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Favorite ten:
The Last Picture Show (1971)/Texasville (1990)
Fat City (1972)
Bad Company (1972)
Hearts of the West (1975)
Stay Hungry (1976)
Cutter's Way (1981)
The Fisher King (1991)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Hell or High Water (2016)
He was in a lot of other good things too. An impressive filmography!
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Id go along with Bad Company and Fat city, two of my favourites. Starman too.
Like joan i saw him first in Thunderbolt and didnt like the film and found him flash and irritating.
IN recent years i was underwhelmed by Lebowski but he was good in True Grit.
The line about the mouthful of marbles is also true though. Saw him in a recent sword n scorcey film about a witch who escapes - cant remember title - but his mumbling and drawl and incomprehension and about 6 more marbles was worst than matthew McGonaghey in True Detective.
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Just caught up with Hell and High Water last night. Excellent genre film, strong performances, and I had no trouble at all understanding what Ranger Bridges said.
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Feb 19, 2017 - 9:21 AM
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MikeP
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When "The Big Lebowski" was released, all the "hipster" types I knew at the time urged me to see the film. I'm glad I did, as it's vulgarly funny and Bridges once again "lost" himself in a character, as he effortlessly does.
You nailed it with "effortless". In every film, he does disappear into his role, and he does have an effortless grace every time. He's had high profile roles and films that don't get discussed much, but he's almost always the best thing in all of his films. For me, Arlington Road may be my favorite Bridges performance. He does the everyman part very well, and as the movie progresses, his desperation is brilliantly portrayed. It may not be his best film, but he's so damn good in it... The Dude notwithstanding.
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Ok, Rory, I'll answer you if no one else will.
I first saw the the Dutch-French original and was mixed on it (I'm increasingly allergic to nihilism but thought it was a brilliantly conceived and constructed film presaging the coming deluge of serial killer tales). When I caught up with The Vanishing remake on video I was genuinely surprised that Bridges seemed to be doing a comic-opera take on the Dutch villain, but redone as a kind of intense robot (shades of his Starman but without the right affect, and yes, I get why they went for that). The only performance I can recall of Bridges that I don't care for, but the movie was a botch anyway - another case of just stick with the original.
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Amen, Rory - I enjoy playing Goldsmith's Vanishing once or twice a year, and love the jazzy finale.
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