The Machinist
 

I don't know how many of you know about this film, but I just saw the trailer and it looks pretty cool. Christian Bale plays a lathe operator who is dying from insomnia, and the movie gets crazier from there...

I for one am going to see this...

Re: The Machinist
 

That's the same guy that plays american Pysco, Isn't it???

Re: Re: The Machinist
 

Yep, he's a great actor.

Bale lost over 1/3 of his body weight for this movie. He looks vaccu-formed in the trailers

and then had to gain it all back and get all buff to play batman right after... now that's dedication.

I heard somewhere that he weighs more for Batman than he did before The Machinist. That's fucking crazy

EDIT: Hell, didn't work

okay, HERE's a picture of Bale in The Machinist:

I saw this yesterday, it's several kinds of fucked up


***** out of *****

if you like Bale (and i do .. fine actor) here are 2 very different films to check out.

Empire of the Sun : its a Speilberg film about a british boy who ends up in a Japanese concentration camp in WWII. Great film

Equilibrium : a futuristic film that is a combination of Brave New World and Farenheit 451 with a bit of Matrix thrown in.
It's influenced by these things but its a completely unique film.
I highly recommend this movie to everyone here.
Its relatively unknown .. it slipped through the radar somehow - but it blew me away when i saw it.


Bale was also the racist asshole badguy in the Shaft remake a few years back.