That man is halfway to GOAT status.

Two of my favorites. Pretty incredible she did both of those before she was 14 years old.

🤷 oops

Incredible. I’m not familiar with the name, but gosh with a resume like that, it’s sad that we don’t all know that story.

Wow you’re right. You win. Although he’s maintained a great career, that’s gotta be in the top debuts of all time. I was blown away the first time I saw Primal Fear.

The Quiet American was over twenty years ago. I’m not sure anything he did between that and The Whale was any good. Unless you’re one of those Crash fans, in which case more power to ya.

Big would like a word 😂 but Tom Hanks was pretty much unbeatable in the early-mid 90s

I hadn’t thought much farther back, but that’s a great addition. Mary Poppins and Sound of Music were both huge hits, and those were ostensibly her first feature film roles. Crazy how so many pop up seemingly overnight and then just vanish a couple years later.

I agree. As a kid I’d never heard of him until Lethal Weapon 4 and I thought he was the most badass dude I’d ever seen. Then I saw Black Mask, which was awesome. And then it just seemed like it was nothing but crap after crap 😢

Haha great. And then twenty years of nothingness to an Academy Award. What a story.

Awesome. I didn’t consider young actors. So happy for Ke Huy right now.

Haha all good. That was definitely the first other name I thought of too!

Yeah, I mentioned him in the post 😉 that is an unbeatable filmography. Truly one of a kind.

Heh, yeah I’m probably being hyperbolic. Mostly thinking about actors leading good films and then just suddenly not.

oh I like it, those are two great films, but Eddie didn’t really come out of nowhere, he was already a star. But definitely an awesome pair of first films

It has a fabulous aesthetic. It’s a good story. Rutger Hauer is really great. It’s a full and complete world. It has a killer soundtrack. But I do think the movie has some pacing and plotting issues; it doesn’t live up to the insanely high quality of the visuals and vibe.

She is great and has been for a long time as long as her or Blanchett win I will be happy

5 minutes? Best part of the movie

They do in dark comedies, you know, like the ones you asked for? 😉

Nice semantics. It is a dark comedy. It is brooding and dark and also quite funny and poignant. I thought that’s what you asked for?

LOL. First you definite “comedy” and then “dark” but somehow miss the connector DARK COMEDY which is also EXACTLY what you wanted. In Bruges is one of the great “dark humor crime comedy” films.

Black comedy, also known as dark comedy, morbid humor, gallows humor, or dark humor is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss.

Not sure what your definition of “dark comedy” is but I’ll roll with this one, and I think this sums up In Bruges perfectly.

A deceitful trailer?!

Really though, In Bruges is one of the great dark comedy crime films. Didn’t you get exactly what you want?

I saw the first Borat opening weekend in a packed theater and oh my god it was one of the funnest experiences of my life, that contagious atmosphere made me laugh uncomfortably hard the whole time, I’m surprised I didn’t suffocate or have a heart attack or something.