[the_old_crowd] Never again

[sean dwyer]

On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 09:02:46AM +0100, Monika Huebner wrote:

> Indeed. Unfortunately, I first saw him a couple of years ago in "The
> Fifth Element". I hated the movie and somehow he always looked as
> unpleasant in my memory as he looked in that movie, which didn't make
> me seek out more of his stuff. He seems to play unpleasant characters
> most of the time anyway, it was hard to find a movie where he didn't
> play a bad guy. If anyone wants to see how funny he can actually be,
> I'd recommend watching "Rosencrantz and Guldenstern", but this one is
> very "British". I think he himself said once that Hollywood didn't
> really know what to do with him and if they were casting people for a
> romantic comedy, he would be very low down on the list. <g>

I first saw Oldman in 'Prick Up Your Ears' playing Joe Orton, and he was
perfect. He went on to play a few roles that were very true to life and then
Hollywood sucked him up like the vaccum cleaner it is.

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