Great Actors Old & New

[CutMeMick]

I will only list 2 since you guys pretty much covered a lot of them but missed these 2 guys who def. need to be mentioned.

Ben Kingsley

Terrence Howard


I think Terrence is a fucken brilliant actor and is Denzels succesor so to speak...

[boozeboxer]

Gary Senise
Tom Hanks

Forrest Whitaker is an awesome actor:
Last King of Scotland
Ghost Dog

Steve Buscemi:
Resorvoir Dogs and many many movies


Bill Murray (comedy is harder then it looks):
Broken Flowers
Coffee and Cigarettes
Steve Zissou
Groundhog Day
Lost in Translation

Johnny Depp (great actor with great variety of movies:
Dead Man
Edward Scissorhand
That candy factory movie

Worst Actors:
That guy in Feverpitch
Keanu Reeves
bill paxton
Elvis

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as an actor playing himself: Kid Rock in Joe Dirt.

[Spicoli]

Nice List Boozeboxer....Whitaker solid for yeeaarrs and great in Last King of Scotland.... under the radar Powers Boothe In Extreme Predjudice And Southren Comfort.....what a name,He was second class good

Sam Blackwell for a little more resent....

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Edward Norton
Morgan Freeman
Adrian Brody
Dustin Hoffman
Jack Nicholson
Robert De Niro
Viggo Mortensen
Vincent Gallo
Denzel Washington
Robert Duvall

[boozeboxer]

What do you all think of Giovanni Ribisi?? I always like him in movies....

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interesting list i agree with your list but out of curiousity tom cruise often gets crap for being a horrible actor who's in great block buster hits!

so what films do you find him to be a good actor in?

Liked him in

Rainman
Last Samurai
The Firm
Cocktail
A few good men
Eyes Wide Shut

Agree 100% with Tom Cruise in Rainman. Most people only remember Dustin Hoffman's performance (which earned him a well deserved Oscar and he was outstanding), but Tom Cruise actually carries the pace of that film, if that makes any sense. IMO, that is side by side with Born on the 4th of July as his best performance.

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What do you all think of Giovanni Ribisi?? I always like him in movies....

Ribsi is incredible. His scene in Saving Private Ryan where he talks about how he use to fake going to sleep when his mom would come home from a hard day's work is one of the most heart breaking and powerful scenes I've ever viewed.

[boozeboxer]

interesting list i agree with your list but out of curiousity tom cruise often gets crap for being a horrible actor who's in great block buster hits!

so what films do you find him to be a good actor in?

Liked him in

Rainman
Last Samurai
The Firm
Cocktail
A few good men
Eyes Wide Shut

Agree 100% with Tom Cruise in Rainman. Most people only remember Dustin Hoffman's performance (which earned him a well deserved Oscar and he was outstanding), but Tom Cruise actually carries the pace of that film, if that makes any sense. IMO, that is side by side with Born on the 4th of July as his best performance.

You guys I think his performance in rain man was an easy one to do though.........

Also I love Christopher Walker, but I think he just plays himself.... like Norm Macdonald.
For some perverse reason I always get excited when I see Randy Travis and the Penn's in movies, and they suck.


Brad Pitt was really good in The assassination of Jesse James.

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Iggy Pop is a good actor and a real freak as a bonus.

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What do you all think of Giovanni Ribisi?? I always like him in movies....

Ribsi is incredible. His scene in Saving Private Ryan where he talks about how he use to fake going to sleep when his mom would come home from a hard day's work is one of the most heart breaking and powerful scenes I've ever viewed.

I really liked him in the movie 'The Big White." I LOVED THAT MOVIE.

Woody Harrleson plays a good psycho.
Surprisingly, Vince Vaughn is a good psycho in Clay pigeons.
Brad Pitt was a psycho in a movie wasn't he?? Like a movie where they shot pool and he was a good old boy that killed people??

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Liked him in

Rainman
Last Samurai
The Firm
Cocktail
A few good men
Eyes Wide Shut

Agree 100% with Tom Cruise in Rainman. Most people only remember Dustin Hoffman's performance (which earned him a well deserved Oscar and he was outstanding), but Tom Cruise actually carries the pace of that film, if that makes any sense. IMO, that is side by side with Born on the 4th of July as his best performance.

You guys I think his performance in rain man was an easy one to do though.........

Also I love Christopher Walker, but I think he just plays himself.... like Norm Macdonald.
For some perverse reason I always get excited when I see Randy Travis and the Penn's in movies, and they suck.


Brad Pitt was really good in The assassination of Jesse James.

Can't believe I forgot Walken. Deer Hunter and the Dead Zone are classics. Another actor who tends to get overshadowed is Harvey Keitel. He's mostly known for his supporting roles, but a movie to check out is 'Bad Lieutenant.' He plays a junkie degenerate gambling cop, real gritty film. I haven't seen Jesse James yet but I've read that Pitt was real good in that so I'll probably check it out this week.

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Yes I was talking about how much I enjoyed Bad Lt. in a thread the other day after Canvasback was saying it was one of the worst movies he had ever seen (of Course Canvas was a cop).

[OumaFan]

When was the last time Pacino was in a good movie? Maybe I'm just forgetting something but it seems he's about down to just shouting these days. Is a good shout still but.

[El Kabong]

Brando, Heston, Kirk Douglas, Jimmy Stewart, Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, William Holden, William Powell, Clarke Gable, Al Pacino, Robert Deniro, Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, Robert Mitchum, Edward G. Robinson, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre,.....there are a ton of great actors, too many to name


For today's group I like: Christian Bale, Johnny Depp, Edward Norton, Matt Damon, Terrance Howard, Jack Black (very underrated as just an ACTOR, see 'King Kong'), Vince Vaughn (also very underrated as an ACTOR, see 'A Cool Dry Place').

I think Vince Vaughn is extremely good as an actor, I think his job in Psycho was very good but the movie on the whole sucked (for other reasons, mainly they attempted to re-do a Hitchcock film and in color...big big no-no). 'A Cool, Dry Place' isn't exactly a great film but Vaughn did really do a great job of not playing the character he's been typecast into...the slovenly, sarcastic, selfish, smart ass.

Alan Rickman is a GREAT actor and Christopher Walkin as well...you have to really be devoted to take the "bad guy" roles and you have to be more believeable than the protaganist in the movie or else it will totally suck.


Keanu was great in Matrix and Point Break but those weren't really "Acting" jobs for him.

Elvis wasn't horrible...he wasn't as good as an actor as he was a singer but he was in bad movies so it didn't help.


Frank Sinatra was a very good actor as well