The Big Picture · Review · Hall of Fame
May 14, 2020/ 87 min/ Sean Fennessey · Amanda Dobbins
Sean, Amanda, and Chris Ryan sit through Josh Trank's 'Capone,' then build a 10-film Tom Hardy Hall of Fame.
11 films across 2 segments.
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'Capone'Tom Hardy's new release
Josh Trank's return from director jail: Al Capone at the end of his life, dementia and decay under six inches of makeup. Amanda's a hard no, Chris sees a better movie buried in it, and even Sean can't fully zag on the poop-and-mania of it. Nobody puts it in the Hall of Fame.
The Tom Hardy Hall of Fame10 films, plus the Bane wing
Handsome Bob in Guy Ritchie's Russian-money crime ensemble. Evidence of the heartthrob Hardy could have been. Chris keeps it over The Drop because he rewatches it more.
Nicolas Winding Refn's theatrical account of Michael Peterson, the British inmate who renamed himself Charles Bronson. Hardy plays half of it straight into camera; for a lot of people it was their introduction to him.
Eames, the forger. On screen eight minutes and the movie should be about him. Amanda's peak Hardy; a faded Graham Greene diplomat calling everyone darling.
Ricki Tarr, the emotional center of the Le Carre adaptation and the last time Hardy really lets a character show you feeling. Only the wig gets in the way.
Fewer than 20 lines as one of two estranged MMA brothers opposite Joel Edgerton and Nick Nolte. Sean's best sports movie of the 2010s: a physical force that stays vulnerable and raw.
Bane. Redubbed into a mutant-dandy purr, eight monologues, huge and unnerving, funny despite itself. The Bane wing exists because of this.
90 minutes in a car, a Welsh concrete manager working the phones through one bad night. First real collaboration with Steven Knight. Proof a movie star can carry a whole film alone.
The title role, voice dubbed and half-masked, fitted into George Miller's chaos in eight-second pieces. The best action movie of the 2010s, and one of the great mask performances.
The RAF pilot, mostly masked, acting with his eyes while flying a vintage plane. That last shot on the beach is the whole case.
Eddie Brock doing id-versus-superego with himself, willing a slapstick alien-suit comedy into his biggest standalone hit. Not really good, and Sean doesn't care.
Also mentioned raised along the way
Considered for the Hall of Fame Black Hawk DownStar Trek NemesisLayer CakeMarie AntoinetteThick as ThievesThis Means WarLawlessThe DropChild 44LegendThe Revenant
In passing ChronicleFantastic FourCasino RoyaleSkyfallSnatchThe PropositionThe RoadHungerDriveA Clockwork OrangePulp FictionJackie BrownPrince of Persia: The Sands of TimeThe KraysDead RingersAdaptationThe Social NetworkTwinsA Star Is BornBraveheartThe Hunt for Red OctoberSaving Private RyanStar TrekThe Way BackStar Wars: The Last JediThe Road WarriorVenom: Let There Be CarnageTenet
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