He was great in Mousehunt - playing what for him is a very typical role of a maniac.
I liked him as the Trivial Psychic.
** Gravity **,
What on earth is the pocket dance?
My husband gives you the heebies?
UncleBill, that’s a very cool site.
You know, he puts his hands in his pockets and then sorta…dances…while moving them around…
I guess you gotta see it.
That and the little bit of the Bunny Hop.
Morkfromork said:
You must not have seen the time Wayne Gretzky hosted…
Although not a Walken fan, I have to admit; he did a great job in the two family movies of, ‘Sarah Plain and Tall’ with Glen Close. He was even a little emotional…but even then I have to admit in a vaguely creepy way. My kids love the movies.
I hope he wins Best Supporting Actor at the Oscars this year, because I want to see if he starts his acceptance speech, “Two mice fell into a bucket of cream…”
I love him, there’s nothing he can do wrong for me
Especially his creepy roles, like Max Shreck and the “headed” horseman in Sleepy Hollow (much applause to Ray Park for the headless version.)
When did Walken play Max Shreck?
It was Willem Defoe in Shadow of the Vampire (also a great preformance in a great flick).
Looking at IMDB, no Schreck, but walken was in both Joe Dirt and Kangaroo Jack? Why?
Menocchio, Christopher Walken played a different Max Shreck, one of the villains in Batman Returns. Actually, he wasn’t nearly as creepy as Defoe in Shadow of the Vampire.
He was Max Shreck in Batman Returns (sorry for the mix up.) He was a businessman who was very much like a vampire.
I liked him in Joe Dirt - he was a Mafia hitman (if I remember right.)
Michael Jackson is creepy. Walken is great!
What is with him? Well, he’s totally sexy and hot. Right? Right guys? Isn’t that why everyone likes hiM/ It isn’t? Um, right… me neither. I’m just kidding around. Heh.
I fell in love with him in The Dead Zone, then all over again in Nick of Time (totally underrated flic). I think I was about 13 at the time.
Could someone please explain “cowbell”? And please don’t just say “SNL”. Details, please.
Willem Dafoe, not Christopher Walken, played Max Schreck in Shadow of the Vampire (2000).
Walken is an un-creepy family man in real life. He and wife Georgianne have been married since 1969, and have several children.
“Cowbell” was an inexplicably funny skit where they were doing a VH1 Behind the Music parody of Blue Oyster Cult. The band was in the studio recording “Don’t Fear the Reaper” and one of the band member’s sole duties was to play a cow bell in the background. Walken was the producer who continuously kept insisting that there be “more cow bell” in the song.
Hilarity ensued.
The most experience I’ve had with the guy was in his recent appearance on SNL. Oh, man… It SUCKED.
Walken was blatantly reading his lines the whole time. That might’ve been okay, had he not been in every 20 minute skit, and just stared somewhere off camera, the WHOLE time. Man!
I can totally see him orking a cow. Ewwww.
Another big fan, especially of The Dead Zone, Pennies from Heaven and his stellar (though brief) moments in Annie Hall.
Other films worth mentioning: The Milagro Beanfield War, King of New York, Biloxi Blues and The Comfort of Strangers.