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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: 321BAR on March 24, 2010, 02:19:06 AM
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There are alot of movies are great, but which movie do you think is better because one or two actors/actresses MADE the movie what it was? I gotta say "The Dark Knight" was a great movie but without the Joker being played by Heath Ledger it wouldnt have been anywhere near as great as it was. Any others?
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I'd have to say Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver, he was just really good as that character, and John Travolta in Pulp Fiction.
But lets not forget Ben Affleck, without him Pearl Harbor might have been a bad movie.
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I'll go with Pulp Fiction as well. Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta really killed the roles.
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R.Lee Ermey in Full Metal Jacket.
I like Billy Bob Thornton in SlingBlade too.
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Gene Wilder/Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Anthony Hopkins/The Bunker
Anthony Hopkins/Magic
Meryl Streep/Silkwood
A plethora of others
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How about Daniel Day Lewis in My Left Foot, or Geoffrey Rush in Shine, Gary Oldman (one of the greatest actors ever!) in Syd and Nancy and Dracula.
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The late Christopher Reeve in Superman the Movie. He made you believe that he was both mild mannered and klutz Clark Kent and All-American Superman.
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Saving private Ryan had great acting
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No Brainer -
Best movie because of EVERYTHING:
Acting
Casting
Writing
Directing
Lighting
Music Score
Editing
Cinematography
Godfather 2
this flick has more plots and underlying/dissecting sub-plots than our health care bill....
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R.Lee Ermey in Full Metal Jacket.
I like Billy Bob Thornton in SlingBlade too.
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First one that comes to mind is Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs. Absolutely fantastic. I guess you could say Jodi Foster gets an honorary mention, but Hopkins is simply unbeatable in that role.
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How about Christopher Walken in Biloxi Blues. He reminds me of a drill instructor I had, GySgt Lopez. The dude scared me to death. He was one disturbed unit. :uhoh CW kicked arse in the Deer Hunter also I thought.
And how can we forget Robert Duvall in Apocalypse Now. "Charlie don't surf" :rock
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John Goodman in The Big Lebowski
Val Kilmer in Tombstone
Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman in The Shawshank Redemption
Harrison Ford in any of the Starwars movies but mainly Empire
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John Wayne in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance .... "Whoa, take 'er easy there, Pilgrim. "
"Pompey, go find Doc Willoughby. If he's sober, bring him back. "
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Can't think of movies overall but a few characters that were played perfect are:
Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday in Tombstone
Dustin Hoffman as Raymond Babbit in Rainman
Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump
Heath Ledger as The Joker
Daniel Day-Lewis as Hawkeye, actually Last of the Mohicans is pretty good all around for acting.
Dustin Hoffman and Barbara Streisand as Greg Fokkers parents. :rofl
Gerard Butler as King Leonidas in 300
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First one that comes to mind is Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs. Absolutely fantastic. I guess you could say Jodi Foster gets an honorary mention, but Hopkins is simply unbeatable in that role.
Was thinking the same thing. :aok
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Sir Ian McKellan as Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings.
Jeff Daniels as Chamberlain in Gettysburg.
Rutger Hauer just for being Rutger Hauer, because some guys are just bad bellybutton enough to watch that they rock no matter WHAT role they play. Add Jeremy Irons to that list.
Ricardo Montalban as Khan in Star Trek II.
Johnny Depp as (CAPTAIN!) Jack Sparrow. Let's face it, as big a disappointment as 2 and 3 were, they were worth going to see JUST to watch Depp ham it up. And we ALL know we're all going to see Pirates 4 for the same reason.
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To Kill A Mocking Bird and the original Cape Fear
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Geoffrey Rush as captain Barbossa in "Pirates of the Carribean"
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But lets not forget Ben Affleck, without him Pearl Harbor might have been a bad movie.
Pearl Harbor was a cinematic masterpiece solely due to the incomparable skills of "The single greatest actor that ever lived".
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Arrrrec Barrrrin. Head of The Film Actors Guild! ;)
How about Return of the Jedi?
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The Emperor (Ian McDiarmid) made that movie.
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To Kill A Mocking Bird and the original Cape Fear
well done.
I'd also add the original Flight Of The Phoenix
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Pearl Harbor was a cinematic masterpiece solely due to the incomparable skills of "The single greatest actor that ever lived".
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The Emperor (Ian McDiarmid) made that movie.
QFT. And then they turned him into a cackling video game boss in Episode III. :furious :furious :furious :mad: :mad: :mad: :furious :furious :furious
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To Kill a Mockingbird - Gregory Peck
12 Angry Men
Lawrence of Arabia
Super Troopers
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Anthony Hopkins/Magic
One of the scariest movies I ever watched as a kid.
ack-ack
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Zombieland
Todd
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The Hill. Sydney Lumet, 1965.
