Fargo is a classic and Steve Buscemi is just incredible in this movie. The Coen brothers know how to direct their casts; they're geniuses. In True Grit, they even transformed Jeff Bridges into a first class actor... Quite a feat of arm, from my point of view. Not that Bridges is that bad in general, but he's surprisingly convincing in True Grit. People forget the role that a good director can play...Take DiCaprio for instance; he left me cold until he played for Scorcese in The Aviator and Gangs of New York... He also learned from Spielberg in Catch me if you can... I love him ever since. Another exemple is Brad Pitt; I think he's a bad actor, real bad, but his performance in Babel, under Inarritu, is just excellent
Who's your favorite actor or actress ? Why?
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Fargo is a classic and Steve Buscemi is just incredible in this movie. The Coen brothers know how to direct their casts; they're geniuses. In True Grit, they even transformed Jeff Bridges into a first class actor... Quite a feat of arm, from my point of view. Not that Bridges is that bad in general, but he's surprisingly convincing in True Grit. People forget the role that a good director can play...Take DiCaprio for instance; he left me cold until he played for Scorcese in The Aviator and Gangs of New York... He also learned from Spielberg in Catch me if you can... I love him ever since. Another exemple is Brad Pitt; I think he's a bad actor, real bad, but his performance in Babel, under Inarritu, is just excellent
Bridges, Goodman, Buscemi, Hoffman, Huddleston, Moore...all were at their finest in the Big Labowski. The greatest movie of all times. Great cameo appearances by Turtero, Reid, Ben Gazerra and Elliot...and Jimmy Dale Gilmore who played the conscientious objector who's toe was a little over the line. But hey, it was league play, Smoke.
I have to admit, with shame , that I've never seen this movie, despite the fact that I'm a big fan of the Coen's... It is now on my must-see list...
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Jack Nicholson , One Flew Over The Coocoo Nest ,Prizzi's Honor,The Shining
incredibly talented
Marlon Brando ,The Godfather
Al Pacino The Godfather 1,2,3
Sent of A Woman,Scarface ,Dog Day Afternoon.
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BookerL
Jack Nicholson , One Flew Over The Coocoo Nest ,Prizzi's Honor,The Shining
incredibly talented
Marlon Brando ,The Godfather
Al Pacino The Godfather 1,2,3
Sent of A Woman,Scarface ,Dog Day Afternoon.
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BookerL
Hi Madmamacroos
What do think of Nicholson In the Coocoo's Nest ??
Some actors are simply Brilliant !
Others well !
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BookerL
I like Woody Harrelson who is a fantastic and underrated character actor going back to the movie "White Men Can't Jump." More recently he has elected to take the huge pay days in the Hunger Games movies and even in these movies he was outstanding. Which is the true mark of his acting ability.
I thought that Chris Waltz who won Academy Awards in the last two Tarantino movies was brilliant in both.
I thought that Chris Waltz who won Academy Awards in the last two Tarantino movies was brilliant in both.
Woody Harrelson is outstanding. He is great in off beat dramas like True Detectives, Natural Born Killers, No Country etc. But I like him best in Comedies such as Cheers, Zombieland, and Kingpin. I think his best role was as the washed-up, drunken, and disgraced Pro Bowler Roy Munson who recruits an 18 year old Amish kid bowling sensation played by Randy Quaid to go back to compete in the World Bowling Championship in Reno. Bill Murray as Big Ernie McCraken who played the sleazy pro bowler that cost Roy Munson his hand and his bowling career.
Roy: Hey, I hope you don't mind, I got up a little early, so I took the liberty of milking your cow for you. Yeah, it took a little while to get her warmed up, she sure is a stubborn one. Then, POW, all at once.
[Takes a drink from the bucket]
Mr. Boorg: We don't have a cow. We have a bull.
Roy: I'll brush my teeth.
