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Subject: Something nice to say Author: Susan [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 18:57:52 06/24/06 Sat In reply to: Susan 's message, "Another new Blackbeard" on 23:15:17 06/04/06 Sun Flipping through channels in the middle of the night last night, I just happened to catch Angus Macfadyen in another movie on the History Channel: Spartacus. He played Marcus Crassus, and I was impressed by the complexity he conveyed. His character is the main villain, with charismatic leadership skills and a nasty temper, yet he also shows an almost sympathetic, somewhat tragic human side, which is what was missing from his Blackbeard. So this lack this is obviously the fault of the filmmakers, not the actor since Macfadyen clearly has the talent to play a much better Blackbeard than he did. I could also easily imagine him playing Richard Burton in that other movie! (He was a little bit chunky in Spartacus too, but at least he wasn't showing off a huge beer belly like in Blackbeard!) [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Re: Another new Blackbeard Author: Steve Bingen [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 02:15:04 06/29/06 Thu Well, about the new Blackbeard(s) I read the postings here and thought everyone was, well a little bit harsh. I’m a sucker for anything with a pirate clopping about. So I watched the film, both of them and, ah, you actually went sort of easy on both of them, Susan and Trisha. All the earlier project had going for it was great costumes. I’d like to say that the whole physical look of the film was good, but the camerawork was so generally inept that I’ll hold off on that compliment. I mean, was this "film" supposed to look like a documentary or a feature? The thing was like some peg-legged hybrid of both. But, I did like how they costumed the actor playing Blackbeard. I also liked his physical look. The beard, the hook nose, the glint in his eyes. Physically, he was scurvier and scarier than even RN in the part. But, yup, his performance was really inert wasn’t it? The Hallmark film felt like a real movie anyway, with real actors in it. Although Rachel Ward had nothing to do but bare her back, well that’s OK. (Sidenote, her husband Bryan Brown, of “Cocktail,” and “The Thorn Birds” might have made a lively Blackbeard, you think?) And the lead at least looked like he was half-way awake. But, shesh, the guy was balding and potbellied and his beard was so stringy that they should have called him bleakbeard or blotchbeard or something…And did anyone else snicker at that outfit he was wearing? The pumped-out vest that looked like a jumper for a rambunctious toddler? Man, if real pirates wore getups like that I don’t think they scared anyone, except maybe expectant mothers, All of this just makes me think about how rare a creature RN really was. He had the look, the charisma, the talent, and the sparkle in the eye. And he worked at a time when Hollywood really knew how to make movies about pirates who if not exactly real, achieved conviction on their own terms and by force of personality. Pirates of the Caribbean 2” anyone? [ Post a Reply to This Message ]