I gotta say that Bale was also hilarious in the woman-directed American Psycho (2000) -- I loathed the book but the movie wound up being the hilarious satire on toxic capitalist masculinity the book only wished it was.
So noted! I have generally avoided that movie, but the satirical part seems relevant.
Then he was in that awful Reign of Fire, and seems to have decided I WILL BE GRIM. No more fun.
I am disappoint! As Laurie, he hit the sweet spot between being basically sort of funny-looking and carrying it off like a Romantic pin-up anyway. (Not the goatee. The goatee was a terrible idea. The film knew it was a terrible idea. I don't understand why Christian Bale has ever had unironic facial hair in his life.)
I wish she'd gotten to do more of them.
Agreed. Maybe she will still direct, if not star in, The Bell Jar. What is she doing these days beyond Stranger Things? I'm pretty sure I last saw her in Experimenter (2015).
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Date: 2018-07-19 08:06 pm (UTC)So noted! I have generally avoided that movie, but the satirical part seems relevant.
Then he was in that awful Reign of Fire, and seems to have decided I WILL BE GRIM. No more fun.
I am disappoint! As Laurie, he hit the sweet spot between being basically sort of funny-looking and carrying it off like a Romantic pin-up anyway. (Not the goatee. The goatee was a terrible idea. The film knew it was a terrible idea. I don't understand why Christian Bale has ever had unironic facial hair in his life.)
I wish she'd gotten to do more of them.
Agreed. Maybe she will still direct, if not star in, The Bell Jar. What is she doing these days beyond Stranger Things? I'm pretty sure I last saw her in Experimenter (2015).