I'm a massive Tom Ford fan so it's on the list.

I put him ahead of Day-Lewis because Shannon has so much realism to his performances while DDL is more of a character actor. I suppose it comes down to preference.

Lot's of movies that I love are kind of flawed. I just hope that it is at the very least interesting in some way.

Oh and I love Fassbender. Especially for his lead roles in Shame and Frank respectively.

I need to watch that one. NEED to watch it. Really bad.

He's great. A top 10 actor/actress of our time for sure, if anyone asks me.

oh yeah, that's totally fair. i think a lot of the time it's easy to forget how good an actor who strives for realism is because if they're doing it well enough it feels like they aren't even acting. whereas someone like DDL is so eccentric and larger than life in his roles that it's very easy to see how great he is at it.

he's easily my favourite actor. i have the utmost respect for him for his film choices, it's actually hard to name bad films he's been in.

he's done some okay films like southpaw and everest but in terms of good films i can't think of many actors with a better track record post 2000.

- Enemy
- Prisonners
- Nocturnal Animals
- Nightcrawler
- Brokeback Mountain
- Zodiac
- Source Code
- End of Watch
- Demolition
- Jarhead
- Donnie Darko

and i'm sure i'm missing some

he's just the real ****in' deal man

Haven't seen all of those yet, but I loved these: Nightcrawler (best modern thriller, pretty much), Jarhead and Zodiac. Need to catch up to some of those. Especially Demolition and Prisoners.

oh my god dude. you need to see Prisoners ASAP. it's probably Denis Villeneuve's bench mark film at this point. there's not many better examples of how to take a fairly "basic" narrative and elevate to such a level that it becomes a near perfect film. it's one of those films that will stick with you days after seeing it. cannot recommend enough. it edges out Nightcrawler and Nocturnal Animals for me by a little bit.

The thing is, I'm not too big a Villeneuve fan... (I know, I know - call me a philistine), but I still want to see it because I think Gyllenhaal is great, and because I think it sounds like an interesting movie. I've seen both Incendies, Sicario and Blade Runner 2049 (all Denis Villeneuve films), but didn't really connect with either... It is what it is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

huh. interesting. i haven't seen Blade Runner yet but I love Incendies and Sicario. Prisoners is better than both though and I have a feeling it might win you over to his style a bit.

Hopefully so. I'm just not really on his mental wavelength, it seems. Which is not to say that some of his individual scenes didn't get under my skin. That scene in Incendies where the bus is stopped by these muslim soldiers and they decide to set fire to it... That's the kind of scene that stays with you for years...

Re: Shannon

His bit parts in "Before The Devil Knows You're Dead" puts him in DeNiro status.