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What Actor Will You Watch in Anything?
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Joey
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Dec 10, 2008 07:26AM
Tressa, I haven't seen him in Snow Cake, but thanks for mentioning it. It looks like an interesting flick. I shall have to rent it.
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HAPPINESS is a pretty amazing and very dark film. It has probably Hoffman's best performance, for what its worth. The real accomplishment in the film is Dylan Baker's performance as the pedophile psychologist. An amazing brutal agonizing performance.
I would watch heath ledger, brad pitt, christian bale, keifer sutherland, and Rufus Sewell
Kate Winslet, Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Judi Dench, Leonardo DiCaprio, Keeley Hawes
Angilina Jolie, Zachcery Quinto, Zachary Levi
Great question and sad to say I don't have many picks... Daniel Day Lewis came to mind immediately... after that most of my picks were classic actors. Although I'll watch Denzel Washington, Matt Damon and Phillip Seymour Hoffman in almost anything... most of those guys don't miss too badly.Harder to pick chicks beside Katharine Hepburn, but Meryl Streep, Sissy Spacek and Maggie Smith are great as well.
Happiness is an excellent movie... been a while since I saw it but I really like it. It's a lot like Magnolia, another great movie with PSH.
Robert De Niro, Louis Garrel, Johnny Depp, Morgan Freeman, Russell Crowe
Rob, I saw Happiness last week and didn't care for it. Funny how the back of the box describes the plot more as a screwball comedy about three sisters. Yes, there were three sisters in it, but they were really disconnected and not even on screen together much. The pedophilia and possible incest were pretty hard to watch.
I did enjoy Hoffman, especially his scenes with the big lady who lived across the hall. And when he tried to make a connection with Laura Flynn Boyle and was inching his hand across the couch toward hers. Very comical.
This isn't one I would recommend to anyone, though. Except maybe for someone to see the beginning scene with Jon Lovitz. Loved his "You're shit. I'm champagne." scene.
the "happiness" box describes the film as a screwball comedy???who writes these things?????
it's a great film, but screwball? and comedy" i would not use those words to describe it.
Well, the back of the Happiness DVD box might not have said "screwball," but the description IMO was not very close to the actual movie. I was thinking it would be more like Hannah and Her Sisters, which really was about the relationship between three sisters.
Warren William. He was in a lot of "pre-code" films and he makes an excellent villain in every one.
Will Smith, Denzel Washington, and Shia Labeouf.
Just because I liked Hannah and Her Sisters but not Happiness doesn't mean I only like "safe" feel-good movies. I like a wide range of movies, just didn't care for Happiness.
Colin Firth. That accent, those looks...sigh. No plot required!
Possibly Johnny Depp. Any role he plays, he seems like a new person. He plays his characters well. Not like Zac Efron, where you always know. Helena Botham Carter is also amazing, although in the two movies I've seen her in (Sweeney Todd and Harry Potter. Well, more than two), she looks the same. Well, actually, come to think of it, she's in Charlie and the Chocolate factory too. So, Johnny Depp, Helena Botham Carter, and Kristin Chenoweth. Those are the ones I can think of.
some of her choices have been questionable but drew barrymore always manages to pull me in ...then there's the divine ms kate w ... i have been known to turn my nose up at her soppier roles (but there's not too much arm wrangling needed in the end)
i also seem to put a fair bit of trust in hugo weaving's choices - i think he's got a pretty decent range (fer an aussie bloke)
and just to make it a nice even 2 fer 2 - cary grant is pretty fab as far as this chick's concerned
I have a "thing" for Tim Curry - stemming from my very young introductions to the midnight showing of Rocky Horror Picture Show in the 1980s. Have never gotten over it - no matter how he ages (and expands) I love him. I will watch anything he is in.My other big love is Christopher Walken. He is in some terrible movies but I will watch them anyway, even if it is only a ten minute scene.
There are other actors I try to follow- many, as I am a big fan of stories in any form, but these are the two that always come to mind first.
Most of my list are guilty pleasures, god knows I've seen terrible things for some of the following:Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ellen Page, Kate Beckinsale, Catherine Keener, Sandra Bullock, Julianne Moore, Toni Collette, Rachel McAdams, Jennifer Garner, Maura Tierney, Abigail Breslin, Emma Stone, Jennifer Connelly, Willem Dafoe, Michael Cera, Mark Ruffalo, P.S. Hoffman, Mark Strong, Paul Dano...
Ahoy! From the Oregon Coast... My list of favourites include:Sir Alec Guinness
Robert Duvall
Robert De Niro
Laurel and Hardy
Marx Brothers
Charlie Chaplin
Liam Neeson
Clint Eastwood
Lee Marvin
Alan Cumming
Tim Roth
Most of the above mentioned are big names and have been in some great movies and given great performances. The question asked "watch in anything". I cannot abide romantic comedy or romance in general. I don't really like comedies, cop movies or westerns. So, even if a favorite actor is in one of these kinds of films, I probably will not watch it. The one actor I will watch in anything is Ryan Phillippe, for a whole lot of reasons.
Patrick Stewart, Robert Downey Jr, John Cusack, Gerard Butler, Kevin Spacey, Johnny Depp, Chow Yun-Fat, Edward Norton, Clint Eastwood. Angelina Jolie, Jessica Alba, Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Rosario Dawson, Meryl Streep, Rachel McAdams.
I know there's a lot more, but that's all I can think of right now.
felix the catmax von sydow
bibi andersson
harriet andersson
itchy & scratchy
setsuko hara
toshiro mifune
the power puff girls
irene dunn
fatty arbuckle
parker posey
charlotte gainsbourg
marcello mastroiani
monica vitti
peter lorre
I can't believe how many great actors/actreses I forgot about.Hugh Jackman, definitely.
