Michael Fassbender

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Of course it's possible that " poor " BC is still in the normal category.
It seems like many people is kind of media damaged , and if a celebrity looks like normal people they call them fat, old looking and claim they have lot of wrinkles , small ...., small boobs and so on , but they compare them to photoshopped pix on the internet, not normal avarage people.

Like people who says Fassy looks so much older than his age.
He looks much older compared to botox faced HW stars, but not so much older compared to people in general.
 
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Blueberry12 said:
I like BC , esp. on Sherlock , but not really my type as a guy.


A comment from someone who´s seen Danny Boyle's Frankenstein:


"Having seen Cumberbatch in the altogether at the National I regret to announce that if he lay down naked in a forest clearing a squirrel might mistake his manhood for an acorn and bury it. I have no doubt the cool air conditioning didn't help, what with stage nerves and other stresses."



Poor guy...


Fassy doesn´t have to worry about the squirrels... :)
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That's just nasty! Poor Benedict. If Fassy had an acorn instead of the Fassdong, he probably would have an Oscar nod now.
 
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Blueberry12 said:
Of course it's possible that " poor " BC is still in the normal category.
It seems like many people is kind of media damaged , and if a celebrity looks like normal people they call them fat, old looking and claim they have lot of wrinkles , small ...., small boobs and so on , but they compare them to photoshopped pix on the internet, not normal avarage people.

Like people who says Fassy looks so much older than his age.
He looks much older compared to botox faced HW stars, but not so much older compared to people in general.
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ITA! Photoshop is the devil. However Michael does look a few years older than his actual age and I'm sure it has helped him become the character actor that he is now. If he was a actress, his career would have been over.

Here is an interesting story about Shame's Oscar snub.
Nominated for Nothing: Why 'Shame' should be recognized for more than the nude scenes

by Aly Semigran

Just about every year, brilliant movies are utterly ignored by the Oscars
. The Searchers, Groundhog Day, Persona, Breathless, Hoop Dreams, The Bourne Supremacy, King Kong, Casino Royale, Touch of Evil, Caddyshack, Mean Streets, The Big Lebowski — the Academy has a long history of overlooking comedies, action movies, horror flicks, hard-boiled genre pics, artsy foreign films, and documentaries that aren’t about World War II. This year, we’ll be taking a closer look at films that were too small, too weird, or perhaps simply too awesome for the Academy Awards. These are the Non-Nominees.
The Film: Shame, Steve McQueen’s haunting drama about a tortured New Yorker named Brandon Sullivan (a revelatory Michael Fassbender), a sex addict whose life begins to unravel even more when his equally self-destructive sister Sissy (a fragile Carey Mulligan) arrives in town. Yes, there are explicit sex scenes (plenty of them) and yes, there are shots of the breakout actor’s highly-publicized package (plenty of them), but it’s the harrowing story of a man struggling with his demons and an unforgivably snubbed performance by Fassbender that made it one of the most talked-about films of 2011.

Why it Wasn’t Nominated: While Oscar has never shied away from nominating performances in misery porn in the past (Closer, Requiem for a Dream, Revolutionary Road), Shame‘s literal misery porn proved to be too much for voters. The film is a bleak, joyless look into the life of someone who is bleak and joyless. But it wasn’t the chilly tone of the film or the excessive nudity or its tricky subject matter (which had been ineffectively tackled in the past by Hollywood with movies like Choke and Blades of Glory) that turned people off. And herein lies the problem with the major criticisms of Shame.
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One of the arguments that shrouded McQueen’s terrific, albeit depressing film with backlash was that Fassbender’s irrefutable handsomeness didn’t make him someone to feel sorry for. Rather, he was just a well-endowed, well-off Manhattanite with an enviable track record and an above-average sexual appetite. To insinuate that someone’s looks or wealth would make their addiction any less difficult is insulting enough as is, but Fassbender’s performance is one that you absolutely get lost in. His Brandon is a man of very few words, but we get close to a distant man when every twinge of doubt, regret, hopelessness, and fear flashes through his eyes. We know, thanks to Fassbender’s daring performance, that deep down, Brandon is not a bad man, just a terribly lost and conflicted one. As a viewer, you felt the urge to save him from himself, something we know only he could do and something he is simply incapable of. With all due respect to Mr. Dujardin and Mr. Clooney, this was a performance that sticks with you long after you see it.

Which brings up the other troublesome ro******* that kept many from giving Shame its proper credit: The mystery of Brandon and Sissy’s history. There’s no doubt that these two grew up in an environment that set the course for their tragic adult lives. Were they the children of addicts, doomed to repeat the cycle? Were they sexually abused? If we knew, would it have ultimately changed how we felt about them? Absolutely not. If anything, McQueen smartly chose to stay away from putting a convenient label on Brandon and Sissy to identify their behaviors. We couldn’t possibly change their past, but as an audience, we could certainly hope for their futures.

