Rewind back many years ago and I had just seen Se7en at a cinema in Derby. We left suitably impressed with the film and the actors...only that we differed in who we thought was the better actor. On one hand my mates thought that Brad Pitt was the best, and on the other I thought it was Morgan Freeman who gave the best performance (I seem to remember I used the phrase he had 'acted Pitt off the screen'). Fast forward to the present...and I've got to admit 'they' were right afterall. In the last year Pitt has appeared in the brilliant 'the Assassination of Jessie James by the coward Robert Ford' a very subtle and errie performance, whilst Morgan Freeman...just does...'the Morgan Freeman thing', as I like to call it. Basically he's just playing a version of himself, charismatic maybe, but still playing himself nevertheless. As bad as I feel about it I'm beginning to get annoyed by his acting...he's become the Sean Connery of America. This opinion hasn't changed after I saw Gone Baby Gone, where yet again Morgan plays a cop...zzzzzzzzzz...come on man, you can do better...do something different!
Currently watching: the Third Part of the Night
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