode before the single cut shoot-out kind of dragged a little. Rust Cohle and Matthew McConaughey made me wish for a second season that we're never, ever going to get and I wish we did.
He broke acting, and is the sixth such person to do so.
REACTIOn?!
I think it is safe to say that I have virulently disagreed with Kent and Pinback, as it pertains to Paul Thomas Anderson No The Other One movies, up to this point. With the exception with Hoffman as The Master. I re-watch that m-- here is how much I like that movie: I have it on my remote Linux server. I )))remote))) into that server to watch Hoffman (and Phoenix, but mostly Hoffman)'s performance.
I APT-GETTED VNC SERVER FOR THIS.
ANYWay, everyone shut up, because I have #6:
[i]#6 MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY, TRUE DETECTIVE [/i]
Here is how I want to start this. From Wikipedia, the site that thought that Old Man Murray isn't notable:
[quote]He first gained notice for his breakout role in the coming of age comedy Dazed and Confused (1993), and went on to appear in films such as the slasher Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994), the legal thriller A Time to Kill (1996), Steven Spielberg's historical drama Amistad (1997), the science fiction drama Contact (1997), the comedy EDtv (1999) and the war film U-571 (2000).
In the 2000s, he became best known for starring in romantic comedies,[2] including The Wedding Planner (2001), How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003), Failure to Launch (2006) and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009). [/quote]
Matthew McConaughey was, before True Detective started, a [i]fucking joke[/i]. He was a punchline. OK, not in Dazed and Confused, but let me put it this way: the titles, just the TITLES to the movies that he was in for that stretch, those titles were worse than any writing any human has done since the first batch of cave paintings and between the third and fourth commercial breaks of Beowulf. Real adults named movies things like "How To Lose A Guy In (etc)" and people showed up to work every day on it. People would go home and have their spouse, their adoring spouse say to them things like, "So, how did Failure to Launch go today?" and real adults who had mortgage payments and an electric billl were forced to answer questions like that.
McConaughey was pretty much the prince of garbage culture, laughing underneath King Sandler's sceptre's wave.
And then True Detective happened.
If Google still allowed you to post chats, instead of putting them in separate messages, I would post what I chatted towards Pinback when I downloaded the first episode. I made fun of it. McConaughey's roles were so terrible that you can't even reference them in making fun of him. Like, if you want to make fun of Ben Affleck you can say, to Pinback, "Wow, Phantoms is the new Batman!"
You can't do that with McConaughey. That's how terrible the movies he was in were. Are.
But he broke acting.
Because God Christ, I want to be as good in my career as this fucking guy is in True Detective.
There isn't a minute he isn't holding court over the entirety of western civilization in this fucking thing. I want to write the following so that scholars a hundred years from now can see it and understand the impact: Rust Cohle had the attention of the ENTIRETY of America, Canada and every other place that got HBO for 8 weeks. 8 weeks, the only things that mattered on the planet were watching what Rust said next and Putin invading the Ukraine.
I wanted to hear him speak. I want to listen to him talk. True Detective coincided with the 8 weeks my girl and I restored my house so we can list it and the only pleasure we had in those weeks was from Cohle. I wanted to immerse myself in his crazy, batshit-insane theories. He didn't say a single thing in the entire series that I agreed with until the last five minutes of the last episode, and yet I would empty out my savings account if it meant we could get another season with him.
I wanted to hear Woody react to what he said (who almost broke acting with his own performance) but mostly I wanted Rust Cohle to never, ever stop talking, to never being a prick and being a [i]man[/i] and being a lunatic and being a hero. I envied his bedroom. As someone moving into his girl's place, ohhhhhhhhhh how I envied how he kept his place, haha. I wanted to know everything and nothing about him. I loved it when he showed up to his co-worker's house drunk because his addictions were ballsier than my explicit intents.
Rust Cohle is Sam Spade plus Marid Audran plus James Bond, plus a quality that only McConaughey can bring. I shouldn't even form a sentence like that last one, because Rust Cohle is the new awesome. We got to see him ten or whatever years apart, something no show has ever done. Is he the best "southern" born character in fiction? Not just tv, but all of fiction? The performance is so good it makes me wonder. It's either him or Atticus Finch, right? Look, in ten years nobody is going to believe that the Saints won the Super Bowl, so that honor will go to Drew Brees. HA! HA HA!
But I have OCD when it comes to ranking things. I really want to explore this, because that's how great his performance was. Look, Dave Lister is always going to be my guy. He's the best character in television, with Rimmer a close second. I feel bad that one show got the #1 and #2 guys, but I always... always thought Walter White was going to forever be #3. And then I watched this goofball show. It's the show that Richard Goodness called "THE TRUE DETECTIVES." Anytime you can add an "s" like Richard did and make me momentarily stop taking your show seriously, you're in a bit of trouble. Hey, "The Wires" is not funny. I love shows that aren't afraid to go crazy at the very end, but Richard is right. I never thought we'd see someone become the third best character in television, and really, the best character in a drama, but Matthew McConaughey did it, and I was alive to see it. I don't care that the last episode was goofy, and I don't care that that one episode before the single cut shoot-out kind of dragged a little. Rust Cohle and Matthew McConaughey made me wish for a second season that we're never, ever going to get and I wish we did.
He broke acting, and is the sixth such person to do so.
REACTIOn?!