KEVIN BACON!!!!!
While he did not give the best performance this year, that accolade should go to Brad Pitt for Moneyball, he appeared in three of my favorite films this year, Crazy, Stupid, Love, Super, and X-Men First Class. Interestingly enough Bacon plays the bad guy in all three films. I have always been a Bacon fan, footloose is one of the greatest teen films of all time, and this year I was pleased to see him on screen so much. The villains he played were all very different. He played the essence of evil in X-Men First Class as a mutant former Nazi scientist hellbent on starting WW3. His character was a diabolical genius and a proper villain for a big budget action film. While Fassbender and McAvoy should be credited with making the film a success, Bacon's performance does a fantastic job of raising the stakes high enough for the film to have real suspense. In Crazy, Stupid, Love Bacon plays the "other man" who breaks up Steve Carell and Julianne Moore. While his role is small in the film, the role is important and the scene between him and Jonah Bobo, who plays Carell's son, is one best I have seen this year. His final and best villain role of this year was as the drug dealer Jacques in James Gunn's Super. He plays a silly but maniacal caricature of a villain. He steals Rainn Wilson's wife in the film putting Wilson on a collision course to becoming the most violent vigilante I have ever seen on film. Bacon's Skeletor-esque physique and acting prowess creates one of the most believable and realistic "drug lord" characters I have seen in years. The characters final moments in the film are quite spectacular, especially when the he begins to monologue (The Incredibles Reference). Bacon had no leading roles that I am aware of this year and did not even make a cameo in the new Footloose movie, but in my eyes he had a spectacular year.
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