Jake Gyllenhaal latest film Stronger and his performance in it getting great early reviews tipping it as Oscar Worthy

Like how he was certain to get a nom for Nightcrawlers?

I love him and lust after him. He's a gorgeous goofy bottom man and a good actor. At least as good as Leo or Gosling.

This movie looks super corny. I do love Jake though.

He's a bottom?

Not going to happen , he needs to do TV .

He'll win. They're giving it to these dudes now. DiCaprio, Affleck, this dude, next year Wahlberg or Tatum or Common. All about ratings.

The Oscar goes to...Lil Wayne!

Nothing in the article [R1] suggests their taking anything for granted with regards to a nomination being a sure bet.

The movie is pure Oscar bait.

I go to imdb to check on this movie I just glance at the cast. The girl from Orphan Black, Miranda Richardson and Clancy Brown. I'm interested.

I'm sure Jake was almost nominated for Nightcrawler he was great and got a SAG nod.

[quote]The movie is pure Oscar bait.

So what? Julianne Moore won her Oscar for her least worthy performance in a terrible movie that she only could have taken in the hope of winning an Oscar. That's the way it sometimes goes. I know DiCaprio is hated here but he took on a variety of challenging parts and went full throttle with them for years. His throttle is kind of weak. Jake is more interesting to me. He has a haunted quality and a googly charm. Maybe all the time, but he is never a bad actor. There are a number of times he deserved a nomination.

I won't say Jake is due but he has delivered many solid performances and a few fine ones. Why are gay men so unkind to him? I suspect for the same reason the industry is. You can see he is gay.

It would be nice if Jake won an Oscar if he deserved it. His performances onscreen are more convincing than his off-screen portrayal of a straight man. Too bad it didn't out between him and Austin Nichols.

It's because he's closeted for me R11. But I'm. It mean, I just don't see his films. Once he comes out, I'll see his films.

If Casey Affleck can get a fucking Oscar, than Jake can at least get a nomination. Shit. I know nothing about this movie, but I know he deserved one for Nightcrawler. He was scary good in that movie. And Casey Affleck is a piece of shit. He's an arrogant punk and I can't stand him or his asshole brother Ben.

Jake in NIGHTCRAWLER was at least as good as some of these other dudes who have been nominated in the last few years.

The movie doesn't look good, but I'll probably watch it for Tatiana Maslany. LOVE HER.

Disability Inspiration Porn + Jingoistic Anti-Terrorism Ripped from the Headlines = Oscar Gold!

I saw the trailer and I got emotional. It may be Disability Inspiration Porn, but it's pretty damned inspiring and it happens to be true. I saw a picture of the guy and he looks kind of lost. I don't know how I would act if all of a sudden, with no warning, I was in an explosion and had my legs blown off and I was in my early 20's and perfectly healthy in every other respect. That would fuck me up for ever.

Jake Gylenwhateverthefuck is never ever going o yet an Oscar.

What makes you say that? [R18]

I agree that if Casey Affleck got an Oscar, Jake probably can. But he is cast wrong all the time. He should be a star in the Dustin Hoffman, Jack Lemon vein. Romantic comedy and drama. he tries too hard and it shoes in his performances. He is a turn off to movie goers, and interviews terribly. Everything he says rings false. He is supposedly hooking up with the guy from Younger, Nico Tortorella which makes him a bit more interesting.

The problem with the film is that this heartwarming, once-in-a-lifetime, fairy-tale love story ended in acrimonious divorce this year. Kinda puts a damper on the love triumphing over disaster take of this story. The marketing of this tripe will need to change stat.

Lifetime fodder.

Despite so much hatred of Jake, I still find him handsome as hell and damned engaging as an actor. He seems nice enough and well spoken enough in interviews. I just don't believe he is truly gay. No I am not a frau or PR hack. If someone has legit proof, I would fuckin bust a nut over him right now. I would love it if he were a homo but I just don't see it.

R13 - interesting. You're in a position to not only know he is closeted but also to judge him. Are you his mother?

Oscar worthy equals boring.

You're wrong about Jeff Bauman's relationship. He and his girlfriend, later wife had a rocky relationship all along.. At the time of the Marathon bombing they were broken up, and he was trying to win her back so he was raising money for her charity run, and promised her he was going to be reliable and go to the race and carry a big sign to cheer her on. He actually did. and then they bombed the race. She helped him during recovery and rehab, , they reconciled, married had a kid, they still had problems, and broke up again. Jeff is an alcoholic. He's been sober for about a year and a half. You need to read his book. It's a good story. I read it. I remember him. In fact it was kind of hard to ignore the photo of him after the bomb went off and he was wounded. It was pretty gruesome and unforgettable. And from what I 've heard the feedback on the movie is that it avoids cliches and has a lot of humor and heart. If you don't want to see a move about a disabled guy who has to struggle to kee sane and try to make sense out of his life after it has been completely fucked up, then don't. I'll see it. But then, I'm from Massachsetts.

