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Russell Crowe deserves death x2! Let me argue my case

Prisoner no. 1300

21:32 / 14.03.02

Russel Crowe not only was the star of Gladiator, possibly the cackest film of the past 5 years, and now he irritates once more in:

A BEAUTIFUL MIND.

I was fuckin flabbergasted when I saw this awful, crap, bad film. I didn't know it was about a schizophrenic professor at the time, so half way through I was quite getting into this are they/aren't they following him around, dark, paranoid vibe, only to have the mood utterly spoiled.

He does the western thing and becomes a good little professor, ignoring the characters apparent to him despite them being better than his reality, and possibly important to his sanity. The film puts its case forward very poorly, Russell Crowe isn't an actor, he's an advert, and the closing shot is a little message informing us that he has helped out world trade decisions for years.

So not only is John Nash a prick, he's a raving schizophrenic prick who gets off by fucking up people's countries and now those Warner bastards have made a film of him starring Russell FUCKING

CROWE

The Planet of Sound

10:48 / 15.03.02

I've met Malcolm Gerrie, the producer (head of 'Initial') and Russell Crowe went up in my estimation when he roughed him up. Way to go Russell! More up their own arses TV producers beaten up, please.

That's all.

11:11 / 15.03.02

quote:Originally posted by The Planet of Sound:
Way to go Russell! More up their own arses TV producers beaten up, please.

You do have to remember Crowe did so 'cos they cut out the poor luvvy's poetry reading......

Less searchable M0rd4nt

12:01 / 15.03.02

He was once a member of a truly shite 80's pop outfit. This alone would merit a sever penalty, but the crime is compounded by the fact that his poptart incarnation was called Russ Le Roque.

For this he must pay the ulitmate penalty.

12:08 / 15.03.02

ah, but now he is a member of a bad called something like 10,000 acres of grunts, or some fucking thing... so all is forgiven?

12:09 / 15.03.02

Oops - Freudian slip there... I of course meant 'band'. Or did I?

12:11 / 15.03.02

Hmm. Is a "raving schizophrenic prick" inherently worse than the common-or-garden non-disordered variety? You decide...

Less searchable M0rd4nt

12:15 / 15.03.02

Some things can never be forgiven. Calling yourself Russ Le Roque is one of those things.

Oh, and starring in a film where they give a gay mathematician a female love interest is another. (I'll have to check this with Lurid Archive, but I'm pretty sure it's correct.)

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Haus about we all give each other a big lovely huggle?

12:18 / 15.03.02

Actually, my respect for him has just gone up considerably...

(For Russ le Roque, that is. Not for the excision of Nash's bisexuality.)

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17:29 / 15.03.02

Even when I saw him in The Quick and the Dead so many years ago, there's only one thing I can think when I see him:

"Hey! It's Hando!"

They've actually re-issued Romper Stomper now that he's an Oscar winner! Very strange if you ask me....

17:37 / 15.03.02

I was made cross by his continual glowering at Steve Martin during the Academy Awards last time round. Sure, it wasn't the funniest show they've ever had, but how completely and entirely no fun at all can one guy be?

17:54 / 15.03.02

I think it's increasingly clear that he's a bit of an arsehole frankly. The film is another matter - I thought it was pretty awful as well.

The fact is the man had two wives, the wife in the film had him committed and he did have a large number of affairs with men - all conveniently excised. The politics of fucking with the past aside - although just want to register another 'fucking bastards - should be a law against it' - I just thought it was a bloody stupid film...

I mean they blow their psychological wad about 1/3rd of the way through, and then you have to sit through his dribbling obselecense until you want to burn everyone. They should have got that over in the first fifteen minutes and concentrated on the more interesting AND ACCURATE aspects of his life.

Crowe's performance is also tic-central - which as far as I'm concerned is basically cheating. "I'm going to be an excentric genius" says Crowe, "therefore I will fiddle with my hands and rub my hair and look around nervously and... " Dork. That's not acting. That's fucking bad mime...

18:01 / 15.03.02

Nash also had at least one conviction for indecent exposure too, didn't he?

As someone who found him compellingly sexy in 'Gladiator' and 'LA Confidential', I'm kinda disappointed in Russell Crowe. Not only is he acting like a twat these days, he's seriously disappointing my libido...

18:06 / 15.03.02

Hell, he *was* sexy in 'Gladiator'. Not sure about *him* in LA Confidential, but slashing that film is practically redundant...which makes it vaguely interesting. But he started to go downhill in my estimation after that godawful hair-do at the Oscars... and has picked up speed on the way...

I did read somewhere that Nash and his wife now deny/downplay Nash's bisexuality themselves though... so perhaps it is not *entirely* Hollywood's fault. Sort of.

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18:09 / 15.03.02

Not sure his conviction(s) can be as easily denied...

18:11 / 15.03.02

Russell was cuter before he got all bulked up.

Watch PROOF again. Jocelyn Moorhouse's first feature. The sort-of triangle with Crowe, Hugo Weaving (who was also young-ish and sexy), and wotserface will raise your hackles. Great soundtrack by [Not Drowning, Waving], too.

18:12 / 15.03.02

quote:Originally posted by Jack Fear:
Russell was cuter before he got all bulked up.

Says you, Big Daddy...

18:12 / 15.03.02

Nevermind. I was too slow, and can't be arsed to contextualise this post...

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18:57 / 15.03.02

I likes 'em willowy.

01:00 / 16.03.02

Want something else to bitch about? I can't be bothered to look all over the web to confirm this, but if the video clerk I talked to is right, Crowe is gonna be a movie version of Hogans Heroes as no other than.....

Like Crowe could tell a joke to save his fuckin' life, much less pull off the role of Hogan half as well as Bob Crane.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

15:55 / 16.03.02

Nash; "I'm not gay, really."
Crowe; "Look, my band isn't called Dogstar alright?"

The Return Of Rothkoid

12:29 / 18.03.02

OK, you bastards. You made me do it.

Thirty Odd Foot Of Grunts homepage.

Bah. I hate you all. I thought I'd banished that shit from my memory. Gossip extra, too: after he won the award for Gladiator, Russ and bandmates were heard (at the Sebel, I think?) to be jamming on a tune that featured the lyric "I am the greatest actor in the world".

"Go Russ go" indeed.

And remember: tics win oscars. Hello, Dustin Hoffmann - how you doin'?

Actually, I thought Crowe was ok in The Sum Of Us, though that could've been down to him having Jack Thompson as his dad. But maybe that's me. Ah, Balmain.

Put it this way: is Russ Crowe likely to be found dead after a sex romp in a hotel room, like Bob Crane was? No way, no how. Ergo: no good.

13:28 / 18.03.02

That's not a picture of Bob Crane! Its Freddy bloody Starr!

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The Return Of Rothkoid

14:02 / 18.03.02

Colonel Hogan helped Allied aircrew to escape and came up with Batman? Damn!

Haus about we all give each other a big lovely huggle?

14:15 / 18.03.02

And did a pretty mean Casey Kasem, by the looks of it...

20:16 / 18.03.02

quote:Originally posted by Fra Dolcino:
That's not a picture of Bob Kane! Its Freddy bloody Starr!

He got bit in the Asssster Bar...