Actors you'd watch a film because they're in it!

We all have our favourites, I don't want to just know the obvious ones, I want the guilty pleasures as well!

I think one of my favourites was the late, great Philip Seymour Hoffman. He made me like mission impossible again! oh, yeah, and those tiny hands in The Savages, although I think they may have featured in other films to a lesser comedic extent. For a short, portly, hardly chiselled chap he commanded so much attention on screen, even in the big lebowski, and yes Twister as well (why does DC love Bill Paxton so much???).

The first time I really noticed him was in Capote, how great was that film? I bet, just like myself, none og you have seen it since the cinema have you?

Have at it, what films will you watch based on the premise that one of your favourite actors has a starring role?

The Thing Double Whammy

I was going to start by apologising for a double whammy post but then I remembered that Kurt Russell was in one of the films, so yeah, no apologies needed!

I can remember when I first watched this film, genuinely terrifying! When I first tried to make Zoe watch this film I had to build her up to it when we lived in Cyprus, She genuinely couldn't get through it the first time we tried.

There are just so many iconic moments in this one that set the scene for films to follow, I still daren't poke hot things into Petri dishes just in case! It also chucked that "don't let the dog die!" moment in that all the films in the 80s and 90s had to have, I'll let you all find out for yourselves whether the dog makes it.

Aside from that awesome thing with Ice Cube has John Carpenter done anything that great? Ok ok, Hallowe'en was awesome, but only because they roped in a local lad to prop it up a bit.

The modern sequel/prequel/reboot to/to/of The Thing wasn't exactly the greatest of films but definitely fits in nicely and I reckon definitely worth a watch if you can (dat grammar tho). I reckon the best order to watch it in is the original then the new one, just because there some moments in the new one that make you "ahhh" and "ooh" and "oh yeah". It has an awesome joke in Norwegian as well!

Maybe this could be one that we get together to watch, possibly on bank holiday? Just before our first attempt at camping with Mr. Monster and Bunny

Raging Bull

Ok... I'm playing by the rules and doing an official post for it this time...


 Half of my reason for choosing this is the fact Adam has owned it on dvd since the days we used to actually count how many dvds we had and never watched it, but Adams probably 6 films behind on this now so he probably still won't watch it.

So to my other half reason!
De Niro.... My only real memory of this film is how awesome he is in it! Possibly his greatest performance (although I hear bad grandpa is pretty good) and I just wanted to watch it again as a reminder that he was once great... Even if he makes some terrible choices now a days! Also... Who doesn't love a scorcese movie?

So... Is there a better deniro performance?
How does this rank amongst scorcese films?

.... We are going to watch African Queen now!! But I wanted to get in there early to ensure I'm not gazumped again! Ha