Oh, please. we've had tons of Oscar winners who played losers. Triumph over adversity is as constant as the sunrise as far as a plot. I mean, not everyone is going to be Abraham Lincoln.

Better than Leo or Gosling, r2. Casey only won because his movie was so good. I hope this one is better. Maybe a little luck of the Boston Irish will float Jake's way. He is still my favorite actor of his generation.

Casey won because his brother and Matt Damon actively campaigned for him and they have a lot of muscle as far as Oscar campaigns go.

R29, You are probably right. Jake has the same agent as Casey, Ben and Matt, Patrick Whitesell who co heads WME and is very powerful.

Yeah, well if that guy is so powerful why isn't it ever Jake's turn? It seems like the Afflecks do very well in the awards department.

Ben and Matt seem much smarter than Jake and they pushed Casey along. They also earn much more money for WME so what they say goes a long way.

If he didn't win an Oscar for this scene, he never will.

Ben and Matt are big sharks compared to Jake because they are not primarily actors. They are kind of the rat pack of late Hollywood who lucked in through business and a script and the right look and just enough talent. Inside men. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck will never win an acting Oscar.

Jake is a real actor, a creative man who keeps to himself and let's his agent do business. He's pissy and a bit prissy. SEXY. Just because his films haven't been big hits doesn't mean he isn't a very good actor. He's tried most every genre and his name always makes me want to watch. I think DL must be very old fashioned and status conscious if they think that Affleck Damon and Pitt are the male powers of Hollywood. They may be great dealmakers, but no one wants to see them anymore. Ask George Clooney. I repeat. Gyllenhaal is an actor. I would have liked to see him in La La Land to be honest. He would have learned to dance and sing.

Jake is actually a good actor. I know he gets a lot of shit here. But he is a talented actor.

Jake is like Lea Michelle. He has talent, but no charisma. Keanu has charisma, but none of Jake's talent. Who is the bigger star? Unfortunately, but true, Keanu.

I thought Casey was great in Manchester and deserved the Oscar. The scene with Michelle and him in the street was profoundly beautiful.

Casey may be the biggest asshole in Hollywood but he did deserve his Oscar.

Jake can't act his way out of a paper bag , he hides it well behind gaining muscles and losing weight .

He's the Patrick Duffy of the big screen.

This movie would be better if Tatiana was playing all the roles.

He would have won an Oscar if he had not dropped out of "Into The Woods" as the Prince for "Nightcrawler" (which flopped and got him bupkis)

It seems every role he does now for the past couple of years is ALL about getting that nomination and win.

Not really [R43] His 2016 film demolition and the science fiction horror Life this year whilst entertaining were definitely not made with an eye to being Oscar bait.

There was word he'd get a nom for Demolition, but the film flopped and had a limited release. He is pretty much as bad a Leo now, every film he does seems solely a vehicle made to win him best actor.

[QUOTE]"Nightcrawler" (which flopped and got him bupkis)

Nightcrawler was not a "flop." He was likely in the 6th position for a nomination that year. And Rene Russo was very much in the conversation in supporting actress.

There's always a lot of history re-writing when Oscar talk pops up on DL. See the current Cher thread for further evidence.

How could anyfimd this man hot? He and his sister Maggie are two of the most homely actors in film today.

[quote] "Nightcrawler" (which flopped and got him bupkis).... Nightcrawler was not a "flop." He was likely in the 6th position for a nomination that year. And Rene Russo was very much in the conversation in supporting actress. There's always a lot of history re-writing when Oscar talk pops up on DL. See the current Cher thread for further evidence.

Sweetie, "Nightcrawler" grossed $38 million WORDLWIDE. In 1975 that would be a blockbuster, today, not so much and in anyone's world but yours, being considered 6th position for an Oscar means BUPKISS.

He would have won an Oscar if he had played Effie.

Not every nomination is based on box office. Nightcrawler was very inexpensive but it is critically acclaimed and Dan Gilroy is going to work with Jake again. Jake is working with Denis Villeneuve again too. Indie filmmakers like Jake and others give Hollywood the artistic ca he the big suits crave so awards season is not about box office

R48 is the quintessential know-nothing DL Oscar prognosticator.

Your use of the word "bupkiss" makes you dip further into irrelevancy.

I don't much about acting but I do know Jake Gyllenhaal loves female tit and ass.

[R45] I genuinely don't recall Oscar buzz or speculation around demolition but rather Nocturnal animals.

