Comments on: What will he find out there, doctor? His destiny….

By: Mellifluous

Mellifluous — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:56:54 +0000

… cold dead hands: That is acceptable.

By: Lawyerbob

Lawyerbob — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:59:03 +0000

If memory serves, he was excellent as Cardinal Richelieu in The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers–like the Player King, a supporting role. I also loved The Omega Man and Soylent Green when I saw them as a teenager. But TBogg, I have to take issue with lumping John Wayne in the stiff category. Red River, Fort Apache, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and, especially and overwhelmingly, The Searchers. Even my kids thought The Searchers was magnificent and John Wayne magnificent in it.

By: DoktorWankenstein

DoktorWankenstein — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:47:59 +0000

Oddly enough, in the 2001 remake of Planet of the Apes, Heston plays Gen Thade’s DAD, who, on his deathbed, warns of the dangers of GUNS.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133152

I thought it was pretty funny at the time.

By: Tehanu

Tehanu — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 07:22:54 +0000

I agree about the Player King, he was wonderful in that very small part. I actually like him very much in “Touch of Evil.” He wasn’t Robert De Niro or John Gielgud, but he was a serious actor even when he wasn’t very good. I didn’t like him politically, but not being a wingnut, I try not to let my dislike of his politics color my reaction to his work.

By: Augmendoza

Augmendoza — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 05:28:37 +0000

His greatest performance, as a thespian, was the one he did as a cameo in one of the “I Love You, Man!” Bud Light commercials.

By: EnfantTerrible

EnfantTerrible — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 04:27:09 +0000

I could make sport of Heston’s scenery chewing tendencies or his NRA histrionics, but I’ll leave that to others who are far more clever and witty. He wasn’t a complete hack – check out his perfomance as Thomas More in the 1988 version of “A Man For All Seasons”. He got it completely right, in his own way.

By: milhous451

milhous451 — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 03:16:04 +0000

from about 6 years back …

will charleton heston recieve the reagan medal of freedom?
(”for being born stupid, and intermittently senile while in office, you are hereby awarded …”)

i kid. once upon a time there was movie called the ten commandments, starring charleton heston as moses. (if mr. heston is listening, we wish to emphasize that this was JUST A MOVIE. we know that he spends his days uttering divine revelation on the second ammendment, but they have medication for that now.) the movie spawned deathless wit in the lincoln second grade, as follows:

q: what did god say to moses?
a: take two tablets and call me in the morning

after which we would fall down by the sidewalk and laugh for 10 minutes, for when you are seven years old, you are easily amused. anyway, whenever i see charleton heston go into his ’cold, dead hands’ routine and get that crazy light in his eyes, that’s what i think of.

chuck. take the tablets

By: edub

edub — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:22:01 +0000

Didn’t they turn the Loma Theater into a bookstore? Why yes, Dr. Google. Apparently, they did.

By: SnarkiChildOfLoki

SnarkiChildOfLoki — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:01:36 +0000

I’m not sure what it is about bad actors that causes right wingers to clutch them to their chicken-breasted bosoms.

I don’t know; Mel Gibson really is a pretty good actor. Maybe that’s from being an Aussie, and not infected from birth with the AmericoChristoFascism brain-eating virus.

But you’re right about the others; Bruce Willis’s main acting ability seems to be to fly through the air after a massive explosion, waving arms and legs and screaming. Sort of like C4-powered dwarf-hurling on film.

By: CallMeDave

CallMeDave — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 01:58:35 +0000

the real star was the special effects as played by enormous bass speakers placed strategically within the Loma Theater that shook the shit out of the building when the earth supposedly moved

Actually it was not just the size and placement of the base drivers, but they also fucked with the phase of the soundtrack to make those long waves just that much more nausea inducing.

I was lucky enough to know the late great Dr. Richie Moore, who worked on the sound team.
http://mixonline.com/mag/audio_rechie_moore/