Best Jack

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Poll question: Best Jack

[SofaKingLiberal]

1. Other- "A Few Good Men"

[Droopy]

2. They're all good

Although I voted for Cuckoo's Nest. You can't go wrong with a Jack flick.

[CanuckAmok]

3. For versatility, you just can't beat:

The Hi-Lift.

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4. A few words from Shana Ting Lipton

http://www.shanatinglipton.com/blog/jack-off-films.html

But I would venture to say that ol’ wicked Jack is at his best when the roles are toned down and real. That’s when he’s really at home, really himself. One such psychologically maladroit lothario that he played was Jonathan Fuerst in the “bridge era” (’tween 60’s-70’s) study of sex and the thoroughly fucked up American man, “Carnal Knowledge.”

In this one, he and cohort Art Garfunkel spend the best years of their lives, from college on, pal’ing around, picking up ladies, cheating on them, dumping them, etc. Like many of the more realistic Jack-off cinematic works, this one takes the audience through his fall from grace showing how it began. In this case, Sandy (Garfunkel) and Jack’s character both fell in love with the same woman, Susan (Candice Bergen) and she ended up going with Garfunkel’s character because she didn’t take Jack seriously. So we see his misogynistic attitude of objectifying women like Anne Margaret and then treating them (and her) like garbage continue through the years. The finale: he’s showing Garfunkel and his latest underage girlfriend a slide show he made of the women in his life, coyly entitled, “Ballbusters on Parade.”

I recently added another “bridge era” Jack-off film to my repertoire, “Five Easy Pieces.” This one is perhaps the cherry on top of the Jack-off film sundae. Jack is so unlikable in this film that I almost like him. The story (by Bob Rafelson) is actually really sad. Jack plays Robert Dupea a guy who works construction, drinks beer, hangs out with low-lifes and has a girlfriend (the amazing Karen Black, one of my favorite actresses of the era) who is a sweet but dim-witted waitress who he cheats on her every chance he gets. He and his buddies don’t have any goals in life, other than bowling, screwing and getting a paycheck.

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5. "Five Easy Pieces"

for the above scene alone, though I fully enjoy the whole deal.


"Keep on tellin' me about the good life, Elton, 'cause it makes me puke!"

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7. Plus the scene where they pick up the 2 female hitchhikers!

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8. God, yeah.

Helena Kallianiotes (sees crap everywhere) was brilliant. And Toni Basil (yes, "Hey, Mickey!") as her sidekick.

Beautiful.

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9. I didn't know for a long time that they were lovers (in the story)

supposedly, anyway

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6. Five is the best. About Schmidt has moments. Cuckoo's Nest is a travesty

a complete shredding of the book.

[SteppingRazor]

12. True about Cuckoo's Nest, but how do you translate the book to film?

Since so much of it happens in the narrator's mind?

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10. Kick for Truth and Beauty

[bridgit]

11. went with The Shining as a stock response though all Jack is good...

liked him big time in: Chinatown, A Few Good, Wolf (yeah, i know = whatever), Missouri Breaks, etc...Jack is a national treasure B-)

[Politically_Wrong]

13. "As Good As It Gets"

Jack's performance in that movie was, in my opinion, spectacular! It quickly became one of my favorite movies because of him!

[LaraMN]

14. Easy:

[Oeditpus Rex]

18. You win

I wanna hug JackMN to pieces. I lack that impulse with Nicholson.



(I also love that you named him Jack instead of Jason or Justin or Connor or any of the other "trendy" names. "Jack" is a good, solid name.)

[Burma Jones]

15. Little Shop of Horrors, 1960

what a great turn as the masochist...

Seriously though, Cuckoo's Nest would get my vote.....

[leftofthedial]

16. I watched "Wolf" last night

that was a pretty fun role too.

[hippiechick]

17. YOU FORGOT THIS ONE !!!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057569/


:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[kwassa]

19. Chinatown, Easy Rider, The Last Detail,

[ChoralScholar]

20. You forgot "Three's Company"

R.I.P. John Ritter

[AngryAmish]

21. New Jack

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Young_(wrestler)>

[ET Awful]

22. Oh come on . . . EASY RIDER!!!!!

Oh, oh, I've got a helmet. I've got a beauty.

[Oeditpus Rex]

23. I was gonna say that, too

until JackMN stole my li'l ol' heart. :loveya:



Well, boys... here's the first of the day, to ol' D.H. Lawrence.

aaaAAAHHH! NIK! NIK! NIK! VOOP! VOOP! VOOP! Ahhhhhhhh! INdians!

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25. Hehehe, that whole flapping arm thing when he sips the whiskey

is freakin' hysterical.

BUT, you're right, little JackMN rocks :P

[maveric]

24. "The Last Detail" is one of the funniest movies ever!

Jack was great, as was a young Randy Quaid.
"Everyone's old enough for a beer".