Jake was excellent in the uneven Nocturnal Animals.

The Oscar buzz for Nocturnal Animals was generated because it was Tom Ford's second effort following his too much acclaimed Colin Firth A Single Man movie. Also because it had Amy Adams and it was supposed to be "her year" although not for NA.

I don't recall any Oscar buzz for Demolition. But the guy who directed it, didn't he win an Oscar, or get nominated the year before? You know when all the smoke and mirrors clears, the "Academy" knows who it wants to give an Oscar to.

Anyone who didn't see Casey Affleck getting locked in early on as the "frontrunner" months before his movie even opened was blind. Same for Leo. It was Leo's "turn" with Revenant.

Whenever an actor, almost any top tier actor, opens a movie in the Fall or late summer, or WTF ever, there's always Oscar buzz used for publicity even if it's not ever going to happen. And especially if the actor is in an "Oscar-adjacent" movie with a director who is hot because he just won, or is critically acclaimed and was recently nominated.

People always say, "Well, Jake gave an awards caliber performance." And he has done that in Nightcrawler for sure, and maybe even in Nocturnal Animals although I thought Michael Shannon was the Oscar contender in supporting for that movie, along with Aaron Taylor Johnson.

Jake held his own, but there we re three heavy weight performances in NA. The person who dropped the ball IMO, was Tom Ford. The movie was visually stunning, but his adaptation and his directing fell short. So if they are saying Jake ought to get a nomination for this new movie even though it's pretty traditional and checks off a lot of boxes, I have no argument. When I see how that whole thing goes, with the awards, I like Jake, so why not, know what I'm sayin' ?

Casey Affleck is a terrific actor. I hate to say it, but it's true. He's been in a number of movies and is such a natural in everything. I don't think the academy was itching to give him an oscar but his performance was that good. Jake Gyllenhaal can be good in the right roles, but most of the time he is mediocre. He's kind of like Leonardo Dicaprio to me. Always given plum roles in spite of his average talent.

Casey Affleck doesn't have a whole lot of range. He's always a version of Casey Affleck.

He misses the mark more often than not. Heath Ledger could act circles around him, like in Brokeback Mountain. Jake's turn in Okja was CRINGE-WORTHY! SO EMBARRASSINGLY BAD!!!!!!!!

He's just an abysmal actor . It's always a version of him pretending to be straight and masculine .

[bold]Filmmakers criticised for casting Jake Gyllenhaal as double amputee in Stronger[/bold]

Controversy on the horizon.

[quote]Filmmakers have been criticised for casting Jake Gyllenhaal in the leading role of double amputee Jeff Bauman in new movie Stronger – rather than an actor with disabilities.

[quote]Campaigners said the opportunity to cast a disabled actor for the part of the Boston Marathon survivor was “overlooked”.

[quote]The Ruderman Family Foundation, which fights for the rights of people with disabilities, called it an “all too common discrimination in Hollywood”.

these type of movies are so pathetic: obvious as to its intent: for idiots who think these events unite us, we over come because of love. Its It indulges peoples needs to be part of something they weren't part of other than those directly effected. Its a movie for lonely people who need to be inspired by Hollywood manipulation of a terrible moment in peoples lives. Jake should be embarrassed.

Oh FFS, Casey didn't get the Oscar as a prize for being a nice guy, he got it for the best performance. Rightfully so. Jake was great in Nightcrawler, also very good in the much underrated Prisoners, where Jackman and Dano were also great. I enjoyed Jake's performnce in Okja, a way OTT turn in a movie with a bizarre premise. And he's cute.

Not sure how "cute" he is. Sometimes the beard and the weight make him look far from cute, but what the hell happened to his face? I know the dark contact lenses are part of it, but Is this prosthetic / makeup? Did he melt?

And this...

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Jake has the talent, but still not a star.

Keanu 's charisma has taken him far.

Jake just wants him some glamor.

Keanu, to drop his stammer.

Oh what are those two boys to do,

Can they pull the old switcheroo?

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Geez, he's lost it. Not aging well.

People complaining about able bodied actors playing disabled is nothing new.

Who cares about that. He's hideous.

Flopped. Flopped HARD.

Jake can flop on me anytime [R71] I'd happily assist him

R65, any juicy Jessy? Or lacy Lucy?

[quote]The problem with the film is that this heartwarming, once-in-a-lifetime, fairy-tale love story ended in acrimonious divorce this year. Kinda puts a damper on the love triumphing over disaster take of this story. The marketing of this tripe will need to change stat.

