R.I.P. Dennis Hopper

[liquor store]

R.I.P.

it was nice, to see him walking around in hamburg/germany in the movie 'The American Friend'.

i read he was married for just one week, which i would consider pretty narcissistic ;) or was it just pr?
famous artists seem to enjoy special privileges. if a drunk jim morrison damages a graveyard at night, people call it poetry. if i would do it, the same people would call me an antisocial asshole ;)

 

[bospress.net]

I just tried to put Blue Velvet in my Queue at Netflix. It is listed as "very Long Wait". I have not seen it in years, and I know that I'll love it still and my wife will HATE it.

Bill

 

[slimedog]

Watching The Glory Stompers tonight on tv for the second time, a movie he stars in from 1968. It's about bikers and he's the leader of the bad biker gang! It says it's a one star movie but I give it six-love sixties trash and would much rather watch this than Easy rider or the dreadful Blue Velvet.

 

[Gerard K H Love]

I didn't like him in Easy Rider and I wasn't too crazy about the Jack Nicholson character either.

 

[Purple Stickpin]

...I wasn't too crazy about the Jack Nicholson character either.

I've never been too crazy about any Nicholson role. But Hopper had it going on. An acquired taste, I suppose.

 

[Stavrogin]

Not even as McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ? He's not a favorite of mine, either, but think he cleans up nicely in that role.

 

[hoochmonkey9]

The Passenger? Five Easy Pieces? Chinatown? Ironweed?

man, tough crowd...heh.

 

[Purple Stickpin]

I suppose my deep, deep, deep loathing of The Shining as just an absolute travesty, train-wreck, disaster, skull-fucked piece of crap, skews my persective on Jack. Ru Paul or Sting would have been better in that role; god damn, that sucks so much ass it's like digesting one's own nuts in a feeble attempt to turn oneself inside-out.

 

[d gray]

but how do you really feel about it? :D

seriously, you didn't like that flick? that's how i felt watching that steaming
hunk of shit "as good as it gets" but what do i know...

 

[Gerard K H Love]

Dennis Hopper was good in Speed.

...but this in True Romance is probably his greatest role.

 

[nervas]

I suppose my deep, deep, deep loathing of The Shining as just an absolute travesty, train-wreck, disaster, skull-fucked piece of crap, skews my persective on Jack. Ru Paul or Sting would have been better in that role; god damn, that sucks so much ass it's like digesting one's own nuts in a feeble attempt to turn oneself inside-out.

Wow, Jack and that role still give me nightmares, not sure I have ever heard such a strong opinion against Jack's part in that flick. Never been one of my fave actors, but I also thought he was great in Terms Of Endearment and As Good As It Gets. But then again, I'm the one who thinks Johnny Depp is the greatest actor of all time, I don't just think it, I know it!

 

[nervas]

I just re-watched the Entourage episode with Dennis in it, I had not realized how much older he looked in this role when I originally watched it.