Fannish Glee
Jun. 10th, 2011 11:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
loony_moonyOkay, so in my quest to see more movies with JGL and Tom Hardy in them (YES, MY "INCPETION" GIRLBONER IS NOT THROUGH, SHUSH), I've started going through some of their other movies.
And so, I saw:
1. "Hesher", in which JGL plays a headbanging hobo with attitude a-la Heath Ledger in "10 Things I Hate About You", which, considering his puppy-ish looks, is a pretty out-there role for him to do. He was surprisingly HILARIOUS, and he pretty much made that movie a slightly more palatable fare. Otherwise, the movie would've been a completely mediocre-minus indie bs with the retro style and the cheap tear-jerking story about a family wrecked with grief.
That said, if you're into the whole "nekkid JGL" thing, this is a movie for you, my friends. He spends that whole movie in various states of nudity, including full frontal (let it never be said he's ever shied from that particular aspect of acting), and he was training for the zero gravity scenes in "Inception" while filming, so there is a definite "yum" factor there.
2. "Mysterious Skin", which is a severely fucked up movie, with tons of disturbing, triggery scenes. I will say this, though: JGL has COJONES. That was one fucking role to play, in any aspect. I would've never expected him to go this far, but he was definitely pulling off Neil's almost irredeemably traumatized gay male hooker character. He's radiating charisma the whole fucking movie, making Michelle Trachtenberg look like an untalented rookie by comparison, and she's been around as long as he was. That said, the movie, while good, is a very raw, difficult piece to watch, so proceed with caution.
3. "Bronson". WHAT A FUCKING DELIGHTFUL MOVIE, OMG. I never expected it to be as delightful as it truly was. Tom Hardy is a RIOT, in an almost one-man cinematic show of AWESOME. His Charlie Bronson is a myriad of entertaining fucked upness, and happily the movie's stylizing follows his performance with surreal cinema and fabulous, fabulous editing. Dammit, Tom Hardy is just so fucking talented at playing thugs and criminals. This is a shame, of course, because he's also really fucking talented at playing non-thugs and criminals. They're saying he's about to reap the full benefits of busting his ass since "Inception", as this year he'll be in 4 movies alone. I AM OKAY WITH THAT. :D
I leave you with this unrelated nugget of awesomeness:
And so, I saw:
1. "Hesher", in which JGL plays a headbanging hobo with attitude a-la Heath Ledger in "10 Things I Hate About You", which, considering his puppy-ish looks, is a pretty out-there role for him to do. He was surprisingly HILARIOUS, and he pretty much made that movie a slightly more palatable fare. Otherwise, the movie would've been a completely mediocre-minus indie bs with the retro style and the cheap tear-jerking story about a family wrecked with grief.
That said, if you're into the whole "nekkid JGL" thing, this is a movie for you, my friends. He spends that whole movie in various states of nudity, including full frontal (let it never be said he's ever shied from that particular aspect of acting), and he was training for the zero gravity scenes in "Inception" while filming, so there is a definite "yum" factor there.
2. "Mysterious Skin", which is a severely fucked up movie, with tons of disturbing, triggery scenes. I will say this, though: JGL has COJONES. That was one fucking role to play, in any aspect. I would've never expected him to go this far, but he was definitely pulling off Neil's almost irredeemably traumatized gay male hooker character. He's radiating charisma the whole fucking movie, making Michelle Trachtenberg look like an untalented rookie by comparison, and she's been around as long as he was. That said, the movie, while good, is a very raw, difficult piece to watch, so proceed with caution.
3. "Bronson". WHAT A FUCKING DELIGHTFUL MOVIE, OMG. I never expected it to be as delightful as it truly was. Tom Hardy is a RIOT, in an almost one-man cinematic show of AWESOME. His Charlie Bronson is a myriad of entertaining fucked upness, and happily the movie's stylizing follows his performance with surreal cinema and fabulous, fabulous editing. Dammit, Tom Hardy is just so fucking talented at playing thugs and criminals. This is a shame, of course, because he's also really fucking talented at playing non-thugs and criminals. They're saying he's about to reap the full benefits of busting his ass since "Inception", as this year he'll be in 4 movies alone. I AM OKAY WITH THAT. :D
I leave you with this unrelated nugget of awesomeness:
