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Gary Oldman is one of the best actors I've had the privilege of seeing. Consider that Mr. Zorg, Winston Churchill, and George Smiley, are played by the same pe

Gary Oldman is one of the best actors I've had the privilege of seeing. Consider that Mr. Zorg, Winston Churchill, and George Smiley, are played by the same person, is amazing.

glandium 2y ago
as well as James Gordon, Norman Stansfield and Harry Truman.
- hinkley 2y ago
  We forgot about Dracula.
wyldfire 2y ago
Jackson Lamb is the Mr. Hyde to Smiley's Dr. Jekyll. It's just fantastic to see Oldman in both roles. Lamb is just a riot.
hinkley 2y ago
Rosencrantz and Stansfield made him my favorite actor for the first decade of my adulthood. Zorg is okay. That terrible Lost in Space movie lowered his trajectory for a while. He’s been hitting home runs a lot since. But if you hear him in interviews he thinks of himself as a working actor. He’s doing the job. But the right people think he can do a good job so he’s getting better roles.
- alexjplant 2y ago
  > That terrible Lost in Space movie I'll never defend "Lost in Space" as a cinematic tour-de-force in the traditional sense but I'll be damned if it isn't one of the most quintessentially-90s films ever made. It has Silicon Graphics logos and bubble-shaped silver electronics everywhere. William Hurt managed to find time to slip away from the "Dark City" set to make an appearance. Pre-Felicity Shagwell/post-Rollergirl Heather Graham fends off advances from Joey Tribbiani while the crazy guy from "Leon: The Professional" makes a bunch of bizarre wisecracking non-sequiturs. A brash Big beat remix of the original TV theme blares over the credits immediately following a fight involving a giant CGI (SGI?) spider. I disliked it intensely as a kid but enjoy it a lot in retrospect because of my high-resolution nostalgia goggles.
  - ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
    > high-resolution nostalgia goggles. Mine work in reverse, I guess. I loved Space: 1999, when it was still being released. I had occasion to revisit a syndicated episode, awhile back. I stopped it after ten minutes.

Gary Oldman is one of the best actors I've had the privilege of seeing. Consider that Mr. Zorg, Winston Churchill, and George Smiley, are played by the same person, is amazing.

glandium 2y ago

as well as James Gordon, Norman Stansfield and Harry Truman.

hinkley 2y ago
We forgot about Dracula.

wyldfire 2y ago

Jackson Lamb is the Mr. Hyde to Smiley's Dr. Jekyll. It's just fantastic to see Oldman in both roles. Lamb is just a riot.

hinkley 2y ago

Rosencrantz and Stansfield made him my favorite actor for the first decade of my adulthood. Zorg is okay. That terrible Lost in Space movie lowered his trajectory for a while. He’s been hitting home runs a lot since. But if you hear him in interviews he thinks of himself as a working actor. He’s doing the job. But the right people think he can do a good job so he’s getting better roles.

alexjplant 2y ago
> That terrible Lost in Space movie I'll never defend "Lost in Space" as a cinematic tour-de-force in the traditional sense but I'll be damned if it isn't one of the most quintessentially-90s films ever made. It has Silicon Graphics logos and bubble-shaped silver electronics everywhere. William Hurt managed to find time to slip away from the "Dark City" set to make an appearance. Pre-Felicity Shagwell/post-Rollergirl Heather Graham fends off advances from Joey Tribbiani while the crazy guy from "Leon: The Professional" makes a bunch of bizarre wisecracking non-sequiturs. A brash Big beat remix of the original TV theme blares over the credits immediately following a fight involving a giant CGI (SGI?) spider. I disliked it intensely as a kid but enjoy it a lot in retrospect because of my high-resolution nostalgia goggles.
- ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
  > high-resolution nostalgia goggles. Mine work in reverse, I guess. I loved Space: 1999, when it was still being released. I had occasion to revisit a syndicated episode, awhile back. I stopped it after ten minutes.