Kurt Russell was incredible in this film. Loved every minute he was on screen. And when he wusses out after getting shot was priceless!!!
BTW, don't care if you don't agree so you can save your time.
"I don't want your watch, man. I want your friendship!" - Lightfoot
OMG yes he was all there was to it! And that hair! LOL!!!!!!!!
When he's sitting in the parking lot in the second part he looked like Snake Plissken again with those dark shades on and that was epic!
Yeah I thought he was totally cool in this, super creepy in the first half interacting with Butterfly... then his cry baby scenes when he was shot were so funny. Like his performance a lot! Don't know why everyone has such a problem with him crying over getting shot, I like how the the girls turned the tables on him.
shareYeah I thought he was totally cool in this, super creepy in the first half interacting with Butterfly... then his cry baby scenes when he was shot were so funny.
I was rooting for him the entire way through, no kidding
sharePretty much the only reason why I like this film.
Kurt. Fúcking. Russell
He's awesome in everything he does. It's great and refreshing to see him in a villainous role, too.
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"I learned that in prison, you like? You white trash piece-a shìt."
Whenever Kurt appeared in a scene the movie perked up from the dull drivel of the girls' shallow gabfests.
shareI remember years ago there was a Tom Cruise movie called "Vanilla Sky" and Kurt Russell was in it, pretty much as a "name co-star."
Russell wasn't the lead in the movie; Cruise was. And I watched their scenes together and thought: "So how come Tom Cruise is the superstar and Kurt Russell isn't?"
I still can't answer that -- and Cruise eventually had so many big hits he proved his worth -- but, for my money, its Kurt Russell who has the masculine, Old School macho chops that a generation of movie men once had.
Russell has had his share of cult classics, too:
Above all, The Thing, for John Carpenter. (But also Escape from New York, for Carpenter. And Elvis, for Carpenter. And Escape from LA , for Carpenter.)
And Tombstone. Yes, Val Kilmer steals the movie as Doc Holliday, but Doc Holliday is ALWAYS the scene stealing role in Earp/Holliday movies(see: Kirk Douglas, Dennis Quaid, Jason Robards.) I think Russell is the best of the Earps, nowhere better than when he yells down and slaps down a barroom card dealer played by a surprisingly plump Billy Bob Thornton(THOSE days are gone for Billy Bob.)
And Used Cars, a very funny, very mean 1980 comedy from Bob Zemeckis before he was a big deal, and with Spielberg as the producer. There's nobody from SNL in the movie, but Russell leads an unsung team(Gerritt Graham, Frank McRae) to gut-busting comedy glory.
Russell had decades of these kinds of roles when QT "rescued" him to play this extremely villainous, but extremely charismatic bad guy in Death Proof. And -- perhaps at cost to the box office -- QT went ahead and gave Russell a co-lead in The Hateful Eight(he's great, a really, really mean John Wayne.) And unseen(by me, yet) in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Speaking of John Wayne, watch Russell briefly do Wayne in Death Proof when he talks about how when a person says "In my book, you're OK"...and he really HAS a book.
Also, that weird moment where he has a sneeze coming on but...it never comes.
And that spooky moment when, after the first victim gets into his car, Rusell breaks the fourth wall and smiles at us.
And that great QT exchange:
Russell: Which way you going, darling, left or right?
Girl: Right.
Russell: Well, that's too bad. Because we're both going left. It was a 50/50 chance if we were going left or right. Now if you had been going left, you wouldn't be getting scared for awhile longer. But since you were going right, and we ARE going left, you are going to have to start getting scared...immediately.
(Or something like that.)
And yes...best of best..how the macho man psycho turns into a crying baby after getting shot in the arm by his female prey.
Kurt Russell, cult superstar.
agreed 100%, he is REALLY good here
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