This is not about critics, imdb ratings or box office results. It is my favorites from one of my fav. actors. If you want to share your thoughts on Gerard, you are more than welcome to do it here.
1) Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
This movie is a wonderful thriller that makes you question a lot of things, including who the bad guys/good guys in the movie. I side with Gerard Butler’s Clyde on most of his avenging acts, despite a couple of things. This movie isn’t perfect but it is pretty damn good. If you like your story smart, your “hero” on the “darker” side and enjoy a good revenge story, do not miss it. For the ones who have seen it, here is a review:
http://cinemaroll.com/cinemarolling/law-abiding-citizen-two-steps-short-of-perfection/
2) Butterfly on a wheel (2007)
I tend to like a movie more if it has some of the actors I love. This movie has 3: Pierce Brosnan, Gerard Butler and Maria Bello. A perfect marriage, a perfect kidnapping, an unpredictable criminal with strange requests. Or maybe the crime makes perfect sense and our “hero” Neil is not so perfect after all. No spoilers.
https://pinartarhan.com/blog/gerard-butler/
3) Please (1999)
Award-winning short film with Butler in the lead. My review on the film includes the youtube link where you can watch the whole movie:
https://pinartarhan.com/blog/please/
4) The Ugly Truth (2009)
Men are cocky, superficial and all you need to get one is to be thin, own some hot lingerie and give blow-jobs. Women are hopeless dreamers who are equally supeficial. They want romance if it is provided by a handsome guy with a good job. Or maybe things aren’t just simple and the truth isn’t that ugly. This R-rated romantic comedy shows us some reality with hilarious scenes, likable characters and predictable yet enjoyable twists. For the review including screen shots:
https://pinartarhan.com/blog/the-ugly-truth/
One modest sweetheart of a movie that wins you over with the acting and storytelling; not with the originality of the script. Frankie is a smart but deaf boy raised by his mother and grandmother. Their whereabouts are hidden from his violent father. His mother Lizzie does everything to protect him from the truth, so she writes to him as his father: a nice man, a sailor who can not be with them because of work. Of course a coincidence forces Lizzie to find a man to pose as the father. What she hasn’t planned on how this stranger (Gerard Butler) will connect both with her and Frankie:
https://pinartarhan.com/blog/dear-frankie-2004/
6) P.S I love you (2007)
Holly (Swank) and Gerry (Butler) are a happily married couple and still madly in love. When Gerry suddenly dies, Holly has difficulty in coping. However Gerry has planned ahead: He has written to Holly that are to arrive at specific times after his death. Bittersweet romantic drama/comedy. For the trailer:
https://pinartarhan.com/blog/p-s-i-love-you/
7) Attila (2001)
An epic TV film based on the life of Atilla, leader of the Huns. It has all the glory of an epic picture should have: nice battle sequences, love,loss,pain,treachery,lust…:
https://pinartarhan.com/blog/attila-2001/
8 ) Lara Croft: The Cradle of Life (2003)
Sequel to the first Lara Croft. Is it just me or is Angelina Jolie the best actress to play a video game character ever? She has the looks and the stamina. And who better than Butler to provide the sexual tension? Check out the longer review with pictures:
https://pinartarhan.com/blog/lara-croft-tomb-raider-the-cradle-of-life/
9) Timeline (2003)
A group of archeology students are forced to travel in time to save one of their friends’ father. It doesn’t help that they find themselves in France in the middle of the war with England, in 21st century. The fact that one of them is French doesn’t help. Paul Walker and Gerard Butler star. Funny, full of action and very romantic:
https://pinartarhan.com/blog/timeline-2003/
A widower biologist father (Gerard Butler) and his daughter Nim live on a recluded Pacific island. Nim loves this life and reading adventure books by Alex Rover. What she doesn’t know that the real Alex is an agoraphobic female (Jodie Foster) – unlike the Indiana Jonesque Alex she imagined. All hell breaks loose when Alex needs to get out to save Nim from trouble…For more details and the trailer:
Gotta be “Phantom of the Opera.” #1.I don’t even like musicals, and yet I watch this one over and over and over. He brings a complex emotional life to the character that usually gets left behind in favor of overly-flowery singing. And I do like his singing, and the edginess he brings to it in this performance. #2 “Dear Frankie”. And then #3 “300” for all the obvious reasons. #4″Reign of Fire.” Don’t care for the movie, but like the characters (his and Bale’s) and their relationship. #5″The Jury.” Nice, restrained performance of a character that any lesser actor would’ve played as cartoonish and melodramatic.
