“He was a gentle, gentle creature,” Pine begins. “Many people in this business with that kind of career and pedigree can walk onto a set and sometimes you feel like the air is taken out of the room. He never required that kind of a space.”
“He was a very Zen, quiet, beautiful man,” he adds. “Very observant. There was a scene in the first film where I meet Spock Prime and he tells me about my father. There’s so much waiting around on set. There’s obviously a lot of time when you’re acting across from from someone, but really more often than not you’re just sitting in a director’s chair shooting the shit. We talked about art, we talked about photography, we talked about his philanthropy, we talked about travel, we talked about food. He was a renaissance man of the highest order, but what I always appreciate, and what I’m not really practicing now, is that men of few words really don’t have to say much to convey a tremendous amount of empathy, of intelligence, of presence. He’s a man that listened well.”
It’s like you captured everything I thought in real time. The only one you missed was OF COURSE HE WON’T LEAVE ANYONE BEHIND HAVE YOU EVEN MET THIS PIE?
and the whole family loved it. Pine is definitely the star of that show…
I just got back from taking my son and his friend. They loved it, too! I loved it a second time 😉
Find it interesting that on rottentomatoes, the critic score stays just underneath the border but the viewer’s score goes slowly up.
Yeah… though I often find myself at odds with critics, so I don’t always pay much attention to them. If they rave about something, I’ll often find it interesting, but if critical reviews are middling to negative, I’ll often reserve my own judgement. I really loved Pine’s performance, as well as some of the others’.
What I found less than perfect was the cuts between the three stories (the ship, the boat and the town), but I don’t really see how that could have worked differently. What I particularly liked was the diversity in casting – the characters looked so different that it was easdy to follow who was whom and what their story was. I think what I liked best was simply Pine playing a very different character than anyone he has played before, a shy and gentle unassuming guy trying just to do the right thing. I liked it.
I frequently disagree with critics, so I mostly ignore them!
Oh, and I hated nearly all of the previews they ran before thfilm (except for “The Jungle Book”, which I am going to see as soon as its playing). The rest was a bunch of sentimental crap and really bad looking fantasy. Ugh.it
Was that it? The cuts between the stories? I really couldn’t quite put my finger on it. I loved the diversity too (diversity here meaning everyone is white–it’s New England in the 50s–but at least they all didn’t look like models). I too found it easy to keep track of everyone, despite there being only two girls in the story.
I loved Pine’s portrayal, and that it was so different from other things I’ve seen him in. I also really enjoyed Affleck’s role. Reluctant leader might be a kink of mine.
Chris Pine outside Good Morning America. 1.27.16 [hq]
where the fuck does he find those tiny cups???
He is such a beautiful man, and he has earned a lot of money so why does he prefer to wear shabby chic?
I’m guessing its because he is so in his head, he’s forgets all about real life. He can play the game when it matters; just right now (and most days) it doesn’t matter to him. What is happening in his mind is the priority. He probably forgets pens behind his ears or his sunglasses on his head (which is why they are alwaysin his shirt collar, so he doesn’t lose them (as often)).
Fabulous actors, reading to children. Cute! Chris Pine, Gwen Stefani, Max Greenfield, Eric Stonestreet and more joined the 3rd annual Milk & Bookies. The event, held at the Skirball Cultural Center, encourages kids to read by having actors read for them. Umm, yes please!
Pine developed the sort of wide-ranging curiosity not found in kids who crave the spotlight from birth. On the Boardwalk, he questions a couple of tourists about their Holga cameras. He wants to know how Robert Moses’s public-works projects affected the economic development of Coney Island. He engages our cabdriver, an Albanian Kosovar, in a discussion of how things stand in the Herzegovinian city of Mostar, which Pine and a friend recently visited on a trip that also included a stop at Auschwitz. (GQ Man Of The Year)
Being a part of this fandom been such a pleasant surprise.
You watch a movie or a show, and you think “wow, I like that actor”. Then you start actually paying attention to him or her and discover depth and a decent person, not some Hollywood douchebag. Then over the years, nor new fave just gets more and more interesting. Thank goodness for this; we are so fortunate!
Exactly what wildandwild said, just phrased differently 😉
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