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Okay it might not be precisely this exact moment in Mysterious Skin that did it, but wouldn't you rather look at that over some simple shot of him looking sad? I thought so. And anyway I don't know if there's a single moment I can point to in MS that was my "Eureka!" with regards to him - it's pretty much the whole thing, from start to finish, that did it.
I grew up familiar with Joe's face from seeing him pop up on Roseanne and Quantum Leap and that 90s stab at a Dark Shadows reboot - remember that, anyone? - and while I wasn't much of a Third Rock watcher I did know him as the kid from that. It seemed a bizarre fit at first - I loved Scott Heim's Mysterious Skin
as a book even before the film came out so I had preconceived notions about the character of Neil, and he wasn't so much what I'd pictured. Little did I know! Little did we all know.
Oh and the few thoughts I wrote up on Mysterious Skin back in 2005 actually comprised the very first "review" I ever did here at MNPP! Ah, memories. I can remember that woman standing up and screaming and running out of the theater like it was yesterday.
I grew up familiar with Joe's face from seeing him pop up on Roseanne and Quantum Leap and that 90s stab at a Dark Shadows reboot - remember that, anyone? - and while I wasn't much of a Third Rock watcher I did know him as the kid from that. It seemed a bizarre fit at first - I loved Scott Heim's Mysterious Skin
as a book even before the film came out so I had preconceived notions about the character of Neil, and he wasn't so much what I'd pictured. Little did I know! Little did we all know.
Oh and the few thoughts I wrote up on Mysterious Skin back in 2005 actually comprised the very first "review" I ever did here at MNPP! Ah, memories. I can remember that woman standing up and screaming and running out of the theater like it was yesterday.
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Great movie - Joe was awesome in it. I was also a fan of the fantastic soundtrack by Harold Budd and Robin Guthrie!
I thought, when I saw that title, it would be the moment he got an ice hockey blade to the face in Halloween H20. I should've known...
I haven't seen H20 since it came out and I couldn't remember him in it at all. I should probably rewatch that.
Yes, I recall H20 as being the moment when I thought, "wow, he has grown up and is more than a little cute!"...and more than a little dead soon thereafter...
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