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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 7, 2020 12:52:01 GMT
Well, we know you got 'em, so let's hear them.......  My pick might seem weird for a bunch of reasons - it's a 53% on RT, a 5.8 on IMDB .....how "rated" is it anyway? But Mark Rylance - one of the worlds great actors imo and one I love - isn't worthy of the praise he got - or at least got left off the hook for - in Waiting For The Barbarians - and everyone was so eager to praise him for corresponding to the "great actor" narrative, they missed how safe he played it. It's a skillful performance no doubt but a rather boring one and an incomplete performance which I often talk about....... it's missing any undercurrent of ego or foolishness at the expense of suffering with noble seriousness. I liked it more when I saw it but even then it bothered me ........and after a re-watch and when I saw his better work in The Trial of The Chicago 7.....I liked this even less, it's withered for me as the year has gone on. This was the far better role actually.......and deserved a better and more rounded turn especially from this monumental actor. What are some for you this year - male or female?  |
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Post by thomasjerome on Dec 7, 2020 13:35:35 GMT
Amanda Seyfried - "Mank"
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Post by JangoB on Dec 7, 2020 13:49:06 GMT
Couldn't disagree on the "Barbarians" performance more - I think it's exactly his performance is the pull of the movie and it is one that made me ask all the right questions, i.e. does he choose to suffer for the others or for the gratification of his own self-importance (the ego you talk about), does he save the girl out of genuine compassion or for the purpose of filling some of his own personal voids, etc. I see shades of everything in his performance and for me that's a sign of a successful one in terms of this particular character. But hey, that's what opinions are for.
For me Elisabeth Moss in "The Invisible Man" kind of springs to mind - it's an effective genre turn for sure but it's SO pronounced, SO loud and SO capital A Actorly. She's playing for the audiences in the back row and it's kind of fun but maybe the praise is a bit overstated for me.
Jessie Buckley and Jesse Plemons in "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" is another overrated one for me - I feel that the performances in that movie are merely tools for the overall idea, and even without that I feel that they did a fine job for sure but nothing too spectacular or memorable, except maybe for that sudden Kael imitation by Buckley.
But the chief example for me is probably Maria Bakalova in "Borat"...a decent comedic performance which has been overpraised to high heavens for...reasons.
In the category of performances which are very good but maybe a little overpraised is Riz Ahmed for me in "Sound of Metal" - he's very good but maybe not as amazing as has been suggested. But still very good!
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Dec 7, 2020 14:04:31 GMT
Paul Raci in Sound of Metal.
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Post by Viced on Dec 7, 2020 15:18:51 GMT
Delroy Lindo's overacting in Da 5 Bloods has kind of soured on me.
Anyone from The Trial of the Chicago 7 that got more than a tiny bit of praise has probably been overrated.
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Dec 7, 2020 15:26:29 GMT
Delroy Lindo's overacting in Da 5 Bloods has kind of soured on me. Anyone from The Trial of the Chicago 7 that got more than a tiny bit of praise has probably been overrated.I hope you’re excluding Keaton from this statement. |
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Post by stephen on Dec 7, 2020 15:32:36 GMT
Elisabeth Moss in Shirley. I mean, I think on the whole Moss is overrated beyond belief, but her work in Shirley is especially grating and plays to her absolute worst sensibilities.
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Post by Viced on Dec 7, 2020 15:35:28 GMT
Delroy Lindo's overacting in Da 5 Bloods has kind of soured on me. Anyone from The Trial of the Chicago 7 that got more than a tiny bit of praise has probably been overrated.I hope you’re excluding Keaton from this statement. Sure. I wasn't including glorified cameos... and I'd never insult Keaton like that. |
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Post by DeepArcher on Dec 7, 2020 16:37:14 GMT
I kinda feel like Oldman in Mank just did a lot of drunken bumbling ... not among his best at all.
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Post by coop032 on Dec 7, 2020 17:04:33 GMT
Maria Bakalova - Borat 2
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Post by Kings_Requiem on Dec 7, 2020 17:13:17 GMT
Paul Raci in Sound of Metal. Blasphemy! |
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Post by TerryMontana on Dec 7, 2020 17:17:22 GMT
Glenn Close in Hillbilly Elegy. She has given numerous much better performances to win for this one.
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Dec 7, 2020 17:51:14 GMT
Paul Raci in Sound of Metal. Blasphemy! I really like his performance tbh but some of the reactions I’ve read about it are just way too through the roof. |
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Post by themoviesinner on Dec 7, 2020 17:56:52 GMT
I liked Amanda Seyfried in Mank, but I do find her performance somewhat overpraised, since I can name several supporting performances from that film that I liked more.
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Post by countjohn on Dec 7, 2020 18:29:19 GMT
Oldman and to a lesser extent Seyfried in Mank. Basically everyone except Langella in Trial of the Chicago 7. For me Elisabeth Moss in "The Invisible Man" kind of springs to mind - it's an effective genre turn for sure but it's SO pronounced, SO loud and SO capital A Actorly. She's playing for the audiences in the back row and it's kind of fun but maybe the praise is a bit overstated for me. Didn't see Invisible Man but she's like this pretty much all the time. |
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