Given the recent news about Brangelina, let me tell you
about the weird infatuation I have with Brad Pitt.
First off, I mean, c’mon. Brad Pitt is a handsome man. So
let’s get that out of the way.
But after that, Pitt seems to have a taste in roles that
align perfectly with mine.
When I wrote my Top Ten Movies Of All Time post a few years
ago (which needs to be updated, but not by much, and not right now), I was a little shocked that he
stars in three of them—well, one in the top ten (Inglorious Basterds) and two
in the top twenty (Snatch and Se7en).
This all came about when, during the early days of Netflix
when you actually received small little discs in the mail, I had managed to
inadvertently watch three Brad Pitt movies in a row: Burn After Reading, Twelve
Monkeys, and The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford.
I’m also a sucker for heist movies, so him being in the
Ocean’s Eleven movies certainly helps. And being in two “economic” movies (The
Big Short and Moneyball) is also a plus.
Looking over his filmography, he’s probably one of the most
consistent actors with what I would want to watch—although I don’t know exactly
what that consistency is. There’s no underlying theme, except for maybe a bit
of sci fi and a bit of economics. And he’s certainly a good actor, although I
wouldn’t say he’s the greatest. I haven’t seen everything he’s been in, of
course, and some I know I won’t like, but it’s a little weird how one actor
orbits your favor, especially when he or she doesn’t stick to one specific
genre.I'm sure a lot of it is perfectly explainable--he's a bankable actor who gets in a lot of good movies most likely to be seen, but a lot of other actors fall into that, too.
So what I’m saying is that if we are basing whose side we
are on in the divorce based solely on the box office, I’m firmly in Brad’s
camp.
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