Kevin Spacey always had that smart-alecky, off-kilter, cute-because-he-might-be-crazy thing going on for him, but man, he is freaking me out lately. I mention this because tonight I watched 21. While normally mediocre films about math-geeks-turned-lounge-lizards (I do love the hyphen) aren't my cup of tea (give me shit blowing up any day), my friend is recovering from major surgery and isn't allowed to leave the house (or, for that matter, wash her own hair) so we made do with what she had at her place. Which was, apparently, Step Up 2: The Streets, and 21. I voted for Step Up 2, obvi, but was outvoted by her boyfriend. Apparently he can't stand redemptive tales of dance, love, and straight-thuggery. Hater.
But ANYWAY, back to Kevin Spacey. 21 was, as I thought, unspectacular. Yeah, Jim Sturgess (sp?) is adorable, and for once the sight of Kate Bosworth didn't give me sympathy hunger pains (but man, someone needs to give that girl a milkshake!) but for a movie all about cheating the Man in Vegas, it lacked the polish and devil-may-care attitude to carry itself off. Also, as mentioned before, Kevin Spacey was FREAKING ME OUT. He was all loud yelling and fast talking, but not in a fun menacing way. Instead from the get-go I was worried about him. Like I kept on wanting to yell at the screen, "no Jim Sturgess, step away from the freaky old guy with the receding hair line! He is too angry and volatile too early on in the script! This can only lead to trouble!"
There really isn't any point to this post. Mostly I'm just concerned for Kevin Spacey, and I want to express that worry. Has he lost his touch? Has his mastery of the fine line between awesome-creepy and stop-looking-at-me-creepy slipped? I've decide to blame his downward spiral on that stupid Bobby Darin biopic. Because that was straight up, total creep-time, and I think he's probably never recovered.
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score! i'm glad you updated your blog, and i'm excited to catch up!
I always hear Beyond the Sea is it but I would argue his work on K Pax did him in. On my epic drive to work today I was thinking about The Life of David Gale. That is all, sort of unrelated. Superman Returns is defintely his Meet the Parents film turning himself into a self parody. That being said, he is still the best thing about that movie (him and Parker Posey who was the only redeeming element of Scream 3. Uh oh, movie ramble! Chagan close your eyes.
Thanks for this. Having seen him on the London stage in The Iceman Cometh, I have to forgive the man his foibles. He was amazing.
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