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For the uninitiated, it would be easy to look over the filmography of Australian director...
For the uninitiated, it would be easy to look over the filmography of Australian director...
- 5/24/2024
- by Brett Buckalew, Mark Keizer, Don Lewis, Ian Spelling, Luke Y. Thompson, Todd Gilchrist, Tara Bennett
- avclub.com
Jack Nicholson is missing in action. The star's last acting role was the 2010 rom com "How Do You Know," and aside from showing up in news stories about his personal life, he's seemingly done with the whole acting thing.
Since his last role, he's been heard to remark that his apparent retirement is down to the fact that he only wants to do "films that move people," and that he has a feeling that "maybe people in their twenties and thirties don't actually want to be moved anymore." In the age of the MCU and the general franchizification of movies, Nicholson seems to think that people want to see "more bombs" and "more explosions" and he's made clear he'll "never do that type of movie."
That all seems slightly at odds with his general reputation as a roguish trickster who can go from playing the murderous Jack in "The Shining,...
Since his last role, he's been heard to remark that his apparent retirement is down to the fact that he only wants to do "films that move people," and that he has a feeling that "maybe people in their twenties and thirties don't actually want to be moved anymore." In the age of the MCU and the general franchizification of movies, Nicholson seems to think that people want to see "more bombs" and "more explosions" and he's made clear he'll "never do that type of movie."
That all seems slightly at odds with his general reputation as a roguish trickster who can go from playing the murderous Jack in "The Shining,...
- 11/19/2022
- by Joe Roberts
- Slash Film
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