Add Milla and Sandra to my list too. There'll be more additions, I'm sure, LOL
Seconded Gary Oldman. I'm considering seeing THE BOOK OF ELI just to watch him play a villain.
Tom wrote: "Seconded Gary Oldman. I'm considering seeing THE BOOK OF ELI just to watch him play a villain."
You mean Sid Vicious wasn't a villain?
You mean Sid Vicious wasn't a villain?
"You mean Sid Vicious wasn't a villain?"Not as portrayed in SID AND NANCY.
Robert Duvall and Gene Hackman and Michael Caine. I loved Walter Huston. I'm impressed with the character actors - Day-Lewis in "My Beautiful Launderette" then "A Room with a View" then "Unbearable Lightness of Being" then "My Left Foot" - what a range - I like Hanks and Clooney - but they can't "become" someone else like Day-Lewis. I think the same about Alfred Molina and Gary Oldman. I love Kevin Kline (who should go back to Broadweay with a musical) and also Ed Harris and Jeremy Irons and Forest Whitaker and, and, and...
i would disagree with your assessment on gary oldman's range. i think if you go back and watch films like meantime, sid and nancy, rosencranz and guildenstern are dead, henry and june, JFK, scarlet letter, fifth element, lost in space, prick up your ears, dracula, romeo is bleeding and the newer batman films, you will see an extraodinary range of characters.
Gary Oldman is one of our greatest screen actors. His comic performance in ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD is a joy to behold, funny and moving. He obliterates poor old Tim Roth and Richard Dreyfuss.
Tom wrote: ""You mean Sid Vicious wasn't a villain?"
Not as portrayed in SID AND NANCY."
I misspoke. I meant to say "clueless death clown." But his take on "My Way" was brilliant.
Not as portrayed in SID AND NANCY."
I misspoke. I meant to say "clueless death clown." But his take on "My Way" was brilliant.
Tom wrote: "Gary Oldman is one of our greatest screen actors. His comic performance in ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD is a joy to behold, funny and moving. He obliterates poor old Tim Roth and Richard..."Oldman definitely kicked arse in R&G Are Dead - gosh Tom are we agreeing on something
and I believe / agree his range is impressive ... I can't think of a performance of his I haven't enjoyed ... I'd let him be in my gang
Tressa wrote: "Joey, did you see Alan Rickman in Snow Cake? He was marvelous and it was a different role for him..."Absolutely loved that movie.
Chiwetel EjioforRachel Weisz
Don Cheadle
Don CheadleRachel Weisz
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Will Smith
Old skool:-Toshiro Mifune, for being more articulate with his face than 99% of people are with their mouths
-Lauren Bacall, for setting the screen on fire every time
-Robert Mitchum - made "equipoise" part of my vocabulary. Love his cynicism.
-Julie Christie: Makes me drool, even when she's having sex with Donald Sutherland in the world's creepiest movie, and that's saying something.
-Michael Caine - brings/brought a jaunty style and a weirdly incongruous sex appeal to everything he's in
New skool:
-Forest Whitaker - Never a dull moment. Like Mifune, makes uncommon use of his instrument.
-Kristin Scott Thomas - Well, OK, I've had a massive crush on her since Four Weddings - one that only intensified when I found out she's married to her French proctologist, and when I saw her on Top Gear - but she's my favorite dramatic actress of the past twenty years
-Gabriel Byrne, a less macho, more hang-dog Mitchum tough-guy; it's purely a style thing, I just always enjoy him onscreen
-Tom Cruise. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he doesn't have the innate style of any of the others, but he's a perpetual bridesmaid at the Oscars for a reason - he makes everyone else around him look good. The problem is he belongs in the ensemble movies he can't be arsed to do anymore.
-Mary Louise Parker - Those eyes.
great league of actors there, conrad. your list automatically forgives the use of cruise.:)
MmmmmmKristen Scott Thomas. Man oh man. I saw her in a production of THE SEAGULL. As beautiful as she is on the screen, it is no comparison to her unbelievable stage presence. I couldn't take my eyes off her. I'd even consider FFing through THE ENGLISH PATIENT to see her.
Tom, what I'd suggest instead: freeze frame on the scene where she's in the bath. Or that fantastic scene where she's sitting by the fire with Ralph with the light flickering on her face.Then, with your DVD player on pause, read Herodotus.
See? Best of both worlds!
Oh, also, you're a lucky bastard. I really wanted to see that production of The Seagull but couldn't afford the tickets at the time.
Don CheadleWill Smith
Morgan Freeman
Sean Penn
Al Pacino
The classic actors from Hollywood's Golden Age - I'll watch any of them.
Kristen Scott Thomas? I can't stand her! LOL But I'll fast forward to get to Ralph Fiennes. And Juliette Binoche is gorgeous.
Clive Owen is the only one I can think of.
Hugh Grant (forgot him from my other list)
Harrison Ford, Johnny Depp, James Caviezel, Mathew maconahay, Hugh Grant, Al Pacino, Mel Gibson, Denzel Washington, Christian Bale, Clint Eastwood... Those are just the ones on the top of my head.
Kristen Scott Thomas is a world-class actress.
Ivan wrote: "Kristen Scott Thomas is a world-class actress."I think she has a very limited range and was always overhyped, but it doesn't matter. We all see things differently. She makes me avoid movies. Thank goodness she doesn't work much now.
