- #INDECENT PROPOSAL 1993 MOVIE REVIEW ROLLING STONE PROFESSIONAL#
- #INDECENT PROPOSAL 1993 MOVIE REVIEW ROLLING STONE TV#
The Grand is a Christopher Guest movie that’s been kicked in the head by a mule a couple of times, an entirely improvised comedy about the World Series of Poker tournament back when half of the movies being made seemed to be about professional poker. There isn’t a single actor in this movie (Pierce Brosnan, Salma Hayek, Don Cheadle, Harrelson) who didn’t play a more interesting version of their character both before and after this film. A fish-out-of-water premise as hackneyed as this probably wouldn’t have worked even with the best execution, but this movie is barely even trying.Īnother of Harrelson’s “I’ll take this role so I can hang out in a tropical location for a couple of months” excursions - this time it’s the Bahamas - this empty, dumb Brett Ratner “action comedy” is one of those special movies that seems to vanish from the brain while you are watching it. The movie’s approach to comedy is perhaps best illustrated by the poster, which features Harrelson and Sutherland on horseback in the middle of traffic in New York City, looking befuddled. Part of the post– White Men Can’t Jump “just put Harrelson with a dissimilar actor and call it a buddy comedy” period, The Cowboy Way might be the worst of them, with Harrelson and Kiefer Sutherland as a couple of New Mexico rodeo stars who travel to New York City to solve the murder of one of their best friends. We know Harrelson was just playing along here, but … yikes. Which is why it’s probably safe to blame Adam Sandler and company for the ugliness of his walk-on performance here as a “she-male” picked up by Jack Nicholson to seduce Sandler, who of course is cartoonishly disgusted. Harrelson can play broad comedy as well as anyone, but it’s always with a warm-hearted spirit: You always sense he loves the characters he plays. Harrelson is one of a gaggle of dumb bank tellers who all decide to rob their bank on the same day, separately, and he’s wearing a silly mustache and an ugly tie and appears to be only vaguely aware of what is going on.
Released in six theaters, two years after it was filmed, for only three days, Scorched is one of those movies everyone involved (including John Cleese, Alicia Silverstone, and Rachael Leigh Cook) forgets they were even in by the time it’s released. It is still pretty mind-blowing that this movie exists. Harrelson plays McConaughey’s manager in the film, but he’s really just showing up, smoking some weed, and acting like an idiot like everybody else.
The apex of that stage was this stoner comedy, which he produces and stars in - though it rather obviously is just an excuse for McConaughey to hang out with his friends, namely Willie Nelson and Harrelson. But we can’t wait to see how he’ll surprise us next.īefore the McConaissance, Matthew McConaughey was just a guy who smoked a lot of weed, played some naked bongos, and had a career midlife crisis. And we lament that we missed his livestreamed movie Lost in London.
#INDECENT PROPOSAL 1993 MOVIE REVIEW ROLLING STONE TV#
Of note: We omitted bit parts (sorry Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me), animated flicks, and TV movies, which is a shame: He’s terrific in Game Change. In the spirit of that stellar run, we’ve ranked Harrelson’s 50-plus movie roles, from worst to best. And, don’t forget, he also landed an Oscar nomination for his work in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. The last few years have been a renaissance for the man, who’s scored major roles in LBJ, The Glass Castle, War for the Planet of the Apes, Wilson, Solo and this last weekend’s Midway. You could never pin him down after that: In comedies, dramas, lighthearted romps, and deeply dark thrillers, Harrelson is always doing something a little bit different than what anyone could have reasonably expected him to. After the mainstream success of White Men Can’t Jump and Indecent Proposal, he took on the impossible role of Mickey in Natural Born Killers.
It meant instant stardom for Harrelson, and he could have, on a succession of increasingly lame television shows, spent the next 30 years playing wacky dolts who never understand anybody’s jokes.īut from the beginning, Harrelson was ambitious and quixotic. Harrelson scored the role of a lifetime as the replacement for Coach on Cheers, a show that was already hugely popular and just getting started. In an alternate (and much worse) universe, Woody Harrelson is one of the forgotten ones, like, say, Marc Price, the actor who played Mallory’s dim-witted boyfriend Nick on Family Ties. This story was originally published in 2018 and has been updated to include Harrelson’s most recent work.
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