Me and Johnny Depp

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Here's a little peculiarity for you...

If you recall I openly praised Johnny Depp in yesterday's Public Enemies post...My exact words were

Depp and Bale are of such esteem that they can be mentioned in the same breath as Heat’s De Niro and Pacino

High praise indeed, so it was a surprise when I recalled that not so long ago I actually very much disliked Mr Depp. With retrospect I can safely say that this was merely down to his association with the god-awful Pirates of the Carribean movies (and I'm never going to change my opinion on those!), but with time I've become more familiar with the impressive actor and his films. Since then the POTC fangirls have been replaced by a new generation of Twihards - the times they are a'changing. Who knows, maybe in a half-decade's time I'll be acclaiming Robert Pattinson as the new Marlon Brando?

No, of course not - are you kidding me?! Maybe he'll be the best burger flipper at his local McDonalds. Maybe. And I'll probably still take pleasure in the fact that his co-"star" Kristen Stewart was commonly mistaken by audiences for a boy in David Fincher's Panic Room.



But in the meantime, let's just look back at the Letters page of Total Film issue 131 (August 2007)...



Want to know what I meant? Hit the forum:

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[koolkat2009]

You said on the blog, to see what you mean hit the forum. Where do I find what you meant?

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Here lol - you're the first to ask
Well it was like this - a Total Film forum thread briefly turned into a discussion on Johnny Depp at which point I went on this massive rant that was so bizarre the mods there didn't know what to do but split it into its own thread! Sadly the old forum was deleted but I'll try to remember it...

Basically it was something along the lines that Depp, like Lampard, doesn't deserve his fame. Both really really overhyped. Lampard, for instance, takes the credit for the solid work of the midfielders behind him, at the time Claude Makelele (he was by far Chelsea's best player I feel). And his high goal count just comes from penalties - far from the hardest working player out there.
And I wasn't impressed by Depp's POTC performance. Anyone can slur words and act drunk but apparently that makes him brilliant. Bah! Just a poster boy, like Lamps :)

I've eased up on them since then though - especially Depp. A lot changes in two years.