Posts by jademarlin29

analogpanther55 said:^ There’s so much more lurking behind an angelic face than meets the eye. 😁
I think most of us who grew up idolizing certain actors were only focused on their onscreen persona; what they actually did once the cameras stopped rolling is a completely different story.
That being said, Charles Bronson remains one of the coolest actors to ever do it in my book.

Alain Delon was just way too good-looking—honestly, it almost felt wrong, like he was some kind of designer model... and I guess that actually helped his acting a ton behind the scenes. It’s not even acting when they yell cut, you know? His whole life was basically one big, continuous theater performance. 😁

Alain Delon was way more of a real deal than any of those guys—unlike those other actors, he was an actual straight-up delinquent, probably even a criminal if you look at the legal side of things. Total player, too. He was actually out there in the streets during those anti-De Gaulle student riots, getting hands-on with bats and pipes—hitting students and all that. His godfather was a verified mobster in the French government, not to mention that whole crazy love triangle situation... and then you’ve got his bodyguard, that wild guy Stevica Marković, stealing his girl Natalia and somehow getting mixed up with Madame Pompidou too—yeah, the wife of the future French president, Pompidou. Eventually, they found him in some dump, and Delon ended up in court as a potential mastermind behind the murder of 😁

Those guys were real rebels—not like when you just light a cigarette and throw on some Wayfarers in the middle of Universal Pictures 😁 those Hollywood types, they're alright, I guess, but they're just products 😁

Man, those Golden Age Hollywood actors just don't quit... I feel like Burt Lahr only passed away recently, and he was already pushing 90 when he took on that role in some comedy flick.

They really lived the dream—not gonna lie, I'm pretty jealous. Must've been such a sweet era, you know?

Cary Grant looks absolutely sharp in North by Northwest—it's peak style, honestly. But maybe the biggest shocker is that he's actually 55 years old in that movie.

Fifty-five. :/

That blue—wait, was it blue-gray?—suit, MY GOD... absolute perfection... I mean, I don't even wear suits myself, but you just have to respect that look

Twin Peaks is such a drag—honestly, it’s only iconic because of that killer intro music.

Look, TV shows are just way easier to market, end of story. When you're making a movie, the director doesn't really have room to play around with all those wild tangents or subplots. You’ve gotta explain what happened, how it went down, and why—all within two hours—otherwise, you’re gonna lose the audience fast. Movies have a hard deadline. I guess series are more popular just because the hype builds better; you can feed the fire every single week, whereas with a hit movie, you basically wait until it's finished before you even start promoting it.

The Twilight Zone is probably seventy times better than the stuff people binge nowadays. Or maybe not? Whatever, I’m not watching it. Devil's Printer or The Obsolete Man are plenty good enough "short films" for me, and I'll stick to that illusion. I don't really have the stomach to watch some guy cooking meth in a garage just to take the cash and then deal with the feds breathing down his neck—it's a great premise, sure, but I'm just not ready for it.

Some stories just don't fit into a tiny 2-hour movie—a series is way better for long arcs with huge casts and all those parallel plotlines. But honestly, in practice, it feels like a way to hypnotize people into getting lost in a fictional world for way longer... which basically gives creators more minutes to sneak in propaganda, I guess. Plus, it’s easier to get hooked—nobody has the patience to watch a single movie three times because everything moves so fast now with social media and all that. Nobody wants to miss a single scene in a hit series, so everyone’s just waiting to see how the story unfolds.

A movie doesn't really have anything to offer here—just two hours and then it's over. These days, a series can basically feel like one giant movie; binge-watching is pretty much the standard now, right? You just sit down and hammer through episodes for like five hours straight.

I haven't even touched Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, or any other massive, cult-favorite series—vampire stuff or otherwise. Maybe once everyone else stops obsessing over them will I finally take a look.