Favorite Actors or Actresses
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Haven't seen it - I didn't realise they did one before the more recent version, which I really liked.
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you mean the Richard Nixon David Frost movie? Yeah that was good. The Oliver Stone Nixon starred Hopkins and I didn't buy it for a second.
WSW
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That's the fella, yeah. Which reminds me, Michael Sheen is pretty decent. Did an excellent David Frost and an equally excellent Tony Blair - two quite different personalities that he nailed.
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Chris, sorry, I accidentally deleted your Will Smith post. Sambo like I said this is off the top of my head and I think of others. No doubt Jimmy Stewart belongs there along with Henry, not Peter, Fonda. Personally as an actor I like Gene Kelly better than Astair. Bill Murray for sure.
No disrespect intended but I've never been a huge fan of Tom Hanks Leonardo DiCaprio or Will Smith.
Possibly Mickey Rourke and Kevin Costner and Robert Downey Jr belong on this list?
Others that certainly slipped my mind for my list of favorites are Paul Newman Alec Baldwin Robert Redford and the great Burt Lancaster.
WSS
Chris, sorry, I accidentally deleted your Will Smith post. Sambo like I said this is off the top of my head and I think of others. No doubt Jimmy Stewart belongs there along with Henry, not Peter, Fonda. Personally as an actor I like Gene Kelly better than Astair. Bill Murray for sure.
No disrespect intended but I've never been a huge fan of Tom Hanks Leonardo DiCaprio or Will Smith.
Possibly Mickey Rourke and Kevin Costner and Robert Downey Jr belong on this list?
Others that certainly slipped my mind for my list of favorites are Paul Newman Alec Baldwin Robert Redford and the great Burt Lancaster.
WSS
From being his friend for years and moviegoing buddy here are two actors I know are among his favorites:
Keanu Reeves
Pauly Shore
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That's the fella, yeah. Which reminds me, Michael Sheen is pretty decent. Did an excellent David Frost and an equally excellent Tony Blair - two quite different personalities that he nailed.
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Chris, sorry, I accidentally deleted your Will Smith post. Sambo like I said this is off the top of my head and I think of others. No doubt Jimmy Stewart belongs there along with Henry, not Peter, Fonda. Personally as an actor I like Gene Kelly better than Astair. Bill Murray for sure.
No disrespect intended but I've never been a huge fan of Tom Hanks Leonardo DiCaprio or Will Smith.
Possibly Mickey Rourke and Kevin Costner and Robert Downey Jr belong on this list?
Others that certainly slipped my mind for my list of favorites are Paul Newman Alec Baldwin Robert Redford and the great Burt Lancaster.
WSS
From being his friend for years and moviegoing buddy here are two actors I know are among his favorites:
Keanu Reeves
Pauly Shore
From being his friend for years and moviegoing buddy here are two actors I know are among his favorites:
Boy howdy!
At least there werent a raft of producers forcing Pauly Shore upon the world in dramatic roles!
WSS
Keanu Reeves
Pauly Shore
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I have no idea how I could have possibly left Philip Seymour Hoffman of my list of the all-time great actors but he certainly belongs there. He has been so good in so many things I'm ashamed to have let him slip my mind.
WSS
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I have no idea how I could have possibly left Philip Seymour Hoffman of my list of the all-time great actors but he certainly belongs there. He has been so good in so many things I'm ashamed to have let him slip my mind.
WSS
I have no idea how I could have possibly left Philip Seymour Hoffman of my list of the all-time great actors but he certainly belongs there. He has been so good in so many things I'm ashamed to have let him slip my mind.
WSS
A talent that left us way too soon! RIP as thoughts are with his family!
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Yes. Thester tends to be a little bit sexist. let's not forget Cate Blanchett either.
WSS
Yes. Thester tends to be a little bit sexist. let's not forget Cate Blanchett either.
WSS
OMG. so in love with her. one of the bests in my time watching film. benjamin button for me was a masterpiece for her.
kevin costner for the baseball movie and 'mr. brooks' which is sooo underated. which brings up mr. william hurts.
btw. forgot all about chubby, prob cuz i see him every time i get up in the morning except he changed his name to denise.
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Michael Shannon, Johnny Depp
Meryl Streep is aces. I think I married my first wife because she looked like her.
