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Has he actually done any good films? He's seen as a huge actor, revered by millions, but he's mostly done poor to average films that have been marketed really well.
Anyone else have a similar meh feeling with him?
Thought he was dead then for a minute.
Ed Wood
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas. He was good in that.
Fear and Lothing has dated really badly.
He was good in blow, the libertine, whats eating gilbert grape, Platoon too.
Don't remember in them but was in both a nightmare on elm street and platoon.
But looking at his filmography it is a little disappointing.
Donnie Brasco was good.
Whats eating Gilbert Grape, Edward scissor hands
Edward Scissorhands, Benny & Joon so as mattyfez says he didn't just turn up as a huge actor.
Which make me wonder how old you are Jonny 😆
I really enjoy his films especially Jack Sparrow stuff + Donnie Brasco + Blow + Black Mass and a few others. He does weird very well AFAICT.
Blow
Donnie Brasco
Fear and Loathing
and some smaller low budget films he done were decent as well.
Done better than a lot.
Seen all of those films Darc L, didn't realise you had to be a certain age to like old fims though. I'm 34 and probably my favourite film (this changes) is from 1957.
Edward Scissorhands and What's Eating Gilbert Grape are excellent.
Rango
Apparently he spent months living on Hunter S thompsons sofa to get into character for fear and loathing..
In the words of Paul Calf 'Who's eaten Gilberts Grape?' 'It's only a grape, give him another one'
Yes lots.
Always been a fan of blow, once upon a time in Mexico, and actually liked sleepy hollow as well. Regardless of the films themselves, he is very good as captain jack, just maybe a few too many of the films made...
I do sometimes wonder why he's got the profile he's got, the last real 'hit' film he made was Rango, but that's animated, Mortdeci, Dark Shadows and Lone Ranger all had terrible reviews and lost money - Mortdeci has just turned up on Netflix suspiciously soon after release which is never a good sign.
He's made some good films (to my taste anyway):
The Original Pirates film.
Public Enemies.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Once upon a time in Mexico.
Blow.
Donnie Brasco
Black Mass looks good, I'm looking forward to that, both another Pirates film, sod that.
Black Mass just got pretty mixed reviews at best on Kermode on 5 Live.
I actually really like the goofy idiot performance that he usually turns in but he has done two genuinely moving and interesting performances:
Donnie Brasco
Dead man
I forgot about Sleepy Hollow. Another good one. Depp was simply made for Burton films.
Brilliant in Sleepy Hollow, Edward Scissorhands and Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean films, even if they weren't very good films (apart from the first one)....
If I was to ever have a mancrush, it'd be on him... How dare you suggest he's been in poor movies..... 👿
Nineth Gate is another worthwhile watch. I remember seeing Benny & Joon at the cinema and was crying with laughter!
IMO he's cool, done some great stuff... I do however tire quickly of the Jack Sparrow imitations nowadays.
Agree he's born for Tim Burton films..
One thing I really hate though...
He appears in a rather shite advert ATM for Channel.. Proper Xmas pointless profiteering, I mean him appearing in the advert. It's really rather mediocre at best. (The one where he buries some jewellery in a shallow pit, in the desert, having gotten there in a 70's muscle car)
21 jump street
The Fast Show.
Platoon.
I'm not sure you can really count his performance in Platoon. IIRC he gets shot dead in the first firefight.
One thing I really hate though...He appears in a rather shite advert ATM for Channel
That ad really is awful, he's got an expensive lifestyle though.
I've got a friend who's worked with him for years on his UK shot films, he sounds a generally nice guy, though very much keeps to his own clique (which, at least at one point, involved a lot of drinking with Keith Richards).
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I've always wondered whether Jack Sparrow [i]really[/i] was based on Keith Richards, or whether that was a slight retrospective rewrite of history.
I enjoyed secret window when it came out
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Nineth Gate is another worthwhile watch
It's really not. (A friend of mine had a rant to me about the film a while after I had seen it. He'd been interrupted partway though, so a few days later he sat down to watch it again, through from the beginning. And found that he'd been interrupted with a minute or two left, and that, yes, nothing actually happens, it's a really poor,boring ending and he had just wasted several hours of his life. 🙂 )
fear & loathing - he was big mates with hunter s thompson and you kind of get a real feeling of the man from the film - possibly more so than the book
also delightfully weird and creepy in charlie and the chocolate factory
Not many bad Depp films to pick from.
He was briefly in Nightmare on Elm Street (pretty good death in that)
oh, wait, [url= http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2209764/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_10 ]Transcendence was pretty bad[/url]
The Tourist was bloody awful
Someone else is bound to have mentioned it, but Dead Man is excellent. Donnie Brasco was great too.
The rum diary is also worth a watch if you like hunter s Thompson.
Mortdeci has just turned up on Netflix suspiciously soon after release which is never a good sign.
Started watching it the other day, he was just doing an impression of a fast show character & made the film utterly unwatchable.
Not sure about his look for Black Mass...
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Fear and Lothing has dated really badly.
Given that it is an adaptation of a book about the 60s filmed in the 90s it's hardly surprising if it looks dated.
It's not the best film I've ever seen but it is one of the best adaptations of a book.
Mortdeci has just turned up on Netflix suspiciously soon after release which is never a good sign.
It's an awful film which is a shame as the books are fantastic.
Form something a bit different, here's a film of Johnny performing with Marilyn Manson