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Post by The Numbers on Feb 10, 2024 23:10:40 GMT
Farrell: 1 Oscar nomination, 1 BAFTA nomination, 2 Golden Globes (and 1 other nomination), 1 Volpi Cup, 1 NY Film Critics Award Fassbender: 2 Oscar nominations, 3 BAFTA nominations (4 if you include a Rising Star nomination), 3 Golden Globe nominations, 1 Volpi Cup, 2 LA Film Critics Awards Pretty similar careers and trajectories. Close to the same age. Both came on red hot (Farrell about 10 years earlier) then cooled off. Farrell then rebuilt himself as a character actor and it appears as if Fassbender is beginning to do the same. I think if this poll happened a year ago Farrell would easily win (especially with Farrell at a career high and Fassbender at a low) but The Killer seems to have brought back some goodwill for Fassbender. Who's the more talented Irishman?  ![]() |
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Post by pupdurcs on Feb 10, 2024 23:17:10 GMT
Farrell is just a much more charismatic screen actor. And he has Fassbender's technical capabilities as well. So, Colin is a pretty easy pick for me
It's actually a bit odd, that despite the enormous push for a long time the industry gave him to turn him into a Brad Pitt/Tom Cruise level A-lister, that audiences never took to him enough to get him there. On paper, he had it all.
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Post by stephen on Feb 10, 2024 23:41:34 GMT
Farrell. I like Fassbender fine but he works best in a cool, detached mode; any time he has to go "raw" or "intense," I feel he overdoes it. I feel Farrell is more inherently gifted, but Hollywood didn't really know how to use him when he broke out onto the scene, but they've figured it out now for sure.
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Post by quetee on Feb 11, 2024 0:14:13 GMT
Colin and it's not even close.
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Post by Joaquim on Feb 11, 2024 1:31:09 GMT
Fassbender’s Irish?!?
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Post by countjohn on Feb 11, 2024 1:54:05 GMT
What performances from Farrell does this forum like a lot? I know a lot of people liked Banshees but I just thought he was fine at acting dopey. Same feeling about In Bruges. He's alright in The New World too. He was alright in a bunch of second tier "movie star" stuff like Phone Booth, Pride and Glory, and "the other guy" in Minority Report. In general I just think he's alright in anything.
Fassbender in Jane Eyre, Prometheus, 12 Years a Slave, Steve Jobs, and The Killer beats the hell out of anything I've seen from Farrell.
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Post by pupdurcs on Feb 11, 2024 3:21:51 GMT
Farrell. I like Fassbender fine but he works best in a cool, detached mode; any time he has to go "raw" or "intense," I feel he overdoes it. I feel Farrell is more inherently gifted, but Hollywood didn't really know how to use him when he broke out onto the scene, but they've figured it out now for sure. I don't know if Hollywood figured out what to do with Farrell, so much as he's just settled into a groove as a supporting player in bigger projects, who can still lead the occasional indie. Hollywood just stopped putting him as the lead in 150 million dollar tentpoles that kept losing money. |
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Post by pupdurcs on Feb 11, 2024 3:27:11 GMT
What performances from Farrell does this forum like a lot? I know a lot of people liked Banshees but I just thought he was fine at acting dopey. Same feeling about In Bruges. He's alright in The New World too. He was alright in a bunch of second tier "movie star" stuff like Phone Booth, Pride and Glory, and "the other guy" in Minority Report. In general I just think he's alright in anything. Fassbender in Jane Eyre, Prometheus, 12 Years a Slave, Steve Jobs, and The Killer beats the hell out of anything I've seen from Farrell. does first rate work in The Lobster and The Killing Of A Sacred Deer. Very underrated in Miami Vice ( I'd take him in that over Fassbender in The Killer). Really good in The Beguiled as well |
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Feb 11, 2024 4:00:53 GMT
