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Went and saw Rain Man tonight. Still great.
Posted on 9/20/23 at 9:57 pm
Posted on 9/20/23 at 9:57 pm
Beautiful acting
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Posted on 9/20/23 at 9:59 pm to prplhze2000
The toothpick scene is one of my favorites in all of cinema
Posted on 9/20/23 at 10:47 pm to prplhze2000
Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman I always thought were an interesting pair.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 1:05 am to prplhze2000
I’m gonna let ya’ in on a little secret, Ray. Kmart sucks.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 7:27 am to prplhze2000
Sally Dibbs. Dibbs, Sally 461-0192
Posted on 9/21/23 at 7:45 am to prplhze2000
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Beautiful acting
Wish I could find it somewhere...think it may have been an inside the actor's studio or something...but Michael Caine was asked back around that time what he thought of Dustin Hoffman's performance in that, and his answer was great.
Paraphrasing: Hoffman was fine, but it was basically one note and once he found that it was smooth sailing. The hero of that movie was Cruise, who carries the entire thing. He's the brash selfish a-hole in the beginning that you despise, then he forces the viewers to understand how frustrating being with Raymond is and eventually he sells his actual love for Raymond and makes the viewer accept he's really grown...all while playing against and actor giving him nothing.
When you watch it with that in mind, you realize Cruise ought to probably have won that year, because he absolutely kills in that movie. But he was still just being seen as the good looking young actor then, so his performance got overlooked.
And yeah, it still holds up great.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 7:47 am to A Menace to Sobriety
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Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman I always thought were an interesting pair.
It's kind of crazy when you see them together, because they DO sort of look like they could have been related back then.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 8:08 am to GeauxTigerTM
This post was edited on 9/21/23 at 8:08 am
Posted on 9/21/23 at 9:13 am to GeauxTigerTM
Yeah but that one note was pretty damn hard.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 9:14 am to GeauxTigerTM
so I guess the hooker was really an undercover for the casino.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 9:25 am to GetCocky11
I remember watching that scene in the theater, and it was 100% obvious who'd seen Rain Man and who hadn't...and it was most obvious due to age.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 9:30 am to prplhze2000
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Yeah but that one note was pretty damn hard.
Was it though? How many comedians did a very passable impersonation of him for years after?
I'm not saying he wasn't great in it, just that there was no growth in the performance. That almost complete lack of growth is actually what is so impossibly frustrating to Charlie, right? It's virtually impenetrable.
Once he found the voice, mannerisms, walk, etc...he just stuck to it. I'm with Caine on this one.
Cruise had to convey the entire gamut of emotions and he's believable every step of the way...and wasn't nominated AT ALL. That's crazy.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 10:20 am to GeauxTigerTM
Michael Caine is right. Tom Cruise played the more interesting character.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 10:59 am to GeauxTigerTM
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The hero of that movie was Cruise, who carries the entire thing.
This is certainly true. Although Hoffman crushed his part, it was much harder for Cruise to do what he did in the same film.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 1:11 pm to prplhze2000
Great acting but not really a realistic representation of an autistic individual.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 1:36 pm to prplhze2000
Cincinnati Reds baseball and Judge Wapner at 5. What a life.
This post was edited on 9/21/23 at 1:37 pm
Posted on 9/21/23 at 2:39 pm to prplhze2000
Went? Went where?
Posted on 9/21/23 at 4:18 pm to prplhze2000
Not one post about Italian goddess Valeria?
This post was edited on 9/21/23 at 4:24 pm
Posted on 9/21/23 at 4:22 pm to prplhze2000
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so I guess the hooker was really an undercover for the casino.
No, the casino was watching them via the "eye in the sky" and came to the conclusion they were counting cards. As they told Cruise's character:
This post was edited on 9/21/23 at 4:23 pm
Posted on 9/21/23 at 4:26 pm to TigerSprings
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