Sean Connery's best role. Harry Andrews got a BAFTA nomination for that one, should have won it too :aok
PS Brian Cox was the best Lecter ;)
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I thought we were talking about movies that were made great based on someone's performance, not just great movies in general. I don't disagree with anything anyone's posted so far though.
Another great performance that elevated what would otherwise have been a mediocre movie, Brad Pitt in Kalifornia. He's just unbelievably good in that, made me a fan of him in fact.
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Another great performance that elevated what would otherwise have been a mediocre movie, Brad Pitt in Kalifornia. He's just unbelievably good in that, made me a fan of him in fact.
I liked that movie..
I put forward...Eagle Vs Shark........ Reasonably new movie but the acting...or what is seemingly, lack of it, is what makes this movie classic...here is the trailer if you haven't seen it..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh_OoO91AEo
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I liked that movie..
I put forward...Eagle Vs Shark........ Reasonably new movie but the acting...or what is seemingly, lack of it, is what makes this movie classic...here is the trailer if you haven't seen it..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh_OoO91AEo
That looks like the kind of a movie I'd enjoy, I 'll have to track that one down. I think I've seen the guy in that before somewhere.
As for NZ films, how about Temuera Morrison in Once Were Warriors. Great performance in a great move. One of my favorites.
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I think I've seen the guy in that before somewhere.
You may have...he is from flight of the concord's
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Pulp Fiction
Taking of Pelham 123 (remake)
3000 Miles to Graceland
Gran Torino
Million Dollar Baby
Letters From Iwo Jima
Flags of Our Fathers
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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You may have...he is from flight of the concord's
Yeah ok. That's it exactly. Thanks, that was going to drive me crazy all day.
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Recently, Christof Waltz in Inglorious Basterds.
The rest of the cast/movie wasn't nearly as enjoyable as his scenes, even though I did like it overall.
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I'd definitely agree there. The scene in the cottage at the beginning is superb. Gets you hooked right away.
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Shawshank Redemption by a long shot: Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman nailed it. (Especially Morgan Freeman) He will always be one of my favorite actors.
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First one that comes to mind is Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs. Absolutely fantastic.<snip>... but Hopkins is simply unbeatable in that role.
Totally agree.
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Recently, Christof Waltz in Inglorious Basterds.
The rest of the cast/movie wasn't nearly as enjoyable as his scenes, even though I did like it overall.
that movie looked like a comedy in the previews. when i saw it in the theater i was dissapointed...
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that movie looked like a comedy in the previews. when i saw it in the theater i was dissapointed...
I love Tarantino films, but I only got half way through that one before I turned it off, for one I hate subtitles and about half the movie to that point was subtitles.
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Johnny Depp in fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hopkins in anything.
Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange
Brad Pitt / Edward Norton in Fight Club
Tom Berenger / Willem Dafoe in Platoon
the list goes on...
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Whoever played the Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
That dude was seriously scary.
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Taking of Pelham 123 (remake)
THAT was the worlds worst movie ever unless you include SciFi TV movies under budgeted and over acted.
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Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now was awesome.
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Couple of my favs..
Johnny Depp and Al Pacino - Donnie Brasco
Jeff Bridges and John Goodman - The Big Lebowski
Robert De Niro - Heat
Jodie Foster - Contact
Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins - Shawshank Redemption
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High Sierra
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Couple of my favs..
Johnny Depp and Al Pacino - Donnie Brasco
Jeff Bridges and John Goodman - The Big Lebowski
Robert De Niro - Heat
Jodie Foster - Contact
Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins - Shawshank Redemption
Man, I hated the Big Lebowski...
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Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange - agree 100%.
Here's a couple of odd ones I feel were great:
Mickey Rourke - Barfly
Val Kimner - Tombstone
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State of Play - The original British mini series, NOT the Russell Crow movie. John Simm, fantastic!
Di Caprio and Depp in What's Eating Gilbert Grape.
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THAT was the worlds worst movie ever unless you include SciFi TV movies under budgeted and over acted.
Overall I somewhat agree but if you just look at the interaction between the main 2 characters and the events as they transpire...they did a good job...I didn't like the original much but the remake surprised me.
There is nothing worse than a SciFi channel B-movie...
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...Di Caprio and Depp in What's Eating Gilbert Grape.
Good call.
