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Re: Great Acting Performances

Postby Squawk » Wed Apr 20, 2011 1:14 am

Some very good nominations there.

One movie not mentioned thus far is "The Green Mile" - Tom Hanks and the African-American prisoner were both splendid.

I also rate The Shawshank Redemption for a very even but high standard acting performance from all the main players.

Matthew Broderick - Ferris Bueller's Day Off ;) Then there was also 'Sloane'... :heart:

Lastly, the guy who plays the role of Hitler in all the You Tube parodies is also worth a mention - such a diversity of performances and yet he is nearly always great :lol:
Steve Bradbury and Michael Milton. Aussie Legends.

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Re: Great Acting Performances

Postby Magpiespower » Wed Apr 20, 2011 7:12 am

Some great comic performances...

Charlie Chaplin - The General
Cary Grant - Bringing Up Baby
Peter Sellers - Dr. Strangelove
Ruth Gordon - Harold & Maude
Dustin Hoffman - Tootsie
Bill Murray - Groundhog Day
Nicole Kidman - To Die For
Reese Witherspoon - Election
Paul Giamatti - Sideways
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Re: Great Acting Performances

Postby Magpiespower » Wed Apr 20, 2011 7:17 am

Actors as villains you love and love to hate...

Alan Rickman - Die Hard
Louise Fletcher - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Laurence Olivier - Marathon Man
Glenn Close - Fatal Attraction
John Huston - Chinatown
Bette Davis - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
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Re: Great Acting Performances

Postby CK » Wed Apr 20, 2011 8:27 am

Magpiespower wrote:Actors as villains you love and love to hate...

Alan Rickman - Die Hard
Louise Fletcher - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Laurence Olivier - Marathon Man
Glenn Close - Fatal Attraction
John Huston - Chinatown
Bette Davis - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?


A group of us were out one night and somebody said - "Who would you listen to, reading the phone book aloud, for the sheer quality of their voice?" Alan Rickman was my first choice.
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Re: Great Acting Performances

Postby JK » Wed Apr 20, 2011 10:02 am

Magpiespower wrote:Actors as villains you love and love to hate...

Alan Rickman - Die Hard
Louise Fletcher - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Laurence Olivier - Marathon Man
Glenn Close - Fatal Attraction
John Huston - Chinatown
Bette Davis - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?


Gary Oldman always plays a good villain .. Tim Curry also (with a twist of camp)
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Re: Great Acting Performances

Postby JK » Wed Apr 20, 2011 10:03 am

CK wrote:
Magpiespower wrote:Actors as villains you love and love to hate...

Alan Rickman - Die Hard
Louise Fletcher - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Laurence Olivier - Marathon Man
Glenn Close - Fatal Attraction
John Huston - Chinatown
Bette Davis - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?


A group of us were out one night and somebody said - "Who would you listen to, reading the phone book aloud, for the sheer quality of their voice?" Alan Rickman was my first choice.


If it was black comedy, then Christopher Walken wouldnt be bad either
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Re: Great Acting Performances

Postby Magpiespower » Wed Apr 20, 2011 10:23 am

Constance_Perm wrote:A group of us were out one night and somebody said - "Who would you listen to, reading the phone book aloud, for the sheer quality of their voice?" Alan Rickman was my first choice.


If it was black comedy, then Christopher Walken wouldnt be bad either[/quote]

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Re: Great Acting Performances

Postby Dirko » Wed Apr 20, 2011 10:30 am

The dude who starred opposite Angelina Jolie in Cyborg 2 when she got her cans out on the big screen for the first time.

How he kept his shit together to finish the shot* is beyond me.....
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Re: Great Acting Performances

Postby kinghit » Wed Apr 20, 2011 11:04 am

i thought brett 'birdman' burton whenever he was remotely touched without the ball was always a solid performance, never recieved the accolades he deserved
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Re: Great Acting Performances

Postby Rik E Boy » Wed Apr 20, 2011 12:23 pm

whufc wrote:Denzel Washington- Man On Fire
Clint Eastwood- Gran Turino
Tim Robbins- Shawshank Redemption
Morgan Freeman- The Power of One
River Phoneix- Stand By Me
Leonardo Di Caprio- Blood Diamond
Kevin Spacey- The Usual Suspects
John Travolta/Samuel L Jackson- Pulp Fiction


LMAO. This was Dirty Harry reprised for 5000th time. Strictly by the numbers. Nothing new to see here.

