BAMF Of The Week: Benicio Del Toro

BENICIO DEL TORO

"I'm not Jack Nicholson. I'm not Brando. But I do mumble."

Remember BAMF Of The Week? Yeah, me neither. Kevin Smith is apparently the BAMF of the month. Which, frankly, works for me. He pwns. In any case, I decided to finally give someone else a chance to shine. Someone's who's been a little down in the gutter recently thanks to some crap career choices. But I'm here to give the man a little history and remind him we love him anyway. It's the funny looking mug. The gruff grumble. The way he just always seems whacked out, no matter what he's doing. Naturally, he does best as the strung out fuck up of a character who we admire for the sole reason that he's somehow still alive. Even when he does play a somewhat "normal" and level headed character, you get the feeling there's something bubbling under the surface, something devious deep inside him itching to get out. I can't really figure out what it is, it's just something about his general person that makes him the perfect candidate for those characters with sharp edges. This is something of a self-serving post of mine, because the thing is, as much as I love Toro, I also haven't seen enough of his movies. So any suggestions thrown my way will be rewarded with a ride out of Bat Country.

Best Films: Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas (1998), Snatch (2000), 21 Grams (2003), Sin City (2005)

Best Moment: Getting electrocuted in the bathtub by an orange.

Worst Moment: The Wolfman (2010). Why?

Best Quotes: "As your attorney, I advise you to take a hit out of the little brown bottle in my shaving kit." (Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas)

"I am not in Rome. I am in a rush." (Snatch)

"You want to see it? You wanna see what I got?"
I've seen all shapes, all sizes. 
[Pulls gun] "You seen this one?" (Sin City)

EDIT: I followed everyone's advice and watched 21 Grams. Best advice ever! That bitch is up on the list. Not only was it an excellent movie period, but Benicio Del Toro blew that shit out of the park.

Badass Blogging.

Because whoring is love.

In effort to lick the hand that feeds me, I've decided to be a good person and give back to the blogging community. Besides, I've read some really badass posts this week (and it's only Tuesday!), and I got so psyched about them I kind of had to pimp them. And so, here's a couple lovely little posts I recommend everyone check out, in no particular order.

1. Alex from Film Forager gives a review of the most excellent movie, Battle Royale (2000). Just reading this makes me need to see Mitsuko beat some heads in again.

2. Tim from Post-Mortem Depression gives a list of all the seven horror movie sins, AKA, everything about a bad horror movie that makes you want to stab your own eyes out. A great list of how-to-nots which every horror movie writer must adhere to and every horror movie watcher must chuckle over.

3. CS from Big Thoughts From A Small Mind gives us a couple movies to look forward to: Happythankyoumoreplease (2011), and Of Gods And Men (2010). I haven't seen Of Gods And Men, so this is new news to me, but I am so intrigued after seeing that French dickhead from the Matrix.

4. BJ-C from Day Of The Woman has deemed February Woman Of Horror Recognition Month. I'm looking forward to some kickass chicks this month!

5. Andrew from Encore's World of Film & TV gives a much needed lesson on the meaning of "ensemble acting", and gives five very appropriate choices for "Best Ensemble Cast" of the year.

6. It's officially February! Which means on the BlogalongaBond calendar, it's time for the second Bond film. From Russian With Love (1963), here I come!

Th-th-th-th-th-that's all, folks!