Sean Penn; Nazi Hunter or Frontman of the Cure?

Your first reaction to watching the trailer for Sean Penn’s forthcoming film This Must Be The Place will be “HUH?” “WHAAAAA?” or a variation thereof. And the plot…?
In his finest performance since I Am Sam (stone cold classic), Penn Is “a bored, retired rock star sets out to find his father’s executioner, an ex-Nazi war criminal who is a refugee in the U.S.”

Of course he is.

After having first seen the actor in full make-up months back on a movie blog, I was hoping for a Robert Smith biopic. Finally, I would know why the Cure frontman had to wait all the way until Friday–after all, Wednesday also seems like a perfectly good day to fall in love. But no. Instead we get a movie that was presumably pitched to Hollywood as “the Crow meets the Simon Weisenthal Center.”

Look, Sean, I get that ScarJo dumped you and things are tough right now, but now’s not the time to experiment. Go for an award-winning crowd-pleaser, win the Fox News demographic back, give Michael Bay a shout. Or if I were you, I’d do another biopic like Milk. Wait, how about the Robert Smith biopic? Dude, you’re already in make-up.

What do you think?

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Arye Dworken

Arye Dworken lives in a tastefully decorated home in Teaneck, New Jersey, with his wife, son, and dog named Barrett. Barrett is named after one of the original members of Pink Floyd yet Arye wouldn't necessarily consider himself a big Pink Floyd fan. It just felt like a good dog name. You can find more Arye on aryedworken.tumblr.com or twitter.com/aryedworken.

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