no one could have played his role as greatly as him. he's amazing and spellbinding. it's 30 years past the time when we should give him acting awards. how in the world has he never won an academy award? i think the best he's done besides his nomination for the river wild is win a golden globe for murder in the first.
it's so wrong how a movie in which seems under him in quality, the river wild he won an academy award nomination for.
he should have won an academy award for this film and also the big picture. no one could have played his role in the big picture as well as him.
but then if they(the oscars) awarded big awards to movies that are actually great like this film, then they wouldn't be also to give them to the most boring movies ever made like the english patient which won the year this movie would have been nominated for big awards.
i think the english patient is the most boring movie i've ever watched. i think every single scene in that movie was boring to me.
i wonder why hollywood and most people don't give kevin bacon credit for his acting career? he always seems underappreciated and pushed aside when it comes to actors. they(hollywood) look at him as like an actor that doesn't really matter.
he's always great. also, the best directors have worked with him like oliver stone, rob reiner, barry levinson, ron howard, and the best actors have worked with him like tom hanks, jack nicholson, tom cruise, ect.
he never comes up when they talk about the best actors of his time or just as a great actor from anyone in hollywood. i find this to be a big mystery.
lukejbarnett

I pretty much hate this movie and everything it stands for, but I'll watch it every time it's on solely for Kevin Bacon and Billy Crudup. I can't explain what makes them so good in this. But when they're onscreen, I can't look away.

where is the acclaim from hollywood? also why can't they just talk about him being a great actor in hollywood, the hollywood people?
he's always been so over looked and under appreciated as an actor form hollywood. this is so wrong.
he's always great.
lukejbarnett

Kevin Bacon is, to my mind, highly underrated as an actor. I love his work.

He was EXCELLENT in Apollo 13!! He stole the show in X-Men First Class recently but Bacon never gets a lot of praise. He should've gotten something for Death Sentence or Taking Chances and even this film or The Woodsman. He is great in pretty much every role I've seen him in.
"I am the ultimate badass, you do not wanna *beep* wit' me!" Hudson in Aliens.

I think he was most brilliant as Jack Swigert in "Apollo 13" if you ask me..

I'm forever creeped out when I look at him just from this movie!
Lisa: Some advice, okay? Just don't point your beep finger at crazy people!

This was not the only film where Kevin Bacon played a pedophile.

I think Kevin Bacon plays such a good bad guy. He has done it in a few movies. It's like how great Anthony Hopkins does as the bad guy.
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there it is. i just talked about this. he never gets the acting accolades really. but most wrong is he never gets talked about as one of the best actors of the '80s and '90s from anyone in hollywood and he never gets talked about as a great actor from anyone in hollywood.
lukejbarnett

yea i did, and i'll do it again. kevin's done horror, action, childeren's drama, even comendy. all of it.
to go from 'he said, she said' and 'she's having a baby' to 'flatliners' and 'tremors' to 'River Wild and 'Murder in the first' not to mention 'White water summer' 'lemon sky' and 'the air up there'. he's one of the most diverse actors in the world. and you said it best. kevin can be in a mediocre film and turn it into a good or even great film just by his preformance.

I came to this thread to point out KB's brilliant performance in Murder in the First, a good but not great movie. Since you have beaten me to it I will just add my agreement with your opinions of that role and of his talents in general.
He is consistently good, or better, and can make an otherwise mediocre movie, such as this one, watchable. He has quite a few roles in good to excellent movies as well. Mystic River and Tremors come to mind. But you already mentioned diversity didn't you?

finally, i find a thread that praises bacon and not slam him. kevin is one of the best actors in the world. his style and deversity are incredible. however, i feel that while this was one of his best preformances; his absolute best without a doubt, was in fact Murder in the First with Gary Oldman and Christian Slater, but yet again.he got nothing for it.

Today, as I watched the movie, I thought "Boy, no one really gives Kevin Bacon the credit he deserves." I was lost in his performance.
His and the others in the movie - I love when I can get lost in a story, the bonus is when an actor can draw me in. To have the entire cast pull me into the movie was fantastic.
I'm just shy that way

Almost a year later
Kevin Bacon seems to be good at playing the role of the bad/sadistic guy.
Sleepers, The River Wild, Hollow Man, White Water Summer.
Also not too bad at playing the good guy. As fluffy as they are, I also liked him in The Air Up There and, of course, Footloose.

I agree he was amazing in thisdefinitely his best performance.but one thing bugged me: his accent changes severely several times. He goes from New Yorker to Surfer Dude to redneck (later years).
"You filthy old soomka!"

I think if your suspose to play a charactor that every is suspose to hate, and you do. then your did a great job
Ill catch you on the flip side.

exactly, he's so scary and convincing and intimidating in that scene. in mean this guy is scary. he's so in character in this film. and he's so versatile.
you watch him in this and then you watch him in the big picture and you realize he has a lot of range as an actor. those characters are completely different in every way and he plays both characters perfectly and so powerfully.
lukejbarnett

Always thought the two most memorable evil characters performances that struck a chord with me were Ralph Fienes in "Schindler's List" and Tim Roth in "Rob Roy"; not sure how I forgotten Bacon's performance in this oneespecially when he makes the kids eat off the floor.

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who is terry kinney?
lukejbarnett

Another great performance - not overplayed at all.

Maybe if you watch him in 'Taking Chance' you would change your mind.

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