You could not be more wrong about that R21. The Bauman character is an asshole right from the beginning. As R26 writes, the relationship was rocky before, during, and after the time in which the movie was set. No one who sees the movie will be surprised that the marriage didn't last. The acting throughout is excellent. Tatiana Maslany, who I've never heard of, is heartbreaking as the girlfriend, and Miranda Richardson as Bauman's alcoholic, messed up mother, merits an Oscar nomination of her own.

Nothing against Jake, in fact, I think some of his role choices have been very interesting, even daring, but this is crap. I fucking hate that typical Oscar bait, "triumph of human spirit in the face of adversity" lazy bullshit.

Did you see the movie, R75?

Jake at R76, calm down.

I hope he's not a method actor because this role immediately becomes a double edged sword.

The couple depicted in the film have since divorced.

He's ok but Maggie is better actor

Look how cute he was before R67.

It becomes obvious when an actor has demanded from his agent NOTHING but Oscar bait roles. Jake is one of them.

Jake s cuter and can be funny. Maggie is a boring actor.

Cuter? Not anymore, R83. Those pics at r63 and r64 tell a different story.

Who are the box office drawing actors who have no lower limbs? Seriously, these complaints satire themselves. Also, do we have one actor play the actors with limbs, and then switch to another after the limbs are blown off in the film?

Love him hate his sister.

Needs to show cock, both of them!

Early chatter like this means nothing. If I had a dollar for every time it happened to G. Alright, a Ben Franklin for every time it happened to G.

I've never found Gyllenhaal attractive but he looked awful in "Stronger". He looked so gaunt. There was even a scene early in the movie (Stronger) where someone talks about how skinny he is and I wondered if it was because the real guy was incredibly skinny or the writer just wanted to acknowledge that they know he looks sickly. But he looks fine now.

Does anyone know who Jake is dating now?

The movie is tanking at the box office.

What about that Sam Elliott movie, "The Hero", which was supposed to bring Sam a possible Oscar nomination? It also tanked and is on On Demand.

Well I didn't expect a movie about a guy recovering from having his legs blown off in a terrorist attack to be a huge box office draw.

I wanted to like the movie but these were really unpleasant people, even before the attack. His family and friends are so annoying I couldn't wait for the movie to be over. There is a really weird scene at the beginning where his family and friends are saying "faggot" and Jake's character tells them they can't be saying that. It has no pay off. It just shows that these people are horrible. Also a scene where his drunk friends let drunk, legless Jake drive a car is played for laughs.

I am not interested in that movie and a friend will try to drag me to see it. Just no...

R93, LOLOL those are your average, blue collar, white, working class Bostonians.

He's the Paul Michael Glaser of the big screen.

Goldderby has him a front runner for Best Actor.

At the Razzies maybe .

She is only 3 years older than him but looks like his estranged alcoholic aunt who reeks of fermented urine and who never managed to fulfill her lifelong dream of going to Paris.

R63 R64 He is cute as is, but those brown contact lenses are absolutely dreamy.

I have eyes like the fucking ocean, but there is just something so sexy and mysterious about brown eyes. Not dark brown/almost black but more of mahogany that look almost red in the right light. Definitely think Jake is sexier with the brown eyes. Brown hair blue eyed leading men are boring. Hollywood needs to change it up.

Sorry, stop trying so hard. Dark hair and blue eyes is killer hot. Brown eyes with dark hair is a very ordinary combination. Jake is hot except for some angles when his face looks elongated and he has this "bloodhound" look. And he has a huge head. Too big IMO for all that hair. He looks like a sleezy international gigolo from the 60's. He needs shorter hair. I saw a movie of his on TV the other night, about some guy who's wife gets killed in a car accident, and the movie was shit, but he looked hotter than I've seen him in a long time and it was the hair. Very short.

I said dark eyes are in my opinion sexier than blue or light eyes. However, a hot man is a hot man, regardless.

Fuck my legless grandmother.

Only if she consents, R103.

Never found him hot but thought he was handsome when he was younger. He is not old now but hasn't looked good in years. Is he an alcoholic?

R101 Whoa there, take a chill pill pronto.

Know what else is very ordinary? Being a calm and collected adult.

R106 Apparently not for R101.

Jake was pretty good in Stronger. I am however surprised in how much his body has aged. He's still in his thirties and he had a dad bod already.

All that losing and gaining weight will fuck a body up, R108.

On the general thread topic, I think Jake is a very talented actor. #TeamJake

I throughly enjoyed this film and Jakes performance in it.

Let your friend drag you to see it [R94] you may surprise yourself and realise they've done you a favour as you end up enjoying it.

It’s now at Redbox so now you can see it for a little over $1.50

He deserved an Oscar for Nightcrawler, one of the greatest performances of all time.

Couldn't agree more [R113]

Jake really brilliantly showed all the layers and facets of that character and their increasingly dark behavior.