I thought he was pretty good in Malice and esp. in Glengarry, Glenn Ross.
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Alec Baldwin to quit acting?
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Get your hands on his Saturday Night Live DVD, it's freaking HILARIOUS TO NO END.
Like someone else said, he's one of the best guest hosts SNL has ever had, including the likes of Tom Hanks and Steve Martin. He's got brilliant comedic timing, his dead pans are perfect and he'll put himself in virtually any comedic position to get a laugh. He can break down a five minute monologue that has the audience rolling on the floor without so much as a hint that he's not 100% serious.
I'd like to see him and Jane Lynch talk dirty to one another just to see who'd laugh first, like a dead pan staring contest.
I don't think Baldwin is anything special. Every now and then he can hit one out of the ballpark, but he's as good as picking bad movies as Nicolas Cage, Sandra Bullock and Charlie Sheen.
I thought he turned down Patriot Games to do Streetcar.
Fun fact, Kevin Costner turned down Red October to make some movie about buffaloes instead.
I thought he turned down Patriot Games to do Streetcar.
Fun fact, Kevin Costner turned down Red October to make some movie about buffaloes instead.
Wouldn't he have to start acting in order to quit it?
^ For the win. 
Kidding aside, though, Alec Baldwin can almost always make me laugh.
So wait just a Lexington Avenue Line minute here...he says he's quitting acting because 1) he feels his performance doesn't drive the film, and 2) the films aren't a massive success. So basically he wants attention, isn't that right? He wants films which are a success BECAUSE OF HIM.
*pause*
There, that felt better.
*pause*
There, that felt better.
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Well they may as well just set 2012 as the end date for 30 Rock then. 30 Rock without Alec Baldwin isn't 30 Rock.
If he considers himself a failure as a headliner for a film, he's had a good career as a character actor. I enjoyed his (brief) performance in The Departed, for example.
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I think he was funny in "The Departed"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r46JtPDtqAk
Especially when he goes berserk on that guy because they set up a camera in a blind spot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjZdNajrYaQ
Now wait just a Flushing Meadows Park minute here... that almost sounds similar to some guy from Nebraska constantly inserting conversationally awkward New York non sequiturs into his posts so he can get attention by desperately trying to appear to be part of the New York lifestyle, whatever that is (though it apparently consists of being displaced in time and measuring your minutes differently from everyone else).
Your rebuttal is forbidden from mentioning the Bleacher Creatures or Katz's Deli. The P'Zone is still allowed though, because Pizza Hut has nothing to do with New York pizza. It's not even the same genus.
Seriously though, stop it. No one talks like that, especially not people from New York. Don't make me get Alec Baldwin to make an irate phone call to your house (and it will be long distance, because he'll actually be calling from New York, where you're not at).
I have enjoyed most every role he has been in. But Isn't he still politically motivated on some some subjects?....what if he is gonna run for an office?
This may be true, I'm no Alec Baldwin fan and I haven't seen much of his work, but I really like his performance in Prelude to a Kiss. All of it. The character goes through a lot of changes and his acting runs the gamut with a surprising amount of sometimes quite subtle emotional displays.
MeanJoePhaser
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As leading man material, his looks got too dumpy... he aged like a normal person. There's no Harrison Ford, pushing-70, still ruggedly handsome appearance to him.
And I think political activism may have hurt his acting image. He was either known more for that or as Mr. Kim Basinger (for as long as that lasted) than being a major Hollywood actor.
I like that he's actually amused by TEAM AMERICA.
And I think political activism may have hurt his acting image. He was either known more for that or as Mr. Kim Basinger (for as long as that lasted) than being a major Hollywood actor.
I like that he's actually amused by TEAM AMERICA.
Those were great scenes, but I thought Mark Whalberg's were the funniest.
I think he was funny in "The Departed"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r46JtPDtqAk
Especially when he goes berserk on that guy because they set up a camera in a blind spot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjZdNajrYaQ
Noticed a reference to Baldwin's Glengarry Glen Ross role in tonight's 30 Rock.