Saturday, January 30, 2010

Wow! He really is that good!


I've heard all the Oscar buzz about Jeff Bridges and thought it was, "yadda-yadda-yadda-deja-Mickey-Roarke." How could Bridges be as good as George Clooney in the almost-perfect Up in the Air?

Well, because acting isn't an athletic competition. And because Jeff Bridges is so completely believable in this that I not only bought him as an over-the-hill country singer, I swear I could smell how bad his whiskey-and-cigarette breath must be. And because this part was so different from all the other times I've enjoyed his work:
• the President in The Contender
• the Husband in The Mirror Has Two Faces
• the Accused in The Jagged Edge
• the The Bad Boy Brother in The Fabulous Baker Boys
• the Sweet Fiance in Kiss Me Goodbye and ... (drumroll, please)
• in one of my favorite love/sex scenes of all time in Against All Odds.

But back to Bad, his character in Crazy Heart. I can't tell you about his best moments without giving away a plot twist, but there's a sequence where my heart went out to him even as I wanted to slug him.

And Colin Farrell is surprisingly good, too.

See this.

3 comments:

  1. I can't wait to see this. I've always loved him.

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  2. I'll have to try and see it. http://thequarterlifecrisisblog.blogspot.com/

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  3. I recently added this movie to our Netflix queue so I won't forget when it comes out on DVD.

    I was always particularly partial to his role as "The Dude" in The Big Lebowski myself ;0) As well as The Fisherking, Seabiscuit, The Last Picture Show, etc. etc. etc.

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