From a series of interviews with video store clerks in The Albuquerque Tribune:
Now, if the choice is root canal or Brad Pitt Film Festival, then I’ve got to go with the root canal. In every freakin’ movie, he’s just atrocious. Have you noticed that in every single movie, he uses three fingers to point at things? Every single one. ‘Troy,’ ‘Fight Club,’ whatever, he uses three fingers to point. What’s up with that?”
Pitt was actually great in 12 Monkeys, which is an excellent sci-fi movie starring Bruce Willis. mjh
He wasn’t bad in The Mexican. I could sit through that again.
I thought he did all right in “Seven Years in Tibet,” although I might be biased by my fascination of Tibetan culture….and Argentinian mountain locations.
Off subject here, I thought “Kundun” was a much better movie.
He was perfect in “A River Runs Through It,” plus I also enjoyed his performance in “Meet Joe Black.” And, granted it was a bit part, but he certainly fit the part in “Thelma and Louise.”
Yeah, if you’re compiling lists of “people who became huge movie stars despite having no discernible acting ability” and “movie stars who use the same hackneyed mannerisms in every movie,” I think Pitt would be pretty far down either list. My such lists, by the way, would start with Harrison Ford and Julia Roberts.
John Wayne easily tops both of those lists Jill mentioned. Charleton Heston isn’t far behind.