This year marks the 50th anniversary of Roman Polanski’s Chinatown (1974), the 1930s LA-set crime thriller that has one of Jack Nicholson’s most famous performances, as sardonic detective Jake Gittes.
It’s also nearly half a century since Nicholson played rebellious everyman RP McMurphy, who is incarcerated in a mental institution and engaged in a battle of wills with the sociopathic Nurse Ratched, in Milos Forman’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975).
There was a time when the actor was spotted everywhere: in nightclubs, on chat shows, at basketball matches, at movie premieres.
It is 14 years since his last movie, the rapidly forgotten romcom How Do You Know.
One of his friends, music producer Lou Adler, told the WTF podcast that Nicholson now prefers to spend his time “sitting under a tree and reading a book”.
Nicholson can justifiably claim to be the greatest, most charismatic and versatile of all the stars of his era.
The original article contains 217 words, the summary contains 156 words. Saved 28%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
I kind of hate how these lazyass "where did walking fossil x go" articles can still bring in the clicks when it's pretty fucking obvious where he's gone. since he's not in the White House, which is the other place we keep our aspiring undead, he's home in the Hills, drooling on his felted dressing gown at 3 p.m., just medicated out of time and space, waiting for the reaper's touch
Very little actual screen time with monsters. Like maybe 5-10 minutes tops if I recall. But their presence is always felt from the tension in the characters.
Definitely more of a character based story in the framework of a monster horror.
Edit: whoops disregard this thought it was the original a quiet place
It's a weird movie. It's bad, but it's not bad. It's disappointing but also cool. I think most people would throw a 7/10 at it, but they'd tell everyone 4/10.
Take out Dennis Hopper and the movie is just bad. It has neat ideas but rarely are they executed well. Dennis at least knew what kind of movie he was making.
They're doing 4 parts to this thing‽ Just make a tv show at that point! I was thinking about checking it out when I thought it was just two parts, but double that?
movies
Oldest