I am not a homo...but I loved Meryl in The Devil Wears Prada
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Yes. Thester tends to be a little bit sexist. let's not forget Cate Blanchett either.
WSS
Yes. Thester tends to be a little bit sexist. let's not forget Cate Blanchett either.
WSS
LOL- Steve- I won't argue with you about Cate Blanchette being a great actress- but me and the wifie have a long running feud about her being cast as Galadriel in Lord of the Rings. IMHO, she's not drop dead gorgeous enough for the part. Though probably too young (mostly) at the time, I would have voted for Charlize Theuron, Nichole Kidman (& certainly Amy Adams) in a perfect world for that part. Cate got it because IMHO she's almost 6' tall, and it involved a lot less camera tricks.
OMG. so in love with her. one of the bests in my time watching film. benjamin button for me was a masterpiece for her.
kevin costner for the baseball movie and 'mr. brooks' which is sooo underated. which brings up mr. william hurts.
btw. forgot all about chubby, prob cuz i see him every time i get up in the morning except he changed his name to denise.
PS Steve- I totally disagree with you about Tom Hanks- he's been shafted out of a bunch of Oscars. He deserved one in spades for "Saving Private Ryan". Seems like the Academy prefers (and I say this without bias) homo movies like Brokenback Mountain and Black Swan.
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Actually no one human today actually lives up to the magical beauty Galadriel possessed. I just took that role with a grain of salt. Still it doesn't seem as if Peter Jackson shies away from camera tricks....
(personally I have a hard time picturing anyone except Sean Connery as Aragorn)
And I don't dislike Tom Hanks it's just that I think he's a pretty limited actor. Especially in the case of Captain Phillips where is New England accent wasn't that good and faded in and out at times. There is a technical side to acting and that's one of the rules. Does his charisma somewhat cover for that,? Sure probably. But it is what it is.
As I've said I wasn't choked up by the accent in Forrest Gump or the Coen brothers crime movie.
And you are most certainly correct that the academy loves a particular segment of society probably because there are a lot of gays in theater. That was my pager in college and I was one of the few straight guys and some of the classes. Probably the reason for my liberal attitudes on that particular subject. But it can be annoying to see a film I believe is not Oscar worthy nominated because of political correctness.
WSS
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I don't think it's political correctness as much as it is political leanings. For example, you're more likely to get a film like Milk nominated by a liberal panel of judges than a conservative panel. Not that they're under any pressure or whatever to do so, but one group might look at that particular film as an inspirational story about courage in the face of adversity and another might look at it as having the gay agenda rammed down their throats some more.
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Agree about Blanchett. She isn't ugly, just plain looking, nothing spectacular.
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Yes. Thester tends to be a little bit sexist. let's not forget Cate Blanchett either.
WSS
LOL- Steve- I won't argue with you about Cate Blanchette being a great actress- but me and the wifie have a long running feud about her being cast as Galadriel in Lord of the Rings. IMHO, she's not drop dead gorgeous enough for the part. Though probably too young (mostly) at the time, I would have voted for Charlize Theuron, Nichole Kidman (& certainly Amy Adams) in a perfect world for that part. Cate got it because IMHO she's almost 6' tall, and it involved a lot less camera tricks.
OMG. so in love with her. one of the bests in my time watching film. benjamin button for me was a masterpiece for her.
kevin costner for the baseball movie and 'mr. brooks' which is sooo underated. which brings up mr. william hurts.
btw. forgot all about chubby, prob cuz i see him every time i get up in the morning except he changed his name to denise.
PS Steve- I totally disagree with you about Tom Hanks- he's been shafted out of a bunch of Oscars. He deserved one in spades for "Saving Private Ryan". Seems like the Academy prefers (and I say this without bias) homo movies like Brokenback Mountain and Black Swan.
LOL- Steve- I won't argue with you about Cate Blanchette being a great actress- but me and the wifie have a long running feud about her being cast as Galadriel in Lord of the Rings. IMHO, she's not drop dead gorgeous enough for the part. Though probably too young (mostly) at the time, I would have voted for Charlize Theuron, Nichole Kidman (& certainly Amy Adams) in a perfect world for that part. Cate got it because IMHO she's almost 6' tall, and it involved a lot less camera tricks.
