Great Actors Old & New

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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.

[boozeboxer]

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

[RP33]

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

just add steve mcqueen and james dean to that and you're good for a general few classic actors..

for worst actors..

Ben Affleck
Hayden Christenson

i just don't know how anyone said to them "wow, look at that guy, he should act in my movie".. i don't understand why they decided they should be actors, with such little talent..?

[El Kabong]

just add steve mcqueen and james dean to that and you're good for a general few classic actors..

for worst actors..

Ben Affleck
Hayden Christenson

i just don't know how anyone said to them "wow, look at that guy, he should act in my movie".. i don't understand why they decided they should be actors, with such little talent..?

I totally forgot McQueen and Dean...but as as I said before there are too many to name. Harrison Ford is another good one!


Add Ashton Kutcher and Bill Paxton to your list of bad actors and you're cooking with gas then! THEY SUCK!


I used to like Will Smith before he got converted to the Crazytown Cult of Scientology.

[boozeboxer]

HA HA I had Bill Paxton on my list of bad actors. Add Rob Lowe.

[boozeboxer]

Jimmy Stewart.........good one Lyle. There are alot of old really good actors, back then they used scripts.