Happy Birthday to Patrick Wilson

[Dollypop]

Posted: 7/3/09 at 8:29am

Best wishes to you, Patrick. May you and your family continue to be blessed with good health, great happiness and continued success.

Now, when are you coming back to Broadway?

Updated On: 7/3/09 at 08:29 AM

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 7/3/09 at 9:50am

Happy birthday, Patty! You're so talented that I still admire and respect you after that Phantom of the Opera movie!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/3/09 at 10:59am

My birthday gift to Mr. Wilson. Hope it helps.

[nealb1]

Posted: 7/3/09 at 11:20am

What's wrong with Patrick Wilson's acting? Each time I've seen him, he's been great.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/3/09 at 11:22am

Just my opinion that he's a cipher.

[nealb1]

Posted: 7/3/09 at 11:24am

What's a cipher?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/3/09 at 11:40am

Exactly!

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 7/3/09 at 11:42am

Happy Birthday to you and your smooth, perfect ass.

[nealb1]

Posted: 7/3/09 at 11:49am

Loved Patrick as Billy Bigelow in the National Tour of "Carousel" back in 1996. He was riveting!

Had "The Producers" not come out in 2001, perhaps "The Full Monty" would have played longer and won some Tony Awards. Patrick was wonderful in the show.

If you're referring to him in the film version of "Phantom," everyone in the film was on 1 level - except Minnie Driver's Carlotta. That had nothing to do with Patrick. That was the director's choice, not his.

So, what am I missing here regarding Patrick? What do you know that the rest of us don't?

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 7/3/09 at 12:02pm

No, I actually liked that movie and he did a good job... it's just the fact that his character was utterly ridiculous in terms of costume, movements, and facial expressions. My friends and I called him "Sir Pouncy Boots." Seeing as that was my first exposure to Patrick Wilson, it says a lot about his talent that I managed to completely change from ridiculing him to loving him!

[nealb1]

Posted: 7/3/09 at 12:10pm

Glad to hear that you'd never blame an actor for the director, directing them to do the character that way. That says a lot about you...not like most people on this board. :)

[Dollypop]

Posted: 7/3/09 at 12:23pm

Obviously Namo didn't see Patrick in ALL MY SONS. His scenes with John Lithgow crackled with electricity. The fact that both of these actors were overlooked by the Tony nominating committee last season is shameful. Absolutely shameful.

[nealb1]

Posted: 7/3/09 at 12:28pm

Yes, Patrick was wonderful in "All My Sons." It was a very powerful performance.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 7/3/09 at 12:31pm

I don't believe that nealb and I are agreeing on something.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/3/09 at 12:32pm

No, I couldn't force myself to that production of All My Sons. Not with that cast. Maybe if somebody paid me to go.

[nealb1]

Posted: 7/3/09 at 12:34pm

Well, without seeing Patrick in the show, I'm sure you'd agree that you can't really comment on his performance, either way.

Who in the cast didn't you like?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/3/09 at 12:36pm

I wasn't commenting on his performance (though I have no difficulty imagining it). I was merely explaining why Dollypop was correct in his assumption that I hadn't seen it.

[nealb1]

Posted: 7/3/09 at 12:37pm

Sorry, you missed it. It was a great show.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/3/09 at 12:39pm

Life is too short.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 7/3/09 at 12:39pm

Sorry you missed it. It was a great show.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/3/09 at 12:56pm

Here's the thing. I know that some people cause physical reactions in others. There are definitely actors who arouse my interest with their physical appearance and it clouds my assessment of their abilities.

Dollypop, you have been unabashedly in lust with Patrick Wilson since you first encountered him in the half-assed Oklablowme! revival. I recall you completely overlooking that production's prodigious shortcomings because you only had eyes for PW on these boards.

Personally, I don't get any sort of sex vibe off Wilson, because I don't think he has any. But none of us has any control over who turns us on and why.

Perhaps because he strikes me as neuter, I don't think it's a surprise each of the performances I've seen from him have been of milquetoast nothings who are ineffectual at best and pathetic victims at worst. Hey, he's working. Good for him! Some people somehow find him sexy. (Ugh. That mouth.) Even better!

But I can't convince myself he's got anything but average talent as I did for a long time with Jason Statham, for example. Eventually I had to admit he physically turned me on but there was no there there.

Maybe Wilson will develop some new tricks and skills as he ages and he can play interesting old men. But I predict it'll be more milquetoast nothings.

[sabrelady]

Posted: 7/3/09 at 1:39pm

I liked his performance in "Hard Candy" w Ellen Page.Just your average perv next door.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/3/09 at 1:48pm

Literally neutered. It's all he does.

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 7/3/09 at 2:40pm

I usually enjoy him.

But his performance in WATCHMEN was one of the most excruciatingly painful elements in a movie with MANY excruciatingly painful problems.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/3/09 at 2:49pm

Oh man, can you ever say that again, sticktopriest. When I consider that if anybody else on the planet known as Earth had played Wilson's role in Watchmen, the execrable performance of Matthew Goode as Ozymandias would forever be one of the cinematic nadirs of all time. But Patrick Wilson even managed to be worse than that. Again, Wilson called on simply for his ability to be impotent and he even mucked that up.

I wonder what a talented actor might have done?