Cate Blanchett, in my opinion, is more drop dead gorgeous than Theron/Kidman/Adams
PS Steve- I totally disagree with you about Tom Hanks- he's been shafted out of a bunch of Oscars. He deserved one in spades for "Saving Private Ryan". Seems like the Academy prefers (and I say this without bias) homo movies like Brokenback Mountain and Black Swan.
The mentality must be that they just want to spread the wealth around. "Tom got two...and even though he was best, he don't need no more"
That is all I can figure, because, yes, he easily could have won 3 more Best Actor awards.
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I don't think it's political correctness as much as it is political leanings. For example, you're more likely to get a film like Milk nominated by a liberal panel of judges than a conservative panel. Not that they're under any pressure or whatever to do so, but one group might look at that particular film as an inspirational story about courage in the face of adversity and another might look at it as having the gay agenda rammed down their throats some more.
I don't think it's political correctness as much as it is political leanings. For example, you're more likely to get a film like Milk nominated by a liberal panel of judges than a conservative panel. Not that they're under any pressure or whatever to do so, but one group might look at that particular film as an inspirational story about courage in the face of adversity and another might look at it as having the gay agenda rammed down their throats some more.
I won't quibble about semantics. Actually I think both the definitions are applicable here. Yes it's an inspirational story about courage in the face of adversity and also a political cudgel with which to beat the opposition.
But it is logical that a group of people that contain a lot of gays would be sympathetic to that type movie. On the other hand I didn't care for twelve years a slave nearly as much as Dallas.
And I wouldn't guess there are very many African American members of the Academy. But it's politically correct to manipulate an audience into hating white people but not if the situation were reversed.
WSS
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I don't think it's political correctness as much as it is political leanings. For example, you're more likely to get a film like Milk nominated by a liberal panel of judges than a conservative panel. Not that they're under any pressure or whatever to do so, but one group might look at that particular film as an inspirational story about courage in the face of adversity and another might look at it as having the gay agenda rammed down their throats some more.
I won't quibble about semantics. Actually I think both the definitions are applicable here. Yes it's an inspirational story about courage in the face of adversity and also a political cudgel with which to beat the opposition.
But it is logical that a group of people that contain a lot of gays would be sympathetic to that type movie. On the other hand I didn't care for twelve years a slave nearly as much as Dallas.
And I wouldn't guess there are very many African American members of the Academy. But it's politically correct to manipulate an audience into hating white people but not if the situation were reversed.
WSS
I won't quibble about semantics. Actually I think both the definitions are applicable here. Yes it's an inspirational story about courage in the face of adversity and also a political cudgel with which to beat the opposition.
But it is logical that a group of people that contain a lot of gays would be sympathetic to that type movie. On the other hand I didn't care for twelve years a slave nearly as much as Dallas.
And I wouldn't guess there are very many African American members of the Academy. But it's politically correct to manipulate an audience into hating white people but not if the situation were reversed.
WSS
My whole point of view comes down to entertainment value. 12 years a slave, to me had little entertainment value. OK, the guys acted their roles fine, but as we have noted it was merely a graphic documentary on slavery. Without the graphic display of violence it could have probably been a History Channel/PBS program.
And the AIDS epidemic I guess was the issue in Dallas Buyers Club. I never did get to see it but my question is: was it entertaining? Obviously Hollywood thought the two actors in it did a great job.
I also note this: Of the Ten highest grossing pictures of 2013, only 1 of the Oscar nominated films were on the list: Gravity.
(of course that could be a function of so many of the Oscar nominated films being released toward the end of the year and not getting their full run)
Though Frozen...winner in feature length animated film was one of the top ten.
Nevertheless I surmise that their is a reason that the likes of Iron Man 3, The Desolation of Smaug, The Hunger Games, Man of Steel, Thor The Dark World et al are in the Top Ten grossing movies, and 12 Years a Slave, Dallas Buyers Club, etc. are not:
because they are more entertaining.
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Those movies probably also appeal to a wider variety of people. Your Iron Man style action film with the effects, tony stark lifestyle, high on fast paced action with a comedy twist is generally great viewing. But it doesn't require much thinking. The academy rewards those films that get your brain/emotions more involved, generally, with a few notable exceptions, when a film like Titanic, Return of the King etc comes along and is just such a huge success that you have to acknowledge it.
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