Ewan McGregor - Trainspotting
Sam Rockwell- Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (you'd think he really was Chuck Barris)
Stephen Rea - Citizen X (if you get a chance, see it)
Tom Hanks - Road to Perdition (he's great in a lot, but playing a bad guy was too cool)
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Good call.
Ewan McGregor - Trainspotting
Sam Rockwell- Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (you'd think he really was Chuck Barris)
Stephen Rea - Citizen X (if you get a chance, see it)
Tom Hanks - Road to Perdition (he's great in a lot, but playing a bad guy was too cool)
Man I loved Trainspotting! I'd read the book and was just waiting for the movie to come out. McGregor was great, and how about Robert Carlyle as Begby, that dude was outstanding! Shallow Grave was a really great movie too, same director/producer if I remember right.
Citizen X was really good too, and Rea was great in it. He just seemed so oppressed by the powers that be working against him catching Chikatilo.
I agree with you on Perdition too, underrated movie if you ask me.
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All fantastic choices but no one has mentioned what comedy due to acting. My choice for that would be "It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world" Huge cast and hilarious!
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For comedy...Peter O'Toole in Club Paradise
lol
His best role imho.
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Comedies, I can't imagine any of the Austin Powers movies with anyone but Mike Myers.
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All fantastic choices but no one has mentioned what comedy due to acting. My choice for that would be "It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world" Huge cast and hilarious!
For comedy due to acting (of course Goodman as Walter was in a sort of a comedy) I'd have to go with anything Peter Sellers ever did. That guy was simply unbelievable!
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Clint Eastwood The Outlaw Josey Wales
John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara McLintock
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Peter Sellers as DR. Strangelove
George C Scott as Patton
Robin Williams in Birdcage
Woddy Harrelson as Pepper Lewis in the Cowboy way
Tim Curry in Rocky Horror Picture Show
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Johnny Depp in fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
This is one seriously out of it movie......
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This is one seriously out of it movie......
The book was way way way better imho
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yup, without Depp and Del Toro as the leading characters the film probably would have been a tragic episode ruining a great writer's book. But i think they both pulled it off with class, Depp especialy.
Ewan McGregor - Trainspotting
good shout!
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Donny you're out of your element ! :rofl
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Teasures of Serena Madre
Glenda
:salute
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The book was way way way better imho
Much better, their actully making another one of Hunter S. Thompson book's into a movie, "The Rum Diary's" and it has Johnny Depp as the lead in it too. They already filmed the movie & I believe it's coming out this summer or fall. It's not a far out drug induced story like Fear & Loathing, but it's still a good story, probably my favorite book he wrote.
<--If you can't tell I'm a big fan of Thompson. :D
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Much better, their actully making another one of Hunter S. Thompson book's into a movie, "The Rum Diary's" and it has Johnny Depp as the lead in it too. They already filmed the movie & I believe it's coming out this summer or fall. It's not a far out drug induced story like Fear & Loathing, but it's still a good story, probably my favorite book he wrote.
<--If you can't tell I'm a big fan of Thompson. :D
I was disappointed that in the hotel bar scene they left out the last line about the elevator. That got a huge laugh out of me when I read it, and I couldn't believe it wasn't in the movie. I was painting a very large portrait of the Dr. when my apartment burned. I'll see if I can dig up a pic of it somewhere. It was only about half finished, but coming along nicely.
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Teasures of Serena Madre
Glenda
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actually meant Gilda not glenda,must have been thinking Glen Ford and transposed the the word.
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Dudley Moore in Arthur
Gene Wilder in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Drex
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I'm suprised that everyone forgot these three that come to my mind:
Al Pachino- Scarface
Denzel Washington- Man on Fire
Clint Eastwood- Gran Torino
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Edit: and if were talking about comedy, no one compares to the acting of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in Hot Fuzz. That movie was the best comedy ever! lol
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Dudley Moore in Arthur
good call
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They were good movies anyway but here's my choice:
Gwyneth Paltrow, in 'Shakespeare in Love'. An American who played a girl pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman reciting Shakespeare's Juliet in a very good British accent. Now THAT'S acting.
Likewise, Renee Zellweger, in 'Bridget Jones' Diary', she's amazing.
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They were good movies anyway but here's my choice:
Gwyneth Paltrow, in 'Shakespeare in Love'. An American who played a girl pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman reciting Shakespeare's Juliet in a very good British accent. Now THAT'S acting.
Likewise, Renee Zellweger, in 'Bridget Jones' Diary', she's amazing.
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Or for a similar convoluted type of role, how about Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder? Great performance, and hilarious!
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"The Best" acting I have seen was not in a film, rather a mini series making a film.
