You know thngs have been tame when the best thing I have to talk about is a Macaulay Culkin movie. My four day weekend coming up in Chicago should be more eventful.
Friday night I went straight home after work, hung out with AC and went to bed.
Saturday, ran six miles, then me and AC ordered a pizza and rented some movies. We watched Party Monster. Seth Green is in it and he’s fuckin’ awesome as this gay, New York, club kid. Fully committed to charcated from the word go, he pretty much walks away with the enitre movie. And Macaulay Culkin was… well lets just say I think Rory and Kieran got all the talent in the family.
Rory and Kieran Culkin have been kicking ass and taking names in some really good movies like, Signs, The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, and Igby Goes Down. Meanwhile, Macaulay isn’t even talented enough to play opposite his own younger brothers. I’m sure the idea was floated to cast Macaulay as the older brother in Igby, but thank God they didn’t.
I think he just got too famous and too powerful too soon, and never really had to learn how to act. His brothers, without a hit like Home Alone to coast on and a family name to live down, had to learn their craft. In Party Monster, you can see him trying get some of his brothers’ street cred, and it just doesn’t work. He isn’t believable for a second.
A word about stunt casting, it can kill a movie the same way good marketing kills a bad business. It gets you press, but often it destroys the movie. I feel about Culkin in Party Monster the way I felt abourt James Van Der Beek in Rules of Attraction. If you’re going to cast an actor against type, make sure he has range. Some actors get typecast for a good reason.