He’s almost the anti-Will Hunting in a way.
In Good Will Hunting, everyone tells Will to leave town and chase his dreams.
Roger Ebert compares Rounders to a traditional sports film and he’s not entirely wrong.
Worm (Edward Norton) is the punch in of character you usually don’t get in movies.
He’s not a bad guy but does shitty and selfish things.
He’s not a good guy and has no redemption in the movie at all.
I don’t know how to feel about Edward Norton’s career.
He’s been nominated for three Oscars (and hasn’t won).
But I feel like his career didn’t live up to what the expectations were.
He was really supposed to be the next De Niro.
Norton is also someone that may be too smart for his own good.
He started to get more and more controlling on sets and wanting to change screenplays.
People started to not wanting to work with him anymore.
I’m not sure how I’d even describe his current career.
Watching him in this, you are so quickly reminded how great of an actor he is.
In a normal movie, the Joey Knish character wouldn’t have cleaned his hands of Mike McD.
But it felt realistic.
Other characters like Mike well enough but money almost always comes first with these people in this world.
In a bizarre way, that cold authenticity makes the movie work.
I know some people are split on John Malkovitch’s performance as Teddy KGB.
I personally love it.
I know it’s wild overacting and the accent is so bizarre but it works for me.
He’s the ideal bad guy.
Finally, we all agree that there is no way Matt Damon just lets Famke Janssen leave that apartment.
That’s just stupid.
I can’t defend that.
Out Of Sight
36.
Carlito’s Way
37.
Wayne’s World
45.
Back To The Future Part III
47.
A Bronx Tale
48.
The People Vs. Larry Flynt
49.
Eyes Wide Shut
50.
The Green Mile
54.
Man On The Moon
55.
Boyz N The Hood
56.
Grosse Pointe Blank
57.
The Talented Mr. Ripley
63.
The Usual Suspects
65.
In The Line Of Fire
66.
My Cousin Vinny
67.
The River Wild
79.
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?
Stir Of Echoes
82.
Mission: Impossible
83.
For Love Of The Game
86.
Being John Malkovich
87.
Men In Black
88.
Glengarry Glen Ross
92.
Die Hard With A Vengeance
93.
The Blair Witch Project
94.
Any Given Sunday
99.
The Wedding Singer
100.
