Peter O'Toole dead at age 81
12-15-13, 05:05 PM
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Re: Peter O'Toole dead at age 81
I'm not big on his filmography just cuz i like other actors more. But he was fucking amazing in a lot of stuff. Lawrence is the one that I'd love to see in that format. 2001 and Lawrence are my top 2 films that I'd love to see in their best format.
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12-15-13, 05:34 PM
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As far as I'm concerned he is unequalled as an actor in cinema, and I don't see that changing anytime soon. Absolutely shameful that he never won a competitive Oscar out of 8 nominations.
Feels like a perfect night to watch The Lion in Winter again.
Feels like a perfect night to watch The Lion in Winter again.
12-15-13, 06:47 PM
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Rip 
12-15-13, 06:59 PM
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It's one of my goals before I die. I had a chance to see it on the big screen this summer where the theater could actually apparently project 70mm, by they couldn't get a film print. It was still a pretty cool experience. I'd kill to see it in 70mm. That's one of those rare once-in-a-lifetime films that really affirms your faith in the power of cinema, but as extraordinary as everything around him is, it wouldn't work without his extraordinary performance at the center, and his first performance was something many actors don't get in their lifetimes. Many actors would've walked away after a performance of that caliber, but his career went on to he equally extraordinary. A true talent, with an amazing legacy. He'll be missed.
12-15-13, 07:37 PM
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The best actor I've ever seen. His least performances were hypnotic. I've seen more than one critic say that his roles in Becket and Lawrence were the best male performances ever filmed. An all-time startling talent.
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12-15-13, 09:37 PM
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My old film studies teacher always used to describe truly brilliant actors by saying they could "act with their eyes. O'Toole is just such an actor, he could could convey so much with just a look, and that's not even counting his body language. You could see that character and all of what Lawrence was and went through in O'Toole's piercing blue eyes.
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12-16-13, 12:08 AM
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Yeah I saw it at the AFI a few times this year, twice in 70 mm and once with the new DCP. For the second 70 mm showing I went just to be in the theater with it, even though I came in late and rested for a bit in the theater I just wanted to be there while it played.
And reading through this thread, that reminds me that I have My Favorite Year sitting here from Netflix, which I got for Joseph Bologna. I should see it soon.
And reading through this thread, that reminds me that I have My Favorite Year sitting here from Netflix, which I got for Joseph Bologna. I should see it soon.
12-16-13, 02:04 AM
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I was just watching King Ralph. I know it's just a goofy comedy, but O'Toole gave it a sense of class, and he was pretty funny in it as well.
12-16-13, 03:51 AM
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Just watched The Man From La Mancha with my mom two weeks ago. One of my very favorites... my mom didn't like it
RIP Mr. O'Toole
RIP Mr. O'Toole
12-16-13, 10:56 AM
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I don't know how many of you have seen NIGHT OF THE GENERALS (1967), but it's quite an underrated WWII thriller, in which O'Toole plays a high-ranking Nazi general who also just happens to be a serial killer of prostitutes. His LAWRENCE co-star, Omar Sharif, plays the military officer investigating the murders. I saw it on TV a long time ago and thought it was superb.
12-16-13, 10:59 AM
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"I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony." (Note written in his boyhood journals)
How right he was.
Peter O'Toole
How right he was.
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12-16-13, 02:34 PM
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Re: Peter O'Toole dead at age 81
I thought he was good as the asshole King in "Stardust" and the dirty old man in "Venus". 
I predict this thread will not be as big as Paul Walker's thread. 
I predict this thread will not be as big as Paul Walker's thread.
12-16-13, 02:40 PM
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I hate the way news headlines work. It's not "Peter O'Toole passes away at 81." It's "Peter O'Toole dead at age 81." Like he got hit by a fucking train or something. Or knocked back a few too many rails and have a whoopsy moment.
12-16-13, 02:45 PM
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