Posted by Chiusano at usr2-d43.stk.cwnet.com on December 15, 1999 at 13:41:18:
In Reply to: Are you mad? Have you seen Bottle Rocket?? posted by Placenta Jones on December 15, 1999 at 13:09:55:
: Granted, Owen is terrible when it comes to picking projects. (For some reason, he's resigned himself to be the "funny guy who dies" in big-budget bonanza movies...i.e. Armageddon, Anaconda, The Haunting, etc.) BUT he is a tremendously funny actor with great comic timing. His performance as Dignin in Bottle Rocket is completely hysterical. It's sweet, insane, and truly, truly funny. He's also pretty great in "The Minus Man."
There ARE such things as good performances in bad movies. In those three, Wilson gives horrendously bad performances in sub-par movies (for example, Billy Bob & Buscemi were good in Armageddon and Lili Taylor was the only one giving a decent performance in Haunting). Perhaps I overgeneralized a bit the first time by saying that he's a bad actor, but I've seen far more bad performances from him than I've seen good (I've never seen Minus Man, so I can't comment there).
: And hey, don't rip on Alex Winter! I love the Bill and Ted flicks and Alex wrote, directed, and starred in one of the funniest movies you could ever rent, FREAKED. Any movie about circus freaks that stars Keanu Reeves as Juan the Dog Boy and Mr. T as the Bearded Lady has to be good.
I didn't rip him. I dig the guy. I simply said that Wilson seems to be doing a bad Alex Winters imitation with every role.
Chiusano