Ironman- The Movie

[stu]

Jon Favreau is always cool.

He was in Rudy.

Need I say more?

According to IMDB he was also in Batman Forever, which we all know is the best of the series. I'm just gonna say that Rudy was early in his career and he probly had bills to pay. Wow... Favreau was in Daredevil also...

[stray]

He was fuckin' money in Swingers.

[stu]

Baby, that was money! Tell me that wasn't money. Made is a good one too.

[Sky]

Also Downey in a suit is bothersome how?

Downey in a suit, whatever. Willem Dafoe in a suit was a fucking crime...but didn't ruin the movie.

[stu]

When I think of Willem Dafoe, I think of him tucking his jeans into his combat boots in Clear and Present Danger. And he was a badass in that movie.

[Hoax]

You should try thinking of him in Boondock Saints and/or Platoon more often..

Fuck I'm like 95% sure Platoon is the Vietnam movie title I'm thinking of, I'm going w/ it.

[Johny Cee]

You should try thinking of him in Boondock Saints and/or Platoon more often..

Fuck I'm like 95% sure Platoon is the Vietnam movie title I'm thinking of, I'm going w/ it.

Yah, it was Platoon.

Dafoe in "Shadow of the Vampire" was amazing, freaky, and kind of sad.

[Grublet]

Dafoe in "Shadow of the Vampire" was amazing, freaky, and kind of sad.

Dafoe in "Mr. Bean's Holiday" was freaky and very sad.

[stray]

Sgt. Elias is one of my favorite movie characters ever. Ultimate good guy.

On the flipside, Sgt. Barnes is one of my favorite villains.

[Hoax]

Dafoe in "Shadow of the Vampire" was amazing, freaky, and kind of sad.

Never seen it, will have to talk to my movie buff friend see if he has it in the mountains of vhs/dvd's...

[HaemishM]

You should try thinking of him in Boondock Saints

Boondock Saints made me want to stab Defoe. Talk about unnecessary scene-chewing and nonsensical characters.

[stray]

Not his fault.

Just to mention, there was this suprisingly entertaining (but silly) MANDY MOORE movie made recently called American Dreamz. Defoe basically played Dick Cheney (to Dennis Quaid's GW Bush). It's cool to see him in stuff like this and that Mr. Bean movie (comedies, which he never did before).

[Grublet]

that Mr. Bean movie (comedies, which he never did before)

I take issue with the most recent Bean movie being a comedy.

[HaemishM]

Not his fault.

No, I think he had a big part in the suckitude of Boondock Saints. It was his acting that bothered me the most about that movie. The rest of it was /meh, but he was truly execrable.

[Samwise]

I loved Boondock Saints, especially Dafoe's scenery-chewing.  What's the matter with the rest of you people?

[stu]

The only character that saved Boondock Saints for me was Il Duce. I didn't dig Dafoe's quirky FBI agent character at all. His scenes made me cringe. Did he really have to wear those headphones all the time?  I'll take Dafoe's wiley Sgt Elias over that eight days a week.

[stray]

Elias was wiley?? He was a SAINT man. A SAINT. Even more saintly than Jesus in the Last Temptation.

Wait... wtf does "wiley" mean anyways?

[stu]

He was also platoon's the tunnel rat. Elias was the most likeable soldier there, but when it came to war you know that guy was nuts.

edit: I tried looking up "wiley" and it doesn't seem to be a recognized word, hahah. In my head it meant something along the lines of "slightly mad, sly and intelligent." There's some scenes in Platoon in which Elias' eyes widen while he's joking with the others- you can see he's kinda lost his marbles even though he comes across as the most stable one there. Did you see the way he smiled at Beringer before the guy shot and left him for dead? Classic performance.

[stray]

Ah yes. Forgot about the tunnel rat stuff. I guess that's "wily". Heh. I usually just see him in relation to Barnes though. It's like the good and evil sides of soldiers and the military.

[stu]

Looney Tunes may have confused me!

[Tannhauser]

No when I think of Dafoe, I think of Bobby Peru (jus like the country) from "Wild at Heart".

If you are a Dafoe fan that's a can't miss role!

[stray]

Did you see the way he smiled at Beringer before the guy shot and left him for dead? Classic performance.

See, that's exactly the type of scene that makes me think of him as good. Like... He was too innocent to really notice just how fucked in the head Barnes was. That's why he smiled. He was just a cool guy trying to get along.

Then again, maybe he just smiled because he was nuts too, and knew what was coming. Haha, I never thought of it that way, but that's pretty fucking interesting nonetheless.

[stu]

Elias was smiling up until the point where he realized Barnes wasn't going to smile back. That was when Barnes shot him.

There's a few of those exchanges in the film though- ones with the guys trying to twist a laugh out of a horrible experience. Another great scene is when a few of them are comparing kill counts immediately after a fire fight.

Wild at Heart is one of those films I've always had on my "Must Watch" list, but never get around to. I'm adding it to my Blockbuster queue. Might as well put Nosferatu and Shadow of the Vampire on there as well 

[stray]

To Live and Die in L.A. is another good one.

It may appear to be some kinda of Miami Vice era 80's action flick, but it's intelligent.

I mentioned it above, but if you haven't seen the Last Temptation of Christ, that's good too. It's a Scorsese directed Jesus flick with Defoe as Jesus and Harvey Keitel as Judas.

[EDIT] Damn, this Defoe derail all started because Schild thinks RDJ doesn't look right in a suit?

[HaemishM]

Wild at Heart was Lynch's best movie evar, followed by the Twin Peaks movie and Dune. Everything else has been trying too hard to be something I gave not a shit about. Blue Velvet was ok in that freaky way.

[Grublet]

Was Wild at Heart that movie with Christian Slater and Marisa Tomei?

[Zetleft]

Was Wild at Heart that movie with Christian Slater and Marisa Tomei?

Hell no!  Wild at Heart was Nicklaus Cage (doing an Evils Impersonation) and Laura Dern.  Damn fine movie and Dafoe was one creepy guy, his specialty imo. 

[Furiously]

I loved Boondock Saints, especially Dafoe's scenery-chewing.  What's the matter with the rest of you people?

I'm with Samwise on this one.

[Johny Cee]

Was Wild at Heart that movie with Christian Slater and Marisa Tomei?

Untamed Heart was the Christian Slater movie.

I watched that and Free Willy in the world's worst double feature.  I still wake up crying sometimes. 

[WindupAtheist]

To Live and Die in L.A. is another good one.

It may appear to be some kinda of Miami Vice era 80's action flick, but it's intelligent.

Spot on.  It looks like "Vice City: The Movie" or something at first glance, but there's more to it.

[Hoax]

I loved Boondock Saints, especially Dafoe's scenery-chewing.  What's the matter with the rest of you people?

I'm with Samwise on this one.

Thirded, you art nazi's posting in a comics forum need help...

The movie was fun, Dafoe's over the top character was fun, if you dont like fun...




You probably are in the right place, considering this is a board that focuses on MMO's theoretically.

[MrHat]

Dafoe is Virgil 'Tiger' Cole.

Flight of the Intruder.

That movie is money.

[Margalis]

All this talk of Defoe and not a single mention of his best movie?

Body of Evidence.

I mean come on now!

[stray]

heh.. that's like saying rourke's best film was 9 1/2 weeks.

[stu]

I've been watching Wild at Heart and it dawned on me that Dafoe would have made the perfect Joker. Still, Green Goblin isn't such a bad substitute.