Truly awful: Marlon Brando in "The Island of Dr. Moreau" (1996)
rampf
Watch him converse with Val Kilmer, whose turn as Moreau's
addled right-hand man is a wonder of oddities unto itself,
and you see the machinery required to act on-screen -- he
says his lines, he moves his body and he gives the
impression of engagement but he's just not there. One
cannot blame him for being disinterested -- at this point,
did Brando have anything left to prove? -- but instead of
merely slumping through the picture, Brando adds what can
only be called flourishes to Moreau that elevate his
performance from offbeat to truly and completely bizarre...
Continued: http://tr.im/BrandoMoreau
Director's cut (!!?): http://tr.im/MoreauDirectors
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David Oberman
>(La Times) - The problem is that Brando is clearly bored.
He wanted to co-star in "The Island of Jeanne Moreau," but the suits
misheard him.
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I intend to go to town on Saturday & to return here by
Sunday evening or Monday morning. I therefore ask you to
inquire at Dr. Bach's at what hour he can usually be seen
at present, also to obtain the key from our honourable
brother the baker, so as to ascertain whether the room
owned by that gentleman, our unbrotherly brother, contains
so much furniture that I could spend the night there.
-- Beethoven, to nephew Karl, Baden 31 May 1825
Endymion9
The 1996 version, was really hard to sit thru. Truely awful.
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Mark
than Marlon Brando. 90% plus of his output is pure garbage.
really real
> There is no more supposedly "great" actor who made more bad movies
> than Marlon Brando. 90% plus of his output is pure garbage.
I have to disagree. Brando only got awful at the end of his career. I
bet Laurence Olivier made as many bad movies.
Howard Brazee
wrote:
>There is no more supposedly "great" actor who made more bad movies
>than Marlon Brando. 90% plus of his output is pure garbage.
I would say though that the most disappointing "great" author this way
is Olivier.
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Kerrison
There's only one version of The Island of Dr Moreau worth watching and
that's the Charles Laughton version of 1932 where H. G. Wells's novel
was re-named The Island of Lost Souls. It's all on You Tube in
segments but here's a sample scene to whet the appetite. Bela Lugosi
is also in the cast as one of the hairier monsters on offer.