Roy: Hey, I hope you don't mind, I got up a little early, so I took the liberty of milking your cow for you. Yeah, it took a little while to get her warmed up, she sure is a stubborn one. Then, POW, all at once.
[Takes a drink from the bucket]
Mr. Boorg: We don't have a cow. We have a bull.
Roy: I'll brush my teeth.
Hello all,
Johnny Depp and Daniel Day-Lewis, Charlize Theron and Helena Bonham Carter are the best. From what I've seen in their work they are wonderful at adapting to real personality character changes almost always creating someone different each time.
Also among Men: Leonardo DiCaprio, Christian Bale, Denzel Washington, Woody Harrelson.
Also among Women: Reese Witherspoon, Keira Knightley, Rachel Weisz, Hilary Swank, Cate Blanchett.
With all due respect to Robert DeNiro, Jack Nicholson, and Al Pacino much of their body of work contains so much of the same highly successful character quirks that everyone loves that though they are terrific actors they have become that John Wayne (sans True Grit) sort of actor, the actor playing themselves again. Great, but not too different for the part.
Special Mention to Lisa Ann...talk about DEPTH and RANGE...OMG!!!
http://www.xvideos.com/video726649/lisa_ann_being_bad_at_work
Cheers,
Merlot
Johnny Depp and Daniel Day-Lewis, Charlize Theron and Helena Bonham Carter are the best. From what I've seen in their work they are wonderful at adapting to real personality character changes almost always creating someone different each time.
Also among Men: Leonardo DiCaprio, Christian Bale, Denzel Washington, Woody Harrelson.
Also among Women: Reese Witherspoon, Keira Knightley, Rachel Weisz, Hilary Swank, Cate Blanchett.
With all due respect to Robert DeNiro, Jack Nicholson, and Al Pacino much of their body of work contains so much of the same highly successful character quirks that everyone loves that though they are terrific actors they have become that John Wayne (sans True Grit) sort of actor, the actor playing themselves again. Great, but not too different for the part.
Special Mention to Lisa Ann...talk about DEPTH and RANGE...OMG!!!
http://www.xvideos.com/video726649/lisa_ann_being_bad_at_work
Cheers,
Merlot
I forgot to mention the actress category. I was completely blown away by Rooney Mara's performances in The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo and in Side Effects. I read that she is now being considered for the lead role in the film version of "The Red Sparrow" which is the best spy novel I have ever read and the best novel of any kind I have read in the past 10 years. The role of Russian spy Dominka Egorova is an absolute plum role that every A list actress in the world will covet, but Rooney is reportedly the early leading contender mainly because of her physical attributes.
I think you have a point here; De Niro, in particular, became very predictible over the years. Still, he was just great in Raging Bull, Taxi driver and The Godfather.
His best role ever, I would say. His short appearance in Easy Rider was also quite something...I also liked him in The Shining...
I totally agree! But my personal favorite has to be Bob Denver, who should have won an Emmy for his brilliance on Gilligan's Island.
At least, here, with this funny remark, you're making me laugh for the right reason !!!
Hi all
As favorite actress two veteran of the big screen Meryl Steep ,Kramer versus Kramer , Out of Africa and many others
Dame Judy Dench,The best exotic Marigol Hotel , and many others
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BookerL
As favorite actress two veteran of the big screen Meryl Steep ,Kramer versus Kramer , Out of Africa and many others
Dame Judy Dench,The best exotic Marigol Hotel , and many others
Regards
BookerL
Actually, I think anyone of Liam Neeson's movies are as corny as any episode of Gilligan's island. As a hobbyist I was insulted by "Taken." Yeah, sure, they chain girls up to a beds and shoot them up with heroin until they're hooked and from then on they walk the streets with no problem. Liam's corny daughter says "daddy I see a red door and an apartment..."blah blah blah as the traffickers are stealing off with her. Liam hangs up the phone and drives across Paris to an apartment building with a red door..............Come on people????? How about that shit movie Neeson with the wolves? What a crock.
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