But hey, it's not my paper, I'm not in his class, perhaps he's privy to info I just haven't gotten my paws on yet.
Throughout our discussion, the movie Thirteen Days has come up, AND the movie itself has been in heavy rotation on cable lately (for instance, I'm watching it right now), and I'm reminded, once again, of how Costner pretty much ruins the whole goddam thing:
Sexmastime from 2 years ago:
Costner's accent. For fuck's sake. Now, I never cared about him mangling the British accent in Robin Hood; hell, that's the way we assume everyone did talk then/there, so he had to at least try to pull it off, even if he may have failed miserably. But in this flick he's playing Kennedy advisor Kenny O'Donnell. Kenny O'Donnell...does anyone have any idea how Kenny O'Donnell talked in real life? Is his speech pattern/accent Cosell-esque; ie ingrained in us so much that an actor would have to try to imitate it? Anyone whipping out their Ken O'Donnell imitations at dinner parties? For fuck's sake Kevin you're not playing one of the Kennedys; I can fucking promise you there's not a single person watching the movie that is thinking "hey, waaaaaaaiit a minute...THAT'S not how Kenny O'Donnell talked! This is bullshit!!"I'm not a Costner hater, but I'm starting to realize that unless there's a ball in his hands, he's a shitty actor. A lot of actors are bad with props, Costner is awful without them. He's great in Bull Durham, awful in Robin Hood. Field of Dreams and Tin Cup were corny and silly, but he was pretty good because most of the time he either had a bat, a ball or a club in his hands. He was okay in JFK, although histrionic, because someone had the know-all to slip a pipe into his hands for half the movie. Dances with Wolves he's saved because he's mostly around Indians who don't speak English, and wolves. A Perfect World? Hands on the steering wheel or a gun. And on and on and on. Strange cat.
Could've just talked normally, nobody would've cared. Fucking distracting.
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VERY observant, indeed!
So on the court, if you couldn't recall his name, he'd be the one with the straight greased back hair, the overly distracting New England accent and nothing in his hands. No other way to distinguish him in a group of...let's not mention color. Bad.
You misrepresented my thesis, but Bush played that drum solo. In fact, it's was cut from the final version of Oliver Stone's "W."
"Dubya: the 5th Beatle?"
Nah.
That's Bobby.
Your Teen Dream.
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