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Re: Great Acting Performances

Postby Gingernuts » Wed Apr 20, 2011 12:27 pm

Rik E Boy wrote:
whufc wrote:Denzel Washington- Man On Fire
Clint Eastwood- Gran Turino
Tim Robbins- Shawshank Redemption
Morgan Freeman- The Power of One
River Phoneix- Stand By Me
Leonardo Di Caprio- Blood Diamond
Kevin Spacey- The Usual Suspects
John Travolta/Samuel L Jackson- Pulp Fiction


LMAO. This was Dirty Harry reprised for 5000th time. Strictly by the numbers. Nothing new to see here.

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Yea, but some of us aren't old enough to remember Dirty Harry REB. ;)
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Re: Great Acting Performances

Postby Rik E Boy » Wed Apr 20, 2011 4:22 pm

Gingernuts wrote:
Rik E Boy wrote:
whufc wrote:Denzel Washington- Man On Fire
Clint Eastwood- Gran Turino
Tim Robbins- Shawshank Redemption
Morgan Freeman- The Power of One
River Phoneix- Stand By Me
Leonardo Di Caprio- Blood Diamond
Kevin Spacey- The Usual Suspects
John Travolta/Samuel L Jackson- Pulp Fiction


LMAO. This was Dirty Harry reprised for 5000th time. Strictly by the numbers. Nothing new to see here.

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Yea, but some of us aren't old enough to remember Dirty Harry REB. ;)


Well, you're old enough to remember The Unforgiven or Heartbreak Ridge...it's all the same shit.

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Re: Great Acting Performances

Postby Bum Crack » Wed Apr 20, 2011 4:25 pm

Nothing wrong with Unforgiven or Heartbreak Ridge. Keep that talk up and I'll have to carve me some faggot wings ;)
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Re: Great Acting Performances

Postby Baron Greenback » Wed Apr 20, 2011 4:28 pm

Bum Crack wrote:Nothing wrong with Unforgiven or Heartbreak Ridge. Keep that talk up and I'll have to carve me some faggot wings ;)


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Re: Great Acting Performances

Postby overloaded » Wed Apr 20, 2011 4:55 pm

Kane Cornes when he fell over after Barry Hall shaped up to him
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Re: Great Acting Performances

Postby Rik E Boy » Thu Apr 21, 2011 2:51 pm

Bum Crack wrote:Nothing wrong with Unforgiven or Heartbreak Ridge.


Agreed but to call the same thing done for the 5000th time 'a great acting performance' is missing the mark. Plenty of funny moments in Heartbreak Ridge. The bit with the Swede was a killer. :lol:

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Re: Great Acting Performances

Postby The Sleeping Giant » Fri Apr 22, 2011 3:13 pm

7-Dog wrote:Anthony Hopkins - Silence of the Lambs
Denzel Washington - The Hurricane, Remember the Titans, Malcolm X
Mel Gibson - Payback
Tom Cruise - Jerry McGuire
Julia Roberts - Erin Brokovich, Sleeping with the Enemey, Pretty Woman
Nicolas Cage - Snake Eyes
Russell Crowe - Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind
Patrick Swayze - Point Break, Dirty Dancing, Ghost
Keanu Reeves - Point Break, Speed, Matrix
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Al Pacino - The Godfather
Robert De Niro - The Godfather pt 2
Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump


LMAO @ Keanu Reeves. Might as well have a plank of wood on screen.
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Re: Great Acting Performances

Postby The Sleeping Giant » Fri Apr 22, 2011 3:18 pm

Seems to be a theme here with actors playing retards. I think Robert Downey Jnr summed it up best. Never go full retard.
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Re: Great Acting Performances

Postby The Sleeping Giant » Fri Apr 22, 2011 3:40 pm

Heres my list

Johnny Depp and Benico del Toro - Fear and loathing in Las Vegas
Johnny Depp - Ed Wood, Dead Man
Daniel Day Lewis - There Will Be Blood
Clive Owen - Children of Men
Robert Carlyle - Trainspotting
Robert Shaw - Jaws
Henry Fonda - 12 Angry Men
Kevin Spacey and Annette Benning - American Beauty
Malcolm McDowell - A Clockwork Orange
Ellen Burstyn - Requiem for a Dream
Robert DeNiro - Raging Bull
R. Lee Ermey - Full Metal Jacket
Bruno Ganz - Downfall
Ulrich Mühe - The Lives of Others
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Re: Great Acting Performances

Postby woodublieve12 » Fri Apr 22, 2011 9:45 pm

Deniro, Christopher Walken and Meryl Streep... The Deer Hunter...
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