Philip Seymour Hoffman's performance in "Along Came Polly"....

I know people on Reddit can over-praise artists who passed away sometimes, but the guy went above and beyond what was required... It's a kind of sweet generic romantic comedy with Ben Stiller as a nervous middle class guy who falls for Jennifer Aniston's free spirit type - Hoffman plays his slobby, single best friend who gives him kind of slightly sexist bad dating advice - a pretty stock character, but he gave the role a real intensity that the script didn't demand - like you can see in his eyes he's had a past that left him this way and has inner struggles. Like Jack Black or someone could have played the role as a wacky outrageous guy, but Hoffman made him real.

Submitted January 16, 2020 at 05:26AM by readytokno https://ift.tt/2tn5ptB