My review.
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JohnnyBoy — 11 months ago(April 28, 2025 09:48 PM)
A better film than Taps is actually The Lords of Discipline that's based on Pat Conroy's book. It gets everything right.
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JohnnyBoy — 11 months ago(April 29, 2025 06:17 AM)
I found info from somebody:
"As someone who was "in the business" in the '80's, I can say with confidence that it wasn't bad luck or that he didn't have leading man looks (look at Charles Bronson. HE didn't have that either. It was simply that Hutton was very difficult to work with, and I mean difficult, like throwing chairs, quitting the film, walking off the set difficult.
William Hurt left out the main reason that he, Hutton, and Jud Nelson never became great stars: they ALL were difficult on the set and they couldn't control their tempers. Hurt beat up two of his wives!
Burt Reynolds told me once that he caste people in his movies who were fun to work with. That got me thinking, so every director I worked with, I'd ask them, "How do you caste? Would you prefer to work with very talented actors or actors a little less talented but was fun to be around?" ALL of them said they preferred working with pleasant, nice, amusing people. "Screw the "artistes", Charles Nelson Reiiley said. Kindness and fun matters. One director told me he'd never work with Julia Roberts again. Another said it was Brendon Frazier. How many movies have those made lately?"
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ToastedCheese — 4 months ago(November 26, 2025 09:15 AM)
Hutton was terrific in
Ordinary People
and he was excellent here in
Taps
. I'd say the main reason Hutton's star didn't really rise, was that he didn't quite have the dynamic charisma that say Penn or Cruise projected.
Hutton had cutesy boy looks, (Sean Penn I find quite average to ugly looking), but he was also a bit vanilla bland and if his reputation of being difficult preceded him, then he likely drove his own career into the ground.
Cruise came from the lower rungs of society, Hutton was born into an acting family and daddy would have had connections.
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JohnnyBoy — 4 months ago(November 26, 2025 09:26 PM)
An interesting comparison will be The Falcon and the Snowman. Sean Penn blew Timothy Hutton off the screen. I think that's when people started to say, "Maybe this is the edge we've been looking for," and then cast him more often. Plus, he had the heavy Hollywood connection. Timothy Hutton is usually short in range and tends to project the everyman too much. However, it doesn't mean he's a bad actor in my book; he has done well in small films later on.
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ToastedCheese — 4 months ago(December 01, 2025 01:05 AM)
Yes, Falcon is an interesting and insightful film, but it is Sean Penn that lingers with you.
I really started to take note of Sean Penn in
At Close Range - ’86
. Penn was an undercurrent of emotion in this film, all bubbling away under the surface and his face and movements spoke volumes.
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WarrenPeace — 4 months ago(December 01, 2025 05:25 AM)
I know that in your other review you didn't care for him but I would compare Sean and Tim to Heath and Jake from Broke Mtn.
Heath is the better actor and I like actors who become different in every role as Gary Oldman also does like Heath.
Where Jake is just doing his basic usual acting and is still recognizable while his co star mumbles the script.
(Where are the south western cowboy accents? Only Quaid and women are going to have them?)
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JohnnyBoy — 3 months ago(December 01, 2025 10:13 PM)
Maybe too early to say since Heath was 28 when he died. Good actors tend to hit their stride in their 30's.
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WarrenPeace — 3 months ago(December 03, 2025 02:40 PM)
You admit that you hadn't seen him as The Joker in Dark Knight.
It's just amazing what he does to where no one else before or after will ever be able to be as good in that role.
Others before him played the Joker as an over exaggerated cartoon.
Heath played him as a very dark and serious villain with the right undertones to make it believable and real.
If he had lived would he have been in the sequel or perhaps in a spin off movie?
I dunno but his Joker makes me want to see more of it.
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JohnnyBoy — 3 months ago(December 03, 2025 09:20 PM)
I will consider seeing it one day and do a review.
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AnthonySocksss — 4 months ago(December 01, 2025 05:32 AM)
Apparently Hutton was a nightmare on set of the “Dark Half” as well. He would insist on remaining in character as a psychopathic villain and demanding people called him by his character’s name.
So basically the easy-going George A Romero had to direct a literal Stephen King villain.
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JohnnyBoy — 3 months ago(December 01, 2025 10:12 PM)
I wonder if Timothy Hutton had a coke problem in the 80's that caused his career to derail.
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JohnnyBoy — 4 months ago(November 26, 2025 09:44 PM)
Haven't seen that one yet. Will add. Still have Hachi on my deck, too.
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