Hardy Boy
Walking past the big screen at Shaw House the past couple of weeks, the trailer for the new Reese Witherspoon movie caught my eye more than a few times. Looking like a romcom one moment and a spy thriller the next, I was rather perplexed about the exact premise of the movie, but I did not gave it much thought. Although I recognised Chris Pine, he just doesn't do much for me. And there's the other guy who reminds me of a Russian government agent. He does not do much for me either, no offence to the Russians.
Until yesterday, I finally decided to take a good look at the trailer. So it IS a romcom slash spy movie. A quick look at the cast list reveals that Tom Hardy IS the Russian government spy lookalike.
Tom Hardy as in Tom Inception's-Eames-I-can-be-anything-you-want-in-your-dreams Hardy. Hey! I liked that dude in Inception! Although he did not have the jaded-guilt-meets-eventual-catharsis thing going for Leo, the danger-smothering-underneath-boyishness JGL had or even the controlled-perplexed-hence-constant-contemplation-yet-not-wanting-people-realising-his-confusion way that Cillian Murphy portrayed his character, Eames is a character you go to for a bit of comic relief from an otherwise depthy movie.
Realising that he was in This Means War gave it a little bit of brownie points. Realising that he is playing the main villian Bane in Dark Knight Rises with Ah Bale is absolute brownie explosion!
*brownies flying all over the place*
He is definitely one of the new actors to look out for this year. Plus, he is actually kinda cute if you really look at him. He is kinda a mix of Chris Evans' boyish, dorkish handsomeness, Vin Diesel's tough guy don't-fucking-mess-with-me countenance, and the aura of intensity that Gerard Butler has in every of his roles. *"THIS IS SPARTA!!!" kicks random ugly dude into big neverending hole*
I imagining myself doing that everytime I think about Gerard Butler.
So yeah, I think Tom Hardy is pretty great. I am currently halfway through Bronson, one of his movies in 2008. And he is simply, for lack of a better word, brillant. Such versatility. He looks like a totally different person. Role immersion at it's very best.
Until yesterday, I finally decided to take a good look at the trailer. So it IS a romcom slash spy movie. A quick look at the cast list reveals that Tom Hardy IS the Russian government spy lookalike.
Tom Hardy as in Tom Inception's-Eames-I-can-be-anything-you-want-in-your-dreams Hardy. Hey! I liked that dude in Inception! Although he did not have the jaded-guilt-meets-eventual-catharsis thing going for Leo, the danger-smothering-underneath-boyishness JGL had or even the controlled-perplexed-hence-constant-contemplation-yet-not-wanting-people-realising-his-confusion way that Cillian Murphy portrayed his character, Eames is a character you go to for a bit of comic relief from an otherwise depthy movie.
Realising that he was in This Means War gave it a little bit of brownie points. Realising that he is playing the main villian Bane in Dark Knight Rises with Ah Bale is absolute brownie explosion!
*brownies flying all over the place*
He is definitely one of the new actors to look out for this year. Plus, he is actually kinda cute if you really look at him. He is kinda a mix of Chris Evans' boyish, dorkish handsomeness, Vin Diesel's tough guy don't-fucking-mess-with-me countenance, and the aura of intensity that Gerard Butler has in every of his roles. *"THIS IS SPARTA!!!" kicks random ugly dude into big neverending hole*
I imagining myself doing that everytime I think about Gerard Butler.
So yeah, I think Tom Hardy is pretty great. I am currently halfway through Bronson, one of his movies in 2008. And he is simply, for lack of a better word, brillant. Such versatility. He looks like a totally different person. Role immersion at it's very best.
posted by Keiia at 11:14 AM
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