I love The Jury- i just didn’t put on it since it was originally TV show. Have you seen Please? It is pretty mind-blowing. It gave me a new perspective on short movies. I don’t really like Frank Miller and I am pretty old-fashioned when it comes to movie-settings- that’s why I love Attila I guess. Phantom of The Opera is fun. And I love Patrick Wilson to bits but I’d so prefer another ending :):) What are your other fav.s?
I haven’t seen The Phantom of Opera.
Are you kidding me????? No Gamer and 300?
LOL, but I really liked these 2 movies.
I liked Gamer but not like the ones I listed. 300 is very cool but…I like my movie not shot in front of a blue screen and not have a yellow effect all over. : )
Did you see all of the movies I listed?
I saw:
Law Abiding Citizen
Butterfly on a wheel
The Ugly Truth
Lara Croft: The Cradle of Life
Timeline
Nim’s Island
Ugly Truth: I was excited about it but ended up hating it.
What’s your top 10, then?
You hated The Ugly Truth? Why? I thought it was pretty funny…
1)Law Abiding Citizen
2)300
3)Rock N’ Rolla
4)Gamer
5)Butterfly on a wheel
I’ll do a Gamer review pretty soon.
About the ugly truth:
The trailer was funnier. Expected a lot but it was more of a typical romcom. Don’t get me wrong, I liked Heigle in Knocked Up and 27 Dresses but she was annoying in this one. But I have to admit that Butler’s character had a few funny one liners.
Well, I guess I liked it because I did expect a romcom. What I liked about it was some of the honesty in it: I mean it is all very well to play games and try to seduce someone when you don’t have actually have feelings for them. But the moment you start to care, you just can’t be that cool anymore. Mike teaches Abby all the tricks and tips and then falls for the real Abby. That was fun to watch. But I might be biased. I do love Butler, Heigl and well Butler can dance too..
And Butler had a lot of funny one liners!! : )
I am glad that “the bounty hunter” is not on the list!! I was curious and finally I watched it today. I didn’t like it so much. it’s properly low-quality hollywood film. and I don’t understand why jennifer always wears the same sexy dress.. she’s like an innocent sex object.
but I must confess that both of them are hot 🙂
H?mm, not many people seem to like Bounty Hunter. I won’t judge without seeing it for myself. Yeah, Jennifer loves to show off she’s still got it and Gerard is sex on legs so maybe they thought they didn’t need a script after all;)
I’m really into ‘REAL’ vampires and Dracula 2000 just did it for me. Loved him in there + the explanation about the origin of vampires blew my mind. Saw everything else except ‘Please’ and ‘The Jury’ – ‘Dracula 2000’ is still my favourite. #2? I guess that would be ‘PS: I Love You’. Just wish they didn’t edit the scene with the travel agent out of the movie. It was absolutely hilarious and sad. I’ve got about eight of his movies + Atilla on DVD but these two I watch the most.
Ha ha…so you do love your vampires ugly and mean:) OK, granted Gerard was one hot vampire but he was deifnitely mean.For some reason I always had
a hard time taking Dracula 2000 seriously (well, I rarely take any vampire movie seriously, apart from Underworld;) ). I like Twilight for its empty entertainment and Queen of the Damned for its rocknroll/gothic nature. I do have a vampires tribute, you might enjoy it. But you will completely disagree:)
https://pinartarhan.com/blog/lestat-dracula-and-other-vampires/
Now, I am glad you are a Butler fan. He has a lot of movies posted here so just type gerard butler in the search box on the right, right at the top of the sidebar
and you will find many, many posts. I adore Atilla and P.S.I love you. Please and The Jury are available on youtube, that’s where I could find them.
If you are interested Atilla is on https://pinartarhan.com/blog/attila-2001/
and p.s. i love you is on: https://pinartarhan.com/blog/p-s-i-love-you/