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Post by PaulsLaugh on Aug 18, 2023 13:07:07 GMT
Those characters were supposed to be absurd caricatures. And was funny while it lasted. They’re still funny. |
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Post by Lux on Aug 18, 2023 13:09:26 GMT
And was funny while it lasted. They’re still funny. Yes. |
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Post by bomtombadil on Aug 18, 2023 13:14:57 GMT
Well I stopped watching anything with Bradley Cooper once I found out that he wasn't really a racoon! I don't tolerate Mask-face in the least!
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Post by gwyn on Aug 18, 2023 13:21:20 GMT
Neither do I. He would’ve been fine playing him without it. But whatever, bunch of crying about nothing. Cooper is a fine actor and did a good job directing A STAR IS BORN remake several years back. If he can pull off a great performance while all the audience can do is stare at his nose, he should win an Oscar. But I remember Bernstein as a kid because he broadcasted many of his Young People’s concerts on TV where he explained the music to the kids before playing it. It was a great musical education for non-musicians. Bernstein was really handsome there and looks nothing like this crazy contouring makeup and latex covered Cooper who is frankly far too old to be playing Bernstein at the young age he's supposed to represent here, wearing a fake nose that's right off the Wicked Witch of the West:  I was just talking about The Doors movie to a friend yesterday and how I did and do still eschew seeing it because, while Val Kilmer was surely attractive to many for his own attributes back then, he was nothing like Jim Morrison to the point of distraction in previews and clips alone. Bradley Cooper is someone whose work I don't enjoy because he's a mess which screams through his roles. He's born in '68 yet uses a '75 birthday, he's had his nose done and redone, and according to some he's a closet case -- too much insincerity in a storytelling tool for me. Frankly, I skip Cillian Murphy's movies for pretty much the same reasons. |
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Aug 18, 2023 13:22:27 GMT
I am against prosthetics except in extreme cases such as "The Elephant Man".
I know what Bradley Cooper's face looks like. I don't know, nor do I much care, what Leonard Bernstein's face looked like. Seeing Bradley Cooper with a fake nose will be very distracting. Seeing an actor with a slightly smaller nose or slightly taller or slightly slimmer than the character he is portraying is not. Wrong race or wrong gender would of course be.
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Post by PaulsLaugh on Aug 18, 2023 13:26:12 GMT
On the other hand, Tommy Lee from Motley Crüe didn't complain about Sebastian Stan wearing a prosthetic big penis in Pam and Tommy. I think a penis is okay to be faked…especially if it speaks. |
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Post by Lux on Aug 18, 2023 13:26:56 GMT
I am against prosthetics except in extreme cases such as "The Elephant Man". I know what Bradley Cooper's face looks like. I don't know, nor do I much care, what Leonard Bernstein's face looked like. Seeing Bradley Cooper with a fake nose will be very distracting. Seeing an actor with a slightly smaller nose or slightly taller or slightly slimmer than the character he is portraying is not. Wrong race or wrong gender would of course be. You're also against blackface too. |
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Post by Winter_King on Aug 18, 2023 13:31:18 GMT
On the other hand, Tommy Lee from Motley Crüe didn't complain about Sebastian Stan wearing a prosthetic big penis in Pam and Tommy. I think a penis is okay to be faked…especially if it speaks. They should've found an actor with a real speaking penis. |
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Post by bomtombadil on Aug 18, 2023 13:39:36 GMT
I think a penis is okay to be faked…especially if it speaks. They should've found an actor with a real speaking penis. Like in Bruno? I'd post a clip, but it would probably violate some rules here. |
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Post by bomtombadil on Aug 18, 2023 13:40:23 GMT
If he can pull off a great performance while all the audience can do is stare at his nose, he should win an Oscar. But I remember Bernstein as a kid because he broadcasted many of his Young People’s concerts on TV where he explained the music to the kids before playing it. It was a great musical education for non-musicians. Bernstein was really handsome there and looks nothing like this crazy contouring makeup and latex covered Cooper who is frankly far too old to be playing Bernstein at the young age he's supposed to represent here, wearing a fake nose that's right off the Wicked Witch of the West: I was just talking about The Doors movie to a friend yesterday and how I did and do still eschew seeing it because, while Val Kilmer was surely attractive to many for his own attributes back then, he was nothing like Jim Morrison to the point of distraction in previews and clips alone. Bradley Cooper is someone whose work I don't enjoy because he's a mess which screams through his roles. He's born in '68 yet uses a '75 birthday, he's had his nose done and redone, and according to some he's a closet case -- too much insincerity in a storytelling tool for me. Frankly, I skip Cillian Murphy's movies for pretty much the same reasons. And here I thought that the word transmogrify was just a Calvin and Hobbes creation. |
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