What was that film in which William Hurt didn't seem bored and depressed?

[Orrex]

Anybody?

Hello?



Anyone?

[AlCzervik]

1. Vantage Point, maybe.

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. That was the same film in which Robert Mitchum actually changed expression.

You have to go frame-by-frame, but it's there.

[Orrex]

5. His face moved in Scrooged

But he also turned his head at around the same time, so maybe it was just gravity.

[mitchum]

17. Why fuck with perfection?

:)

[Orrex]

24. And all this time I thought that you named yourself after the deodorant!

Learn something new every day!

:hi:

[mitchum]

26. It's an antiperspirant!

:)

[Lincolngirl]

3. Kiss of the Spider Woman?

Not depressed or bored in that one!

[Orrex]

4. That's the one! Raul Julia has that effect on people...

And welcome to DU, by the way! :hi:

[Lincolngirl]

7. Thank you

Appreciate it!

:hi:

[noonwitch]

6. Body Heat? He certainly didn't seem bored in that movie.

Hottest R-rated movie I was allowed to watch on HBO as a teen.

[Orrex]

8. Forgot about that one--good call.

I think that he also appeared to be interested in Altered States, but he was probably just annoyed that Ah-Ha would later copy his down-the-hall scene in their Take on Me video.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

19. Body Heat was HOT.

And he definitely was neither bored nor depressed (at least until the end).

[baldguy]

9. Bored and depressed is his schtick.

They hire him to do bored and depressed.

[kentauros]

10. Bis ans Ende der Welt

"Until the End of the World"

Hell, he even gets into a decent fist-fight with Sam Neill!

[Orrex]

25. Hell, who hasn't wanted to get into a decent fist-fight with Sam Neill?

"This is for Bicentennial Man, you bastard!"

[LynneSin]

11. "A History of Violence" he came across as crazy and a bit whiny

Got a Oscar Nomination for it

[Lincolngirl]

12. That one too.

How do you decide to go with a whiney mob boss? I never got that!

[Frank Cannon]

18. He was very good in that

AHOV was the one movie that convinced me that he actually could probably act.

[Dr. Strange]

13. Dune

He played a moderately bored and depressed Duke Leto Atreides.

[gmoney]

14. Broadcast News?

Very funny and charming in that one... oh that was William Hurt. :)

[tjwash]

15. I think he co-starred in that movie where Nicholas Cage wasn't whiney and moody

Can't remember the name of it though.

[Seeking Serenity]

16. Gorky Park?

He seemed more Russian in that one.

[Mike 03]

20. LOL, I can't think of one

I was going to say "Altered States," but upon further examination he is both in that. "Big Chill" doesn't qualify. His latest work, "Syriana," doesn't qualify.

I'm at a loss.

[Orrex]

21. His latest work IIRC is The Incredible Hulk

And even in the face of a ton of gamma-irradiated fury, he still manages to be bored and depressed.

[McCamy Taylor]

22. Altered States? Eyewitness? Children of a Lesser God? Lost City?

William Hurt is bored and depressed because he is a better actor with more charisma and a better voice than almost any of the other actors with whom he is forced to work. I have not seen him in anything that has challenged him in years.

[Orrex]

23. Wait--let me kiss his ring

I liked him in Smoke, but in anything else I don't find him particularly charismatic. And it's no good playing the "too cool for school" card, because it doesn't hold water; plenty of actors are plenty good, and somehow they manage to mix up their performances now and then.

YMMV, of course.

[busybl]

27. there was one??