Who are your favourite actors and why?

~~Flower Child~~ · 12-11-2009, 05:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Captain Awesome

flowerchild - i love the deer hunter. I have it on dvd

Excellent. Just making sure.

daydreamdani · 12-11-2009, 08:09 PM

Johnny Depp is and always will be my favorite actor of all time. Why you may ask? Well, because he is simply brilliant. This man is a perfect example of a charecter actor. Not just silly characters either, but crazy obscure ones. Also, he writes, and directs. He is really involved film. Plus he plays guitar, and is in a band.

Zarko · 12-11-2009, 08:46 PM

I will finish this later, but recently rewatching There Will Be Blood just affirmed it...

All of this is ignoring the fact that he can grow the greatest Mo in the history of cinema as well.

NumberNineDream · 12-11-2009, 09:45 PM

After watching Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf, I noticed I developed a major crush on Richard Burton, just phenomenal performance...

Captain Awesome · 12-12-2009, 10:04 AM

I loved hide and seek and godsend. I thought they were great movies. Notice how you're all saying "check out this 80s movie" "check out back before he was so big" blah blah blah.

you all have a bad case of the reminiscents. Move on with the times, don't get stuck behind.
and i'm not just listing awards, hopkins played one good part in one good movie and you're all acting as if he's the greatest actor ever. If he had been in as many hollywood movies or made as much money as de niro, you would be bashing him. The only reason you like him is because he doesn't have that A-list commercial celebrity type status and you think liking him and his work makes you cool.

I'm so non-conformist i won't conform with the non-conformists - jesus south park ****in owns.

P.S good to see someone mention michael caine, he's awesome.

jackhammer · 12-12-2009, 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Captain Awesome

I loved hide and seek and godsend. I thought they were great movies. Notice how you're all saying "check out this 80s movie" "check out back before he was so big" blah blah blah.

you all have a bad case of the reminiscents. Move on with the times, don't get stuck behind.
and i'm not just listing awards, hopkins played one good part in one good movie and you're all acting as if he's the greatest actor ever. If he had been in as many hollywood movies or made as much money as de niro, you would be bashing him. The only reason you like him is because he doesn't have that A-list commercial celebrity type status and you think liking him and his work makes you cool.

I'm so non-conformist i won't conform with the non-conformists - jesus south park ****in owns.

P.S good to see someone mention michael caine, he's awesome.

Stuck behind? Damn I am certainly one person who knows their movies and saying Godsend sucks is definitely NOT because I'm stuck in a timewarp. It's this very reason that I CAN judge Godsend against other films is because I watch so many. Even taking away personal opinion away and looking at the film objectively it still sucks. The direction is pedestrian, there is no tension, it's cliched and dull beyond belief.

Saying Hopkins is a great actor was in response to you saying that he has only done one decent performance and we were mentioning other performances and If you think acting is all about money then you have no bloody clue about films whatsoever, actually judging by your posts you don't anyway. Mainstream Hollywood is not the only place that makes movies and I think you should educate yourself a little more and back up your arguments with sound film knowledge and then I may take you a little more seriously.

Captain Awesome · 12-12-2009, 02:06 PM

Yeah sure, 2 years doing media studies counts for nothing. and of course hollywood isn't the only place that makes good movies. El Orfanato is the only decent horror movie i've seen in a long time. It's far from being hollywood.

Stop making assumptions and just admit it. Because de niros hollywood you dislike him. It's uncool to like anything mainstream and very cool to like people who aren't commercial and mainstream.

De Niro is and always will be ten times the actor hopkins is. Comparing him to people like Michael Caine or even johnny depp i can understand. But a guy who's only been in one decent movie? what's next?

mr dave · 12-12-2009, 04:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

Have you ever seen Kalifornia? That's one of his best performances ever, IMO.

beat me to it. great movie.

my personal favourite, not someone most people like but... Keanu Reeves. mainly because most of his acting seems to be something i could achieve, then again most people also thought i was stoned all the time long before i ever had a puff.

Clint Eastwood and Steve Buscemi deserve nods too.

Akira · 12-12-2009, 05:15 PM

jackhammer · 12-12-2009, 06:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Captain Awesome

Yeah sure, 2 years doing media studies counts for nothing. and of course hollywood isn't the only place that makes good movies. El Orfanato is the only decent horror movie i've seen in a long time. It's far from being hollywood.

Stop making assumptions and just admit it. Because de niros hollywood you dislike him. It's uncool to like anything mainstream and very cool to like people who aren't commercial and mainstream.

De Niro is and always will be ten times the actor hopkins is. Comparing him to people like Michael Caine or even johnny depp i can understand. But a guy who's only been in one decent movie? what's next?

Two years of Media studies has led you to proclaiming Godsend a great movie? Get a new teacher. Trust me, they know fuck all by the sound of it.

12-11-2009, 08:09 PM	#32 (permalink)
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12-12-2009, 10:04 AM	#35 (permalink)
Captain Awesome On A Rampage Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 317	I loved hide and seek and godsend. I thought they were great movies. Notice how you're all saying "check out this 80s movie" "check out back before he was so big" blah blah blah. you all have a bad case of the reminiscents. Move on with the times, don't get stuck behind. and i'm not just listing awards, hopkins played one good part in one good movie and you're all acting as if he's the greatest actor ever. If he had been in as many hollywood movies or made as much money as de niro, you would be bashing him. The only reason you like him is because he doesn't have that A-list commercial celebrity type status and you think liking him and his work makes you cool. I'm so non-conformist i won't conform with the non-conformists - jesus south park ****in owns. P.S good to see someone mention michael caine, he's awesome. __________________ "If we're all merely players in a play on this great stage, the problem is the script writers ain't on the same page, I echo through the mountain when I'm singing in the air, from my lab a lad with lavish lyrics living in his lair." "Wake up and listen, hear what's not for the public's ears Pinocchio poets played by profiting puppeteers"

12-12-2009, 02:06 PM	#37 (permalink)
Captain Awesome On A Rampage Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 317	Yeah sure, 2 years doing media studies counts for nothing. and of course hollywood isn't the only place that makes good movies. El Orfanato is the only decent horror movie i've seen in a long time. It's far from being hollywood. Stop making assumptions and just admit it. Because de niros hollywood you dislike him. It's uncool to like anything mainstream and very cool to like people who aren't commercial and mainstream. De Niro is and always will be ten times the actor hopkins is. Comparing him to people like Michael Caine or even johnny depp i can understand. But a guy who's only been in one decent movie? what's next? __________________ "If we're all merely players in a play on this great stage, the problem is the script writers ain't on the same page, I echo through the mountain when I'm singing in the air, from my lab a lad with lavish lyrics living in his lair." "Wake up and listen, hear what's not for the public's ears Pinocchio poets played by profiting puppeteers"

12-11-2009, 08:46 PM	#33 (permalink)
Zarko Barely Disheveled Zombie Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Australia Posts: 1,196	I will finish this later, but recently rewatching There Will Be Blood just affirmed it... All of this is ignoring the fact that he can grow the greatest Mo in the history of cinema as well.