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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 18, 2020 15:04:16 GMT
I'm really loving Hugh Grant in A Very English Scandal (re-watch) - far more than I first did and that seems to be a very British thing where the actor downshifts in their 50s to more and better character work. Who would be some for you - just better not who went from "bad to good"? I think Newman may be the champ of this but would be curious of some others and females too.  |
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Post by cherry68 on Feb 18, 2020 16:11:06 GMT
John Travolta.
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Post by jimmalone on Feb 18, 2020 19:26:12 GMT
George Clooney suddenly got a really good actor around 2005 or at least 2007, when before this point I really didn't care about him.
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Post by futuretrunks on Feb 18, 2020 21:01:52 GMT
Forest Whitaker
Sam Shepard
Sean Connery
Marlon Brando
Tommy Lee Jones
Pete Postlethwaite
Christian Bale
Julia Roberts
Anne Hathaway
Nicholas Hoult
Jacki Weaver
Christopher Plummer
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Post by Good God on Feb 18, 2020 21:06:45 GMT
Brad Pitt. If he was as good since the start of his career as he was in the 2010s (and particularly in 2019), I'd call him a genuinely great actor. He may get better still, so I'm excited to see his work going forward.
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Post by wallsofjericho on Feb 18, 2020 21:07:11 GMT
Paul Newman was the first one that came to mind. Maybe Clint Eastwood from Unforgiven onwards.
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Post by stephen on Feb 18, 2020 21:08:33 GMT
Denzel Washington. I think the last decade has been the most impressed I've ever been by his work, and his upcoming slate is more exciting than anything that had come before it. I think he rocks that senior statesman energy better than most actors.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2020 21:11:05 GMT
DiCaprio
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Post by finniussnrub on Feb 18, 2020 21:11:40 GMT
Gregory Peck
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 18, 2020 21:20:14 GMT
Burt Lancaster first comes to mind There was almost nothing to prepare you for his 1960s. He did plenty of good stuff in the 40s/50s but in the 60s you can almost see him come into his own acting skin - he's a far more assured and controlled and calm presence in the 60s in how he relates to the camera itself. |
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Feb 18, 2020 21:56:09 GMT
I'd agree on DiCaprio. I really didn't care for him pre 2010, but I've liked or even loved a lot of what he's done over the last decade.
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Post by getclutch on Feb 20, 2020 16:07:09 GMT
Robert Mitchum.
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Post by TerryMontana on Feb 20, 2020 16:26:52 GMT
Morgan Freeman after his 50s is a better actor than before. Especially since the mid 80s and for twenty years time he kept getting better and better.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Feb 20, 2020 19:40:16 GMT
Christopher Plummmer, and his three Oscar noms (+ one win) between 2009 and 2017 are evidence of that. I think The Last Station is his best performance ever. Tolstoy is the kind of loud performance he was born to play, half jovial half crotchety and full of passion in the twilight of his years. His chemistry with Mirren was off the charts in that film. They both made each other look incredible.
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Post by Pavan on Feb 20, 2020 20:06:59 GMT
Robin Wright
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Post by jimmalone on Mar 8, 2020 15:53:31 GMT
I also agree about DiCaprio. I even think he was really bad in the late 90s, early 00s (Titanic, The Beach for example  ), but from 2004 onward he was pretty good and sometimes great. |
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Post by MsMovieStar on Mar 8, 2020 16:22:39 GMT
Oh honey, Helen Mirren. An English friend told me she was a T&A girl at the start of her career.
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Post by TheAlwaysClassy on Mar 8, 2020 19:17:02 GMT
Paul Newman and Burt Lancaster were the first to come to mind.
Willem Dafoe has become perhaps the best actor on the planet these last 5 or 6 years.
Katherine Hepburn did her best work in the 1950s/1960s, in my opinion.
Hanks in the 2010s>Hanks in the 90s.
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Post by hugobolso on Mar 12, 2020 14:36:26 GMT
I don't think young promising actors or not awarded actors should be include.
One thing is being Oscar nominated in their elderly, and other being a great actor.Plummer was a great actor from the begining. Just chooses several bad films.-
Di Caprio was a promise since he was 18. So I guess he doesn't count.
Herpburn, who won an Oscar at 26, and had several OScar noms before her 40 birthday Nooo!!!
Of course all of them become better with the years, because they were good from the beggining.-
Catherine Deneuve, Virna Lisi were just pretty faces at first, that with the year become great actresses. Specially Deneuve, because Lisi career started well, she even was Even Elizabeth Bennet in Italian TV version of Pride and Prejudice in the late 50s. But I think people get millinonare if they bet that ice cold Deneuve would have such a long career, and her best performance started 30 years ago. She can do comedy or drama, being an indigent illiterated or a sexy sophisticated lady in her 70s. The same we can say of Jane Fonda, despite the fact that in the last years she lived in semiretiring and portray herself in stupid commedies.-
But none could bet that the Cat Balou babe could gave great performance like Klute.
Yep I think Pitt in the begining was pretty bland, but still he still has his turks, and usually overacts.-
But yep his like good wine.-
Even better is Clint Eastwood, who was monocorde at first, and not only become a great actor, but also an actor's director.
Robert Redford another bland actor, who become great in his veterany.-
Burt Lancaster, Paul Newman and Robert Mitchum were perfect examples. They never were bad, but they weren't that great, they get better with the years-
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Post by hugobolso on Mar 12, 2020 16:20:34 GMT
Another Sandra Bullock an actress I used to hate, but after Gravity I respect.
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), but from 2004 onward he was pretty good and sometimes great.
