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I guess Halloweenies there wanna celebrate the mythic sinister genius today, for some reason.
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Get Startedman, he always had a creepy, predatory vibe about him, but I thought he was just a good actor.
turns out it wasn't an act.
teh wife and I started watching House Of Cards a couple seasons ago. I never liked it that much. it started out okay, but the plotlines quickly got so dark and depraved, with nothing else to redeem it beyond the shock value of those, that I lost interest.That's exactly it. I probably would have said "calculating" and "predatory" before yesterday. But the very thing I liked about his acting reads very differently now.
man, he always had a creepy, predatory vibe about him, but I thought he was just a good actor.
turns out it wasn't an act.
He turned in another great performance as legendary predator Jack Abrahamoff, arguably the most notorious lobbyist in the history of Capitol Hill, in the biopic Casino Jack.
Have you seen it?
If not I definitely recommend it.
I remember there being some article about Netflix data analysis indicating that people that like the original House of Cards also like Spacey. It was groundbreaking in a few ways. It was the first show Netflix spent that kind of money on and put made their big bet based on their data analysis.
But that means they know who liked Kevin Spacey. A list of people like me that couldn't read the creepy vibe until someone else pointed it out.
I liked Kevin Spacey as well, in The Usual Suspects & LA Confidential. I also saw him in American Beauty, which I must confess I once thought was a sophisticated and good movie. Now I would consider it "absurd, pretentious, and bad" I also saw him on Inside the Actors Studio, and he seemed funny and likable.
oh well. we shouldn't put these people up on pedestals to begin with.
I don't know what suddenly made it pretentious and bad to you...but it's supposed to be absurd. Absurdity is the writer and creator Alan Ball's touchstone.
I started watching more actual good movies.
prior to that, I thought American Beauty stood out, but I had more or less only seen Hollywood blockbusters and schlock up until that point in my life (this is circa 2000, and I was 20 years old.)
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