It is true. A short while ago, I did have a series of weird dreams one night and in one of them, there was Cillian Murphy. Just hanging out, in my dream. Not for any reason I can think of except that my subconcious was probably on 'shuffle' and he just popped in there. Anyway, like some dreams do, it continued to stick to the walls of my brain and invoked a funny obsession with Cillian that can only be cured by a Cillian Murphy movie marathon. I'm weird like that.
So, we start with '28 Days Later'. The last and only time I saw this movie was when it came out in the theater. I was so horrified by the blood-spitting, fast-coming zombies of "the infected", that I completely forgot to appreciate what an insanely beautiful and talented actor C.M. actually is. I'm tempted to go off on a tangent about the full-frontal in the beginning of the movie where you can get a eye-full of all of Cillian and his cash and prizes...but I won't go there this time. I will say the movie was quite exciting for my second time seeing it. Zombies were still scary as shit, Cillian was even more amazing this time around watching this and I forgot how it ended the first time so the happy ending was exciting as was it well done.
I say C.M. was more amazing this time because before when I saw this movie, I had never seen him in anything before. He was soft-spoken and was almost always scared through the whole movie and I kept wanting to jump through the screen and give him a hug through pretty much the whole movie. He was very real in this movie,which I like. Since this movie, everything I have seen him in so far, he has played "the kind-of dreamy, creep villian" such as his characters as Scarecrow/evil doctor in 'Batman Begins' and the creepy, evil guy in 'Red Eye'. He plays the creep so well, he sends a tingly chill down the spine much like Anthony Hopkin's Hannibal Lecter. (He also gives you mixed emotions too like, he's evil...but he's kind of dreamy too. I dont know if they should kill him off right away.) When I went back and saw '28 Days Later' after seeing his creep performances, I felt more debth in his 28 Days Later character along with a realistic vulnerability that made you really believe everything going on in this movie. I felt emotionally invested in the whole thing and really wanted to see a happy ending for him and his un-eaten entourage. It was great. He's one of the few actors I can think of that can actually make a performance better and more real AFTER I've seen him in a bunch of other movies. Its hard to explain but he's got it. (Leonardo DiCaprio...Don't got it.)
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