What performances from Farrell does this forum like a lot? I know a lot of people liked Banshees but I just thought he was fine at acting dopey. Same feeling about In Bruges. He's alright in The New World too. He was alright in a bunch of second tier "movie star" stuff like Phone Booth, Pride and Glory, and "the other guy" in Minority Report. In general I just think he's alright in anything. Fassbender in Jane Eyre, Prometheus, 12 Years a Slave, Steve Jobs, and The Killer beats the hell out of anything I've seen from Farrell. In addition to the stuff pupdurcs mentioned, I think he's really good in Miss Julie, quite funny in Seven Psychopaths, and probably the best thing about S2 of True Detective. |
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 11, 2024 9:14:40 GMT
I prefer Farrell but it certainly " is close" and we may not have seen Fassbender's best acting yet actually (?)......I don't think Farrell has a Hunger or a Shame in him and if he does I'd like to see it.........and by it I mean his talent......and by talent I mean his total package not just his element ......I mean the work and not his dick ok you f'n perverts  No seriously you can't compare anybody on a board as gay as MAR to Fassbender without someone bringing it up and don't act like your all about the work when the 1.75 percent of this board that's straight wants Elizabeth Debicki to set them on fire and pee on them or some shit.......I'm just sorry I had to be the one to address all of this .......and now......so are you  anyhoo........Fassbender is a pretty subversive actor.....I mean his work in The Killer was very much in how Fincher envisioned that character and film.......and requires him to turn whatever start power he has off.......not a lot of actors would not really get how off-kilter that movie is......an often brilliant - and funny - movie and performance .....  |
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Post by pupdurcs on Feb 11, 2024 9:15:18 GMT
Also, really impressive, scene stealing character work from Farrell as The Penguin in Matt Reeves The Batman. So impressive, that they gave Farrell his own spin-off TV show as the character, which I think is still filming.
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Post by thomasjerome on Feb 11, 2024 9:21:52 GMT
I like Fassy a lot and I think his turn in "The Killer" was underrated but Colin's range is incredible. I mean, "The Lobster", "Tigerland", "In Bruges", "The Batman", "Horrible Bosses", "The Gentlemen", "After Yang", "A Home at the End of the World" etc etc. He can do everything.
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Feb 11, 2024 9:35:15 GMT
I like Michael a lot (his performance is The Killer deserved more attention) but I've been more impressed by Colin thus far. I mean the man is one of the most magnetic , charismatic and versatile actors working today.
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Post by pupdurcs on Feb 11, 2024 9:38:01 GMT
I do think Farrell did nice work in Roman J Israel Esq as well. It showed a lack of ego on Colin's part to take on that role, because Denzel was kind of blowing everyone off the screen, but Colin served the story with his performance like the team playing character actor he is.
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Post by Nikan on Feb 11, 2024 10:07:52 GMT
Farrell becausse The New World, In Bruges and The Lobster beat Basterds, Shame and Hunger... but it is scary-close yes, unlike what the 15 > 5 ratio shows you.
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Post by Nikan on Feb 11, 2024 10:10:26 GMT
to quote my favorite LB reviewr; 1/4 Irish, 1/4 German and half horse  |
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Post by stabcaesar on Feb 11, 2024 12:41:51 GMT
In terms of talent, Fassbender. In terms of hotness and who I'd love to ride, both ... you know what I'm talking about if you've seen Shame and Colin Farrell's sex tape.  |
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Post by ibbi on Feb 11, 2024 20:40:19 GMT
I have to say, I'm so glad the Fassbender fad has passed, because good as he could be, I was not buying the hype. MAYBE he's a better straight dramatic actor then Farrell, but that's about the end of it. Long may King Colin's little renaissance continue.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Feb 12, 2024 5:37:15 GMT
the 1.75 percent of this board that's straight wants Elizabeth Debicki to set them on fire and pee on them or some shit.......  |
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Post by JangoB on Feb 12, 2024 12:36:11 GMT
I really dig Farrell, especially for his comedic skills, but to me he doesn't quite reach Fassbender's highs in the form of Hunger, Shame, 12 Years a Slave, Steve Jobs, Fish Tank, A Dangerous Method, Prometheus and now The Killer.
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