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Post by mllemass on Mar 5, 2020 22:56:19 GMT
Another, slightly different, Top Ten list! www.cinemablend.com/news/2491196/the-best-benedict-cumberbatch-movies-rankedI don’t know why they referred to his role in Starter For Ten as “unintentionally hilarious”. Why can’t they give him credit for being hilarious on purpose? I’m wondering if they’re using the wrong expression, and instead they mean that he ended up stealing all the scenes he was in.
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Post by sgev1977 on Mar 5, 2020 23:34:28 GMT
LOL. The film is a comedy and his character is clearly (and intentionally) the most comedic one so no, a comedy can't be "unintentionally hilarious". It's hilarious or not!
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Post by mllemass on Jul 13, 2020 6:43:38 GMT
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Post by mllemass on Aug 27, 2020 20:36:10 GMT
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Post by prudence on Aug 27, 2020 21:42:37 GMT
Still have to see Third Star and Hawking. Liked Starter and Stuart. Wreckers wasn’t for me.
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Post by queenzod on Aug 27, 2020 22:21:03 GMT
Hawking is *wonderful.* You can find it in sections on YouTube. The quality isn’t the best, but it’s still very watchable. One of my favorites of his. Ben’s sweetness really comes to the forefront.
Third Star is also very good. It’s a typical sort of plot, young person dying tragically of a terrible illness, but imo a superior version of that. It builds really well, and the chemistry between all the young men is excellent. I know fans love to get all sobby over it, but James, to me, is one of his less likeable characters. I find him preachy & pretentious.
I like Wreckers a lot, even though the subject matter is terribly grim and it’s a little unfocused. I know the director wanted to make it opaque, but I think she went a trifle overboard with that. I’m still not quite sure what happened at the end, lol! Every time I watch it I come up with another explanation of what happened.
I wish there was something of Ben’s I haven’t seen a million times. I’d love something fresh. 😕
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Post by mllemass on Aug 27, 2020 23:38:50 GMT
I’d love to see some of his lesser-known movies on tv some time. They only seem to put on the same movies on a regular basis - Star Trek Into Darkness, The Hobbit, Zoolander 2, Doctor Strange. I think I can recite all his lines in those movies by heart now!
This past week, they did mix it up a bit. They showed Black Mass and The Child in Time, and the final episode of Good Omens that he was in. Tonight, 12 Years a Slave is on, but I don’t think I’ll watch it.
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Post by roverpup on Aug 28, 2020 4:35:14 GMT
I don't have cable so I don't really know what is available on TV for BC. That's why I have a permanent collection of the films and TV productions of BC. No animated ones or Hobbity ones but not too much else missing other than Dr. Strange.
Almost all of his earlier work (except where he was a guest star in one episode in a larger series). Third Star and To the Ends of the Earth are probably my most favourite of his pre-Sherlock work.
And Patrick Melrose, The Hollow Crown are my faves of his later work (although I have watched The Child in Time many time too as well as Star Trek into Darkness many, many times!).
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Post by mllemass on Aug 28, 2020 23:20:45 GMT
Ha! They’re showing the Hobbit on tv tonight - for the hundredth time! So now that makes five Benedict performances of some sort on tv this week.
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Post by mllemass on May 15, 2021 4:26:16 GMT
I’m impressed by the talent of fans out there who create these videos!
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