It was Band Of Brothers. They did a fortnight of boot camp where they learnt everything from field stripping a M1 Garand to fire and move tactics. They did excercises with live weapons (Blank's obviously) and spent the whole time using their characters names while there. At the end they did simulated jumps from the tower at an RAF base.
When they got to making the series I believed every single detail was recreated exactly.
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That 'Band of Brothers' worked hard for their living, for sure.
Another 'I learnt to do it better than the experts' actor is Daniel Day-Lewis in 'Last of the Mohicans'. He was taught how to load and fire a 'long musket' for the movie, and got so good at it that the director decided to go for maximum effect and asked him to fire, reload at the run and fire again, all in one take. The expert rifleman who'd taught him said he knew it could be done, but not by an actor with minimal experience, no way, not a chance. Day-Lewis proved him wrong, made it on the first take - and cleaned up on the bets made against him by the film crew. Treat yourself and watch the movie again to see him do it.
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Man for All Seasons won six Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor. The guy who dominated the movie was Robert Shaw as Henry VIII; he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor but didn't get it.
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They were good movies anyway but here's my choice:
Gwyneth Paltrow, in 'Shakespeare in Love'. An American who played a girl pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman reciting Shakespeare's Juliet in a very good British accent. Now THAT'S acting.
Likewise, Renee Zellweger, in 'Bridget Jones' Diary', she's amazing.
:cool:
Bridget, NOW THERE is someone who I could get to know.
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"The Best" acting I have seen was not in a film, rather a mini series making a film.
It was Band Of Brothers. They did a fortnight of boot camp where they learnt everything from field stripping a M1 Garand to fire and move tactics. They did excercises with live weapons (Blank's obviously) and spent the whole time using their characters names while there. At the end they did simulated jumps from the tower at an RAF base.
When they got to making the series I believed every single detail was recreated exactly.
Flags of our Fathers had the same thought. After a couple of weeks of crawling in the sand with my Tommy-gun, the "feel" was already there. When new recruits arrived after some 4 weeks of filming, one could spot them from a long distance, - they just didn't move in the right way.
As for the best acting, it's a hard bet. Anthony Hopkins has done some really good ones, and then again, the director sometimes manages to "squeeze" a lot of performance out of the actor. Kubrick would be on the top of that list, so the merry drilling sergeant in Full Metal Jacket is on my list as well as Malcolm McDowell in Clockwork orange.
And the best B-movie baddie EVER is the Kurgan in "Highlander". No contest.
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Overall I somewhat agree but if you just look at the interaction between the main 2 characters and the events as they transpire...they did a good job...I didn't like the original much but the remake surprised me.
There is nothing worse than a SciFi channel B-movie...
I gotta say one thing though. Some of those channel movies can be a B+! :D
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Man for All Seasons won six Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor. The guy who dominated the movie was Robert Shaw as Henry VIII; he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor but didn't get it.
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Shawshank Redemption
The Green Mile
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Blood Diamond- Leo can play a tough guy too lol
Will Smith - Bad Boys 2 :rofl
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lol do have to agree on Bad Boys 2 , both actors made that movie, best part is when the kid comes to the door to take out Martin lawrence's daughter LMAO great bit :rofl
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lol do have to agree on Bad Boys 2 , both actors made that movie, best part is when the kid comes to the door to take out Martin lawrence's daughter LMAO great bit :rofl
"One of them ludacris looking motha suckas" :rofl :rofl
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Will Smith.. "Reggie ever been with a man? "
Reggie..... Umm NO
Will Smith..."want to?"
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Will Smith.. "Reggie ever been with a man? "
Reggie..... Umm NO
Will Smith..."want to?"
:rofl :rofl :rofl
Thats what I said to MJsmoke on vox just before he got people to mass report me :rofl
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Casablanca.
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First one that comes to mind is Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs. Absolutely fantastic. I guess you could say Jodi Foster gets an honorary mention, but Hopkins is simply unbeatable in that role.
Agreed.
Just about anything Hopkins is in.
same thing with Brando
and Pacino.
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Casablanca.
FANTASTIC movie
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Casino - the portrayal of Robert DeNiro and Sharon Stones relationship in that movie is just remarkable. its compelling and uncomfortable to see, like watching a really detailed, super slomo, very traumatic car crash happening. throws more love, power, lust, addiction, betrayal and whole host of other stuff into the "romantic interest" part of the movie than the rest of hollywood could even imagine. stunning performances from both (plus Scorsese and whoever wrote it) :aok
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Hot Fuzz is funny as crap...the fat guy running into the fence is hilarious :rofl
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Anthony Hopkins
Spotswood
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