Shame was likely snubbed because it was a grim movie (even the moody, slow-burning score made you feel low) about sex that some argued was too stylish and sleek (I’d suggest the opposite, considering Brandon’s bare-bones apartment made Clooney’s Up in the Air digs seem downright homey) or too sexy for a decidedly un-sexy subject. (The sex scenes, particularly the threesome, were certainly beautifully orchestrated, but hardly arousing when you took into account how hollow it all was.)

Why History Will Remember It More Fondly Than Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close: Shame is a great, though by no means perfect, film (the final act with Mulligan dangerously teeters on the brink of all-too-convenient), but there’s one big reason that this movie will stand the test of time and that’s Michael Fassbender’s… star-making performance. (Sorry. I know, I know.) Actors like Nicolas Cage and Jeff Bridges rightfully earned their Oscars for their roles in Leaving Las Vegas and Crazy Heart, respectfully, as damaged men overcome by their addictions. When McQueen’s Shame is one day heralded as the film that broke down the barriers of the taboos of sex addiction by not using it as a comedic plot device, it will be because of Fassbender’s honest, unflinching, and you guessed it — naked — portrayal.
 
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Artica said:
That's just nasty! Poor Benedict. If Fassy had an acorn instead of the Fassdong, he probably would have an Oscar nod now.
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Sad but true.

But if I had to choose one over the other, that Oscar would be a lonely motherf*cker. :ghi5:

Also, no one answered my ? on the last page about which MF profile pic(s) they'd put up on IMDB if they were in charge of that. I want to see photographs, women! :drool: Still sticking with the ones I posted.
 
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Gemini Chica said:
Sad but true.

But if I had to choose one over the other, that Oscar would be a lonely motherf*cker. :ghi5:

Also, no one answered my ? on the last page about which MF profile pic(s) they'd put up on IMDB if they were in charge of that. I want to see photographs, women! :drool: Still sticking with the ones I posted.
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Out of the pictures you posted the 1st and 3rd are my favorites. Here are two others I think he looks good in. I personally like him with a little facial hair.
 

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Soxy said:
Hi there, I'm new to this thread! though you may be interested to know that

Michael will be appearing Top Gear episode on Sunday 19th February :D
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Welcome to the thread Soxy and thanks for the info! Am not such a car fan, but it'll be nice to see him talk about something he's so passionate about. :)


Gemini Chica said:
Sad but true.

But if I had to choose one over the other, that Oscar would be a lonely motherf*cker. :ghi5:

Also, no one answered my ? on the last page about which MF profile pic(s) they'd put up on IMDB if they were in charge of that. I want to see photographs, women! :drool: Still sticking with the ones I posted.
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Ah, there's many nice pictures of him out there. I especially like the David Edwards photoshoot with the motorcycle, along with the Vanity Fair one. Can you tell that I miss the long, wavy hair? :) But they're not really suitable as headshots, I just wanted to to post them anyway :)

The imdb headshot is not bad and does the job (much better than the previous corpse-y picture). I prefer the LFF ADM pictures, he looks good with a bit of facial hair, as said by Gemini582!
 

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Soxy said:
Hi there, I'm new to this thread! though you may be interested to know that

Michael will be appearing Top Gear episode on Sunday 19th February :D
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Welcome to the thread, Soxy! I can't frickin' stand Jeremy Clarkson, but I'll glady tune in for this episode. Let's hope Mr Fassbender will be able to get out of the car he's driving. Last time he was in a car on TV, it got a little embarrassing.

mustard_stain said:
Welcome to the thread Soxy and thanks for the info! Am not such a car fan, but it'll be nice to see him talk about something he's so passionate about. :)




Ah, there's many nice pictures of him out there. I especially like the David Edwards photoshoot with the motorcycle, along with the Vanity Fair one. Can you tell that I miss the long, wavy hair? :) But they're not really suitable as headshots, I just wanted to to post them anyway :)

The imdb headshot is not bad and does the job (much better than the previous corpse-y picture). I prefer the LFF ADM pictures, he looks good with a bit of facial hair, as said by Gemini582!
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I love the picture in the car with the longer hair and the beard. I know it's not suitable for IMDB, but SFW! ;)
 
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Here's a little thing that Kaiser posted on her tumblr.

It's been all over the internet for a while now.

DO NOT click on THIS at work!!!

BTW, when is our Parisian chick coming back?
Cette place n'est pas la même sans toi!
 
#4,005
I know! Some people thought he was in his late forties. I mean, come on! He's got some lines around his eyes, but he doesn't look +10 years older.
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A lot of younger people seem to think deep wrinkles are the only signs of aging. They'll say, for example, that Michael looks older than Viggo Mortensen. I love Mortensen, he's aging well, but like anyone who is late 40s or over 50, he has the beginning of sagging skin. Even very fit people have that. Same with Colin Firth, Gary Oldman, and George Clooney. Pitt and Tom Cruise don't have it as much, but I think they've both had work done-Cruise more than Pitt.

Fassbender still has the very tight face and body of a young man.
 
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