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  • Dallas buyers club was way better than anything starring Matthew mcconaghy has any right to be. He was damn good to the point where I resented him putting out so many bad movies. Really an excellent film.

    Early man walked away as modern man took control. Their minds weren't all the same and to conquer was their goal. So He built his great empires and he slaughtered his own kind, and he died a confused man and killed himself in his own mind...

  • You see MUD?

    WSS

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  • Yeah mud was good too. A little depressing but good. Mcconaghy has proven his acting chops lately but buyers club was a fucking great performance. Literally transformative. He is nearly unrecogniZable. Think bale in the machinist but a better movie.

    I never thought I'd say the academy couldn't ignore mcconaghy forever, but really he may deserve it this year

    Early man walked away as modern man took control. Their minds weren't all the same and to conquer was their goal. So He built his great empires and he slaughtered his own kind, and he died a confused man and killed himself in his own mind...
  • T The Cysko Kid

    Yeah mud was good too. A little depressing but good. Mcconaghy has proven his acting chops lately but buyers club was a fucking great performance. Literally transformative. He is nearly unrecogniZable. Think bale in the machinist but a better movie.

    I never thought I'd say the academy couldn't ignore mcconaghy forever, but really he may deserve it this year

    @the-cysko-kid said:

    Yeah mud was good too. A little depressing but good. Mcconaghy has proven his acting chops lately but buyers club was a fucking great performance. Literally transformative. He is nearly unrecogniZable. Think bale in the machinist but a better movie.

    I never thought I'd say the academy couldn't ignore mcconaghy forever, but really he may deserve it this year

    Having not seen that movie, based on what you and Steve say, I would think that it should come down to him or Christian Bale.

    I know that movie is now out on video so I am going to try to pick it up in the next day or two.

  • I agree McConaughey has taken a couple roles now that he's been well suited for. I do believe he came into the business with a lot of hype and under performed. Or took some bad parts which can hurt you.

    I think the example is if you'd never seen more than 1 marlon brando movie and it was a streetcar named desire or the island of dr. Moreau... You'd have a different opinion depending.

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  • W Westside Steve

    Actually that's a role that Tom Cruise would have done well with too.

    WSS

    @westside-steve said:

    Actually that's a role that Tom Cruise would have done well with too.

    WSS

    IMO Tom Cruise and Actor in the same sentence is a non sequitur.

  • hoortaH hoorta

    @westside-steve said:

    Actually that's a role that Tom Cruise would have done well with too.

    WSS

    IMO Tom Cruise and Actor in the same sentence is a non sequitur.

    @hoorta said:

    IMO Tom Cruise and Actor in the same sentence is a non sequitur.

    So much of the success of an act or relies on whether or not he fits the roles he plays. I don't believe Robert De Niro would be a huge star unless you'd seen him in taxi driver The Godfather etc and only got to see his later comedic roles. I just think there are places the Tom Cruise shines. People like to rag on him because he's good looking eccentric and a Scientologist. Did you see Magnolia?

    as far as Tom Hanks maybe someone could list places where he is actually shafted. Meaning that the other four or five performances were significantly weaker than his.

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  • W Westside Steve

    You see MUD?

    WSS

    @westside-steve said:

    You see MUD?

    WSS

    He was great in Mud, and he was terrific in The Paperboy.

    Now that he has proven his chops, he can go back to taking his shirt off for RoCos.

  • W Westside Steve

    @hoorta said:

    IMO Tom Cruise and Actor in the same sentence is a non sequitur.

    So much of the success of an act or relies on whether or not he fits the roles he plays. I don't believe Robert De Niro would be a huge star unless you'd seen him in taxi driver The Godfather etc and only got to see his later comedic roles. I just think there are places the Tom Cruise shines. People like to rag on him because he's good looking eccentric and a Scientologist. Did you see Magnolia?

    as far as Tom Hanks maybe someone could list places where he is actually shafted. Meaning that the other four or five performances were significantly weaker than his.

    WSS

    @westside-steve said:

    So much of the success of an act or relies on whether or not he fits the roles he plays. I don't believe Robert De Niro would be a huge star unless you'd seen him in taxi driver The Godfather etc and only got to see his later comedic roles. I just think there are places the Tom Cruise shines. People like to rag on him because he's good looking eccentric and a Scientologist. Did you see Magnolia?

    as far as Tom Hanks maybe someone could list places where he is actually shafted. Meaning that the other four or five performances were significantly weaker than his.

    WSS

    The three most often stated that he coulda/shoulda won are for Saving Private Ryan (over Roberto Benigni who won..Nick Nolte, Edward Norton, Ian McKellen) and Castaway (over Russell Crowe for Gladiator, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Geoffrey Rush) and Big (Dustin Hoffman won for Rainman, Gene Hackman,

    Also some say perhaps Apollo 13, Green Mile, League of their Own, Road to Perdition

  • You'll have to refresh my memory on the parts his competition played but Dustin Hoffman in Rainman was a pretty spectacular role.

    Plus I think he lucked out winning for Forrest Gump.

    I like Shawshank Redemption Pulp Fiction and quiz show better.

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  • W Westside Steve

    You'll have to refresh my memory on the parts his competition played but Dustin Hoffman in Rainman was a pretty spectacular role.

    Plus I think he lucked out winning for Forrest Gump.

    I like Shawshank Redemption Pulp Fiction and quiz show better.

    WSS

    @westside-steve said:

    You'll have to refresh my memory on the parts his competition played but Dustin Hoffman in Rainman was a pretty spectacular role.

    Yea, no, I don't believe Hanks should have beat out Hoffman. I am just saying that is one role for which he was nominated.

    Plus I think he lucked out winning for Forrest Gump.

    I like Shawshank Redemption Pulp Fiction and quiz show better.

    Were those the same year? If so, that then was a good year for movies.....much better than this past year. I liked all of those over anything nominated this year.

    WSS

  • he was a badass in The Road to Perdition......one of my top five gansta flicks

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