Favorite Kevin Spacey Movie

I saw Sliced Bread in some live performaces down in Greenwich Village, before he hit it big. He was getting a lot of piece work in Delis, but I found him usually Hammy or full of Baloney.

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C'mon guys...clearly Sliced Bread's largest body of work was when he was doing those PB & J stunts for the kiddies down on the warf...not to mention those seedy pornos.

Which seedy pornos, the caraway or the poppy?

-poppy...remember how the small traces of opium was found in his bran and he served some time?

Yeah, I thought he got the chair. He was toast, man.

French Toast, to be exact - that was one of the most amazing feats of linguistic yeasting that I have EVER seen. That won best Foreign French Roll, I believe.
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Thmilin...you're here! And talking about Sliced Bread no less...too bad he hasn't had any work lately...his act is a little stale I'm afraid.

Got passes for K-PAX tonight, so excited, i love kevin spacey look for my post in the review forum.

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awesome. let us know how you like it. i'm dying of curiosity.

when you write your review...don't spoil anything.I don't even read some of the ones on here untill after I've seen it,because people give too much away.

i'm gonna watch SWIMMING WITH SHARKS tonight...thanks to this thread.

*tips hat*

glad to have helped, ma'am!

I love that movie.Spacey was such an @ss. I love how he calls that guy right when he's in the middle of something every time. Or when the guy had to go to the bathroom...and Spacey wouldn't let him...classic.

Check out the Yahoo! Movies poll...scroll down and look to the left-hand column:

http://movies.yahoo.com/

That poll just proves that the general masses of theater goers identify favorite actors by their biggest work. Most of the votes were for American Beauty or Usual Suspects. Lame.

I wouldn't draw that conclusion.

Sades, you set up the poll, and you know exactly how slanted it was toward The Usual Suspects and American Beauty. Along with those two Oscar-winning starring roles you put SE7EN - great movie, great part for Spacey, but he's in it for all of twenty minutes at the very end, do even YOU consider it a "Kevin Spacey movie" or just one that he's in?, Glengarry Glen Ross - more great work by Spacey, but again a supporting role with limited screentime, bringing another round of is this even a "Kevin Spacey movie"?, and Pay It Forward - a hunk of tripe that even you, a raging self-confessed Spacey fan, admit you hated and was there for "strategic" purposes.

You weight a poll so that the majority of the votes will likely be cast for the two movies he actually starred in (of the nominees), then weeks later you say how "lame" the moviegoing public at large is because in this particular little poll (with all of 14 total votes) The Usual Suspects and American Beauty were the clear "winners".

Over the three pages of this thread, beyond any silly votes, are mentions of L.A. Confidential, Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil and the most in-depth discussion is about Swimming with Sharks, one of his least-known films by the faceless film-going public.


While I would agree that, in general, mass audiences are indeed "lame", the only thing I see in this thread that warrants that label is the conclusion of your last post.

Holden..I was talking about the POLL that Art Dent sent me to in his last post on this thread. The yahoo movies one. So I was drawing my conclusions from the responses I saw on that poll...not my own here. I have higher expectations of the posters here than I do at other forums...some of which you frequent.

This is the one Holden...you should SCROLL UP BEFORE YOU POST! Hint-hint.

Sadies: 'twasn't Art, 'twas me. Anyway, I don't think most people are lame. Quite frankly, if a few select critics hate a movie, and it's still making tons of money because tons of people are going to see it...well, screw that, I'm gonna go see it, too. While we all have our own opinions, when 90% of the people love something, it isn't too hot to be one of the 10% who says it's complete crap. I don't follow the crowd, I just take advice from it.

I think both extremes are messed up: commercial success and a high BO gross does not make it any less valuable. If anything, it deserves credit for managing to appeal to so many people. That's part of making a movie, you know...to reach people in one form or another. I don't see it as any less valuable to cause 10 million people to chuckle, than it is to reach 500 on a deep emotional level. But of course, "Happy Gilmore" is crap, and [INSERT INDIE FLICK TITLE HERE] is amazing...or so many people would say.

In short: there is no shame in going to see a movie because everyone else is. If they're going to see it in droves, there must be a reason, and I for one like to find out for myself. I would not say that the general public has a bad taste in movies at all. I'd say that the general public has a more realistic and reasonable collective expectation for what a movie should be.

That's so not what I'm saying though T. Let me put it this way:

*There are some actors that I'm very attatched to. I've followed their careers from day one. It bugs me when they've been so good all along...and then only get praise on their highest grossing film. It's that weird feeling thread someone started(OG?)you get attatched to something and you almost don't want anyone else to like it. That's how I feel about Spacey. That's why I didn't put Swimming with Sharks as one of the choices for my poll. I get tired of hearing,"What's that movie?" or," Never heard of it." Spacey was also in Outbreak and a did a great job as the little scientist. Should I have included that movie too? I put a few of his best work according to me...and a few of his best work according to the masses.

*As far as my 'lame' comment...yeah,it is. I feel the same about Ed Norton. Ask the average joe-movie-goer which was HIS best work and they'll tell you," Fight Club." Was it? I don't think so. I think it was Primal Fear or American History X.